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Adobe Indesign CS2 at Work: Projects You Can Use on the Jobby Cate IndianoISBN 067232802X (0-672-32802-X)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adobe Indesign CS2 at Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job'Book summary:Adobe InDesign CS2 is a powerful, but complicated, page layout technology. Sure, learning how to use the various tools and techniques is important, but what you really need and want to know is how to put those tools and techniques to use to complete projects at work. That's where Adobe InDesign CS2 @ Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job comes into play. The InDesign tools and basics are introduced to you in the first three chapters. After that, you will accomplish a variety of real-world job tasks with detailed instructions that allow for personalization. The projects you will learn to tackle include:
- Business Collateral
- Marketing Materials
- Newspaper/Magazine Ads and Posters
- Brochures
- Interactive Reports/Presentations
- Monthly Newsletters
- Product Catalogues
- Order Forms
- Annual Reports
Tips, tricks and notes provide you with the information that you need to carry over what you learn in Adobe InDesign CS2 @ Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job to your job. Put your knowledge and talents to work!
"I'm really impressed with Adobe InDesign @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job. Cate Indiano found just the right balance of easy step-by-step instructions and pertinent background information, including workflow, project management, and production issues. The example layouts and files are well-designed and provide real-world context for the entire book. You won't find any fluff here - just a combination of clear and purposeful text and screenshots."
Adam Pratt, Application Engineer, Adobe Systems, Inc.
"Cate Indiano has produced a thorough, well thought out book. She's an excellent instructor and her focus on making sure her readers learn what they need to know to produce work efficiently in the real world is very evident in this book."
Sterling Ledet, Sterling Ledet & Associates
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All Colour Book of Art Decoby Dan KleinISBN 0706403231 (0-7064-0323-1)
Hardcover, Octopus Books
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Alvar Aaltoby Richard WestonISBN 0714837105 (0-7148-3710-5)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Animaliaby Graeme BaseISBN 0670815365 (0-670-81536-5)
Hardcover, Viking Kestrel
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animalia'Book summary:What's this elaborate illustration? "Horrible Hairy Hogs Hurrying Homewards on Heavily Harnessed Horses," of course. Graeme Base's astonishingly creative oeuvre begins with Animalia, the 1993 alphabet book that challenges the standard idea of how long reading a book for small kids ought to take. Animalia, like many of Base's books, is a vast puzzle, built with entrancing pictures that unfold into layers and layers of objects--all matched to each page's corresponding letter. Base leaves us stunned and amazed, painting reflections into the oddest surfaces and driving the urge to page-turn. This wonderful picture book works for 2-year-olds, 5-year-olds, and adults alike--something few other alphabet books can manage. --Andrew Bartlett [via]
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The Art BookISBN 0714836257 (0-7148-3625-7)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
Find This BookBook summary:This user-friendly book is an alphabetical reference guide to 500 of the world's greatest painters and sculptors, from antiquity to the present. Measuring roughly 5 by 6-1/2 inches and now in paperback, The Art Book is not only affordable, but also light, compact, and extremely portable, completely reforming the concept of an art reference book. It is perfect for the coffee table or for the backpack or pocketbook as well. Each artist is represented by a full-color plate and by explanatory and illuminating information on both the image and the artist. Cross references are provided to other artists in the book, and glossaries of technical terms and artistic movements are also included, making the book a valuable reference tool in the art library. Presented are some of the most famous artists of all time and their greatest masterworks--never before have they been so accessible as they are in this format. [via]
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The Art Bookby Phaidon, Claire Van Cleave, Susan StirlingISBN 071484487X (0-7148-4487-X)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art Book'Book summary:There is no introductory essay, there are no comparative illustrations, and there is little placement of these 500 works in historical context. The Art Book is a completely visual survey of the history of art. Each of the 500 great works is arranged by artist from A to Z. Works are not surrounded with historical data, supplemental illustrations, or other works by the artist, which relieves viewers of expectations or influence and allows them to judge each piece as it appears. The editors of the book are not irresponsible, though. Information critical to the work and its creator is unobtrusively listed in upper and lower margins of the page, giving some context and allowing each work to be reproduced as largely as possible. With its large format, elegance, and well-produced illustrations, The Art Book is hard to put down, once you have picked it up. [via]
Art Deco Source Bookby Patricia BayerISBN 0714825352 (0-7148-2535-2)
Hardcover, Phaidon
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Art Deco Styleby Bevis Hillier, Stephen EscrittISBN 0714843288 (0-7148-4328-8)
Softcover, Phaidon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art Deco Style'Book summary:Characterized by geometric shapes, stylized natural forms and the use of luxuriuos materials Art Deco originated in France and spread quickly all over the globe during the 1930s. Interest in the style was revived in the 1960s, partly as a result of the work of Bevis Hillier who recalls his triumphs and mistakes in writing the first book on the subject and co-organizing the Minneapolis exhibition in 1971. Stephen Escritt's text deals with recent scholarship and changing attitudes towards Art Deco, by charting its various worldwide manifestations he demonstrates that the stle (although retrospectively labelled a movement) had a coherance that lead to its international spread. The text is illustrated with examples from all over the world, ranging from liners to letterboxes and from radios to lampposts. [via]
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Buckminster Fuller's Universeby Lloyd Steven SiedenISBN 0738203793 (0-7382-0379-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Buckminster Fuller's Universe'Book summary:Buckminster Fuller, the brilliant and eccentric futurist philosopher best known as the inventor of the Geodesic Dome, was one of the most creative contributors to innovative thought and technology in the twentieth century. Incomparable designer, engineer, and architect, he proved that a lone genius, through sheer initiative, can have an astounding impact on the world. In this inspiring account of Fuller's life and legacy, Lloyd Steven Sieden brings new light to Fuller's belief system and recognizes his many contributions to humanity.[via]More editions of Buckminster Fuller's Universe:
Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fullerby Hugh KennerISBN 0688051413 (0-688-05141-3)
Softcover, Morrow
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Cabin Fever: Rustic Style Comes Homeby Rachel CarleyISBN 0684844222 (0-684-84422-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Celtic Art Source Bookby Courtney DavisISBN 0713721448 (0-7137-2144-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Celtic Design and Style in Homes of Scotland, Ireland, and Walesby Deborah KrasnerISBN 0670818496 (0-670-81849-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Chinoiserie: The Vision of Cathayby Hugh HonourISBN 0719529271 (0-7195-2927-1)
Hardcover, J. Murray
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The City in Mind : Notes on the Urban Conditionby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0684845911 (0-684-84591-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City in Mind : Notes on the Urban Condition'Book summary:In "The Geography of Nowhere," James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia "a tragic landscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" and put himself at the heart of a fierce debate over how we will live in twenty-first century America. Now, Kunstler turns his wickedly mordant and astute eye on urban life both in America and across the world. From classical Rome to the "gigantic hairball" of contemporary Atlanta, he offers a far-reaching discourse on the history and current state of urban life.
