Crumble, Crackle, Burn: 120 Stunning Textures for Design & Illustration (Hardcover)
Crumble Crackle Burn is not only an inspiring book for incorporating texture into design, but also an affordable tool for transforming your images with textures–you’ll receive 120 royalty-free textures you can use immediately! The book features 60 textures with beautiful full-color examples of how each texture can be used. Plus, the included DVD contains an additional 60 textures that you can also use in your day-to-day design work!
Crumble Crackle Burn showcases work from some of the most talented artists in the country, giving insight on how to incorporate texture into backgrounds, and even how to use texture as an illustration and typographic tool.
With the interesting and varied textures included in this book, you can begin adding depth, dimension and visual interest to your work immediately. Glitschka also offers useful pointers to help you do your own texture explorations, so you can notice and capture interesting textures in your everyday life.
If you don’t have the time or money to commission original photography or illustration, let Crumble Crackle Burn help you use stock imagery to its best advantage and let your imagination run wild! SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
To access and use the textures on this DVD, you’ll need at least 512 MB of RAM on either a Mac running OS X with DVD drive, or a PC running Windows XP with DVD drive. The following applications for Mac or Windows may also be necessary: Adobe Photoshop 7 or above, Adobe Illustrator 8 or above, Macromedia FreeHand 8 or above, CorelDraw 9 or above, and Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader 4 or above. Sample usage files found on the DVD are only provided in native Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Photoshop CS2 formats. Read More
Review
I attended Von Glitschka’s “Illustrative Design” session at the 2008 HOW Design conference in Boston and was so inspired by his presentation and work that I decided to purchase his book of textures.
The textures provided are manipulated from actual photos that he has taken almost daily. While it is true that he does not provide detailed instruction on how to use the textures in the book, he does provide links to his website where you can find tutorials. The textures are grayscale and not “clip art”, but are intended to be incorporated into your own work to create your own illustrations and designs, which is why I suspect he has not provided specific instructions for their use. The 60 sample illustrations included in the book cover a wide range of application and showcase each texture. You also get 60 bonus textures included on the DVD that are not highlighted in the book.
Get this book, get inspired, get creative, and have fun!
