Illustration and commercial art Books
Titan Books Ltd Nuthin but Mech 2
Book SynopsisA follow up to best seller, Nuthin' But Mech, this title delivers artwork from 40 artist contributors to the Nuthin' but Mech blogspot.
£17.99
Titan Books Ltd Start Your Engines
Book Synopsis"Start Your Engines" compiles works from Scott Robertson's, vast archives of ground vehicle drawings and renderings, and features the following chapters: Cars, Bicycles, Snowcraft Mechanimals and selected work from the conceptual design of vehicles for the video games "Field Commander" and "Spy Hunter 2". The Cars chapter comprises about half of this book and features original designs both futuristic and retrospective.
£21.24
V & A Publishing A History of British Magazine Design
Book SynopsisThis book is an investigation into the design and history of British magazines over the past 170 years. It identifies turning points and new directions in one of the most sensitive barometers of mass-market design taste, from the advent of two periodicals - Punch and the Illustrated London News - that changed publishing fundamentally, through to the beginnings of digital distribution. A magazine flourishes or folds according to its audience's response to its look and feel - sometimes more so than its written content - and this study of a developing history encompasses discussion of graphic design, typography, photography and innovative print technology. It explores why magazines have looked how they do. Published with full access to the National Art Library's unparalleled archive of periodicals, British Magazine Design is a definitive history.
£27.00
Sidekick Books The Word is SMUT
Book SynopsisAn anthology of new writing by students from Anglia Ruskin University.
£8.54
Feral House,U.S. Dope Menace: The Sensational World of Drug
Book SynopsisThe lurid glories of the pulp paperback cover.
£21.59
Artisanal Media LLC 3x3 Illustration Annual No.15
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£25.65
Artisanal Media LLC 3x3 Illustration Annual No.16
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£25.65
Niggli Verlag The Narrative Power of Illustrations and Drawings
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£31.96
Pie Intl Inc Trendy Korean Design Unique Branding Ideas
£999.99
Victionary I KNOW KUNG FU: An Illustrated Tribute to Kung Fu
Book SynopsisInspired by classic kung fu flicks from the 1980s and 1990s, Hong Kong cult illustrator Rex Koo pays tribute to the heroes from his childhood in I KNOW KUNG FU– an artbook that celebrates the much-loved shows and stars that have made Chinese martial arts into the global pop-culture phenomenon that it is today. Drawing from four popular kung fu movies – “Once Upon a Time in China III”, “Shaolin Soccer”, “Kung Fu Hustle”, and “The Grandmaster” – Koo brings to life the legendary tales and titbits behind fan-favourite fighting techniques such as the “Golden Shield Iron Vest”, “Magic Power of Toad”, and “Tai Chi Fist” in his distinct, nuanced style. Readers can expect over 250 pages of compelling and characterful illustrations depicting featured moves and film stills, before learning more about the actors and producers that have made a mark on local and international kung fu cinema via a special section dedicated to these masters. This book is available in a vivid red or bright yellow; books are shipped to customers at random.
£25.60
Standards Manual Classified: Local Ads from America’s Small Towns
Book SynopsisClassified features over 200 vintage classified ads from the 1970s American south. Both a time-capsule of a bygone era, and a fascinating study of ephemeral graphic design. Classified: Local Ads from America’s Small Towns, features hundreds of classified advertisements from 1970s small-town America, collected and archived by Studio Carnley. Printed at 1:1 scale and isolated on the page, the collection is elevated to both a time-capsule of a bygone era, and a fascinating study of ephemeral graphic design from unknown illustrators, typesetters, printers, and graphic artists who all faced the same challenge: how to fit a lot of information in a small rectangle, and stand out on a page of other ads all trying to do the same. Classified is a celebration of small-town advertising, and the overlooked genius, ingenuity, and humor in the work that was created purely to sell, but which we can now study and learn from. In the end, designers today are still trying to fit a lot in a small rectangle — just one made from glass not paper.