"The City in Mind" tells the story of urban design and how the architectural makeup of a city directly influences its culture as well as its success. From the ingenious architectural design of Louis-Napoleon's renovation of Paris to the bloody collision of cultures that occurred when Cortes conquered the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, from the grandiose architectural schemes of Hitler and Albert Speer to the meanings behind the ludicrous spectacle of Las Vegas, Kunstler opens up a new dialogue on the development and effects of urban construction. In his investigations, he discovers American communities in the Sunbelt and Southwest alienated from each other and themselves, Northeastern cities caught between their initial civic construction and our current car-obsessed society, and a disparate Europe with its mix of pre-industrial creativity, and war-marked reminders of the twentieth century.
Expanding on ideas first discussed in Jane Jacobs' seminal work, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," Kunstler looks to Europe to discover what is constant and enduring in cities at their greatest, and at the same time, how a city's design can be directly linked toits decline. In these dazzling excursions he finds the reasons that America got lost in its suburban wilderness and locates the pathways in culture that might lead to a civic revival here. Kunstler's examination of these cities is at once a concise history of their urban lives and a detailed criticism of how those histories have either aided or hindered the social and civil progress of the cities' occupants. By turns dramatic and wildly comic, and always authoritative, "The City in Mind," is an exceptional glimpse into the urban condition. [via]
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Contemporary Quilts: Design, Surface And Stitchby Sandra MeechISBN 0713489871 (0-7134-8987-1)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Creating Web Pages With Html: Comprehensiveby Patrick Carey, Joan CareyISBN 0619019689 (0-619-01968-9)
Softcover, Course Technology Ptr
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Lifeby Daniel DennettISBN 068482471X (0-684-82471-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life'Book summary:One of the best descriptions of the nature and implications of Darwinian evolution ever written, it is firmly based in biological information and appropriately extrapolated to possible applications to engineering and cultural evolution. Dennett's analyses of the objections to evolutionary theory are unsurpassed. Extremely lucid, wonderfully written, and scientifically and philosophically impeccable. Highest Recommendation! [via]
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The Design of Advertisingby Roy Paul NelsonISBN 0697043274 (0-697-04327-4)
Hardcover, W. C. Brown Co
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Design of Citiesby Edmund N. BaconISBN 0670268623 (0-670-26862-3)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Design to Sell: Use Microsoft Publisher to Plan, Write and Design Great Marketing Piecesby Roger C. ParkerISBN 0735622604 (0-7356-2260-4)
Softcover, Microsoft Pr
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Designing Css Web Pagesby Christopher SchmittISBN 0735712638 (0-7357-1263-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Designing Css Web Pages'Book summary:Go beyond the mechanics of CSS to how to think in the language of web design, and avoid the common pitfalls. Full of examples and deconstruction's to aid in understanding CSS and its application. The ability to use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is fast becoming a vital tool in the web professional's toolkit. But understanding how to use CSS is not intuitive--it requires a new way of thinking when it comes to building web pages. This book encourages web designers to look at the perceived limitations of the web as a new challenge to their design skills--without relying on HTML for presentation of pages. The overall theme is to instruct readers to build pages by using relative design techniques: understanding the relationship within the dynamic space of the web rather than the fixed-design "old-school" notions that have been in use for so long. The web site will include all of the files needed for the exercises and additional information of interest to web professionals including, but not limited to, recommended readings (suggested books, web sites and online articles), full-length interviews and a listing of CSS tools. www.christopher.org
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Designing from Both Sides of the Screen : How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technologyby Ellen Isaacs, Alan WalendowskiISBN 0672321513 (0-672-32151-3)
Softcover, Sams
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Designing from Both Sides of the Screen : How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology'Book summary:Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology is a must-have book for anyone developing user interfaces (UI). The authors define a seemingly simple goal, the Cooperative Principle for Technology: "Those who are designing, building, or managing the development of technology should teach their products to follow the same basic rules of cooperation that people use with each other."
