CC licensed book uses Bauhaus to teach design software

Michael Mandiberg sez,

Digital Foundations takes the formal principles and exercises of the Bauhaus and uses them to teach hands on design software exercises. These are supplemented with historical visual examples from the public domain and contemporary creative commons licensed work. As Media Arts professors my co-author xtine burrough and I were tired of design software books that left out aesthetics, and history. Or worse: gave terrible examples complete with author's vacation photographs, drop shadows, and the watercolor filter!

We are thrilled to have the book in print... with a Creative Commons license! This is a first for AIGA Design Press, New Riders, and Peachpit, and the result of 9 months of negotiation. The whole book was written on a wiki and that is all available for use under a CC license.

We are reaping the fruit of that license already: February 6-8 Adam Hyde and his FLOSSmanuals.net crew are going to come to Eyebeam in NYC to translate the book from Adobe to FLOSS applications.

Digital Foundations is IN PRINT!, Digital Foundations on Amazon (Thanks, Michael!)

[#1 posted by Anonymous , December 18, 2008 1:58 PM]

The cover is Suprematist is influence, not Bauhaus.

[#2 posted by kaosmonkey , December 18, 2008 1:59 PM]

Bela Lugosi's not dead

[#3 posted by Daemon , December 18, 2008 2:13 PM]

#1 - damn you for going there before I did...

[#4 posted by acx99 , December 18, 2008 2:35 PM]

#2 and #1

Damn you both.

[#5 posted by yurei , December 18, 2008 4:20 PM]

All we ever wanted was everything, all we ever got was...this book cover

*less well-known Bauhaus song

[#6 posted by Daemon , December 18, 2008 6:15 PM]

hmm. actually, my comment was directed at #2, who was #1 when i made it. I have NO idea how that happened... boing boing needs threaded comments.

[#7 posted by adonai , December 18, 2008 6:29 PM]

I was wondering when Peter Murphy became a programmer...

[#8 posted by normd , December 19, 2008 12:02 AM]

I'm just sad that the book doesn't teach the Gimp and Inkscape......

[#9 posted by acb , December 19, 2008 3:13 AM]

Apparently fellow 80s goth rocker Andrew Eldritch later became a journalist for a German computer magazine.

[#10 posted by Thorzdad , December 19, 2008 2:30 PM]

#8...What? Basic design concepts don't work in the Gimp? They may use other software as the tools, but the concepts are universal.

[#11 posted by normd , December 19, 2008 4:56 PM]

I simply have preferred to see other tools being used. Design concepts are independent of tools, true.

[#12 posted by Anonymous , February 27, 2009 1:49 PM]

Re: #8 and #10: see http://en.flossmanuals.net/DigitalFoundations
for a translated version of the book using FLOSS software for examples (including GIMP and Inkscape)

-rory