£28.00
Yale University Press The Rise of Everyday Design
Book SynopsisTrade Review“an invaluable catalog.”—Edward Rothstein, Wall Street Journal“[The book] serves as both an introductory text and, for those well-read on the movement, one offering new dimensions to this vast subject”— Roger Dunn, Art Newspaper“This book is the catalogue of an exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center, a great repository, likened to ‘an old attic filled with the most wondrous things’, at the University of Texas in Austin. It starts with the British origins of the Arts-and-Crafts movement, but the greater part describes its (to British readers) less familiar flourishing in the USA.”—CountryLife“It serves as both an introductory text and, for those well-read on the movement, one offering new dimensions to this vast subject”— Roger Dunn, The Art Newspaper“It is not a conventional catalogue, but the extended captions form a record of an exhibition and most of the contributions add usefully to discussion of how the Arts & Crafts Movement evolved in the 20th century” —Annette Carruthers, DAS
£45.12
Rutgers University Press Selling Womens History Packaging Feminism in
Book SynopsisWomen's history has a long, colourful history, one that's intimately entwined with the development of American advertising and consumer culture. Selling Women's History reveals how, from the 1900s to the 1970s, popular culture helped teach Americans about the accomplishments of their foremothers, promoting an awareness of women's wide-ranging capabilities.Trade Review"Before Women's History became an academically recognized pursuit, it developed in the marketplace. Westkaemper presents a fascinating and trenchant account of how women toiled across multiple popular sites to make history." -- Nan Enstad * Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison *"Westkaemper argues convincingly that the very assertion that women had a history was a feminist message, and that public history could build feminist community. This book is a valuable and beautifully researched addition to an underwritten period in U.S. women’s history." -- Mary Trigg * author of Feminism as Life's Work: Four Modern American Women through Two World Wars *“Highly original and beautifully written and researched… Effectively put[s] to bed tired assumptions about the commercialization of politics and the apolitical nature of consumer culture in modern America.” * Enterprise & Society *"Selling Women’s History is dense with information, skillfully weaving together the influence of adwomen, the emergence of the female consumer and the rise of feminism into this diverse collection of women’s historical legacy." * Communication Arts Magazine *"[Westkaemper's] extensive research and creative attention to marginalized spheres effectively shape our understanding of the development of U.S. women’s history as a field of inquiry and of the intersections of popular culture and feminism across time, as well as of histories of women, feminism, and cultural production." * The American Historian *"The book’s real strength lies in its accounts of the commodification of women’s history for various purposes, feminist or not....Westkaemper’s book is best understood as a work of media history focused on how historical appeals were deployed to inspire gender consciousness—women’s sense of themselves as a group sharing social and political interests—among media producers and consumers." * American Historical Review *"Through this considerably detailed look into the parallels between women’s social roles and the changes in mass media, Westkaemper paints a sweeping picture of feminism through history and how the fight for equality is undeniably linked with changes in communication tactics. This book is informative, but in-depth, and would be useful for scholars already familiar with mass communication history. From there, scholars can jump into Westkaemper’s writing as a building block to preliminary media knowledge." * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *"Deeply informed in foundational scholarship on consumer culture." * Journal of American History *"Westkaemper compellingly demonstrates 'the variety of twentieth-century feminism” that traffics through mass media, with feminism here defined by “the shared logic that women’s history merits documenting.'" * American Literary History *"The strengths are in the use of a wide range of archival material including letters, business documents, scrapbooks, cartoons, and photographs....A researcher studying women’s roles in media and business, especially before and after World War II, would do well to consult this list, the careful notes, and the excellent index." * American Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1Martha Washington (Would Have) Shopped Here: Women’s History in Magazines and Ephemera, 1910–1935 2“The Quaker Girl Turns Modern”: How Adwomen Promoted History, 1910–1940 3Broadcasting Yesteryear: Women’s History on Commercial Radio, 1930–1945 4Gallant American Women: Feminist Historians and the Mass Media, 1935–1950 5“Betsy Ross Red” Lipstick: 1940s Products as Inspirations and Artifacts 6“You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby”: Women’s History in Consumer Culture from World War II to Women’s Liberation Epilogue NotesIndex