In the first section, they show lots of good and bad UI examples from different devices (PC, PDA, photocopier, even a dashboard). Bad examples include confusing pop-ups, crowded menus and hilarious error messages like this one from Yahoo! Messenger: "You are not currently connected. Please click on Login and then Login to login again."
The book gives succinct design principles like, "Treat Clicks as Sacred". A violation of this would be those dreaded "Do you really mean it" pop-ups. Using a butler as an analogy, they point out that hed soon be out of a job if he questioned, "Madam, are you sure you want me to answer the door?" A Design Guideline says, "If you have an Undo feature, there is no need to break the users flow to ask them whether they really want the program to do what they just asked it to do." Design Guidelines like this appear in the margins throughout the book for easy reference and are gathered in a handy appendix summary.
The second section goes into detail on the creation of the authors own project, Hubbub, a multi-device instant messaging application. Whenever a step in the process reflects the application of a design principle, theres a purple callout in the text. Thus the book itself is an example of a cooperative UI that helps readers keep ideas organised as they read along.
Even if youre not developing user interfaces, youll enjoy this book. There are many moments of recognition when you see just how flawed your favourite, or most hated, everyday application/operating system/Web site is, and how easily it could have been improved. And you may even find the principles of Cooperative Technology informing non-technological areas of your life. The authors make politeness and the anticipation of the needs of others seem logical, feasible and elegant. --Angelynn Grant [via]
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A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thoughtby Wolfram EberhardISBN 0710201915 (0-7102-0191-5)
Hardcover, Routledge & Kegan Paul
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought'Book summary:Explains the esoteric meanings and connections of more than 400 important Chinese symbols. Their use and development in Chinese literature, customs and attitudes to life are traced lucidly and precisely. [via]
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Elements of Graph Designby Stephen M. KosslynISBN 071672362X (0-7167-2362-X)
Softcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elements of Graph Design'Book summary:Graphs and other visual displays of information have become a pervasive part of our environment. In Elements of Graph Design , noted psychologist Stephen Kosslyn explains step-by-step how to create effective displays of quantitative data, with guidelines based on our current understanding of how the brain processes information. Unlike any other guide to designing graphs, it demonstrates clearly why certain graph formats and elements work better than others in specific situations. For those who prepare, use and interpret graphic data, Elements of Graph Design explores the crucial connections between the design, the data, and the reader. When read cover to cover or used as a hands-on working reference, it offers a wealth of advice on effectively conveying information visually. [via]
Embroidery from Sketch to Stitchby Pat LangfordISBN 0731810082 (0-7318-1008-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Australia
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Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of Americaby Henry Petroski, Edward KastenmeierISBN 0679760210 (0-679-76021-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America'Book summary:Henry Petroski's lyrical history of bridge builders in America is organized around five engineers: James Eads (inventor of the diving bell, which bridged Mississippi at St. Louis); Theodore Cooper (railroad bridge engineer and designer of the ill-fated Quebec Bridge); Gustav Lindenthal (Hell Gate Bridge, New York); Othmar Ammann (George Washington and Verrazano-Narrow bridges); and David Steinman (Mackinac bridge). Petroski's opening and closing chapters, "Imagine" and "Realize," remind us how a bridge starts out as a dream of engineering, but ends as a reality of compromise and maintenance. Edward Tenner says that "The profound contribution of Engineers of Dreams is to remind us that communication across generations may be the most important bridge of all." [via]
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False Flat : Why Dutch Design Is so Goodby Aaron Betsky, Adam EeuwensISBN 0714840696 (0-7148-4069-6)
Hardcover, Phaidon Press
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The Fashion Bookby Phaidon PressISBN 0714841188 (0-7148-4118-8)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fashion Book'Book summary:James Abbe, a 1920s fashion photographer, and Zoran, the designer whose simple, monochromatic clothes were extremely popular in the 1970s, anchor the 500 entries in this massive encyclopedia of fashion. Each designer, photographer, model, or icon gets a page with a large photo and informative but short caption. This has the wonderful effect of weighting each entry equally, thereby devoting the same amount of space to Charles Revson, creator of the Revlon cosmetics empire and relative makeup newcomer François Nars, pioneering clothing designer Mariano Fortuny and contemporary favorite Tom Ford.
Clearly, a good set of eyes edited this book. It's a tall order to choose just one image to define the many facets of a designer, model, or photographer. The choices made here are excellent and often surprising. The indomitable Coco Chanel demonstrates the ease of movement her designs afforded women by briskly swinging her arm out to one side, while Kate Moss is shown at the height of her waifdom, likely the mode in which she will best be remembered. Model Linda Evangelista is pictured with curly locks of hair. It's obvious, too, that the editors employed the haphazard juxtaposition created by the alphabetical organization. Facing entries, no matter how seemingly incongruous, are united by a visual theme, to spectacular effect. The ovals made by the either screaming or yawning mouths of Kurt Cobain and his infant daughter are mirrored in a 1937 Jean Cocteau illustration of an Elsa Schiaparelli design. A model in a 1930s outfit by John-Frederics faces a portrait of post-punk design queen Betsey Johnson, whose floral outfit echoes the flowery silhouette behind the model. A troika of Robert Lee Morris bracelets matches the arcs of a bombed-out London building in a 1941 Beaton photo of a Digby Morton design. The vibrant prints of Emilio Pucci and Lilly Pulitzer fall together naturally.
