The Designer's Digital Toolkit

Refine designs and implement ideas faster electronically Use the emerging new media integrating computers,telecommunications,and video to your best advantage! Design with Digital Tools: Using New Media Creatively,by Mark von Wodtke,tells you how to use every important application,including word processing,data bases and spread sheet models; imaging and illustration; animation and video; geographic information systems,computer-aided drafting and design,including three-dimensional prototyping and virtual reality; and desktop and web publishing. Case studies show you how other professionals work with digital tools to improve their own practices,so you,too,can:

*Collaboratively express,test and optimize design ideas online

*Share information electronically with consultants,collaborators,and clients

*Develop digital models

*Gain more freedom over when and where you work

*Encourage community participation for feedback and funding

*Complete implementation documents in digital format for time-saving bidding,construction,and facilities management

*Much more