2014 - 2015 BNN Rights Catalog by BNN, Inc.

BNN Rights Catalog 2014-2015

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Illustration School Annex Develop Your Imagination

Image Author: Sachiko Umoto 112 pages Softcover with Jacket 2C+4C 1,400 yen December 2014 All rights available

This new “Illustration School Annex”, is a sister series to the “Illustration School” series, beloved worldwide. As with the previous series, this series makes it easy to learn to draw by having you draw illustrations in the book, and practice imitating other illustrations. This book presents a story, with you helping the story move forward by drawing story scenes. The themes of these scenes are “expressiveness”, “creativity”, and “expressiveness + creativity = problem solving ability”. The book helps you cultivate unique, original ideas through their scene illustrations. It is fun for children, adults, and families. Siblings Pen and Crayon love to draw. One day, as they were taking their midday nap, a young girl came from the “Erased Island”. Her island had been erased by the Eraser Head Legion, which erased all it encountered. The two set out with their beloved dogs, Book and Marble , leaping into a portal to another dimension that appeared in their open notebook, on a quest to save the island...

Illustration School series This series is a long-awaited introduction to illustration by Sachiko Umoto, one of the most popular illusrtrators in Japan. Introduce various ways of drawing illustrations, which you can follow by simply imitating examples. Both adults and children can enjoy learning illustration by following the step-by-step guide and printed guidelines.

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Illustration School

with Cute Animals

Plants and Small Creatures

Author: Sachiko Umoto 160 × 200 mm 112 pages Softcover with Jacket 2C 1,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-591-6 September 2008 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, English, French, Finnish, German, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Italian, Spanish

Author: Sachiko Umoto 160 × 200 mm 112 pages Softcover with Jacket 2C 1,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-635-7 March 2009 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, English, French, German, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Italian, Spanish

Illustration School

with Happy People

Magical Color Selection

Author: Sachiko Umoto 160 × 200 mm 112 pages Softcover with Jacket 2C 1,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-592-3 September 2008 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, English, French, Finnish, German, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Thai

Author: Sachiko Umoto 160 × 200 mm 112 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-715-6 April 2010 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, English, German, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Thai

Handmade Zakka series Handmade Zakka & Toys

This is the 2nd volume of popular “Handmade Zakka & Craft”. Like the 1st volume, this 2nd volume only uses familiar materials and simple techniques to make it easy for anyone to create accessories and sundries. This volume focuses not only on cute and sophisticated daily sundries, but also ecological and recycling ideas, such as crafts made with milk cartons, for making a wide range of humorous toys that children are sure to enjoy. This book can be enjoyed by the whole family, also features an addendum containing special templates.

Author: TUESDAY 182 × 230 mm 148 pages Softcover with Jacket 1,600 yen ISBN: 978-486100-925-9 September 2014 All rights available

Handmade Zakka & Craft

TUESDAY, a globally successful designing studio in Tokyo, introduces cute and easy ideas to make everyday life more colorful. You will learn the fun of creating room ornaments from paper and thread, accessories from felt, the most exciting party items, and picture collections to enjoy especially with families! Children will also love reading this book with you.

Author: TUESDAY 182 × 230 mm 144 pages Softcover with Jacket 4C+1C 1,400 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-777-4 September 2011 Rights Sold: German, Korean

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Deco Room with Plants series Deco Room with Plants in New York

This is the 2nd volume of popular “Deco Room with Plants”by the Plant Artist, Satoshi Kawamoto. This book shows you ways to make plants a part of your daily life, accompanied by numerous photographs, especially of Satoshi Kawamoto's house in New York and his 6th Green Fingers shop, opened in New York in September 2013, the 10th anniversary of the company's foundation. It shows the changes in his styling brought about through his experiences with New York, also contains styling information for shops, exhibitions, brands, and more. It is recommended for anyone who wants to use plants to make their daily life richer.

Image Author: Satoshi Kawamoto 182 × 240 mm 112 pages Softcover with Jacket 4C+1C 1,852 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-930-3 November 2014 All rights available

Deco Room with Plants

The author, Satoshi Kawamoto, a popular plant artist who owns several shops in Tokyo, explains how to display plants as interior items categorized by room type, using his own house as a studio. Using indoor plants, dried and preserved flowers, succulent plants, artificial flowers and driftwood, he shows many different ways of styling for people who do not have much space and lack the “green fingers” required to grow their own plants.

