Drew Soto

Jet propel yourself into the driving seat of a top class web designer. This book sets out the principles and practices of web design. It will help you understand what underpins web structure, design conventions and best practice. It touches on almost every subject and gives you a complete overview and understanding to deliver outstanding web design, leaving you to discover the areas you would like to specialise in and go on to build on these firm foundations. This book is design focused, you will not find one line of code. It takes you through creative thinking, questioning the brief, information architecture, navigation structures, front-end design, dealing with clients and best practice for file management. Unlike a typical 'how to' manual, the style is light, chatty and more like having a conversation with a bloke who knows his stuff. If you want to master great website design and build process, and understand what makes them work, then this book is for you. From the same author as Know Your Onions: Graphic Design and the forthcoming, What to put in your portfolio and get a job: Graphic Design.

There is an art to parenting, but nobody knows what it is. All the 'how to' books can never prepare you for the fun that lies ahead. The Art of Parenting is a must-have for soon-to-be or new parents. It is a pictorial guide to the things only parents of little ones know, and the new ones should know. The early years of parenting are graphically pictured in 60 humorous one-page illustrations that everyone will recognize. In a straightforward and simplistic manner, Drew de Soto captures the funny, smelly and sometimes difficult moments with new-borns and toddlers.

Not all of us get to work on multimillion corporate identity projects for airlines and huge conglomerates. If you are new to the sector or honing their skills, this book if for people who have tackled identity projects in the real world, then this is for you. This is a broad introduction on identity design - not branding - don't worry, you'll learn the difference. If you want a book that tells you how to do it, this is for you - if you want a book about how other people have done it - then this isn't the book for you. This book is for graphic designers and people who commission corporate identity projects who want to understand the process and how to deliver one, be it new to the sector or honing their skills.