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How Shoes are Made: A behind the scenes look at a real sneaker factoryDo you want to learn how modern athletic shoes are made? In How Shoes are Made you will see how the big brands design and produce shoes. More than just a guided tour through a sneaker factory, How Shoes are Made will show you...
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Draw CarsIncludes Lamborghini, Corvette, and BMW i8 Spyder!Whether your goal is to draw the latest supercars, transform your Uncle Bill's ratty ol' pickup into a Defender of Democracy, or make your next school-bus ride something to really talk about, this book is for you. You'll...
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Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest GraphicsAn authoritative, richly illustrated history of six centuries of global protest art Throughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and political discontent. From the earliest broadsheets in the 1500s to engravings, photolithographs, prints, posters, murals,...
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Drawing on the Artist WithinWhether you are a business manager, teacher, writer, technician, or student, you'll find Drawing on the Artist Within the most effective program ever created for tapping your creative powers. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of instructional drawings and the work of master artists, this book...
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The Bird King: An Artist's Notebook: An Artist's NotebookA new book of sketches, artwork, and personal reflection from the brilliant mind of award-winning, bestselling author and illustrator Shaun Tan."I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens,...
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Interior Design Since 1900From the nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts movement to the present day--from Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, the Modern Movement, and Art Deco to High-Tech and green design--every style of interior design since 1900 is charted in this wide-ranging survey. Design in the twentieth century saw many...
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Pen & Ink DrawingAn inspiring sourcebook for art students and hobbyists at all skill levels, this guide provides a wide variety of subjects and ideas for sketching. More than 140 of author Frank J. Lohan's own drawings illustrate a variety of topics in a half-dozen categories: nostalgic...
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Art Forms in the Plant WorldAt first intended as personal reference material in his work as sculptor and teacher, the remarkable nature photographs of Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) attained critical acclaim in 1928 when he published Urformen der Kunst (Archetypes of Art). His work influenced and helped to establish modern...
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The Art of Cartographics: Designing the Modern MapWith hand-drawn, painted, digital, 3D, and folded maps, this unique collection takes traditional cartography in a new direction. Journey across the globe and beyond through a series of innovative geographical maps, fictional maps, and cultural, economic, and political maps. Featuring themes ranging from power...
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Animal Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of FormFrom the author of the classic Human Anatomy for Artists comes this user-friendly reference guide featuring over five hundred original drawings and over seventy photographs. Designed for painters, sculptors, and illustrators who use animal imagery in their work, Animal Anatomy for Artists offers thorough,...
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Draw Stuff Real EasyIf you can make a mark on a piece of paper... you can draw! If you can write your name... you can draw!Millions of people watch Shoo Rayner's drawing tutorials on his award-winning YouTube channels - ShooRaynerDrawing and DrawStuffRealEasy.This book shows you how complicated...
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Kinfolk 43A guide to the world within: Issue Forty-Three of Kinfolk explores the modern mind in all of its complexity, probing the farthest folds of our cortex to celebrate all that is weird and wonderful about our inner lives. Delving into home, work, style and...
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Otl Aicher: Design: 1922-1991More than a truly brilliant graphic designer, Otl Aicher was a transformative thinker, photographer, typographer, ecologist, philosopher, co-founder and mentor of the renowned Hochschule fuer Gestaltung at Ulm and teacher. On the centenary of his birth, this splendidly produced and designed book looks at...
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15-Minute Drawing: Getting Started: From Sketch to Finished Drawing in Just 15 Minutes!Learn how to draw with easy, stress-free lessons designed to build a solid foundation for drawing in just 15 minutes. Starting with pencil techniques and warm-up exercises, 15-Minute Drawing: Getting Started guides you in exploring the basics of drawing with graphite pencil--from how to...
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Chihuly and ArchitectureInternationally acclaimed artist Dale Chihuly's site-specific installations in the form of architectural commissions and exhibitions Forty years of Dale Chihuly's spectacular site-specific glass installations are captured in this large-format publication examining architectural commissions, temporary art installations, and museum exhibitions around the world. Chihuly's installations...
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Draw 100: Animals: From Basic Shapes to Amazing Drawings in Super-Easy StepsLearn to draw 100 of your favorite animals in 6 easy steps, starting with simple shapes. For all ages. looking for inspiration from a range of diverse habitats including rainforests, mountains, polar regions or the African savannah, you're bound to discover an animal in...
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Men in This Town: A Decade of Men's Street StyleA selection of the best of men's street fashion, through the last ten years. For the last decade, Giuseppe Santamaria has observed and recorded the men of big cities while they cross streets, sit at cafes, and pose, momentarily, on busy sidewalks. Traveling the...
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Home: A Celebration: Notable Voices Reflect on the Meaning of HomeCelebrated artists, designers, photographers, writers, actors, and activists offer personal reflections on the essence of home in this inspirational book to benefit No Kid Hungry. Filled with personal insight, humor, creativity, joy, and poignancy, Home: A Celebration is a lyrical ode to sanctuary and...
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Toyin Ojih Odutola: The Umueze Amara Clan and the House of ObafemiA seminal work by one of today's most vital figurative artists explores the complexity of race, wealth, and class through storytelling and multimedia drawings. This extraordinary illustrated story--Toyin Ojih Odutola's best-known body of work--chronicles the private lives of two fictional aristocratic Nigerian families, the...
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Read This If You Want to Be Great at PaintingPainting isn't as hard as it looks. And it's fun. Whether you're a total beginner or have been painting for years, this indispensable guide cuts through the jargon and provides clear, practical advice and tips to help develop your skills. Techniques and ideas are...
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