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Author: Satoshi Kawamoto 182 × 240 mm 112 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,800 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-865-8 March 2013 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, English, Italian, Korean

Koubutsu Book Living with Minerals Minerals change their brightness and forms just by turning them around. Have you ever come up with ideas that would be great ways to showcase them? The main part of this book looks at eight people-three designers, a graphic designer, a nailist, an artist, a photographer and a stylist-who are into minerals and into showing their inspiring interiors. The other sections of the book contain many interesting visual images for mineral fans and information about how to get minerals.

Supervisor: Koichi Momma 182 Ă&#x2014; 240 mm 128 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,800 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-903-7 December 2013 All rights available

Bric-a-Brac Storage DIY This book introduces you to D.I.Y for storages using empty cans, glasses, and cheap items from a 100-yen store. The author Minako Yanagi is one of the top bloggers in the natural interior category of Nihon Blog Mura Ranking. All of the interiors are as if they were brocante even they are made out of cheap materials. The book is filled with ideas that enlighten your life with interiors that are reasonable and useful.

Author: Minako Yanagi 182 Ă&#x2014; 240 mm 104 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,300 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-897-9 October 2013 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Korean

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Colors of Embroidery This is a collection of embroidery designs by embroidery artist a t s u m i, focused on the theme of “Color”. She uses embroidery to express the inspiration created by the history, meanings, and cultural backgrounds of colors, as well as scenery and memories from daily life. The key colors are the familiar colors of red, yellow, blue, white, and black. The book contains 145 unique motifs and beautiful patterns created through repetition.

Author: a t s u m i 190 × 257 mm 128 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,600 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-883-2 April 2014 Rights Sold: Korean

Paper Embroidery This book demonstrates how to embroider paper and make creative works which is so much simpler and easier to embroider paper than cloth. From the hands of three embroidery crafters, the works presented here are a diverse mixture of simple stitches such as lines and dots, showing the reader how to broaden design variations, add messages using letters and numbers, and embroider 3D paper craft. The book is full of unique and stunning ideas.

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Author: a t s u m i, Minako Chiba, Mari Kamio 182 × 230 mm 120 pages Softcover with Jacket 4C+1C 1,300 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-837-5 November 2012 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, English, Korean

Watercolor Illustration series Watercolor Illustration 2

This follow-up to the well-received 1st volume takes things to a slightly higher level, presenting techniques for clear watercolor illustrations and ideas for how to use these illustrations in daily life. Includes sketch designs.

Author: Marie Abe 178 × 236 mm 112 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,650 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-952-5 November 2014 All rights available

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Watercolor Illustration 1

Are you a beginner and not confident about sketching? No need to worry, this book teaches you how to draw in transparent watercolors and then turns these illustrations into craft ideas. The first part explains the basics of transparent watercolors and how to draw an illustration using a brush, teaches you how to understand your favorite colors and how much water you need to use to adjust the degree of translucency. The second part teaches you how to be expressive and have fun with drawing. Soon you will be confident in watercolors as you progress step by step along with the text.

Author: Marie Abe 178 × 236 mm 112 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,650 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-899-3 November 2013 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Korean, Simplified Chinese

Aterier Cartonnage 2 Embellish with Seasonal Flowers This is the 2nd cartonnage textbook written by cartonnage artist Kayoko Bigeard who resides in France. Using flowers from the 12 months as motifs the author describes how to make 25 different cartonnage boxes and items such as a lamp, a bookstand, a craft goods box and a cosmetics dresser. Each work is decorated with an artificial flower and so its double use both as a vase and as a storage box. Five projects are explained using step by step photos, explanations and drawings.

Author: Kayoko Bigeard 195 × 263 mm 120 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,400 yen ISBN: 978-486100-799-6 May 2012 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese

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Craft Idea Book by HELLO SANDWICH “Everyday life is very special and we can stop appreciate these moments by using cute handmade items.” An Australian artist, HELLO SANDWICH teaches you how to make pop and colorful handmade items not only stationery, card case, and accessories designed by herself but scrapping photos and printed matters to memorize your day. You can find full of ideas to enjoy making crafts and cherish your daily life from this book.

