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Kathie Seaverns

Readers look to the Simply Beautiful series as the source for stylish crafts that are quick and easy to make. The fourth title in this series focuses on the perennial favorite craft: Rubber Stamping. Simply Beautiful Rubber Stamping: -Features 50 illustrated step-by-step projects, including greeting cards, gift boxes, journals, and scrapbooks -Includes a higher number of projects with fewer steps than similar books -- all using bright colors and whimsical images that are today's biggest trends -Offers simple instructions for heat embossing, masking, layering, adding embellishments, and more. These user-friendly ideas are both hip and sophisticated, making this book perfect for the first-time stamper or the busy crafter.

Japanime

Book DescriptionDevoted to designing realistic backgrounds based on the futuristic Tokyo cityscape. This book features 16 professional-quality, copyright-free background illustrations that artists are encouraged to study, trace, photocopy or cut out and use in their own manga. The Manga University series is published by IC (a maker of Manga pens, paper, and illustration supplies). The English Language version of these books is co-published by JAPANIME, so it is acceptable to mention them and IC both when printing the name of the publisher.

Courtney Davis

Book Description Available at a new low price! Intricate, richly colored, and full of symbolism, Celtic art has inspired painters, woodworkers, needleworkers, and other craftspeople for centuries. These exquisite designs--including 50 superb color plates--will continue the tradition, stimulating creativity among professionals and amateurs alike. Chosen by Courtney Davis, one of the most acclaimed Celtic artists working today, the designs include knotwork borders, key patterns, spirals, zoomorphic figures, crosses, and ornamental initials suitable for calligraphers. Some are classic; others are modern but steeped in Celtic style, including one album cover. In addition, Davis provides background throughout, incorporating legends and prayers, and explaining the symbols' meaning and origins, so that artists will have a greater understanding and appreciation of the glories of Celtic culture.

Yves Peyre

Book DescriptionBefore dust jackets wrapped every hardcover behind a shield of paper, a book's binding was its only advertisement, and the shelves of bibliophiles were lined with staid leather-bound tomes. Then came the Art Deco designs of Pierre Legrainand Rose Adler, who transformed bookbinding into a medium of playful and dazzling experimentation and craftsmanship. Their colorful, imaginative works, often made in exotic materials, are found only in a few prized collections and have rarely been available to the general public. now, this selection of more than sixty designs, colored-paper maquettes, and realized bindings are collected in one exquisite volume, with insightful texts introducing the work and discuss its revolutionary effect on modern design. Among the brilliant array of bindings are ones made especially for works by Colette, Paul Verlaine, Andre Gide, Guillaume Apollinaire, Stephane Mallarme, Michel Leiris, and Jean Giraudoux. Art Deco Bookbinding accompanies the...

Actus

Book DescriptionThis fabulous oversized album includes Art Spiegelman's "In the Shadow of no Towers"; a modern fairytale by the French cartoonist Blanquet; an interview with the Japanese alternative Manga artist, Suehiro Maruo; a new domestic drama by Rutu Modan, short stories by Etgar Keret, a silent story by Ulf K., as well as new sotries by all the Actus artists. Dead Herring Comics also contains five detachable mini-posters by the Actus artists.

Anandi Ramamurthy

Book Description During the time of the British Empire 1880-1960, advertising pervaded every aspect of British life. It was also the period which witnessed the rise of the British Empire. This is the first book to trace the historically changing image of non-white people in British advertising during the colonial period. The book reveals the historical and production context of many well-known advertising icons, as well as the specific commercial interests that various companies' images projected. Italso develops a detailed textual analysis of the images.

Editor Julius Wiedemann

Following up on the success of "Web Design: Portfolios", this volume features the Internet's best examples of artists, design studios, photographers, designers, and corporations that use Flash to showcase their creations. What once existed only in printed form is increasingly being featured online via dynamic, animated Flash-powered sites. Flashfolios contains a selection of such websites developed exclusively using Flash, demonstrating the sophistication and range of interactive web design today.

George Olson

Classic Instruction in a Beginner-Friendly Format *Focuses on easy techniques with the crow quill pen--one of the only books to do so! *Great value: At $19.99, it's one of the most inexpensive pen and ink with watercolor books available Most pen and ink with watercolor books concentrate on the technical pen or techniques that are simply out of reach for beginners. But this highly accessible guide breaks that mold, taking a popular medium and presenting it in bite-sized lessons. It's easy to find quick success, with 15 simple exercises and 9 complete step-by-step demonstrations. Readers will find everything they need to create landscapes, flowers, people, animals and scenes.

Albert Smith

Architectural Model as Machine

Roz Chast

At last, the comprehensive book of cartoons from beloved New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast.