25 superb JPEG illustrations from Jay Montgomery, an expert in realism, who is able to make digital paintings look traditionally rendered. Some of his previous clients include Guinness, Roadway Express, Wall Street Journal, Cartoon Network and more.

These days it's the Photoshop plug-ins that often grab the headlines, but there are also some professional add-ons for Adobe Illustrator that add to the core power of this application. Vector Studio is our pick of this crop of filters and there's a full version of this worth $129 available on the disc.

Reviews on Vector Studio 1:
MacUser
" All in all, Vector Studio is the best set of Illustrator tools in years - and probably the most useful plug-in collection ever. Plug-ins don't come better than this"- Steve Caplin

Macworld
"...Vector Studio's Envelope Mesh tool offers the ultimate in precision, letting you reshape objects by dragging external and internal mesh points. The Gradient Texture tool is another Vector Studio stand out, creating vector-based textures that resemble bitmaps yet remain resolution-independent. But Vector Studio's most indispensable filter is the Selection Hat, which lets you save and recall any selection - a lifesaver in complex files."- Galen Fott

I-US
". The six products included in Vector Studio will help streamline the jobs that designers do every day. ...give you an idea of how much control you have with these powerful plug-ins."- Joyce Evans

20 excellent images from Paulo Buchinho, an illustrator with more than 23 years of experience in the field of print and web art. Paulo currently works as a freelancer for several Portuguese newspapers and magazines, such as Expresso, Revista Dirigir, Revista Portuguesa e Brasileira de Gest.

Jose Madureira, born December 3, 1974, is an American comic book artist and writer, best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Uncanny X-Men and his creator-owned comic book Battle Chasers. Marvel hired Madureira as an intern at the age of 16. Madureira was dubbed one of the ten most influential comic artists of all time in the May 2002 issue of Wizard magazine. Dreamwave Productions founder Pat Lee said of Madureira, "when people think of the late '90s in comics, they will think of Joe Madureira."

Madureira remarked early style was heavily influenced by Arthur Adams in an interview with Wizard Magazine. But his style evolved into one more influenced by manga and anime. In interviews Madureira has mentioned that series such as Ghost in the Shell and Bastard! are among his favorites. His popular run on X-Men helped fuel the growing interest in Japanese entertainment during the late 1990s.

Art Frahm (1907-1981) was an American painter of campy pin-up girls and advertising. Today he is best known for his “ladies in distress” pictures involving beautiful young women whose panties mysteriously flutter to the ground in public situations, often causing them to spill their bag of groceries.
Frahm’s forte was depicting beautiful young white women, with great care taken in rendering their legs and figures. Frahm’s depictions of the women's faces are less successful, often tending towards plastic doll-like expressions. Minor problems with perspective and unrealistic depiction of subsidiary figures and objects are common in Frahm’s work. Some of his artistic touches were deliberately unrealistic and artistically daring — for instance his coloring of a city street lemon-yellow in an otherwise realist painting.
In addition to pin-ups, Frahm created a series of humorous hobo-themed calendar illustrations. Another set of paintings celebrated traffic safety, complete with smiling, chubby crossing guards and schoolchildren (one such painting appears as a calendar print in the background of a bar scene in the movie Hud). His advertising art included works for Coca-Cola and Coppertone.

George Brown Petty IV (27 April 1894 – 21 July 1975) was an American pin-up artist. Petty's Esquire gatefolds originated and popularized the magazine device of centerfold spreads. Reproductions of his work were widely rendered by military artists as nose art decorating warplanes during the Second World War, including the Memphis Belle, known as “Petty Girls”. Petty is especially known for “the Petty Girl”, a series of pin-up paintings of women done for Esquire from the Autumn of 1933 until 1956. Petty frequently depicted these women with the relative lengths of their legs being longer — and the relative sizes of their heads being smaller — than those of his actual models.

Jeffrey Scott Campbell is an American comics artist. In the late 1980s, Campbell entered for and won an "Invent the Ultimate Video Game" contest featured in the pages of Nintendo's official magazine, Nintendo Power. Color drawings from "Lockarm," the videogame idea he pitched, were published in the magazine as the winning entry. He was 15 years old at the time of his submission. Campbell is best known as the original artist and co-creator of Gen¹³ and Danger Girl. He got his big break at Jim Lee's Wildstorm Productions with his work on Gen¹³, his first comic book series, which featured a group of teenage heroes. He soon gained a reputation in the American comics industry for his illustrations of sexy, young women.