The reams of fabulous images and the inventive design alone make The Fashion Book a treat at any cost, but the low price-to-size ratio (like its cousins The Art Book and The Photography Book) makes it a real steal. [via]
Four Way Bargelloby Dorothy KaestnerISBN 0684129124 (0-684-12912-4)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Fresh Fruitsby Schoichi Aoki, Shoichi AokiISBN 0714845108 (0-7148-4510-8)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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From Celtic Hearths: Baked Goods from Scotland, Ireland, & Walesby Deborah KrasnerISBN 0670837601 (0-670-83760-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Fruitsby Shoichi AokiISBN 0714840831 (0-7148-4083-1)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fruits'Book summary:If you ever wondered where the catwalk got its claws, then the portraits gathered in photographer Shoichi Aoki's book Fruits, from the streets of Harajuku in Tokyo, point the way to an extraordinarily imaginative and invariably stunning glut of mongrel fashion heists. A best-of collection from the fanzine of the same name, and published for the first time outside Japan, Fruits keeps its style clean: front-on, razor-sharp images, ranging from the deadpan to the manic, of the sharpest collages of sartorial influence that, usually, little money can buy. From off the peg to off the wall, kitsch to bitch, each person bears a combination and philosophy as distinctive as DNA. All shades of aesthetic are raided, with exquisite, scrupulous attention to detail. Punk is a favorite, as is, appropriately, Vivienne Westwood, alongside Milk and Jean-Paul Gaultier, and the occasional Comme des Garçons. Many of the outfits, though, are second-hand or self-assembly, such as a skirt drooping petals of men's silk ties, Wa-mono, when tradition Japanese clothes are topped with, say, an authentic bowler hat, EGL (elegant gothic Lolita), and a swathe of tartans, pinks, and turquoises. The most malleable feature, unsurprisingly, is hair, with dreadlocks, mohicans, back-combing, and crops dyed an irradiated spectrum. While the eye is drawn, obediently, to the mannequins, the background is often worth a look, either for the vending machines against which a number are shot, or the ubiquitous Gap store and bags, a constant reminder of the global mass market.
One enterprising man wears a genuine British paperboy's delivery bag, and, to pick but one profile, Princess, 18, is trying to be a doll and is currently preoccupied with body organs. Mmm. All the subjects are asked the source of their clothes, as well as their "point of fashion" and "current obsession." The scope for sociopsychological discussion is vast, particularly with the preponderance of infantilization, through dolls, bonnets, pop socks, and Barbie, but this is a joyous documentation of the innovative, celebrating the inspirational polytheism of street fashion, captured with provocative, political zeal. Best let the street cats prowl. --David Vincent [via]
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The Garden BookISBN 071483985X (0-7148-3985-X)
Hardcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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The Garden Bookby PhaidonISBN 0714843555 (0-7148-4355-5)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Garden Book Midiby NISBN 0714844896 (0-7148-4489-6)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Garden Junkby Mary R. CarterISBN 0670869384 (0-670-86938-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventuresby Howard WainerISBN 0691103011 (0-691-10301-1)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Houses Architects Live inby Barbara PlumbISBN 0670380385 (0-670-38038-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way We Live With Technologyby Kim VicenteISBN 0676974902 (0-676-97490-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Webby Christina WodtkeISBN 0735712506 (0-7357-1250-6)
Softcover, New Riders Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web'Book summary:All web sites have an architecture, whether you design one or not-just as every building has an architecture, from the lowly shanty by the railroad track to Chicago¿s tallest skyscraper. Unfortunately, most web sites are shanties, not skyscrapers. Companies that hastily threw up a web site in the dot-com boom days were visited by building inspector Jakob Neilsen, who told them their site should be condemned. But now we are entering a time of rebuilding, and we¿ve got a chance to get it right.
Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web introduces the core concepts of information architecture: organizing web site content so that it can be found, designing web site interaction so that it's pleasant to use, and creating an interface that is easy to understand. This book will help designers, project managers, programmers, and other information architecture practitioners avoid the costly mistakes of the past by teaching the skills of information architecture swiftly and clearly. Use this book and you will pass the usability inspection with flying colors!
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Islamic Designsby Eva WilsonISBN 0714180661 (0-7141-8066-1)
Hardcover, British Museum Publications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Islamic Designs'Book summary:An anthology of 280 Islamic designs and patterns. It is drawn from the heritage of Islamic art c 800-1600 AD. It is suitable for designers, craftsmen, artists, teachers and students. [via]
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It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Beby Paul ArdenISBN 0714843377 (0-7148-4337-7)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be'Book summary:It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be is a handbook of how to succeed in the world - a pocket 'bible' for the talented and timid to make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible. The world's top advertising guru, Paul Arden, offers up his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right, making mistakes and creativity, all notions that can be applied to aspects of modern life. This book provides a unique insight into the world of advertising and is a quirky compilation of quotes, facts, pictures, wit and wisdom, packed into easy-to-digest, bite-sized spreads. If you want to succeed in life or business, this is a must!
