Ello all. My wife is looking for a free ebook if possible on the art and science sorta speak of layout and seign. IE, why should i put the image here and not here. She is learning the gimp, inkscape and scribus right now. I have found her a free online scribus course (amazing by the way. i followed it and madea magazine. awesome) done by a professor at a college or high school.... he posted all his tutorials and files online. tons of info. awesome awesome.

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=a1938bc6 ... =documents

http://scribusstuff.org/content/show.ph ... 51c5a08c0a

there is the scribus link and the template link. the cookies tutorial is fantastic and very indepth.

anyway, the point is, she is learning some stuff with graphic arts and now she wants to read a book on the science of layout, color and design principles. She is the type who likes to not wing it until she knows it. haha

She is following the digital arts course by steve, the editor and creator of gimp magazine. also very awesome course. worth every freakin penny.

tahnks guys

Here's a few links.
#1-3 are ebook downloads.
5 Free Ebooks Every Graphic Designer Should Read
#4 is excellent color info and online, Color Theory for Designers by Cameron Chapman

Lists of Design links,
99 Sites All Designers Must Know About
The 200 Best Graphic, App & Web Design Tools & Resources (Categorized)

A useful, affordable ($16.00US, amazon) book for a new Graphic Designer.
Thou Shall Not Use Comic Sans

Mostly technical color and design link database (excellent).
efg's Computer Lab

Lots of graphics software info, tutorials, etc.
Libre Graphics World

More graphics resources.
About Graphic Design (great resource)
Design Informer (@smashingmag)
I Love Typography

awesome, thanks. i will give these to her tonight after math class

Thanks Odin!
I bookmarked Libre Graphics World as breakfast readings and kuler "palette from an image" for production.

If you like your palettes, I posted 5 in 2 posts in this thread. I can post more interesting palettes if need be.

Already DLed (:
But I'm a bit busy with palettes right now (drowned, in fact ), kuler stuff is different as it can be used "live".

dang, that color tool is awesome. thanks for all the info. now she can star making her book she wants to make.

on the color designer website, what is the triad scheme used for? i know that it means three but is it saying to use the top set for main work and bottom two for sub category stuff or is it just simply stating that all of those colors will work together?

thanks

maty

Triad means 3 equally spaced colors in the color wheel.

Color Theory is the most important thing in Graphic Design, along with Typography. Using grids is another thing to understand. Learning the software will come with time.

Odinbc - Thanks for all the info.

Ah I didn't pay attention to the export palette, most of the time I do screenshots, the difficult thing with palettes is to sort them in an efficient way, to link them to some sort of reality because I often end up surrounded by palettes but without objects to connect with. Ideally, I should take the time to make these connections happen...