Author: HELLO SANDWICH 148 × 210 mm 112 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,400 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-798-9 July 2012 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Germany, Thai

Let's Make Stylish Accessories by Shrink Plastic N OW PRINTING

Shrink plastic was tremendously popular in Japan during the 1980s and 1990s. It is a special type of plastic sheet which can be drawn on with acrylic paint or permanent markers, heated and shrunken in oven toasters, and further worked on to create accessories. It is now popular again with Japanese women in their 20s and 30s. This book shows cute accessories that can be made with shrink plastic, especially earrings, necklaces, and broaches.

96 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color December 2014 All rights available

mt Wrapping Book This book will you show the many ways to use mt masking tapes – a popular creative material – for wrapping presents. The concept is “cute, smart, and no fuss.” Plenty of pictures are used in this book, so you will know exactly how to wrap their parcels in their own taste.

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Supervisor: KAMOI KAKOSHI CO., LTD. 148 × 210 mm 112 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,600 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-725-5 October 2010 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese

Pop Up Paper Craft Have fun with this paper craft book designed by a Japanese popular crafter Yoko Ganaha (PIGPONG). The package includes more than 55 ready-to-cut projects such as cute pop-up animals with message cards and paper items. Recommended as surprising gift or a desktop object, and suitable for kids as well as adults.

Author: Yoko Ganaha (PIGPONG) 210 × 147 mm 112 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-829-0 July 2012 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Korean, Thai

Cut Out Book 2 Little Paper Boxes to Play and Decorate A pencil case, a sewing kit box, gift labels, mobiles, pencil mascots and mini milk cartons… all these projects can be made by simply cutting out the paper templates and constructing them. There are also cute label designs. All kinds of cute paper boxes and goods can be made from this book.

Author: PIGPONG (Yoko Ganaha, Piggy Tsujioka) 182 × 257 mm 68 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-807-8 November 2011 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese

Interior Painting to Make a Comfortable Life Changing in the wall colors of your room can make your room’s atmosphere completely different. This book introduces examples of how a wall color change makes for a dramatic difference. Also, using numerous photos, a detailed explanation of how to go about a color change of your walls can be found in this book.

Author and Editor: Ayako Ota 148 × 210 mm 128 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,800 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-782-8 December 2011 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Korean

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Topping Parts Book series This series is a collection of photo clipart with a DVD-ROM which can be used as a part of your design and creativity. The pictures are in easy-to-use JPEG (locked), PNG (transparent background), and some of them in EPS format. Topping Parts Book

Café & Natural Photo Clipart 148 × 210 mm 176 pages Softcover with Jacket DVD-ROM × 1 4C+2C 2,380 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-838-2 December 2012 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese

Topping Parts Book

Party & Anniversary Photo Clipart 148 × 210 mm 176 pages Softcover with Jacket DVD-ROM × 1 4C+2C 2,380 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-887-0 October 2013 All rights available

Cut, Paste, Collective Digital × Analog Collage Techniques This book teahces you the best collage techniques utilizing both Analog and Digital methods. All collage works in this book are not created just in computer, they are based on handmade artworks. You will learn how-to make the hybrid collage works using Photoshop and Illustrator. Attached CD-ROM includes the complete data and sample materials of most of the works in this book.

Author: TYMOTE, Ayame Ono 182 × 257 mm 192 pages Softcover with Jacket CD-ROM × 1 Full color 2,400 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-803-0 January 2011 All rights available

Girls Zine 2 This is the 2nd title in this series. ZINE is about publishing by individuals or groups in small numbers, also called “little-press.” This book covers the joy of getting published and discusses how such mini publications can be utilized as a tool to connect people of similar interests.

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Editor: obscure inc. 148 × 210 mm 120 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,600 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-828-3 September 2012 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese

Design Book of Paper & Photo Item The graphic designer Naoya Okazaki, who makes miscellaneous handmade goods and booklets using photographs he has taken himself, introduces 100 simple and stylish ideas to make a paper item under the theme of design × craft. You can make so many things by just cutting, folding and putting rubber stamps on paper, such as goods you frequently use and want to place around you or gifts for others. This book is a valuable source of exciting ideas.

