Jim Krause: 11 books
Visual Design
Ninety-five things you need to know. Told in Helvetica and Dingbats.
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Visual Design speaks design, through design, to designers, presenting 95 core design principles with concise text and a touch of visual wit. Author of the bestselling Index series on design basics, Jim Krause uses a combination of Helvetica and Dingbats to teach a wide range of design topics (both conceptually...
Photo Idea Index - Things
Ideas and Inspiration for Creating Professional-Quality Images Using Standard Digital Equipment
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Discover the things around you through the eye of your camera
Photo Idea Index: Things is a photography book unlike any other. Rather than focusing on the "how to" aspects of digital photography, author Jim Krause focuses on the "what if" aspects. You'll learn how to use your camera to explore...
Photo Idea Index - People
Ideas and Inspiration for Creating Professional-Quality Images Using Standard Digital Equipment
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Rethink, revitalize and reinvent the way you shoot portraits.
Photo Idea Index: People is a photography book unlike any other. Rather than focusing on the "how to" aspects of digital photography, author Jim Krause focuses on the "what if" aspects. You'll learn how to use your camera to photograph...
Lessons in Typography
Must-know typographic principles presented through lessons, exercises, and examples
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
Get hands on with type in this lesson-based addition to Jim Krause’s popular new Creative Core series on design fundamentals. In Lessons in Typography, you’ll learn the basics of identifying, choosing, and using typefaces and immediately put that knowledge to work through a collection of exercises...
Color Index XL
More than 1,100 New Palettes with CMYK and RGB Formulas for Designers and Artists
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This updated, expanded, and oversized inspirational resource presents 1,100 color palettes, with light, bright, dark, and muted varieties for each one, making it the most expansive palette selection tool available.
Color Index XL provides aspiring designers, artists, and creative individuals...
The Logo Brainstorm Book
A Comprehensive Guide for Exploring Design Directions
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Don't Wait for Inspiration to Strike
Whether you're facing a new logo project or you've reached a block in your current work, The Logo Brainstorm Book will inspire you to consider fresh creative approaches that will spark appealing, functional and enduring design solutions.
Award-winning...
Color for Designers
Ninety-five things you need to know when choosing and using colors for layouts and illustrations
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Most of today’s books on color lean in one of two directions: toward heavy-handed theory-speak or toward ready-to-use palettes that will likely be out-of-step before the book has received its first coffee stain. Color For Designers leans in neither direction, instead choosing to simply tell it like...
At the Hang-Up
Seeking Your Purpose, Running the Race, Finishing Strong
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
This is the inspirational story of Ted Owens—still the coach with the most wins in the history of Allen Fieldhouse—from growing up as a boy on a cotton farm in Southwestern Oklahoma during the Great Depression to coaching at the highest levels of the college basketball world. “At the end of...
by Jim Krause
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2001
Idea Index kick-started a revolution in graphic design books, unique in size, feel-and most important-wealth of ideas. Layout Index is the next step, a compendium of layout idea-generators that will help designers explore multiple possibilities for visual treatments each time they turn the page. The...
D30 - Exercises for Designers
Thirty Days of Creative Design Exercises & Career-Enhancing Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Instructive and enlightening. Fun, too.
D30 is a workout book. In addition to dozens of readily applicable tips, tricks and informational tidbits, D30 contains thirty exercises designed to develop and strengthen the creative powers of graphic designers, artists and photographers in a variety...
Real-Life Discipleship Training Manual
Equipping Disciples Who Make Disciples
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
This companion training manual to Real-Life Discipleship provides unique guidance and insight to pastors, church leaders, and their disciples as they work to create an effective discipleship program. With a thorough, results-oriented process that can be applied in other contexts and cultures, this...