£27.90
Rutgers University Press Selling Womens History Packaging Feminism in
Book SynopsisWomen's history has a long, colourful history, one that's intimately entwined with the development of American advertising and consumer culture. Selling Women's History reveals how, from the 1900s to the 1970s, popular culture helped teach Americans about the accomplishments of their foremothers, promoting an awareness of women's wide-ranging capabilities.Trade Review"Before Women's History became an academically recognized pursuit, it developed in the marketplace. Westkaemper presents a fascinating and trenchant account of how women toiled across multiple popular sites to make history." -- Nan Enstad * Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison *"Westkaemper argues convincingly that the very assertion that women had a history was a feminist message, and that public history could build feminist community. This book is a valuable and beautifully researched addition to an underwritten period in U.S. women’s history." -- Mary Trigg * author of Feminism as Life's Work: Four Modern American Women through Two World Wars *“Highly original and beautifully written and researched… Effectively put[s] to bed tired assumptions about the commercialization of politics and the apolitical nature of consumer culture in modern America.” * Enterprise & Society *"Selling Women’s History is dense with information, skillfully weaving together the influence of adwomen, the emergence of the female consumer and the rise of feminism into this diverse collection of women’s historical legacy." * Communication Arts Magazine *"[Westkaemper's] extensive research and creative attention to marginalized spheres effectively shape our understanding of the development of U.S. women’s history as a field of inquiry and of the intersections of popular culture and feminism across time, as well as of histories of women, feminism, and cultural production." * The American Historian *"The book’s real strength lies in its accounts of the commodification of women’s history for various purposes, feminist or not....Westkaemper’s book is best understood as a work of media history focused on how historical appeals were deployed to inspire gender consciousness—women’s sense of themselves as a group sharing social and political interests—among media producers and consumers." * American Historical Review *"Through this considerably detailed look into the parallels between women’s social roles and the changes in mass media, Westkaemper paints a sweeping picture of feminism through history and how the fight for equality is undeniably linked with changes in communication tactics. This book is informative, but in-depth, and would be useful for scholars already familiar with mass communication history. From there, scholars can jump into Westkaemper’s writing as a building block to preliminary media knowledge." * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *"Deeply informed in foundational scholarship on consumer culture." * Journal of American History *"Westkaemper compellingly demonstrates 'the variety of twentieth-century feminism” that traffics through mass media, with feminism here defined by “the shared logic that women’s history merits documenting.'" * American Literary History *"The strengths are in the use of a wide range of archival material including letters, business documents, scrapbooks, cartoons, and photographs....A researcher studying women’s roles in media and business, especially before and after World War II, would do well to consult this list, the careful notes, and the excellent index." * American Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1Martha Washington (Would Have) Shopped Here: Women’s History in Magazines and Ephemera, 1910–1935 2“The Quaker Girl Turns Modern”: How Adwomen Promoted History, 1910–1940 3Broadcasting Yesteryear: Women’s History on Commercial Radio, 1930–1945 4Gallant American Women: Feminist Historians and the Mass Media, 1935–1950 5“Betsy Ross Red” Lipstick: 1940s Products as Inspirations and Artifacts 6“You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby”: Women’s History in Consumer Culture from World War II to Women’s Liberation Epilogue NotesIndex
£105.40
University of Arizona Press Postcards from the Baja California Border
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£43.20
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press Lester Beall Space Time Content