Author: Naoya Okazaki 184 × 230 mm 192 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,400 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-862-7 January 2013 All rights available

Women Creator's Desk This book introduces the 25 Japanese women active in the design and in the creation, and each attractive working space with their interviews and a lot of photos. You can discover their variety of ideas and their own skills in the many types' working spaces which are from personal atelier to company's office.

Author & Editor: Junko Yazaki 148 × 210 mm 136 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,800 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-649-4 October 2009 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese

Let's Make Everyday Things Look Antique! Antiques are adorable…if you don’t mind the high price and the bother of searching for the right color and texture. But read this book and you can create your own original antique items, simply by utilizing products that cost only 100 yen! This book is full of such remake ideas and creative techniques, introduced by the popular website WOLCA.

Author: WOLCA 148 × 210 mm 96 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-794-1 October 2011 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese

Shop and Creator This book features 20 Japanese creators; from their creations, birth of the works, and to promote and sell their works. The shop “Baden Baden” cooperates the every step with creators, and this book shows you how artists and shop can be deeply connected together.

Supervisor: Chizuko Mori ( Baden Baden) 148 × 210 mm 176 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,800 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-768-2 September 2011 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese

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Wallsticker Book Cute and Small Handmade Crafts A wall accessory called “wall sticker” is now all the rage. In this book, you will learn how to use cutting sheet, masking tapes, and paper to make small, convenient sized wall stickers. Complete with adorable samples of how to use the stickers. The various sticker patterns are included.

Author: CHIKU 148 × 210 mm 112 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,600 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-731-6 November 2010 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Germany, Korean

Travel Scrapbook Train tickets, leaflets, maps, and other paper materials that you haven’t been able to throw away after your travel can make a nice collage along with your photos. Why don’t you make an album which keeps your vivid memories from your travel? This book features 10 artists’ scrap books on the theme of travel. It’s full of ideas and tips in making travel albums, and will surely make you feel like going on a trip again and again.

148 × 210 mm 112 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,600 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-682-1 October 2009 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Korean, Simplified Chinese

Collage Book 11 collage artists show their original ways to create attractive design pieces with everyday materials by cutting, pasting, sewing, or drawing. The book is full of unique ideas and practical tips on the choice of materials and techniques.

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148 × 210 mm 112 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 1,600 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-617-3 March 2009 Rights Sold: English

100 Fashion Colors in Japan Fashionable colors embody and reflect the moods of different ages, from their economic trends and social phenomena to their music, film, and other cultures. Fashion trends combine silhouettes and materials with these colors reflecting the moods of their times. This book looks at fashionable colors and fashion trends in Japan from 1945 to today, categorizing them in terms of 100 keywords, together with illustrations which vividly reproduce the trends of their times.

Author: Japan Fashion Color Association ( JAFCA) 164 × 220 mm 272 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 2,800 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-905-1 March 2014 All rights available

Living with Modern Crafts Japanese Independent Furniture Creators This photo-documentary book features everyday life of 24 furniture creators and designers in Japan who are much talked about, including TRUCK and STANDARD TRADE. It also includes many uesiful information such as a list of furniture making schools in Japan and Sweden, essential information on ordering and making furniture at the end of the book.

Interview & Text: Kentaro Hagihara, Aya Ohta 190 × 258 mm 176 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 2,500 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-646-3 July 2009 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Korean

The Great Masters of Nordic Design Following Their Footprints This is a classic, yet novel book on Nordic designs: a photodocument with travel story of Denmark, Sweden, and Finland to follow the great masters such as Arne Jacobsen, Erik Gunnar Asplund, and Alvar Aalto. Their views on daily life, flow of time, as well as their aspirations to design not just the shape of things, but lifestyle itself. Enjoy the real-life description and backgrounds of the great masters.

Author: Kentaro Hagihara 145 × 210 mm 176 pages Softcover with Jacket 4C+1C 1,800 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-738-5 May 2011 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese

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Layout & Colors series Layout & Colors for Sale

This book presents a wide array of promotional materials during a sale. It is full of design ideas you can use to get more customers into a store for a limited campaign period and it also suggests new ways to impact seasonal events. From posters and Point of Purchase materials to shopping bags, DM and flyers through to tips about layouts and color combinations with example design techniques, this book helps you design effective sale materials.

