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.

Delicious and decadent drink recipes from one of America's leading culinary brands.As a trend-watching, style-setting annual, FOOD & WINE COCKTAILS keeps tabs on the best new drinks at the best bars, restaurants and lounges. The 140-plus cocktails here have been created by some of the country's best mixologists. An indispensable mix of excellent cocktails and food to go with them, plus the ultimate guide to the top night spots around the country.

German designer and educator, Otl Aicher, was a pioneer of twentieth century graphic design, renowned for creating visual identities for numerous corporations (including Lufthansa, FSB, and ERCO) and his work on symbol systems. Aicher, inspired by his design system for the Munich Olympics in 1972, worked for over twenty years to create a completely visual language and is often referred to as the "father of modern pictograms." Born after World War I and raised during the takeover of the Nazi party in Germany, Aicher often used design as a method of political resistance and tool of social equality. He is known as much for his design philosophies as his completed work. He educated a generation future designers at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung (HfG) in Ulm, Germany, the school he helped found in the 1950s and 60s. Late in life, Aicher collaborated repeatedly with British architect Norman Foster on designs for public buildings, integrating his interest in design with public planning. Aicher died in a car crash in 1991.

Brings together diverse logos from over 30 countries, organized into chapters by theme, such as socio-political, food and beverage, technology, and consumer products. This book provides a full index at the end, which lists each logo's company, designer, and designer's website. It is useful for those interested in design.

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

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

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