I need recommendations on technical illustrations books

[Chris Christner]

Hi Sharon,

I've been writing a guide to technical illustration that's been  
delayed yet again because I'm rewriting it to focus on Adobe  
Illustrator rather than Macromedia FreeHand (R.I.P.). If you're  
interested, I'll send you the chapter on creating isometric  
illustrations. It's still oriented toward FreeHand, but the concepts  
apply equally to Illustrator.

Warm regards,
Chris
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On Jul 19, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Sharon Burton wrote:

> I'm looking for a book that explains how to create usable graphics in
> technical manuals. I want my writers to learn about shades of gray,
> effective color use, contrast, pleasing layout, what constitutes  
> insanely
> complex drawings and how to simplify, using callouts effectively,  
> chunking
> graphics to show more and more detail, that sort of thing. Examples  
> and
> before and afters are good. Product independent is best.
>
> I know about Tufte and his books but they are too abstract for what  
> I need.
> Horton and his Icon book is good but I don't know that I can get  
> the writers
> to generalize from icons to half page drawings. I did a quick  
> search of
> google but there are too many to know what's great.
>
>
> sharon
>
> Sharon Burton
> CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting
> 951-369-8590
> www.anthrobytes.com
> Immediate Past President of IESTC
>
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