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An interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of design is practically requisite these days with the integration and crossover of evolving media. Today, many students finish their education and enter the professional world without having learned these critical elements. First Aid for Clueless Designers gives you a run-down of all the fundamental information designers need to know in their own as well as adjoining disciplines.

This book is divided into sections explicating unique vocabulary used in design, printing, typography and photography and includes helpful tips and concise analysis in contiguous areas such as advertising, mulimedia, business, copyright and project management. It is structured thematically and equipped with a resourceful index that references numerous sources and links. This indispensable manual is complete with graphics that illustrate and supplement the texts, making it a stimulating reference book for students and newcomers while serving as a trusty companion for professional designers and media professionals alike in their everyday work.

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The visually stunning graphic-novel-turned-feature-film is now available in 1-disc and 2-disc DVD sets as well as Blu-ray and HD-DVD. The film had me engaged from beginning to end. If you haven’t seen this yet, you should check it out. It will be a great film to add to your movie collection. Don’t go into this film expecting an accurate account of history, though. It was solely intended to be a piece of entertainment, and in that respect, it follows through completely.

Learn life-saving survival skills in some of the toughest, most treacherous environments on the Earth with a man no stranger to extremes, Bear Grylls. Drawing upon all his experiences as a soldier, mountaineer and seasoned adventurer, watch as Bear strands himself in popular wilderness destinations. Armed with a few supplies and the clothes on his back, see how he claws his way back to civilization while demonstrating survival techniques along the way.

European Alps
Armed with a knife, a water bottle, a cup and a flint, Bear parachutes into the Alps to demonstrate vital survival skills – from a radical new technique to save lives in crevasse zones to building a snow shelter to survive alpine storms.

Costa Rican Rainforest
Join Bear on an incredible jungle adventure as he parachutes into the rainforest of Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula. See what happens when he encounters snakes, mosquitoes and dangerous river currents while searching for food and water.

Moab Desert
Journey with Bear to one of the top extreme sports destinations in the United States – Utah’s scorching Moab Desert. Watch as he demonstrates how a lost hiker can make it back to civilization, with merely a bottle of water, a knife and a flint.

Sierra Nevada
Join Bear on a deceptively dangerous adventure as he shows you how to survive in the Sierra’s three major mountainous regions: alpine, woodlands and chaparral. Marvel as he parachutes into an alpine lake, free climbs down steep cliffs and rafts down white-water rapids.

Alaskan Mountain
Thousands of skiers, snowboarders and mountain climbers visit Alaska each year, but hundreds end up lost in the wilderness. Follow Bear to these ever-popular mountain ranges as he sets out to make it back to civilization equipped with only his skis, a bottle of water, a knife and a flint.

Mount Kilauea
In an extreme demonstration of life-saving skills, Bear skydives into the world’s most active volcano and shows you how to create a gas mask, escape from a moving lava flow, explore underground lava tunnels to find water and cross razor sharp volcanic rock.

Deserted Island
Join Bear as he back somersaults from a helicopter into raging surf just off a south pacific island. Learn vital survival techniques as Bear shows you how to stun fish, collect rainwater, build a raft, evade sharks and plan an escape from his paradise prison.

African Savannah
Follow Bear as he parachutes down onto the arid Kenyan plains, where he’s immediately surrounded by rhinoceros, lions, leopards, elephants, and buffalo. Watch as Bear drinks water from elephant dung, travels through the savannah by night, eats raw zebra, comes across puff adders and scales waterfalls and cliffs.

Everglades
Learn how to survive in the swamps of the Florida Everglades. Join Bear as he demonstrates how to keep the alligators at bay, deal with vicious razor-sharp grass and find stomach-churning food that will keep you alive in this beautiful, yet hazardous destination.

Ecuador
Bear flexes his survival skills in the extreme environments of Ecuador. On his South American journey, Bear paraglides onto the edge of the Andes and goes face-to-face with huge colonies of spear nosed bats, giant weevil grubs and vicious piranhas.

Kimberley, Australia
Journey with Bear as he takes on Australia’s vicious Kimberley region and shows you how to survive the outback. During his adventure, Bear builds an Aboriginal shelter, confronts Australia’s deadly salt-water crocodiles and identifies edible outback snacks – including a crucifix spider.

Mexico
Trek with Bear as he heads south of the United States border and shows you how to survive in Mexico’s Copper Canyon. Learn amazing techniques for finding scorpions, or grubs, and fishing without a rod or line. Plus, marvel in disgust as Bear eats a special mud.

Iceland
Embark on an icy adventure with wild man Bear Grylls as he shows you how to survive in Iceland’s Artic conditions. Watch as Bear demonstrates how to make a snow cave, avoid frostbite and survive Iceland’s notorious blizzards and 50 mph winds.

Scotland
Join Bear as he shows you how to survive in the Arctic landscape of Scotland’s Cairngorm National Park. Bear demonstrates how to navigate using ice formations and moss growth, how to test snow slopes for avalanche potential and how to find food and water in the frozen wild.