Paul Arden began his career in advertising at the age of 16. For 14 years he was Executive Creative Director at Saatchi and Saatchi, where he was responsible for some of Britain's best known campaigns including British Airways, Silk Cut, Anchor Butter, InterCity and Fuji. His famous slogans include 'The Car in front is a Toyota' and 'The Independent - It is - Are You?'. In 1993 he set up the London-based production company Arden Sutherland-Dodd where he is now a commercials director for clients such as BT, BMW, Ford, Nestle and Levis. [via]
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Larry's Partyby Carol ShieldsISBN 0670873926 (0-670-87392-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Larry's Party'Book summary:Larry Weller is a regular guy, or so Carol Shields has him think. When we first meet him in 1977 Winnipeg at age 26, he's pondering the pluses of Harris tweed, still living at home, and realizing he's in love with his girlfriend, Dorrie, a flinty car saleswoman. Larry is proud of his job at Flowerfolks, even though he fell into floral design by accident, and if his relationship with his parents isn't perfect, it's not too bad, either. (Stu and Flo Weller may have less page-time in Larry's Party, but they are hugely memorable. He is a master upholsterer, happiest when working; she is a woman ruined by nervous guilt, having inadvertently killed off her mother-in-law with some improperly preserved green beans.)
Carol Shields has said that she had "always been struck by the fact that in most novels people aren't working." Though her hero climbs the floral managerial trellis for 17 years and finds more rhapsody in work than marriage, Larry and Dorrie's honeymoon in England points him toward what will be his true vocation--mazes. These living constructs turn him into a thinker, a man of imagination, and the author's descriptions are quietly spectacular as well as effortlessly sweet. Larry wonders at their "teasing elegance and circularity ... a snail, a scribble, a doodle on the earth's skin with no other directed purpose but to wind its sinuous way around itself." Just as Larry changes with the times--each elliptical chapter ages him by one or two years--so does his art. In 1990, he designs a maze in which you can't really lose yourself. In 1997, the McCord Maze "is intended to mirror the descent into unconscious sleep, followed by a slow awakening." Larry, too, has a slow awakening, taking several false turns before reaching midlife. As the novel closes, with a bravura dinner party scene, he may finally be at ease in the world. But his creator knows that he is only halfway there, and still has to negotiate his way from the center of the maze to its exit. [via]
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Living a Beautiful Life : 500 Ways to Add Elegance, Order, Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Lifeby Alexandra StoddardISBN 0679456236 (0-679-45623-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living a Beautiful Life : 500 Ways to Add Elegance, Order, Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Life'Book summary:Eating. Sleeping. Bathing. Chores. These are the things we do every day, yet few of us stop to consider how we perform the routines that occupy 95 percent of our lives: in chaos or serenity, with irritation or with joy.
Here, in one elegant, copious and forever rereadable book, Alexandra Stoddard shows how to live a more beautiful, more ordered life, every single day. Drawing on the wisdom of Emerson, Samuel Johnson, Rilke and many others and warmed by Alexandra Stoddard's personal anecdotes, this book deals with life both philosophically and practically -- from discovering the sources of your well-being to buying the right stationery or sheets; from using solitude to replenish your spirit to using fabrics, ribbon, paper and your own five senses to transform your daily life.
Living a Beautiful Life demonstrates how to use the ordinary in extraordinary ways, suggesting hundreds of techniques for turning dull, irritating routines into life-enhancing rituals; hundreds of simple ways to transform your days -- or your bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and desk -- into delights of beauty and efficiency. There's a marvelous trick for locating the perfect psychological spot for your bed, a quick way to use "remembrance of things past" to choose color schemes that suit you, suggestions for how to turn a fifteen-minute lunch break into a restorative experience. And throughout, Alexandra Stoddard shows how taking care of "the little things" can ultimately add up to a change in the big things.
Most of all, Living a Beautiful Life reveals how a beautiful life can be achieved; how daily motions become truly satisfying patterns of pleasure; and how these patterns of pleasure can add up to a life lived deeply and well, transforming even the most cluttered and hectic existence. [via]More editions of Living a Beautiful Life : 500 Ways to Add Elegance, Order, Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Life:
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Macromedia Flash to the Core: An Interactive Sketchbookby Joshua DavisISBN 0735712883 (0-7357-1288-3)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macromedia Flash to the Core: An Interactive Sketchbook'Book summary:Coverage is not critically tied to a particular rev of Flash. Flash to the Core is about the creative process and what Joshua Davis can teach about taking Flash design and development to new extremes. Part one is all about Joshua, the artist: his philosophies, his approach to Flash workflow, how he works with clients, how he explains and explores the world around him through his creative approach to Flash web design, animation and motion graphics. Part two is about the work itself: 12 Flash-based projects Joshua has created in the past year. Some of these have won awards, others have been nominated for awards. Each project is a narrative and deconstruction, with the code used in the project included and explained. A large and growing audience wants to learn advanced Flash techniques from the best in the business. No other book can do this quite like Flash to the Core: An Interactive Sketchbook by Joshua Davis. [via]
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Marks of Excellence: The History and Taxonomy of Trademarksby Per MollerupISBN 0714838381 (0-7148-3838-1)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marks of Excellence: The History and Taxonomy of Trademarks'Book summary:Finding the roots of trademarks in heraldry, potter's marks, monograms, and other such ancient devices, this book traces the history of the corporate visual lexicon and produces a taxonomy of the commercial age. An alphabetical section covers motifs from animals to waves, with short definitions and analyses beautifully complemented by daringly cropped and crisply photographed images. Pictures of this quality and interest would steal the show in most volumes, but the text stands up well to the challenge of images that gain force because of the familiarity of their subjects (corporate trademarks), and the unusual sense that the book's context lends to them. Marks of Excellence is a worthwhile exploration at the modern language of ownership. [via]
