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John Derian Paper Goods: The City of New York 750-Piece PuzzleJohn Derian is an artist and designer whose work with printed images from the past transports the viewer to another world. Featuring a nineteenth-century map used in an advertising campaign, The City of New York shows a long-lost Manhattan, the island bristling with docks...
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Charles Harper's Birds & WordsBirds & Words is a vintage collection of 60 illustrations of birds and 60 humorous stories about each one. This book is a lovely reissue of the charming and highly collectible 1972 classic by Charley Harper. Written and illustrated by the renowned illustrator. Harper's...
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Drawing the SunA playful and vibrant guide to drawing the sunIn Drawing the Sun, Bruno Munari suggests: "When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ballpoint pens--you can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember...
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The Art of Grasshopper Manufacture: Complete Collection of Suda51 - A Great Video Game Designer in JapanThe Art of Grasshopper Manufacture is a highly specialized title showcasing the design work and artistry of the video-game developing company Grasshopper Manufacture. Director-designer-CEO of Grasshopper, Suda51 is known internationally for his original, imaginative style. Most major Grasshopper games are covered within this book...
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Taking a Line for a Walk: Assignments in Design EducationAssignments can give instructions, describe an exercise, present a problem, set out rules, propose a game, stimulate a process, or simply throw out questions. Taking a Line for a Walk brings attention to something that is often neglected: the assignment as a pedagogical element...
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Kerem Beyit: Black Dragon (Foiled Journal)Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed then foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps,...
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Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker's Guide to Mending and Upcycling ClothesRepair your favorite socks with style, add flair with personalized patches, and turn ripped jeans into an embroidered masterpiece. For beginner and experienced makers, Lily Fulop's guide to mending and upcycling is your colorful companion to ditching fast fashion and extending the lifecycle of...
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The Language of Graphic Design Revised and Updated: An Illustrated Handbook for Understanding Fundamental Design PrinciplesThe Language of Graphic Design provides design students and practitioners with an in-depth understanding of the fundamental elements and principles of their language, graphic design: what they are, why they are important, and how to use them effectively. To communicate in a new language,...
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Great Book of Tattoo Designs, Revised Edition: More Than 500 Body Art DesignsFrom best-selling artist, author, and graphic designer Lora Irish comes the Great Book of Tattoo Designs, Revised Edition, an appealing and high-quality collection of over 500 tattoo-friendly patterns. Featuring an extensive variety of popular subjects including floral, fantasy, Celtic, pagan, gothic, sacred, oriental, and...
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Artist's Drawing TechniquesThe ultimate complete drawing course to help you take your sketches to a higher level.Packed with inspiring workshops and advice from practicing artists, this art lesson book will help you sharpen your drawing skills in a range of media. Here's what you'll find inside...
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Drawing Cute with Katie Cook: 200+ Lessons for Drawing Super Adorable StuffFun fact: A lot of animals are shaped like potatoes.Another fun fact: Potatoes are easy to draw.Another another fun fact: If you can draw a potato, you can draw animals. Master of cute Katie Cook teaches you how to draw everything adorable in her...
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Success by Design: The Essential Business Reference for DesignersWant to make your design business a success? Start here. Fellow Designer, In your career you may have been like me: Trying to keep projects on the rails and clients happy. Digging through blogs for useful advice. Wondering if there was a better way...
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Detroit's Cass Corridor and Beyond: Adventures of an Art CollectorDetroit's Cass Corridor & Beyond is part memoir and part art book by veteran journalist Suzy Farbman. For many years, she covered design for national and Detroit publications and ultimately created her own home as an homage to the best of familial antiques and...
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Let's Draw Cartoon Characters: An Adventurous Journey Into the Amazing and Awesome World of Cartooning!Let's Draw Cartoon Characters provides a comprehensive, colorful, and creative guide for young artists-in-training to creating a wide range of cartoon characters. Learn the basics of cartooning, including how to exaggerate features, draw silly expressions, and create over-the-top gestures. Featuring a variety of subjects,...
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R. B. O. C. Vol 1: Art Prompt BookRandom Bits of Cr@p are back! These abstract drawing prompts will really get your creative juices flowing, This is not a didactic wordy art prompt book that tells you exactly what to draw. If you see things hidden in the clouds and are visually...
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Cinzia Ruggeri: Cinzia Says..."Cinzia Ruggeri's clothes refuse to be just clothes. They are better understood as genre-defying explorations of the human body." -Financial TimesThis is the first major survey of artist and fashion designer Cinzia Ruggeri (1942-2019), a unique figure of Italian postmodernism who moved freely across...
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Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social ChangeDesign for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In this edition, Victor Papanek examines the attempts by designers to combat...
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The Flower Expert: Ideas and Inspiration for a Life with FlowersFleur McHarg has cultivated a lifelong obsession with flowers, their colors, shapes and, uses. Guided by the wisdom of Constance Spry, the trailblazing twentieth- century florist, McHarg believes in letting flowers be the stars of the show by working with the natural shape of...
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The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business ForeverA solid, hard-hitting, and uncompromising journalistic look at the fashion industry.The time when "fashion" was defined by French designers whose clothes could be afforded only by elite has ended. Now designers take their cues from mainstream consumers and creativity is channeled more into mass-marketing...
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John Derian Paper Goods: Sea Life 1,000-Piece PuzzlePeer into a hypnotic underwater garden. This painterly image from a nineteenth-century naturalist's encyclopedia, with its subtle chromolithographic colors and details, comes straight from the collection of John Derian, the artist and designer whose work with printed images of the past transports the viewer...
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