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Traditional Japanese Design MotifsThe subtlety and vitality of traditional Japanese design are admired (and imitated) the world over. Here is a treasury of hundreds of authentic Japanese design motifs -- all royalty-free and easy to reproduce -- sure to appeal to artists and craftsmen striving for distinctive...
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Degas' DrawingsFrench artist Hilaire Germaine Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is best known for his studies of the human figure, his ballet dancers, his portraits, and his occupational groups. In his drawings, Degas' working methods can be seen and studied, and his always-human figures can be enjoyed...
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House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile RowThe strange, illuminative true story of Tommy Nutter, the Savile Row tailor who changed the silhouette of men's fashion--and his rock photographer brother, David, who captured it all on film. From an early age, there was something different about Tommy and David Nutter. Growing...
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The Two-Pencil Method: The Revolutionary Approach to Drawing It AllFrom the best-selling artist and YouTube art instructor, this book features step-by-step lessons that show you how to draw professional-quality portraits, landscapes, travel sketches, and animals using only two ordinary pencils. Great art doesn't have to be expensive. For the cost of a regular...
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The Art of Silliness: A Creativity Book for EveryoneReady to play? Whether you think of yourself as an artist, a doodler, a dreamer, or none of the above, this book will jump-start your creativity. Popular art instructor Carla Sonheim offers fun, engaging ideas on every page, from drawing upside down to imagining...
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Vintage Journal Cascade Falls, Unalaska IslandThe Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Cascade Falls, Unalaska Island, features a hand-tinted photograph of Cascade Falls, Unalaska Island near Cape Cheerful, Alaska. A man in a canoe is in front of the falls. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on...
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Searching for Beauty: The Life of Millicent Rogers, the American Heiress Who Taught the World about StyleBurns makes it abundantly clear . . . they just don't make heiresses like Millicent Rogers anymore. --Hampton Sides Nobody knew how to live the high life like Standard Oil heiress Millicent Rogers. Born to luxury, she lived in a whirl of European vacations,...
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Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World, Volume 2: Ecologies of ChangeTools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world.Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century, in what the authors characterize as a white water world--rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent. These are the...
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How Games Move Us: Emotion by DesignAn engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players--with examples from popular, indie, and art games. This is a renaissance moment for video games--in the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they...
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In Paris: 20 Women on Life in the City of LightIf the Internet could create its version of the perfect girl, Jeanne Damas would probably be her. . . . She's nailed that French girl je ne sais quoi. --Vogue A window on the world's most stylish city, with more than 100 full-color photos...
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Legendary Artists and the Clothes They WoreWhether it's Cecil Beaton's flamboyant, classically tailored suits, Frida Kahlo's love of bright color, or Cindy Sherman's penchant for minimalism, an artist's attire often reflects the creative and spiritual essence of his or her work. In Legendary Artists and the Clothes They Wore, fashion...
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Harry Potter: Magical Places from the Films: Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, and BeyondA comprehensive and delightful look at Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, The Burrow, Azkaban prison and all of the memorable places, both loved and feared, that brought the Harry Potter movies to life--a keepsake treasury bound in a debossed leatherette case and featuring a removable poster...
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Study of Pose: 1,000 Poses by Coco RochaA groundbreaking, in-depth exploration of the movement and flexibility of the human body, featuring 1,000 stunning black-and-white photographs that showcase the unique collaboration between international supermodel Coco Rocha, "The Queen of Pose," and world-renowned photographer Steven Sebring.Supermodel Coco Rocha's uncanny ability to strike distinctive,...
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Vintage Journal Indigenous Alaskan Woman Carrying Sleeping Baby on Her BackThe Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Indigenous Alaskan Woman Carrying Sleeping Baby on Her Back, features a black and white photographic profile portrait of an Indigenous Alaskan Woman and the sleeping baby she is carrying on her back. This journal has decorative vintage...
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Modern Man in the MakingA gorgeous facsimile of an ultrarare, canonical volume from the pioneer of infographics, analyzing "fundamental trends in the social, political and economic life of humanity"Otto Neurath's famous Modern Man in the Making, first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1939, captures and describes the...
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Art Forms in Nature (Dover Pictorial Archive)Form and Beauty Depicting the Wonder of NatureThis edition includes a visual index of the plates.With its meticulous color illustrations of exquisite life forms, Ernst Haeckel's renderings are still considered accurate--after more than a century. Art Forms in Nature perfectly marries art and science....
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Nino Cerruti: Fashion Icon- A beautifully illustrated book about the fabulous career of Nino Cerruti, a pioneer of elegant men's fashion in the sixties- Renowned designer for French and American film and television stars, the Formula I Ferrari team, and an early mentor of Giorgio Armani- The...
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It's All about Shoes- A book for fashion designers, cultural researchers, fans of innovative street style fashion, and anyone who is looking for creative inspiration for their personal style- The most extraordinary shoe designs united in one volume- Look down! Shoe styles photographed on the streets of...
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Living + Dying Inbetween the Real + the VirtualReality isn't what is sused to be. As the world moves increasingly from the real to the virtual, the question emerges, who do we want to be as humans? The amount of time spent on devices is taking more of our time from the...
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Vital Media: Making, Design, and Expression for Humans and Other MaterialsA proposal for a new media design to balance the contributions of humans and materials in the world they share. How can media design support a balance between our needs for self-expression and the material needs of the world we are part of? What...
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