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The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at Mitby Stewart BrandISBN 0670814423 (0-670-81442-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at Mit'Book summary:Personalized newspapers, life-sized holograms, telephones that chat with callers, these are all projects that are being developed at MIT's Media Lab. Brand explores the exciting programs, and gives readers a look at the future of communications. [via]
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The Medium Is the Messageby Marshall McLuhan, Quentin FioreISBN 0671689975 (0-671-68997-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Medium Is the Message'Book summary:The medium used to be the message. But in the "collide-oscopic" barrage of image and text that resulted from Marshall McLuhan's 1967 collaboration with graphic designer Quentin Fiore, the medium becomes the massage. The basic premise of this playful popularization of McLuhan's theories of the electronic revolution will be familiar to readers of his other works: "Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments." But more than McLuhan's other work, The Medium Is the Massage also reflects the tumultuous decade in which it was produced, the 60s. It was a time when existentialism, the theatrr of the absurd, "happenings," and Eastern religions were all the rage in academic circles. Massage adds to that mix traces of utopianism ("We have now become aware of the possibility of arranging the entire human environment as a work of art"; a hint of radicalism (of electronic circuitry McLuhan says: "Its message is Total Change, ending psychic, social, economic, and political parochialism. The old civic, state, and national groupings have become unworkable."); and a bracing pinch of paranoia ("Electrical information devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance" have brought us "to a point where remedial control, born out of knowledge of media and their total effects on all of us, must be exerted."). True to its observation that "information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously," McLuhan and Fiore shower us with photographs, cartoons, newspaper headlines, backwards and upside-down writing, and other graphical innovations. The book is also packed with quotations from a motley collection of savants (in addition to McLuhan himself, of course): Alfred North Whitehead, James Joyce, Lao Tsu, John Dewey, John Cage, and Bob Dylan. The book's design and content aptly, and palpably, demonstrate the insights that have caused many highly stimulated readers to pronounce McLuhan a visionary, a veritable "oracle of the electronic age." --Russell Prather [via]
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Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Centuryby Steven HellerISBN 0714839272 (0-7148-3927-2)
Hardcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century'Book summary:This is a fully documented study of the history of the avant-garde magazine and examines the publications that have been at the forefront of design this century: the journals, magazines and printed manifestos that have challenged design convention, providing a platform for the dissemination of the ideas of the most radical design movements of the 20th century. These avant-garde approaches permeated all the arts - art and literature as well as the graphic arts. This book concentrates on the journals, magazines and pamphlets whose very ephemerality allowed spontaneity, experimentation and risk, exploring ways in which words and images could be presented on a page, illustrating design ideas and cultural ideals. The book features an extensive selection of international publications from Europe and the USA, including "Merz" (1920s), "View" (1940s), "East Village Other" (1960s), "Punk" (1970s), "Raw" (1980s) and "Emigre" (1990s). The design of these magazines, often raucous and undisciplined, was as ground-breaking as the ideas they disseminated. Many were linked with controversial art, literary and political movements such as Dada, Surrealism, Modernism, the New Left and Deconstruction. They contain the work of many leading experimental artists and designers of their time - from Kurt Schwitters and El Lissitzky in the 1920s and 30s, to Art Spiegelman and Rudy Vanderland in the 1980s and 90s. This book explores the typography and layout of these journals, and also places the avant-garde notions these magazines represented in their broader artistic, cultural and political contexts. [via]
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Mnm: Minimalist Interiorsby Quim RosellISBN 0688180396 (0-688-18039-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Mtiv: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designerby Hillman CurtisISBN 0735711658 (0-7357-1165-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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The New Paint Magicby Jocasta InnesISBN 0679742514 (0-679-74251-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML Second Edition - Introductoryby CareyISBN 0619019670 (0-619-01967-0)
Softcover, Thomson Course Technology
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Perspectives on Creating Web Pages with HTML Second Edition - Introductory'Book summary:Part of the New Perspectives series, this text offers a case-oriented, problem-solving approach to learning how to create web pages with HTML. This Introductory title covers the basic to intermediate HTML and web page creation skills. [via]
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No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bulliesby Naomi KleinISBN 067697130X (0-676-97130-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'Book summary:We live in an era where image is nearly everything, where the proliferation of brand-name culture has created, to take one hyperbolic example from Naomi Klein's No Logo, "walking, talking, life-sized Tommy [Hilfiger] dolls, mummified in fully branded Tommy worlds." Brand identities are even flourishing online, she notes--and for some retailers, perhaps best of all online: "Liberated from the real-world burdens of stores and product manufacturing, these brands are free to soar, less as the disseminators of goods or services than as collective hallucinations."
In No Logo, Klein patiently demonstrates, step by step, how brands have become ubiquitous, not just in media and on the street but increasingly in the schools as well. (The controversy over advertiser-sponsored Channel One may be old hat, but many readers will be surprised to learn about ads in school lavatories and exclusive concessions in school cafeterias.) The global companies claim to support diversity, but their version of "corporate multiculturalism" is merely intended to create more buying options for consumers. When Klein talks about how easy it is for retailers like Wal-Mart and Blockbuster to "censor" the contents of videotapes and albums, she also considers the role corporate conglomeration plays in the process. How much would one expect Paramount Pictures, for example, to protest against Blockbuster's policies, given that they're both divisions of Viacom?