Joe Chiodo is a colorist who has worked in the comics industry. He has been recognized for his work with a nomination for the Comics' Buyer's Guide Favorite Colorist Award in 1997 (with the company Wildstorm FX and colleague Jessica Ruffner), and in 1998 under his own name. Chiodo has been recognized as an award-winning pin-up artist and illustrator. He combines cartoony techniques with those of classic pin-up artists, often working on a range of body types and pulp themes. He recenly made a book, How To Draw And Paint Pin-Ups.

Paolo Eleuteri SerpieriPaolo Eleuteri Serpieri (February 29, 1944, Venice) is an Italian comic book writer and illustrator, known for his highly detailed rendering of the human form, particularly erotic images of women. He is perhaps best known for his work on the Druuna erotic science fiction series. Serpieri is also credited with design work on the 3-D video game Druuna: Morbus Gravis, which is based on his curvaceous heroine.

Peter Driben was perhaps one of the most productive pin-up artists of the 1940's and 50's.

Driben was born in Boston, (date unknown), and studied at Vaesper George Art School before moving to study at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1925. Driben's Pin-Up Girls are distinctive due to the bold colours he used, (usually red, yellow, blue and green), and the fact that most of the girl's poses are designed to show as much leg as possible. In his later years Peter Driben turned, like many of his colleagues, to portrait and fine-art work, including a portrait of Dwight Eisenhower.

Robert McGinnis was elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame, joining the likes of Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, Winslow Homer, Robert Peak, Frederic Remington and Frank McCarthy. He illustrated many magazine articles and more than 1200 paperback book covers (detective novels, thrillers, gothic novels, murder mysteries, romance novels, Westerns), playing a role in the pulp fiction boom in the '60s and '70s. He illustrated more than 40 movie posters (some of the James Bond films, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "The Odd Couple" and "Barbarella"), depicting stars such as Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch and James Coburn. The artist also paints Old West scenes (one including John Wayne, which won an award), peaceful landscapes, and beautiful women. Enjoy!

Terrence "Terry" Dodson is an American comic book artist and penciller. He is best known for his work on titles such as Harley Quinn, Trouble and Marvel Knights Spider-Man. Dodson is known for his clean, soft style and for his buxom depictions of female characters. His art is clearly inspired by the work of artists such as Adam Hughes and Stuart Immonen. He usually works with his wife Rachel Dodson, who is a comic book inker and colorist.

Identify your image clearly with a customised logo created and designed by you. You can create unlimited new looks from one logo by simply adjusting the colours, fonts, shapes and effects. You can even import your own graphics and images to completely personalise your look.

Requirements: PC only, Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP, 32 MB RAM/233 Mhz Processor, CD-ROM drive, 350MB hard disc space

Identify provides practical advice for designers and their clients on creating effective corporate identity. This is a practical guide that combines sound advice on researching, commissioning, briefing, designing and producing a basic identity system - logo, letterhead and business cards - with a survey of the most successful identities from around the world. Identify also examines related issues such as trademark legislation, and comes with a comprehensive glossary of terms. For anyone developing corporate identity, from small businesses to charities and educational institutions, marketing departments and designers should find this book invaluable.

Corporate identity, always the design and marketing buzzwords of the 80s and 90s, experienced a revolution at the beginning of the 21st century. Now the talk is of branding. With the growth of globalisation and the increasing realisation among corporations large and small that this is the only way they have of distinguishing themselves and standing out from the competition, the design industry has been forced to adapt in order to offer new services and meet the new branding challenges. Beyond Logos identifies and deconstructs the corporate moves that turn footwear stores into Cathedrals' and a cigarette brand into a smoker's retreat. It tracks the rise of the brand and pinpoints the role played by design companies in creating the experience economy - a world in which corporations do not have identities but brands, visions, big ideas. Beyond Logos shows how, as we enter the 21st century, we are being taken beyond logos.