Softcover. NY, The Drawing Centre, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 94 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Penone's sculptures, installations, and drawings are distinguished by his emphasis on process and his use of natural materials, such as clay, stone, metal, and wood. Exhibition catalog. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 330 pages. A visually captivating history of the evolution of Glamour magazine and the brands legendary decades at the forefront of female empowerment in an incredible photographic volume For more than 80 years, Glamour has been the preeminent women's empowerment brand in America. But until now, no one has told the extraordinary story of its origins, the famous names who helped shape the magazine into the global powerhouse it is today, and Glamour's many historic firsts. Glamour was the first American fashion magazine to feature a Black cover star, the first to present Gloria Steinem's writing, and the first to feature groundbreaking reporting on reproductive rights. In a gripping journey, follow the group of women editors and journalists who spearheaded the magazine as World War II transformed the female landscape with over 7.5 million working women suddenly in the US workforce in 1940 and repositioned the title from charting Hollywood glamour to the magazine for the girl with a job.
Hardcover. NY, Workman Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, 150 pages illustrated in color. Design is all around you. And whether you realize it or not, you are already a designer. In Go, renowned graphic designer Chip Kidd explains not just the elements of design, including form, line, color, scale, typography, and more, but most important, how to use those elements in creative ways. Like putting the word "go" on a stop sign, Go is all about shaking things up.Kidd writes about scale: When a picture looks good small, don't stop there--see how it looks when it's really small. Or really big. He explains the difference between vertical lines and horizontal lines. The effect of cropping a picture to make it beautiful--or, cropping it even more to make it mysterious and compelling. How different colors signify different moods. The art of typography, including serifs and sans serifs, kerning and leading. The book ends with ten hands-on design projects for kids. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Dunlop Art Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 169 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and French. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. US, Picture Book Studio, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Illustrated throughout with 114 posters in color. Light shelf-wear and scratching to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge and end papers, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Covers the rise of travel thanks to the development of roadways, railways, luxury ocean liners and trains, and eventually the airliner. Wonderfully illustrated with photos, travel posters, luggage tags, and more.
Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with "bullet holes". 144 pages. Golden Age Western Comics lovingly reproduces in full-color, restored, complete scans of 20 of the best Western stories--plus a few pin-ups--created between the years 1948 and 1956. These lavishly illustrated stories of guts and glory, violence and valor, intrigue, romance, and betrayal, on the range and in lawless frontier towns, were created by some of the best artists and writers of the era. The action flies off the page in stories such as "The Tragedy at Massacre Pass," and "Breakout in rondo Prison," from the greatest earliest publishing houses, including: Fawcett, Charlton, Avon, Youthful, and more. Like new,
Softcover. Chicago, Good Taste Products, 2nd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 87 pages, softcover with color illustrated wrappers. B&w comic art by O'Connell. Attention cocktail crowd! Looking at Mitch O'Connell's illustrations is like appreciating a dry martini: clean, crisp, retro. And you can almost smell the hair spray from all those beehive hairdos in this book. Good Taste Gone Bad is a collection of the best O'Connell illustrations, designs and comics. Be hip. Buy this book.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 127 pages. Gold, red, green and black (old Lucky Strike colors) boards, no dust jacket. A history of cigarette smoking. Great photos of smoking in films, antique ads and packages, etc. Laid in are publicity photos of author and designer. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 127 pages. Gold, red, green and black (old Lucky Strike colors) boards, no dust jacket. A history of cigarette smoking. Great photos of smoking in films, antique ads and packages, etc.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2011, Hardcover, 744 pages. Graffiti 365 delivers the first real insider's view into the contemporary graffiti and street-art scenes, as well as their antecedents. A fun, wide-ranging survey of the international graffiti movement, this book uses more than 600 rare, previously unpublished, or legendary images to introduce and describe important artists--from Blade to Banksy--and styles--from bubble to wild. Along the way, Graffiti 365 covers different eras, cities, legendary walls and crews, police and public responses to graffiti, and more.The author of Graffiti 365, J.SON, has been an artist and historian of the graffiti movement for decades--he started writing graffiti in 1973 and retired in 1984. Unparalleled in its breadth and depth of coverage, Graffiti 365 is a wide-angle snapshot of an entire movement.
Hardcover. London, Studio Vista, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 313 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, light tanning to end papers, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. Herman Miller, the leader in modern twentieth-century furniture manufacture, was a totally design-oriented company. Known best for Eames and Nelson furniture designs, showrooms, and interiors, they also produced outstanding graphic design. Mid-century and later advertisements, drawings, brochures, catalogs, posters, and wall panels are shown in this visually exciting new book. Photos of award-winning and other graphic designs are all from the Herman Miller Archives. This beautiful book is a must for anyone with an interest in modern furniture, graphics, or twentieth century design in general.
Softcover. New York, Universe, 1st pbk, July 15, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 175 pages, color illustrations. Light rubbing to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy. In this second collection of Brody's work, it presents to us his use of the computer and its influence on his design. While his older work was more conservative, yet still radical for its time, his recent work truly embraces the digital age.
Hardcover. University Park PA, Penn State University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Graphic Passion recounts the publication history of nearly fifty books illustrated by Matisse, including masterworks such as Lettrew portugalises, Mallarme's Poisies and his own Jazz. A fantastic production executed with great care. Part of the Penn State series in the history of the book. From 1912 until his death in 1954, Matisse was involved in nearly fifty illustration projects, many of which rank among the greatest artists' books of the twentieth century. He directly participated in page layout, typography, lettering, ornament, cover design, and even the choice of text. Drawing on unpublished correspondence and business documents, this book pays scholarly attention to his illustration methods, typographic preferences, literary sensibilities, and opinions about the role of the artist in the publication process. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Softcover. New York, Associated American Artists, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with blue wraps. Unpaginated. Compiled and edited by Sylvan Cole, Jr., 2 b&w frontispieces, 66 b&w plates, errata slip laid in. A clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Da Capo, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 14 pages + 100 prints in b&w. Green pictorial stiff wrappers with some wear to spine and slight rubbing to covers, otherwise a nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Graphis Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, 250 color plates featuring the best poster art of the year from all over the world. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Outstanding creative works by world-renowned designers, selected from thousands of entries and reproduced in full-color, large format reproductions. As a contemporary reference and source of inspiration for successful promotional graphic design, Poster Annual 2002 is conveniently organized into a range of client categories ? from sports, film, architecture, and fashion, to festivals, museums, retail, public service, competitions, and corporate communications. This edition features extensive captions, detailed indexes, and informative credits, making it a valuable resource for designers, art directors, and clients.
Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good.
Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Bottom right corner slightly bumped. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else very good.
Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Spine faded. Else very good.
Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good.