Product Description: A sophisticated addition to Chronicle Books' popular design library, this lavishly illustrated volume offers a unique survey of Italian commercial graphic design during a period of both creative artistic vitality and extreme political turmoil...read more

Shows and describes memorable covers from magazines in the areas of fashion, politics, humor, culture, and travel

Product Description: The fifth volume in Chronicle's Art Deco design series, French Modern is a sophisticated celebration of this exceedingly popular design period. As the birthplace of Art Deco, France offers a unique perspective on this extraordinary artistic movement...read more

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The newest addition to the Art Deco series, British Modern is the first to focus on Great Britain's contribution. An essential resource for graphic artists, designers, and anyone interested in advertising or art history, British Modern contains over 200 reproductions of classic Art Deco work from the 20s, 30s, and early 40s. Here are RAF posters, cigarette packages, post office greeting cards, Vogue magazine covers, travel promotionals, ads for London nightclubs, and other examples of Deco style. Some of the best pieces turn up in the most unlikely places -- the tiny packages in which razors were sold, for example, yield an impressive display of bold and beautiful Deco artistry. Copious inspiration for designer or artist, British Modern also presents a novel portrait of English life in the first half of the 20th century.

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Product Description: Combining the romance of a hand-penned letter with the practicality of laser-compatible paper, these elegant writing tab-lets feature an assortment of full-color stationery printed on high-quality paper, with a lined sheet to help guide your writing and elastic closures.

Product Description: Combining the romance of a hand-penned letter with the practicality of laser-compatible paper, these elegant writing tab-lets feature an assortment of full-color stationery printed on high-quality paper, with a lined sheet to help guide your writing and elastic closures.

Product Description: Combining the romance of a hand-penned letter with the practicality of laser-compatible paper, these elegant writing tab-lets feature an assortment of full-color stationery printed on high-quality paper, with a lined sheet to help guide your writing and elastic closures.

Featuring more than five hundred color and black-and-white images, a history of typology explores an array of typefaces that range from the nineteenth-century Victorian era to the latest in digital typography, all organized according to historical period and country of origin. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Exquisite graphic design artifacts make up this unusual collection culled from the pages of type and typography books spanning four vintage decades. Dating from 1900 to 1940, most of the rare type specimens, layouts, marks, and decorations from the period have never been reprinted before, and will serve as inspiration and resource for practicing design professionals, students, and teachers of graphic design...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: If sex sells, what better come-on for merchants of the repressed decades of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s than the come-hither wink of a coquettish countertop mannequin? In Counter Culture, Steven Heller and Louise Fili take us on a colorful peep show of these sexy, sometimes erotic, but always fetishistic, plaster bodies and body parts...read more

Product Description: French button cards from the Art Deco era are reproduced on these charming notecards.For a brief period at the turn of the twentieth century, mass-produced buttons were simple, plain, and subdued, waiting timidly off stage while their newly invented rival, the zipper, shone in the fashion spotlight...read more

A collection of Art Deco designs from across Europe features more than 1,200 images from packaging, advertisements, menus, and brochures from the period between World War I and the Second World War.

Product Description: Eight walks take shoppers to unique shops that uphold Italian standards of quality, craftsmanship, and creativity.With this discriminating book as a guide, visitors will find a trove of eighty shops that only native Florentines know well...read more