Editor: Flair inc. 182 × 258 136 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 2,500 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-891-7 November 2013 All rights available

Layout & Colors by Illustratons

Find out how to use backgrounds as an illustrator and hand paint words to develop clear narratives and rich, layered illustrations. Focusing on the configuration of design layouts and the careful use of background to achieve clear and striking results this book shows you how to plan and execute excellent illustration.

Editor: Flair inc. 182 × 258 136 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 2,500 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-859-0 February 2013 All rights available

Successful Package Design Brand Design and Management for Great Impression

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This book provides case examples and explanations of how to decide on, approach, and use designs, focusing on the consumption structure (brand design), in order to enable people in non-design-oriented corporations to use design appropriately as a tool and part of brand enhancement to carry out sustained corporate management.

Author: Tomoko Uji 192 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 2,500 yen October 2014 All rights available

Art and Technology in Japan Journey of Media Art

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Japanese media art has evolved in its own unique way. Where did it come from? Where is it going? The development of advanced information technology has increased the diversity of artistic expression it enables. Art and technology are becoming more closely tied to peoples' daily lives, and media art is beginning to flourish. This book consists of a collection of texts which critically consider the modern state of Japanese media art.

Editor: Shigeru Matsui, Junji Watanabe 130 × 188 mm 256 pages Softcover with Jacket 1C 2,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-937-2 February 2015 All rights available

123 Royalty-Free Background Motion Pictures series 123 Royalty-Free Background Motion Pictures

FULL The 3rd volume of this popular series! Providing you 123 royalty-free background motion picutures! And now in full hi-vision! This book will be a tremendous aid not only to professional video creators, but also to people who want to create original videos and post on video sites such as YouTube. The cover special feature provides ideas that make it easy to create Vocaloid music videos.

ES… (molojun) 182 × 230 mm 176 pages Softcover with Jacket DVD-ROM × 1 Full color 2,800 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-923-5 August 2014 All rights available

123 Royalty-Free Background Motion Pictures

NEO A sequel to “123 Royalty-Free Background Motion Pictures” includes immense sample of background motion pictures. These 123 samples are applicable to 16:9 widescreen and even more convenient.

ES… (molojun) 182 × 230 mm 176 pages Softcover with Jacket DVD-ROM × 1 Full color 2,800 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-788-0 September 2011 All rights available

Design Based on Logical Thinking Basic and Practical Method to Constrct Form This is a textbook about design technique by engineering approach that is getting the most important part for product development for next generation. This book explains the foundations and the practice method for creating and developing two-dimensional and threedimensional modeling from an engineering point of view.

Author: Toshiki Yamaoka 150 × 210 mm 224 pages Softcover with Jacket 2C 2,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-805-4 February 2012 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese

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Basic Infographics Written by the founder of the website “VISUAL THINKING,” this book explains the basic techniques of how to design infographics to analyze information and visualize the essence of subject so as to be able to present it effectively. The author sees infographics as units of pictograms and graphics. Beginning with exercises on how to draw each of them as a warm-up, and the book explains step-by-step how to create infographics. The book shows how one can pass on what one wants to others.

Author: Jun Sakurada 150 × 210 mm 196 pages Softcover with Jacket 4C+2C 2,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-853-5 May 2013 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Korean, Simplified Chinese

Everything Converges on Experience Where is Design?

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This is the first book by Keita Watanabe, a young researcher on the leading edge of UI and Interaction Design. Advances in information technology are changing the relationships between people and computers. This book explains what it means to design interfaces and UX, and explains design concepts in information-focused manufacturing.

Author: Keita Watababe 148 × 210 mm 256 pages Softcover with Jacket 1C 2,400 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-938-9 September 2014 All rights available

IA100 Information Architecture for User Experience Design The first book of the genre in Japan gives a systematic overview on Information Architecture. It covers all the web- related topics from user research, contents analysis, and concept definition to actual planning: 100 essential topics about IA are featured in two pages each. The author Atsushi Hasegawa is the president of Concent, Inc. and a leading Information Architect. This book gives you a comprehensive overview of IA.

