Product Description: Born 1942 in England M.A. degree in illustration from the Royal College of Art, London, 1966. He worked for Time Magazine from 1978 to 1994 in New York City as Executive Art Director: charts, covers, administration and Graphics Director his work has appeared in important magazines and publications such as American Health; American Lawyer; Amicus Journal; Attaché (USAir magazine); Details; Discover; Business 2...read more

Product Description: With talented young Japanese players signing to the American Majors, interest in Japanese baseball is at an all-time high. Sayonara Home Run! introduces curious fans to Japan's national pastime through the lens of the country's playfully beautiful baseball cards...read more

Product Description: While it may be true that our annual celebration of love began as a pagan feast of the flesh in third century Rome, that shouldn't stop anyone from enjoying this charming collection of Valentine's Day ephemera. From cards to candy boxes, party favors to ads and more, these classic graphics celebrate the holiday of love during the period of 1900 to the 1960s...read more

Product Description: • How to create great graphic-design courses—and why to create them• More than 30 big-name contributors, including Vince Frost, Ronn Campisi, Gail Anderson, and othersThis provocative anthology provides inspiration on teaching and discussing art direction in the classroom and beyond...read more

Product Description: • Anecdotes and insights from graphic-design stars• In association with the School of Visual Arts in New York City• This replaces ISBN 1-880559-99-4Completely updated, this compelling collection of essays, interviews, and course syllabi is the ideal tool to help teachers and students keep up in the rapidly changing field of graphic design...read more

Product Description: ‘Twas the night before Christmas… Created in 1862 by American political cartoonist Thomas Nast, the white-bearded, red-suited Santa Claus has become synonymous with Christmas itself. This collection of American imagery from the first decades of the 20th century pays homage to Old St...read more

Product Description: Trick or treat (smell my feet!) A guaranteed trip down memory lane, this book celebrates All Hallows' Eve in American graphic and print media from the early 1900s to the '60s. Featuring witches, ghouls, ghosts, and jack-o-lanterns, the scariest postcards and decorations, the silliest costumes and candid photos are collected here...read more

Product Description: This provocative anthology provides inspiration on how to teach, think, and talk about comics in the classroom and beyond.Featuring essays by, and interviews with, more than sixty professionals, educators, and critics, the book provides an in-depth view of the art, business, and history of comics art...read more

Examines the history of the graphic image, including its beginnings in antiquity, pre-World War II religious and commercial uses, Nazi appropriation, and its place in popular culture as a racist icon.

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: Part design and illustration studio, part pop culture think tank, Push Pin Studios made a phenomenal impact on visual culture from the 1950s to the 1980s, representing an important chapter in postwar graphic design. Founding member Seymour Chwast partners with key figures from the design community -- as well as co-founder Milton Glaser -- to provide a visual history of the studio by way of its signature publication, The Push Pin Graphic...read more

Product Description: Before there was Vegas, and long before there was "reality television," there was Times Square. For a century, it has stood as the blazing Crossroads of the World; the sometimes magical, sometimes tawdry, but always spectacular epicenter of American commercial culture...read more

Product Description: This guide to the ins and outs of today's dynamic illustration business tells budding illustrators everything that their teacher didn't know or their art director didn't tell them. Using an entertaining, running narrative format to look at key concerns every illustrator must face today, this book covers finding one's unique style and establishing a balance between art and commerce; tackling issues of authorship and promotion; and more...read more

Product Description: This update to the first book to provide explicit case histories of the successful marriage of form and content in graphic design explores more than 125 classic and contemporary works-30 of them brand new-explaining why they are aesthetically significant and how they function as good design...read more

Product Description: Exploring the methods for teaching and learning typography, this book features more than 40 essays from top experts and educators in typography today. These essays run the gamut from introducing the themes of type and typography to various complex and rare strategies for learning...read more

Presenting step-by-step instructions for a wide variety of Photoshop projects, the authors of this guide to photo art in the twenty-first century showcases the techniques and technology that have revolutionized photography, presenting case studies from ten of the most accomplished Photoshop users on earth. Original.

A fascinating study of mass culture dissemination in a post-hippie, television-obsessed nation, this weighty volume delivers an exhaustive and nostalgic overview of 70's advertising.

Product Description: Sluts, strumpets, and good girls gone bad - the book jackets of romance novels of the 1920s and 30s often featured heroines in the throes of passion, with a capital P. The titles in this set of all-occasion postcards include A Passionate Rebel, The Woman Who Commanded 500,000,000 Men, Love's Ecstasy ("The story of a country girl who followed love's beckoning call to a great city"), Consequences ("In which heedless, cruel young love pays the piper"), Heart Specialist, Gorgeous, Unmarried Couple, Men Are Such Fools, and others...read more

Product Description: For anyone who loves the Big Apple, a postcard book of vintage book jackets with alluring illustrations. Doormen, kids playing around open fire hydrants, limos, laundry flapping on tenement lines, pushcarts, fire escapes, the El, bellboys, and hansom cabs - all the enduring symbols of life in the great metropolis can be found in these period jacket illustrations...read more

Product Description: This priceless teaching tool features more than 70 proven-effective programs from the country’s leading graphic design schools. Spanning from traditional, “bricks and mortar” approaches to the ever-widening digital frontier of graphic design, these syllabi include detailed introductions, weekly breakdowns, project suggestions, and selected readings, as well as offer valued background material on the history, social responsibility, and cultural impact of design...read more

Product Description: Mit einem Essay von Steven Heller Armin Hofmann ist eine Pionierfigur des Schweizer Grafik Design. 1946 nahm er seine langjährige Lehrtätigkeit an der Basler Gewerbeschule auf und entwickelte - später in vitalem Dialog mit Wolfgang Weingart - eine pädagogische Befähigung, die höchste Anerkennung fand die Landschaft des internationalen Grafik Design nachhaltig veränderte...read more

An insightful collection of interviews, essays, and illustrations captures the ongoing debate over social responsiblity in graphic and computer design. Original.