Icon Design: Graphic Icons in Computer Interface Design [Paperback]

Steve Caplin (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill (May 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823025225
• ISBN-13: 978-0823025220
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,322,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Steve Caplin is a freelance artist and author working in London, England. His satirical photomontage work is commissioned by newspapers and magazines around the world, including The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times Magazine, Radio Times, Readers Digest and L'Internazionale.

Steve has worked for advertising agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi, Bartle Bogle Hegarty and Lowe Howard Spink, and his work has won two Campaign Poster Awards and a D&AD Pencil award. He has lectured widely in England, Norway, France and Holland, and has taught digital design at the University of Westminster and the University of the Arts London.

Steve is the author of ten books: How to Cheat in Photoshop (five editions), How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements (co-authored, three editions), Icon Design, Max Pixel's Adventures in Adobe Photoshop Elements, The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration (co-authored) and Art & Design in Photoshop. He has also co-authored three mainstream books: Dad Stuff, More Dad Stuff, Stuff the Turkey and Complete and Utter Zebu.

When he's not at his computer Steve plays the piano well, the accordion moderately and the guitar badly. He spends his spare time making improbable constructions out of wood and other materials. His first commissioned sculpture was for the Bethlem hospital - the original 'bedlam' - in 2010.

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46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Deceiving Title, August 6, 2002

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L. Korikova (South Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Icon Design: Graphic Icons in Computer Interface Design (Paperback)

Chapter Listing: Iconic History, Contemporary Icons, Pick and Choose, Internet Icons, Case Studies, DESIGNING ICONS, and Reference.

Icon History actually is, let's look at WINDOW'S icon's since 3.1. If you have used a computer for a small bit of time, this chapter is unneccesary for you to read.

Contemporary Icons: Today's Window's icons and some of Macs. We're talking folders and recycling bins. If you are interested in program icons, you will be sadly disappointed.

The next three chapters are devoted to "look at this cool set of Bart Simpson icons you can download!". This is not for a designer.

The 6th out of 7 chapters is where it actually gets into design. It is remotely useful, but lacks much depth. If you are interested in creating cool folder icons, this is for you. If you are interested in the vast array of other ways icons can be used electronically, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lame and Outdated Book, September 24, 2007

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Levi J. Page (Apopka, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Icon Design: Graphic Icons in Computer Interface Design (Paperback)

Don't expect anything useful in regards to learning icon design. This is pretty much a ten year old history lesson on the beginnings of icons.

10 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars last review..., December 28, 2001

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This review is from: Icon Design: Graphic Icons in Computer Interface Design (Paperback)

nice job, authors publicist...amazing how canned your response was.