Book SynopsisLester Beall: Space, Time & Content explores the work of Lester Beall through his ads, posters and identity projects.The Graphic Design Archives Chapbook Series celebrates the achievements of key design pioneers whose work is collected in the Special Collections department of RIT Library. From the inaugural acquisition of the Lester Beall Archive in 1986, RIT's holdings have grown to include the work of seventeen designers. Extensive collections of personal papers, business records and artwork by Lester Beall, Will Burtin, George Giusti, and Cipe Pineles form the cornerstones of the Archives. Lester Beall: Space, Time & Content explores the work of Lester Beall through reproductions of RIT's comprehensive holdings. Beall (1903-1969) gained prominence through his ads, posters andidentity projects commissioned from such high-profile clients as the Chicago Tribune, Collier's and Time magazines, the Rural Electrification Administration and International Paper Company. Throughout his career, Beall's award-winning design and high principles made him a favored lecturer in professional and educational circles. He is now considered as one of the chief proponents of the American Modernist Design movement. R. Roger Remington, Professor of Graphic Design at RIT, has been seriously engaged in the research, interpretation and preservation of the history of graphic design for over 20 years. He has written extensively on the subject and is presently working on abook on Modernism in American Graphic Design.Trade ReviewThis book (introduced by Massimo Vignelli, and enhanced by an elegant layout by Bruce Ian Meader) provides a brief, wide-angle view of the full, rich range of his accomplishments (both client-based and not) as a designer, artist and teacher. * LEONARDO *The format and size of this new series of books, dedicated to the graphic designers in the RIT Graphic Design Special Collections, expresses the intention of reaching a wide audience of scholars and students, as well as design professionals. * MASSIMO VIGNELLI *
£12.34
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Illustrating Fashion
Book SynopsisIn clear and easy-to-follow steps, this highly effective textbook sets out everything that students need to know to produce competent and visually exciting illustrations. It is suitable both for class use and self-teaching, and shows how to create lively fashion illustrations of men, women and children. Examples of the media available and different drawing techniques are presented in a student-friendly form, with detailed explanations of how to represent fabrics, create and use templates and stencils, and make specification and working drawings. The presentation in this new edition has been updated throughout, using modern software techniques, the resource drawings now have a more contemporary look, and coloured illustrations are included for the first time.Table of ContentsWhat is fashion illustrations and how is it utilised in today's industry. How drawing has changed over the decades. How to get into the illustration mode: a series of drawing exercises. How to analyse figure drawing for use in fashion illustration. How to draw men, women and children: body proportion, head, hands and feet, racial characteristics. Selection of relevant poses: men, women and children. How to illustrate fabrics showing a variety of media and techniques, translated onto fashion figures. Developing a personal style. Type of illustrations and their use: how to draw good clear specification drawings (technical and working drawings) and drawings for specific areas, e.g. active sportswear, lingerie etc. A gallery of contemporary styles of illustration.
£25.49
University of Pennsylvania Press Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in
Book SynopsisIn the early nineteenth century, the American commercial marketplace was a chaotic, unregulated environment in which knock-offs and outright frauds thrived. Appearances could be deceiving, and entrepreneurs often relied on their personal reputations to close deals and make sales. Rapid industrialization and expanding trade routes opened new markets with enormous potential, but how could distant merchants convince potential customers, whom they had never met, that they could be trusted? Through wide-ranging visual and textual evidence, including a robust selection of early advertisements, Branding Trust tells the story of how advertising evolved to meet these challenges, tracing the themes of character and class as they intertwined with and influenced graphic design, trademark law, and ideas about ethical business practice in the United States. As early as the 1830s, printers, advertising agents, and manufacturers collaborated to devise new ways to advertise goods. They used eye-catching designs and fonts to grab viewers’ attention and wove together meaningful images and prose to gain the public’s trust. At the same time, manufacturers took legal steps to safeguard their intellectual property, formulating new ways to protect their brands by taking legal action against counterfeits and frauds. By the end of the nineteenth century, these advertising and legal strategies came together to form the primary components of modern branding: demonstrating character, protecting goodwill, entertaining viewers to build rapport, and deploying the latest graphic innovations in print. Trademarks became the symbols that embodied these ideas—in print, in the law, and to the public. Branding Trust thus identifies and explains the visual rhetoric of trust and legitimacy that has come to reign over American