Klein also looks at the workers who keep these companies running, most of whom never share in any of the great rewards. The president of Borders, when asked whether the bookstore chain could pay its clerks a "living wage," wrote that "while the concept is romantically appealing, it ignores the practicalities and realities of our business environment." Those clerks should probably just be grateful they're not stuck in an Asian sweatshop, making pennies an hour to produce Nike sneakers or other must-have fashion items. Klein also discusses at some length the tactic of hiring "permatemps" who can do most of the work and receive few, if any, benefits like health care, paid vacations, or stock options. While many workers are glad to be part of the "Free Agent Nation," observers note that, particularly in the high-tech industry, such policies make it increasingly difficult to organize workers and advocate for change.
But resistance is growing, and the backlash against the brands has set in. Street-level education programs have taught kids in the inner cities, for example, not only about Nike's abusive labor practices but about the astronomical markup in their prices. Boycotts have commenced: as one urban teen put it, "Nike, we made you. We can break you." But there's more to the revolution, as Klein optimistically recounts: "Ethical shareholders, culture jammers, street reclaimers, McUnion organizers, human-rights hacktivists, school-logo fighters and Internet corporate watchdogs are at the early stages of demanding a citizen-centered alternative to the international rule of the brands ... as global, and as capable of coordinated action, as the multinational corporations it seeks to subvert." No Logo is a comprehensive account of what the global economy has wrought and the actions taking place to thwart it. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Normal Accidents - Living with High Risk Technologiesby Charles PerrowISBN 0691004129 (0-691-00412-9)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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Order in Space: A Design Source Bookby Keith CritchlowISBN 0670528307 (0-670-52830-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Order in Space: A Design Source Book'Book summary:Offering imaginative insight into the area where mathematics and the arts meet, this book may be used as a practical tool by the architect, designer or scientist who has to deal with such problems as defining space, distributing patterns, packing and stacking, and communication links. [via]
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Paint Magicby Jocasta InnesISBN 071122272X (0-7112-2272-X)
Softcover, Lincoln Limited, Frances
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paint Magic'Book summary:Until the Delia Smith of the paint world first published Paint Magic in 1981, special paint effects were confined to interior designers and their wealthy clients. Paint expert Jocasta Innes made these available to everybody, creating a DIY revolution. This updated version of what has become a classic interiors tome has been revised to include new developments, techniques and looks.
More like a chunky bible, this is best used as a directory to every aspect of painting in the home. Absolutely nothing is left out of the comprehensive subject matter: walls, woodwork, floors, furniture, as well as all the fundamentals (definitions and explanations of different paints and tools) and even recommended suppliers.
This is a no-nonsense, text-heavy approach, and while the introductory chapter on changes (such as new legislation on toxic paints, and trends such as textures) is fascinating, you'd have to be a paint geek to wade through all of this. The thorough use of detail make this a useful standby for complete beginners, without alienating the paintaholic moving onto craquelure, lacquering and decoupage.
Since the original book predates minimalism, style junkies won't be impressed, and while about half the photography has been updated, visuals are neither particularly inspirational nor aspirational.--Lorna V [via]
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Paperworkby Nancy WilliamsISBN 0714834610 (0-7148-3461-0)
Softcover, Phaidon Press
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Paperwork: The Potential of Paper in Graphic Designby Nancy WilliamsISBN 0714828025 (0-7148-2802-5)
Hardcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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The Photo Bookby Ian JeffreyISBN 0714836346 (0-7148-3634-6)
Hardcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Photo Book'Book summary:The concept for this book is simple: 500 photographers, 500 pages. Arranged alphabetically, each of the photographers--from contemporary Dutch cameraman Hans Aarsman to mid-century New York shutterbug James Van Der Zee--gets a full, oversized page. On it is a large, expertly reproduced image and a concise caption packed with information about the photographer and his or her work. The coincidental alignment of photos of different eras and aesthetic sensibilities provides unusual and exciting contrasts that add an extra dimension to readers' perception of the work. Rineke Dijkstra's color-saturated shot of a bikini-clad beachgoer in South Carolina faces a Mike Disfarmer portrait of a rural Arkansas couple in 1943. Imogen Cunningham's inimitable Nude is here, along with a more surprising image--My Mother, Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, a color-photo collage by painter David Hockney. With iconic photographs like Alfred Eisenstaedt's shot of a sailor and a nurse kissing in Times Square on V-J Day, historic ones like Larry Burrows's shot of wounded U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, and pop images like David LaChapelle's picture of a bodybuilder posing amid a cluster of little boys aping his stance, the scope of this visual encyclopedia is truly epic. And with its incredibly low price tag, there's no better value out there for fans of photography. [via]
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The Photography BookISBN 071483937X (0-7148-3937-X)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
Find This BookBook summary:The concept for this book is simple: 500 photographers, 500 pages. Arranged alphabetically, each of the photographers--from contemporary Dutch cameraman Hans Aarsman to mid-century New York shutterbug James Van Der Zee--gets a full, oversized page. On it is a large, expertly reproduced image and a concise caption packed with information about the photographer and his or her work. The coincidental alignment of photos of different eras and aesthetic sensibilities provides unusual and exciting contrasts that add an extra dimension to readers' perception of the work. Rineke Dijkstra's color-saturated shot of a bikini-clad beachgoer in South Carolina faces a Mike Disfarmer portrait of a rural Arkansas couple in 1943. Imogen Cunningham's inimitable Nude is here, along with a more surprising image--My Mother, Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, a color-photo collage by painter David Hockney. With iconic photographs like Alfred Eisenstaedt's shot of a sailor and a nurse kissing in Times Square on V-J Day, historic ones like Larry Burrows's shot of wounded U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, and pop images like David LaChapelle's picture of a bodybuilder posing amid a cluster of little boys aping his stance, the scope of this visual encyclopedia is truly epic. And with its incredibly low price tag, there's no better value out there for fans of photography. [via]
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The Photography Bookby PhaidonISBN 0714844888 (0-7148-4488-8)
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The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographersby Scott KelbyISBN 0735712360 (0-7357-1236-0)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers'Book summary:This update is so important, because if there was ever a version of Photoshop that was aimed at digital photographers, Photoshop CS is it, and "The Photoshop CS Book for Digital Photographers" by Scott Kelby (Editor of Photoshop User magazine) once again breaks new ground by doing something for digital photographers that's never been done before--it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly "how to do it." It's not a bunch of theory; it doesn't challenge you to come up with your own settings or figure it out on your own. Instead, it shows you step by step the exact techniques used by today's cutting-edge digital photographers and retouchers, and it does something that virtually no other Photoshop book has ever done -- it tells you, flat-out, which settings to use, when to use them, and why.