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Author: Atsushi Hasegawa 216 × 254 mm 224 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 3,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-577-0 October 2009 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese

Beyond Interaction 2 GLSL Shader Programming by openFrameworks

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This handbook is aimed at intermediate and advanced openFrameworks users. Attention is increasingly being turned to real-time graphic generation and video effects, such as projection mapping, videos and VJing at festivals, installations, and media art. This book focuses on the advanced graphic functionality of openFrameworks and GLSL( OpenGL Shading Language ) programming techniques.

Author: Naoaki Fujimoto, Ryuu Kanda 182 × 257 mm 192 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 3,800 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-937-2 December 2014 All rights available

vvvvook This book is the first Japanese guidebook for the allpowerful toolkit vvvv. vvvv is a visual programming Windows application that enables the formation of visual expressions by connecting various effective computing “components.” From interaction, 2D/3D animation, real-time graphics, audio visual through to data visualization and physical computing, this German application will give your media works more possibilities.

Author: Minoru Ito, Takuya Hoshi 182 × 257 mm 224 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 3,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-800-9 February 2014 All rights available

Built with Processing Programming for Design and Art [Revised Edition: Ver.1.x. compliant] The revised edition of the first manual on Processing in Japan is finally published. Processing is a programming environment with open source used widely in design and art production. The book explores the attractive world of Processing and explains basics of forming with programming.

Author: Kotaro Tanaka, Takashi Maekawa 182 × 257 mm 288 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 2,800 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-707-1 June 2010 All rights available

Pd Recipe Book Sound Programming by Pure Data This is a beginner’s guide on Pure Data, a graphical programming environment. Readers will learn the basic operation of Pure Data while making sample patches as instructed. Pure Data is an open source, graphical programming environment made by the developer of MAX/MSP. This is a book for people interested in programming software effecters or making autonomic music via computer algorithm.

Author: Seiichiro Matsumura 182 × 257 mm 344 pages Softcover with Jacket 2C 3,400 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-780-4 February 2012 All rights available

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Let's Make★Character series Let's make★Character series give you instructions on how to draw illustrations. The whole process from scratch to completion of work is explained.

182 × 235 mm Softcover with Jacket Full color 2,400 yen

Let's Make★Character series

CG Illustration Techniques vol.7 The 7th volume in its series welcomes fuzichoco, who creates fantastic and radiantly colored worlds. This book shows how she creates her character-focused and background-focused illustrations, methods of drawing ideas from colors and shapes, key points of her works, perspective used in depicting backgrounds and buildings with depth, and coloration including aerial perspective, together with drawing techniques using CLIP STUDIO PAINT, openCanvas, and Photoshop.

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Author: fuzichoco 224 pages ISBN: 978-4-86100-907-5 March 2014 All rights available

Let's Make★Character series

CG Illustration Techniques vol.6

CG Illustration Techniques vol.3

Author: TNSK 224 pages All available ISBN: 978-4-86100-898-6 January 2014 All rights available

Author: redjuice 224 pages ISBN: 978-4-86100-672-2 January 2010 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese

Let's Make★Character series

CG Illustration Techniques vol.5

CG Illustration Techniques vol.2

Author: Akatsuki Katoh 224 pages ISBN: 978-4-86100-744-6 April 2011 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese

Author: Shimeko 208 pages ISBN: 978-4-86100-683-8 November 2009 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese

Let's Make★Character series

CG Illustration Techniques vol.4

CG Illustration Techniques vol.1

Author: Mitha 224 pages ISBN: 978-4-86100-658-6 April 2010 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese

Author: Kaori Minakami 200 pages ISBN: 978-4-86100-681-4 September 2009 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese

Comic Illustration Guidance! series This series teaches you the techniques of the famous comic illustrators in Japan! The book includes the concept of the drawing to the whole process of rough drafts, drawing, and inking of specially drawn illustrations just for this book. Also an interview with the illustrators giving out many hints and ideas of the creation along with costume ideas and background scenery are attached. Comic Illustration Guidance!

Maiden Prayer In this big volume book written by Otome-kei artists, all stages of comic illustration making are explicitly explained beginning from the concept to the rough sketching and painting and on to completion. This guide is filled with the original works of currently popular Otome-kei artists. Abundant materials such as interviews are also presented in this book to provide hints into creating comics.

