The Arts and Crafts Computer
Title | The Arts and Crafts Computer PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Ashford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
The Arts and Crafts Computer shows you how to use your personal computer, scanner, digital camera and color printer as artist tools to create beautiful graphics and artful objects for your home, school and work. You'll learn how to: Understand the basics of digital image-editing, typesetting and graphic design. Gather the right tools, both digital and traditional. Use the new inkjet printing media including cloth, decals, stickers, magnets, transparencies and more. Work with art materials safely, avoid computer-related stress and find environmentally-friendly materials. Create unique greeting cards and envelopes, artist books, games, toys, home decorations and gifts. If you're a crafter looking for computer ideas or a designer or teacher looking for hands-on projects The Arts and Crafts Computer is for you!
Crayons and Computers
Title | Crayons and Computers PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Sabbeth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781556522895 |
With a computer paint or drawing program, a printer, crayons, and a little imagination, kids can explore the world of color and the endless design possibilities of a computer by crafting multi-media art. This four-color activity book combines this tool of today with an old favorite—the crayon. Kids will learn how to print out and paint a picture frame; use a mouse to create a Matisse masterpiece; create a kite of rainbow colors; and more while learning about primary, secondary, and complementary colors. Crayons and Computers includes ideas to extend crayon creations beyond the confines of paper and into cyberspace.
62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer
Title | 62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer PDF eBook |
Author | Randy Sarafan |
Publisher | Workman Publishing Company |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2010-02-11 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0761159762 |
Computer hacking takes on a whole new meaning when you're going at it with a screwdriver and hammer: announcing the most wildly inventive, eco-friendly craft book on repurposing everyday objects since Generation T. Except in this case the raw material isn't a T-shirt, but the stuff we all have lying around and have no idea what to do with, or even how to get rid of properly—your old cell phone, a broken printer, irredeemable iPod, busted digital camera, mysterious thatches of cables and wires, orphaned keyboards, and of course, those dead PCs and laptops. Created by a Parsons design graduate who’s obsessed with navigating the intersection of art and technology, here are 62 ingenious projects that are irresistibly geek-chic. An iMac Terrarium—how cool is that? A laptop Digital Photo Frame. The impressively green Scanner Compost Bin. Plus a power strip Bird Feeder, Walkman Soap Dish, My First Squiggle Bot, Qwerty Hair Tie, Flat-screen Ant Farm. Each project has complete, step-by-step instructions, is rated by difficulty—in a thorough first chapter the author covers all the tools and skills needed to take apart electronics safely—and is arranged by use, from stuff for the house, to fashion, toys, arts and crafts, items for pets, and more.
Computers & Crafts
Title | Computers & Crafts PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Goldring |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN |
The Computer Revolution and the Arts
Title | The Computer Revolution and the Arts PDF eBook |
Author | University of South Florida, Computer Revolution Staff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 127 |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780608044606 |
A Computer in the Art Room
Title | A Computer in the Art Room PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Mason |
Publisher | Jeremy Greenwood Publishers |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Art and computers |
ISBN | 9781899163892 |
Suitable for artists, art students, academics and art historians, this book presents an illustrated exposure of British social history. It documents various aspects of British arts education.
Technoromanticism
Title | Technoromanticism PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Coyne |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780262531917 |
The author explores the spectrum of romantic narrative that pervades the digital age, from McLuhan's utopian vision of social reintegration by electronic communications to the claims of cyberspace to offer new realities. Populating these narratives are cyborgs, computerized agents, avatars and characters that have putative digital identities.