A comprehensive directory of symbols provides historical definitions and cross-cultural meanings for each, providing an alphabetical, cross-referenced index and organizing each symbol into related categories. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Serious graphic design students and creative professionals will find this presentation of quantitative and qualitative research methods in visual communication invaluable. Fully illustrated with eye-opening real-life case studies, it focuses on the relatively unexplored process of design analysis. Illuminating and thought-provoking discussions deal with such issues as the audience, communications theory, experimentation in the studio, semiotics, and semantics. A final section features suggestions on how to synthesize practical and theoretical models, with strategies that working designers can really use.

Chairman Mao appeared in Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to the early 1980s. Flanked by strong images of healthy men and women he appeared in every kind of situation imaginable from factories to presiding over the bow of a ship. This volume reproduces a range of these works.

Product Description: "Where do I end and you begin? / Asked the cat of its tail, / Asked the shell of the snail." From animals and plants to natural phenomena and sensory images, this rhythmic poem employs a thought-provoking refrain to introduce the concept of interconnectedness in life...read more

Product Description: A must-have handbook for any cocktail connoisseur, this compact volume is packed with over 150 recipes from today's rising star mixologists, along with a handy guide to America's best new bars.The editors of Food & Wine have the inside scoop on contemporary cocktail culture...read more

Product Description: German designer and educator Otl Aicher was a pioneer of 20th century graphic design, renowned for creating visual identities for numerous corporations and his work on symbol systems. This book incorporates important archival material and illuminates Aicher's intellectually important design philosophies...read more

In this follow-up to our immensely successful first volume, you ll find over 2000 logos as well as special case study features on brand identities such as MTV, CCTV, and the Metropolitan Museum s Berlin branch. Top design and branding offices featured include MetaDesign, Saffron Brand Consultants, Research Studios, Stefan Sagmeister and Studio Dumbar. With a foreword by MetaDesign s chief design officer Uli Mayer-Johanssen and introduction by branding guru Wally Olins, this collection brings an insider s prospective to the art of designing successful logos.

Product Description: English summary: The "Journal for European Oversees History" provides information about the history of European connections to non-European cultures, current research, debates, controversies and gaps in the academic research. The chief topics which are discussed in this journal are the various and changing connections between Europe to regions oversees, as they have been understood from antiquity onward...read more

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Product Description: This pocket-sized cookbook features all the classic Irish potato dishes, from boxty to colcannon, as well as exciting new suggestions such as parmesan potato cakes, roasted butternut squash and potato curry and even potato pizza! There are soups, old favorites, main dishes, sides, salads and potato cakes...read more

Product Description: New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde welcomes you to Stardust, Texas, where dreams come true, and love is always right around the corner.Wanted: ghostwriter. Must be female, a baseball fan, and have a great pair of legs.Ex-pitcher Rowdy Blanton never saw a woman he couldn't conquer or a team he couldn't beat...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "Nina Bannett's THESE ACTS OF WATER traces a daughter's journey through the depths of her mother's mental illness. These beautiful, finely crafted poems chronicle love, loss, grief and the redemptive power of memory. The intensity of Bannett's imagery and her deft use of language cohere to form a tightly woven whole that demands to be read more than once...read more

Photographic artists and students of alternative process photography will welcome this new edition of Christopher James' The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes. This significantly expanded edition is a full-color, lavishly illustrated, comprehensive resource that explores every aspect of alternative process image making. With his highly conversational writing style, James explores the techniques, processes, idiosyncrasies, history, and cultural connections that are such a significant part of the genre. Best of all, James makes it extremely accessible, providing clear instructions and practical workflow advice. The book delves into a vast menu of alternative and traditional options, among them: calotype, salted paper, cyanotype, argyrotype, chrysotype, POP, kallitype, ambrotype/wet collodion, Van Dyke, platinum/palladium, Ziatype, gelatin dry plate emulsions, carbon, gum bichromate, albumen, hand-applied emulsions, paper, alternative imaging systems, and digital negative production for alternative process image making. This book has become the unanimous standard reference text for alternative process photography, one that students love to read and work from. Not only does this definitive work make the most complex ideas easy to understand, it is conversational, comfortable, inspirational, and fun to read- a tremendous resource and a treasure trove of alternative process images. "The first edition was a stunning achievement, and one I felt that was not likely to be superceded. Five short years later Christopher James has created a very new work and a new standard. The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes: 2nd Edition is, by far, the best alternative photographic process book ever!" - Richard Sullivan, Founder and Co-Owner, Bostick & Sullivan "If I could only have one photography book this would be it." -Timothy Whelan, Photographic Books

Collects more than 250 studio-commissioned posters, lobby cards, and other promotional materials from the noir era.