Author: Yone Kazuki, Yuhi Azuma, Hukahire, Takashi Kiriya, Gengoro 186 × 257 mm 208 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 2,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-804-7 December 2011 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese

Comic Illustration Guidance!

Swords and Magical Worlds This book shows how to draw fantasy-comic illustrations, with intense focus on “swords and magical worlds.” The opening closes up on behind-the-scene works of artists of “LORD of VERMILION,” SQUARE ENIX‘s popular card-game (Yusuke Naora, Kim Hyung-tae, Yoshitoshi ABe, KEI, redjuice, etc). Each part is explained in detail with stunning and beautiful visual artworks.

Author: Jun Futaba,Tomatika, Ryota Murayama,JUNNY, Ayaka Suda,Soji Hisakata 186 × 257 mm 208 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 2,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-736-1 December 2010 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese

Comic Illustration Guidance!

School Days Collection This book shows how to draw illustrations for school comics. The popular illustrators in Japan, Kazuaki, Rihito Takarai, and Yoshinori Shimazu- active in various fields of Manga, Animation, Game, and Light novels - teach you about how to make a concept and rough to CG coloring and finishing illustrations in Photoshop and SAI. Includes a reference for school uniforms, background materials in variety of school events, and photographs.

Author: Kazuaki,Rihito Takarai,Yoshinori Shizuma, Eri Takenashi,Soji Hisakata 186 × 257 mm 208 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 2,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-678-4 December 2009 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese, Simplified Chinese

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100 ESHI Generation 2 New Masterpieces of 100 Eshi This book is the 2nd edition of “100 masters of Bishojo painting”. Coterie magazines, light novels (YA fictions), animations, computer games, comics, and etc.-every Japanese pop culture is growing sophisticated without its limit. 100 sparkling illustrators who seek their own “moe” in those categories are picked and their works are introduced. You can see how the world of “moe” has changed over the last 4 years. This book explains the up-to-date expression techniques, the appearance of Vocaloid illustrators and all the other latest tides. All the illustrations of beautiful girls and boys fascinate the world!

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Author: V.A. 190 × 257 mm 232 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 2,380 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-888-7 August 2013 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese

Gumi Graphixxx A collection of illustrations, Megpoid character GUMI, which is popular among the Vocaloid software. The illustration contains rough drafts and original paintings of the famous manga author, Masami Yuuki who has originally designed GUMI. All the GUMIs drawn by many other illustrators are also included. The visual history of GUMI, growing fast and infinitely is all in here. The famous illustrator, redjuice, will specially draw the cover illustration.

Author: V.A. 182 Ă&#x2014; 257 mm 144 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 2,380 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-867-2 December 2013 All rights available

fuzichoco Artbook

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This is the long-awaited first art book of fuzichoco, a rapidly rising young artist. She is known for the sweeping backgrounds and lush colors. The style of delicate, realistic drawing fused with fantastic worldviews is very popular among a wide range of people. This book contains artworks made for commercial and Coterie magazine use, providing a complete overview of her creations.

Author: fuzichoco 210 Ă&#x2014; 297 mm 200 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color January 2015 All rights available

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Character Design Sample Book This book teaches you how to create comics, animation and game characters, from basics of drawing to tips on character design, scene drawing, and art direction. With various samples categorized into “fantasy” and “school life” and accompanied by detailed explanation, the book clearly shows you how to design attractive characters. There are also columns on costume design, composition and perspective.

Commentary: Naoki Nishimura (Studio MUGENKAI) Illustrator: Asawaki 182 × 257 mm 240 pages Softcover with Jacket 2C 2,000 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-685-2 March 2010 Rights Sold: Korean, Simplified Chinese

Girls Illustrations series In this series, the world-famous Japanese animator Ozawa explains how to draw illustrations of young girls. It uses sample illustrations and concrete explanations of how to draw young girls, making it easy even for beginners to follow. Each volume contains a collection of pose templates which can be copied for use. In the “Uniform” volume, readers will learn how to draw characters and different poses for individual costumes. The “Angles” volume focuses on how to present characters, and dynamic poses.