If you're looking for one of those "tell-me-everything-about-the-Unsharp-Mask-filter" books, this isn't it. You can grab any other Photoshop book on the shelf, because they all do that. Instead, this book gives you the inside tips and tricks of the trade that today's leading pros use to correct, edit, sharpen, retouch, and present their photos to some of the most demanding clients on the planet. You'll be absolutely amazed at how easy and effective they are--once you know the secrets.
LEARN HOW THE PROS DO IT Each year Scott trains thousands of professional photographers how to use Photoshop, and almost without exception they have the same questions and the same problems -- that's exactly what Scott covers in this book. You'll learn:
- The secrets of how the pros retouch portraits
- How to color correct any photo without breaking a sweat (you'll be amazed at how they do it!)
- How to unlock the power of Photoshop CS' new features for digital photo pros
- Amazing digital body-sculpting techniques
- How the pros use CS' File Browser (it's much more powerful than you think)
- Tricks that can send your productivity through the roof
- The sharpening techniques the pros really use (there's an entire chapter just on this!)
- How to deal with common digital camera image problems
- Removing noise, avoiding halos, and protecting your images
- How to use Match Color, The Color Replacement Tool, and other amazing CS tools.
- Masking techniques for photographers
- The most-requested photographic special effects
- and much more!
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Powers of Ten: A Book About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zeroby Phylis Morrison, Morrison, Philip and Morrison, Phylis, Office of Charles and Ray EamesISBN 0716760037 (0-7167-6003-7)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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Powers of Ten: A Flipbookby Charles EamesISBN 0716734419 (0-7167-3441-9)
Softcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Citiesby Richard L. BushmanISBN 0679744142 (0-679-74414-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities'Book summary:This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious pursuit of a democratic culture. Spanning the material world from mansions and silverware to etiquette books, city planning, and sentimental novels, Richard L. Bushman shows how a set of values originating in aristocratic court culture gradually permeated almost every stratum of American society and served to prevent the hardening of class consciousness. A work of immense and richly nuanced learning, The Refinement of America newly illuminates every facet of both our artifacts and our values. [via]
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Revolutionary Textile Design: Russia in the 1920s and 1930sby I. YasinskayaISBN 0670597139 (0-670-59713-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Second Treasury of Knitting Patternsby Barbara G. WalkerISBN 068416938X (0-684-16938-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Artby E. H. GombrichISBN 0714822590 (0-7148-2259-0)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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The Sixties: Decade of Design Revolutionby Lesley JacksonISBN 0714839639 (0-7148-3963-9)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sixties: Decade of Design Revolution'Book summary:Concentrates on the design and architecture of the 1960s, this book traces the transition from the "Contemporary" design of the 1950s to the pure geometry of "the look" and the styles that proliferated throughout the momentous events of the decade to the proto-high tech developments of the 1970s. In all fields of design - architecture, ceramics, glass, textiles and furniture - the popular cultural explosion and the consumer boom generated visually stunning and colourful images and fashions. Products of the most prominent designers and manufacturers are shown in contemporary photographs and advertisements from the period. [via]
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The Story of Wedgwoodby Alison Kelly, Josiah Wedgwood & SonsISBN 0670675946 (0-670-67594-6)
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The Swimming Pool Book: Everything You Need to Know to Design, Build, and Landscape the Perfect Poolby Tom GriffithsISBN 0671882929 (0-671-88292-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Taking Your Talent to the Web: A Guide for the Transitioning Designerby Jeffrey ZeldmanISBN 0735710732 (0-7357-1073-2)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Terence Conran's Do-It-Yourself With Style Original Designs for Bathrooms and Bedroomsby Terence ConranISBN 0671687204 (0-671-68720-4)
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Terence Conran's Do-It-Yourself With Style Original Designs for Living Rooms and Work Spacesby Terence ConranISBN 0671687190 (0-671-68719-0)
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Train of Thoughts : Designing the Effective Web Experienceby John C. LenkerISBN 0735711747 (0-7357-1174-7)
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