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This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good design.Broken into sections covering the fundamental elements of design, key works by acclaimed designers serve to illustrate technical points and encourage readers to try out new ideas. ..
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The graphic artist's guide to sustainable design Graphic design is frequently thought of as a purely decorative effort. Yet these efforts can be responsible for shocking impacts on natural resources just to produce a barely-glanced-at catalog or mail piec..
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Around the turn of the twentieth century, artists and craftsmen throughout Europe and America were profoundly affected by a new art style that took its inspiration from nature. Generally referred to as Art Nouveau, it exerted its influence on painters,..
Release Date:- 2012-10-24
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This splendid archive of decorative ironwork designs, painstakingly reprinted from a rare French volume, includes 1,100 illustrations of elaborate motifs used to enhance such diverse architectural elements as doorway and balcony grilles, gates, garden..
Release Date:- 2019-12-18
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Vitaly Gunin (1964-1990) - artist and carver, designer and businessman, poet, visionary, the host of musical programs and professional expert on music, impresario, chairman of the first in Bobruisk (and, probably, in Belarus) versatile cooperative LiK..
Release Date:- 2014-11-11
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The first published collection of the work of Joe Eula, one of the twentieth century's greatest fashion illustratorsWith text by fashion journalist Cathy Horyn, Joe Eula: Master of Twentieth-Century Fashion Illustration brings together a selection of more tha..
Release Date:- 2012-09-05
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This striking collection of 171 Gallic gloriesāborders, florals, panels, pilasters, cornices, and other architectural and ornamental flourishesāoffers a remarkable variety of styles: Byzantine, Roman, Gothic, Renaissance, and more. Designers and graphic..
Release Date:- 2019-12-18
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Vitaly Gunin (1964-1990) - artist and carver, designer and businessman, poet, visionary, the host of musical programs and professional expert on music, impresario, chairman of the first in Bobruisk (and, probably, in Belarus) versatile cooperative LiK..
Release Date:- 2013-05-28
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Challenge: Create an image out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself.Rule: Use only the graphic elements of the letters without adding outside elements.Enhanced with entertaining and surprising animations for each word, Word as Image invit..
Release Date:- 2012-10-30
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An intimate and revealing look at the personal and professional life of the fashion world's most visionary designer.This incredible volume strips away the layers of legend surrounding Alexander McQueen, revealing the sartorial genius and the true histor..
Release Date:- 2012-12-04
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Ornament is the essence of Art Nouveau. Throughout their two decades of dominance, Art Nouveau artists concentrated on the ornamental and decorative potential of the flowing line in painting, printing, wallpaper, and all other fine and applied arts. Hundreds..
Release Date:- 2023-08-31
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This unparalleled and wide-ranging book surveys the history of applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing, and the technological, social and commercial..
Release Date:- 2015-01-06
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A showcase of the year's best typographic work in print and on screen in advertising, communications, education, marketing, and publishing.The only annual publication devoted exclusively to the art of type, Typography 35 presents the finest work in the..
Release Date:- 2012-09-04
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The increased use of quality designs in 19th-century manufactured goods created a steady demand during that period for collections of decorative patterns. This volume reproduces one such collection ā an extremely rare and valuable portfolio of 376 motifs..
Release Date:- 2012-08-01
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In 1923 the Syracuse Ornamental Company in New York State advertised its fiber wood carvings, moldings, and furniture trimmings to the trade in an elegantly illustrated sales catalog. The catalog contained thousands of beautiful line drawings of delicately..
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Published in Paris before World War I, these decorative Art Nouveau graphics originally appeared in a now-rare periodical, La Decoration Artistique. This compilation presents 100 full-color plates in a beautiful assortment of period designs that will p..
Release Date:- 2011-09-20
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When undertaking a new project, the first thing that must be decided on is the layout. Organized so as to encourage creativity, serendipitous discovery, and inspiration, The Layout Look Book is a great guide for both amateur and professional designers...
Release Date:- 2019-04-17
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A treasure trove of lettering styles and decorative elements, this handy reference offers an abundance of eye-catching alphabets, numerals, ribbons, borders, flowers, banners, and other easy-to-trace embellishments. With this guide, it's easy to add a..
Release Date:- 2018-06-13
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Derived from a one-of-a-kind, hand-painted studio sourcebook of the early 1900s, the patternsĀ in this stunning collection combine to form a treasury of bold, colorful designs. These images have never before appeared inĀ print, and this compilationĀ affords..
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Monograms, once indicators of social or commercial exclusiveness, are now symbols of creativity, testaments to the idea that everyone deserves to individualize his or her own things. The remarkable Encyclopedia of Monogramsāfilled with over 11,000 handso..
Release Date:- 2012-09-11
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Blending the old and the new . . . the elegance of eighteenth-century pen flourishing, replete with elaborate swirls and curlicues, and the precision of modern graphic design, boasting clean lines free of feathering, blotting, and other irregularities..
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Antique lovers, architecture buffs, and graphic artists will treasure this magnificent collection of decorative French ironwork designs ā all of them authentic examples from the celebrated ornamental ironwork of Bordeaux. Over 1,500 handsome black-and-white..
Release Date:- 2013-01-09
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A familiar decorative detail that's found both inside and outside of Victorian homes, fretwork delights the eye with its graceful interlaced designs. This vintage sourcebook, reproduced from a rare edition, provides today's graphic designers and craftworkers..
Release Date:- 2012-07-16
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This beautiful book illustrates the splendid ornamental lettering and decorative art in illuminated Russian manuscripts dating from the 10th through the 16th centuries. It contains over 1,000 motifs reprinted in full color from a rare book of design first..
Release Date:- 2012-08-15
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The illuminated letters in this volume by the great Victorian designer Owen Jones, many taken from an illustrated edition of The Psalms of David, represent popular alphabet motifs that have been copied by artists and designers for more than a century throug..
Release Date:- 2012-12-18
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The Anatomy of Type is the ultimate stylistic guide to the intricacies and design of 100 indispensable typefaces. A delightful, colorful, and visual reference guide created by Stephen Coles and Tony Seddonātwo acknowledged pros in the font design worldāThe..
Release Date:- 2018-05-01
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Foreword by Rob SheffieldFilled with stunning full-color infographics, a unique, album-by-album visual history of the evolution of the Beatles that examines how their style, their sound, their instruments, their songs, their tours, and the world they ..
Release Date:- 2012-08-02
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The joining of words and pictures in advertising art is nowhere more intimate than in mortised cuts. This printer's term refers to designs, usually pictorial, engraved on wood, or stereotyped in metal from wood blocks, with one or more hole sawn into..
Release Date:- 2017-10-23
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At the turn of the 20th century, artists and craftsmen throughout Europe and America were profoundly affected by a new art style that took its inspiration from nature. Generally referred to as Art Nouveau, the trend influenced all manner of creative types,..
Release Date:- 2014-11-04
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A lavish, gorgeously designed full-color collection that showcases the designs of Dorothy and Otis Shepard, two groundbreaking giants of early twentieth-century American advertising.Dorothy and Otis Shepard are the unsung heroes of early twentieth-century North Ameri..