capitalism. Though the 1920s has often been held up as the birth of modern advertising, Jennifer M. Black argues that advertising professionals had in fact learned how to navigate public relations over the previous century by adapting the language, imagery, and ideas of the American middle class.Trade Review"Why would anyone trust an advertisement? Why, especially, in the long nineteenth century when novel products and media entered rapidly growing markets from unfamiliar sources? Jennifer M. Black probes these and other questions in Branding Trust, the most significant study of American advertising history in a generation. Masterful insights follow from her immense and innovative research to explain how pioneers in print advertising designed imagery to convey their trustworthiness and legitimacy. Through her rare appreciation for the interplay of evolving media, markets, courts, and diverse cultures, Black explains and generously illustrates the history of advertising’s visual rhetoric." * Pamela Walker Laird, author of Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing *"Jennifer Black recasts our understanding of how American capitalism came to rest so powerfully on corporate brands. That process involved a century of experimentation by manufacturers, merchants, advertising firms, and publishers, all of whom wrestled with the moral economy of competition, the legal boundaries of fraud, and the underpinnings of consumer trust amid industrialization. The establishment of reputations for quality, Black shows, was bound up as much with debates over gender roles and racial hierarchies as it was with technological advances, inventiveness in graphic design, and efforts to track consumer response to ad campaigns." * Edward J. Balleisen, author of Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff *
£38.25
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press The American Image: U.S. Posters from the 19th to
Book SynopsisThe first compact history of the American poster with 80 full color reproductions and an essay on poster design. The "modern" American poster has figured prominently in virtually every major political, social, commercial, and cultural development in the country. With arresting images and text, these posters have informed and sold Americans on election campaigns, the nation's war efforts, protest movements, consumer products, travel, entertainment, etc. They also comprise a history of U.S. graphic design, reflecting dramatic changes in style, advertising theory, and printing, as well as the emergence of key graphic designers. The American Image provides a rare survey of this popular art, spanning more than one hundred years. Selected from the Resnick Collection, the book analyzes some 70 posters representative of every significant style and theme. They range from design masterpieces to works of historical value, from posters by renowned designers to those created anonymously, and from celebrated images to those never before published. This handsome book includes superb, full-color reproductions; an incisive essay on American poster design by R. Roger Remington; and a preface and authoritative commentary on each image by Mark Resnick. MARK RESNICK is currently Executive Vice-President, Business Affairs, for Twentieth Century Fox. He has assembled what is likely the foremost private collection of American posters spanning the 1890s to present. R. ROGER REMINGTON is the Massimo and Lella Vignelli Distinguished Professor in Design in the School of Design, Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is American Modernism: Graphic Design, 1920 to 1960.
£18.99
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press Will Burtin: The Display of Visual Knowledge
Book SynopsisA concise overview of the work of designer Will Burtin, focussing on his ability to visually express complex concepts in a sophisticated yet aesthetically pleasing manner. This book explores the work of Will Burtin (1908-1972), designer, visionary, and teacher. Whether in advertising, exhibits, magazines, or other print material, his constant goal was to provide the audience with optimum communication of the content. Burtin designed visual training manuals for gunners during World War II, served as art director of Fortune magazine, organized several ground-breaking design conferences, and worked as a design consultantfor the pharmaceutical giant Upjohn. Burtin had a unique ability to visually express complex concepts in a sophisticated yet aesthetically pleasing and accessible manner; this became the de?ning characteristic of his work. This chapbook, as well as the materials found in the Will Burtin Collection in the Graphic Design Archives, can be studied to give meaningful understanding to Burtin's design process. R. ROGER REMMINGTON is the Massimo and Lella Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design in the School of Design, Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of several books, including Design and Science-The Life and Career of Will Burtin, co-authored withRobert S. P. Fripp, and American Modernism: Graphic Design, 1920 to 1960.