Girls Illustrations

Multi Angles

Uniforms

Author: Tadashi Ozawa 210 × 297 mm 172 pages Softcover with Jacket 1C 2,000 yen ISBN: 4-86100-310-5 July 2005 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese

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Author: Tadashi Ozawa 210 × 297 mm 192 pages Softcover with Jacket 1C 2,000 yen ISBN: 4-86100-309-1 July 2005 Rights Sold: Complex Chinese

How to Make the Stop Motion Animation When Taijin Takeuchi posted on the internet a stop motion animation of a wolf trying to catch a pig, it immediately became the talk of the web community. Takeuchi, who calls himself a komadorist (stop motion animator), shows 20 samples of stop motion animation, and in doing so teaches you how to create such art, e.g. utilizing everyday things such as foods, stationeries, and clay and sand. Complete video downloadable.

Author: Taijin Takeuchi 182 × 240 mm 128 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 2,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-723-1 April 2011 Rights Sold: Simlified Chinese

After Effects for Animation series This series consist of 3 books by different level; BEGINNER is for those who want to learn from the very basic of motion pictures and creating animation in AfterEffects, STANDARD explains the basic camera work and tips for effects, and EXPERT if for professionals including the use of plug-ins.

After Efffects for Animation

Beginner

Standard

Expert

Author: Kouki Ohira 184 × 232 mm 256 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 3,200 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-790-3 September 2009 All rights available

Author: Kouki Ohira 184 × 232 mm 256 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 3,800 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-699-9 February 2010 All rights available

Author: Kouki Ohira 184 × 232 mm 340 pages Softcover with Jacket Full color 3,900 yen ISBN: 978-4-86100-845-0 February 2013 All rights available

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Index 1

100 Eshi Generation

IA100

New Masterpieces of 100 Eshi

100 Fashion Colors in Japan

123 Royalty-Free Background Motion Pictures 123 Royalty-Free Background Motion Pictures

Magical Color Selection

Illustration School 15

[ NEO ]

Drawing Picture Book Illustration School

[ FULL ]

Illustration School Annext

with Cute Animals

Illustration School with Happy People A

Illustration School

After Efffects for Animation

Beginner

with Plants and Small Creatures

After Efffects for Animation

Expert

Interior Paint to Color Your Life

After Efffects for Animation

Standard

Art & Technology in Japan

14 K

Aterier Cartonnage 2 Embellish with seasonal flowers

Koubutsu Book

Basic Infogarphics

Beyond Interaction 2

Bric-a-brac storage DIY

Built with Processing Programming for Design and Art [Revised Edition: Ver.1.x. compliant]

Let's Make Character CG Illustration Techniques vol.1

Let's Make Character CG Illustration Techniques vol.2

Let's Make Character CG Illustration Techniques vol.3

Let's Make Character C

CG Illustration Techniques vol.4

Character Design Sample Book

Let's Make Character

Collage Book

CG Illustration Techniques vol.5

Colors of Embroidery

Maiden Prayer

Swords and Magical Worlds

Comic Illustration Guidance! School Days Collection

Let's Make Everyday Things Look Antiques!

Living with Modern Crafts

Craft Idea Book by HELLO SANDWICH

Cut Out Book 2

M Masters of Nordic Design

Cut, Paste, Collective Digital x Analog Collage Techniques

Let's Make Character CG Illustration Techniques vol.7

Comic Illustration Guidance!

Let's Make Character CG Illustration Techniques vol.6

Comic Illustration Guidance!

mt Wrapping Book

12 8

Deco Room with Plants

Paper Embroidery

Deco Room with Plants in New York

Pd Recipe

Design Based on Logical Thinking

Design Book of Paper & Photo Item

Pop up Paper Craft

6 17 9

S E Effective Branding Strategy

Everything Converges on Experience

Shop and Creators

Successful Package Design

T F

Topping Parts Book

fuzichoco Artbook

CafĂŠ & Natural

Topping Parts Book G

Party & Anniversary

Travel Scrapbook

Girls Illustrations Multi Angles

22 W

Girls Illustrations Uniforms

Wallsticker Book

Girls Zine 2

Watercolor Illustration 2

Gumi Graphixxx

Watercolor Illustration 1

Women Creators' Desk

H Handmade Zakka & Craft Handmade Zakka & Toys How to Make the Stop Motion Animation

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