Over the course of the last several years, the DIY market has exploded spawning magazines, books, movies and fueling the growth of the online, handmade marketplace. In Robin Williams Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Designs, best-selling author Robin Williams and Carmen Sheldon take designers away from their computers and show them, step-by-step, how to use traditional artist's tools to create handmade elements for their digital artwork. The authors provide a wealth of new ideas to jump-start creativity and get graphic designers thinking in new ways. Each how-to is illustrated with tons of photos to show how to use paints, inks, textures, modeling pastes, and more to create handmade materials that can then be scanned in and used to create one-of-a-kind print projects or web sites. Examples of finished projects and Web sites are featured throughout the book to provide both instruction and inspiration for designers to use in their own projects.

本書は、デジタル至上主義の現代にあえて「手仕事」の温度を宿す、魂の指南書です。著者が説くのは、無機質な画面を離れ、素材の不完全さを愛でるという表現者の原点回帰。単なる技法解説を超え、デジタルという器に人間的な血を通わせるための、高潔なデザイン哲学が貫かれています。 偶然が生む美しさと、身体性が宿す唯一無二の力強さ。完成された調和よりも「試行錯誤の痕跡」こそが真の個性であるというメッセージは、表現の壁に挑む全創作者への福音です。アナログとデジタルの幸福な融合が、あなたの感性を未知の領域へと鮮やかに解き放つでしょう。