£12.34
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin
Book SynopsisThis concise overview of the work of designer Alvin Lustig (1915-55) focuses on his book covers, vehicles for his bold graphic experimentation. Here is a colorful and well-researched representation of Alvin Lustig's book cover designs that were created primarily for New Directions Books and Noonday Press, among others. Lustig used the book cover as a vehicle of his bold graphic experimentation that was enhanced by a lifelong collaboration with James Laughlin, founder and publisher of New Directions Books. Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger cite many passages from these letters of correspondence betweenLustig and Laughlin which include a range of topics from the early 1940s up to Lustig's untimely death in 1955. As a modern designer, Lustig's interests spanned many fields: architectural, industrial and interior design which served as an expression of his deeply held convictions. For him, the designer was not a single-minded specialist, but an integrator of many art forms-and simultaneously, as he saw it, a spokesman for social change. NED DREW teaches at Rutgers University-Newark and is also the director of The Design Consortium, a student/teacher run design studio that focuses on non-profit, community-based projects. Paul Sternberger is an Associate Professor of Art History at Rutgers University-Newark. He is co-author with colleague Ned Drew of By It's Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design.
£14.24
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press Elaine Lustig Cohen: Modernism Reimagined
Book SynopsisA short critical overview of Elaine Lustig Cohen's pioneering design work as well as her paintings and collages. Elaine Lustig Cohen made her living as a freelance designer in the 1950s and 1960s - during a time when few women worked in the field. She is widely recognized for the client-based design work she produced during this period. Influenced at an early age in Modernism, she was later rewarded with accolades for her work as a fine artist in painting and collage.Aaris Sherin focuses on Cohen as a multi-faceted designer, paying particular attention to the book covers she designed for Meridian Books and New Directions. The author provides a critical overview of Cohen's career based on interview sessions with the artist along with full color examples of her work. This is the fifth book in the Graphic Design Archives Chapbook Series. Aaris Sherin is an associate professor of graphic design at St. John's University in Queens, New York. Sherin is the author of Sustainable Thinking: Ethical Approaches to Design and Design Management (Fairchild Books 2013) and other titles.
£14.24
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press George Giusti: The Idea Is the Heart of the
Book SynopsisA short introduction to the life and work of Italian-born designer, George Giusti, examining his eclectic aesthetic of refined Modernism. George Giusti, an Italian-born and educated designer, first established a professional practice in Switzerland and later, in the United States. Giusti's unique designs became widely praised covers for publications such as Fortune,Holiday, Modern Packaging, Graphis and Time. With multidisciplinary talents, Giusti also created sculptures, metalwork and designed several architectural projects reflecting his eclectic aesthetic of refined Modernism. This is the sixth title in the Graphic Design Archives Chapbook Series. This series celebrates the achievements of key design pioneers whose work is held in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at RIT Libraries. From the inaugural acquisition in 1986, RIT's holdings have grown to include the work of 36 significant American graphic designers, active from the 1920s to the 1950s. NED DREW heads the Graphic Design area at Rutgers University-Newark andis also a founding partner of the multidisciplinary design firm BRED, which is based in New York City. BRENDA McMANUS is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Pace University and founding partner and creative director of BRED.PAUL STERNBERGER, Associate Professor of Art History at Rutgers University-Newark, specializes in American Art and the History of Photography.
£16.14
Seltmann Publishers GmbH The Art of Jazz Covers
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£999.99
Instituto Monsa de Ediciones Green Packaging Solutions
Book SynopsisGlobal responsibility and commitment to the environment means the pressure is on to seek environmentally friendly and sustainable solutions to combat the mounting problem of consumer waste. The importance of recyclable packaging is clearly recognised by all market sectors; either because the product itself is natural and eco-friendly or manufacturers wish to draw attention to the essence of the product, demonstrating commitment to environmental protection through company products. Green Packaging Solutions showcases some of the finest examples of packing designs that combines brand identity and innovative style with environmentally friendly and sustainable materials and production.
£16.79
Promopress Animals: 1000 Handmade Illustrations
Book SynopsisThe book features retro style pen and ink illustrations by Joan Escandell (illustrator of "Captain Thunder," "He-Man," and Disney's "Cinderella "and "The Lion King"), who molded the image many youngsters in Europe have of literary figures like Robin Hood. The book gives free access to a library of downloadable high-resolution animal images.
£15.29
Promopress Invitations, Greeting Cards, Postcards and Self-Promotion
Book SynopsisA collection of greeting cards, personal invitations, and announcement cards that have been either made by hand or produced with the most avant-garde computer- design techniques. Nine seconds is the current estimate of the amount of time that it takes to captivate the eye. In our information-saturated world, in which email has monopolized personal communication, handmade greeting cards, personal invitations, and announcement cards offer an element of exclusive value and a unique charm, bringing together imagination, real texture, and a wide variety of design techniques. This publication focuses on the latest creative card designs produced by innovative design studios and artists throughout the world. The ideas showcased in its three hundred pages range from handmade cards that elude conventional printing processes to the most avant-garde computer-designed offerings. The book shows the creative processes and techniques used in each project and analyses the key elements of their success. This book is a great source of inspiration for those eager to break boundaries and go one step further with their creativity and imagination. AUTHOR: Marta Serrats is a journalist based in Barcelona. She holds a Journalism degree from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Information and Communication Science Faculty and is specialised architecture and design issues. SELLING POINTS: . Unusual and cutting-edge creative cards by innovative design studios and artists. . An unparalleled showcase of three hundred pages of examples by designers from all over the world. . A source of inspiration for designers and card lovers alike.
£17.99
WW Norton & Co Inside the Machine Art and Invention in the
Book SynopsisA visual history of the electronic age captures the collision of technology and art—and our collective visions of the future.Trade Review"Fascinating…. [A] fantastically geeky visual tour of tech industry history as seen through the lens of the commercial art that helped popularize it." -- Meg Miller - Fast Company"Attentive readers of Prelinger’s lively chronology will come away with an appreciation of how the visual representations of technology are integral to our understanding of it." -- Chris Rasmussen - Bookforum"Unusual and insightful…. Filled with retro tech-industry ads, magazine covers and other commercial artworks, this erudite book takes readers on a cultural history tour that sharply reveals ‘art’s ability to touch the intangible and render it visible.’" -- John Wilwol - San Francisco Chronicle"[An] unusual and compelling study." -- Nature"An essential and eye-popping visual history of electronics, a glimpse of the electronic infrastructure captured in the brief moment before it miniaturized down to a scale too small for the eye to see, disappearing from our ordinary view forever, even as it burrowed into our buildings, streets, vehicles and even our bodies." -- Cory Doctorow coeditor of Boing Boing and author of In Real Life and Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free"A highly original cultural history of 20th-century technology examined through the lens of commercial art…. Sophisticated in its grasp of science and technological history but also accessible to general readers." -- Kirkus Reviews"A tour de force of the computer and electronic age that takes readers on a fascinating voyage that spans everything from graphic renderings of theoretical space gondolas to depictions of transistors as the route to utopia. Like Trevor Paglen’s exploration of the visual aspects of secrecy, Megan Prelinger’s Inside the Machine provides readers with a unique window into the history of electronics and computer science during the Cold War, and beyond. Merging science with art, Prelinger challenges our linear notions of scientific progress, helping us see a new dimension to our modern technological world." -- Sharon Weinberger, author of Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon’s Scientific Underworld"Because electrons are mostly invisible, our visualizations of them tell us more about our dreams than about electrons. This cool and unusual book gathers our earliest collective dreams about circuits and electronics and makes them visible. It got me thinking about our assumptions for tomorrow. I love it when a book like this makes me see the world differently." -- Kevin Kelly, senior maverick for Wired magazine and author of What Technology Wants
£26.59
Taylor & Francis Advertising and Public Memory
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£38.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc White Cloud Worlds An Anthology of Science
Book SynopsisFilled with artistry and images, this book showcases the work of twenty-seven established and emerging artists in the area of science fiction and fantasy art. From the utterly bizarre and remarkable, to the down-right creepy, it is suitable for all science fiction and fantasy fans as well as those interested in art and graphic design.
£26.99
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Advertising Concept Book Think Now Design
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£23.75
Schiffer Publishing Ltd CocaCola Trays Schiffer Book for Collectors
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£11.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd TRADEMARKS OF THE 1950S Schiffer Design Books
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Label Art of the Chinese World 18901976
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£33.29
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Gift and Shopping Bag Designs
Book SynopsisThe artwork displayed on gift and shopping bags has never been more exciting! This contemporary peek at nearly 600 shopping bags in over 280 vibrant color photographs is perfect for shopaholics, fashionistas, art enthusiasts, and anyone who has ever enjoyed the graphic design and thematic liveliness of shopping and gift bags. Quality art and graphics, popular themes (including humor, novelty, gender, advertising bags, and more) are explored for modern paper shopping bags in this dynamic authors'' collectionthe first book of its kind in over 25 years. Detailed descriptions include the use of brand names for advertising, as well as themed art, dimensions, producers, and creation time frames. There is an art to mastering shopping and gift presentation!
£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Fashion Design Techniques
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£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Fraver by Design
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£28.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Firearms and Tackle Memorabilia
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£31.44
Schiffer Publishing Ltd America for Sale
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£23.79
Johns Hopkins University Press Signs Streets and Storefronts
Book SynopsisA must-read for city planners, town councils, architects, sign designers, concerned citizens, and anyone who cares about the appearance and vitality of America's commercial streets, this heavily illustrated book is equally appealing to armchair historians, small-town enthusiasts, and lovers of Americana.Trade ReviewA must-read for any fan of architecture -- and for city planners. It is a thorough dissection of the trends and clashes that continue to shape and regulate our nation's commercial corridors. -- Mark A. Vernarelli American RoadTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The Making of Main Street: Transformation and Invention on the Commercial Frontier, 1700s–18992. The Great Blight Way: Electricity and Reform from Main Street to City Center, 1900–19173. Visions and Velocity: The Expansive Age of the Automobile, 1918–19284. Sign as Storefront: America Discovers Modernism, 1929–19455. Landscapes of More and Less: Consequences of Commercial Freedom and Restraint, 1946–19646. Rediscovering Main Street: Retrenchment, Repair, and Reinvention, 1965–2010ConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£54.22
DK Signos Y Smbolos Gua Ilustrada de Su Origen Y
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£23.40
Arcadia Publishing FreeportVelasco Images of America
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£21.24
J Ross Publishing The Thoughtless Design of Everyday Things
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£31.30
Block Museum Up Is Down MidCentury Experiments in Advertising
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£23.75
Laurence King Publishing Don't Get a Job...Make a Job: How to make it as a
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£14.24
Bodleian Library Bound for Success: Catalogue for Designer
Book SynopsisThis catalogue illustrates each entry in the prestigious bookbinding competition held by Designer Bookbinders, one of the foremost bookbinding societies in the world. The Designer Bookbinders International Competition is being held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford in 2009. Published to celebrate the winning entries in the Competition and also to accompany the exhibition held in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this catalogue illustrates nearly four hundred examples of contemporary binding, featuring a remarkable range of styles, materials, and approaches to the ancient craft of bookbinding. The exhibition has attracted top binders from around the world and the catalogue promises to be a showcase of the very best in modern bookbinding.
£62.47
Kinokuniya Bookstores of America A Visual Encyclopedia History of Japanese Posters in the Meiji Taisho and Early Showa Periods
£156.28
Instituto Monsa de Ediciones Stranger Things –Tribute– 1983/1986
Book SynopsisStranger Things is characterised by having the heart and essence of the mythical series and films of the 80's, from The Goonies, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, The Neverending Story, and so many more, which were authentic icons for that generation. The series has the same breath of fresh air as the past that it wants to reflect, since the first episode it has managed to captivate our hearts. From its aesthetics, music on tape cassettes, arcades, the first malls... A brilliant series that explores the crossroads between the ordinary and the extraordinary.
£17.99
