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by Celery Design Collaborative, Brian Dougherty
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Can a graphic designer be a catalyst for positive change? Green Graphic Design reframes the way designers can think about the work they create, while remaining focused on cost constraints and corporate identity. Simple, eco-innovative changes are demonstrated in all phases of the design process, including:
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Infographica
The World as You Have Never Seen it Before
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Infographica collects intriguing data from across the planet--for instance, the average lifespan of people living on each continent, the relative durations of the world's unmanned space probes, or the bite strength of the world's most dangerous predators--and presents it in stylish, inventive, and...
Design Management
Managing Design Strategy, Process and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Design management (the management of design strategies, processes and projects) is an intricate subject. As the role of design in the world continues to broaden, organisations are increasingly viewing design as being integral to their decision-making processes. Opening with a contextual overview of...
Make It Now!
Creative Inspiration and the Art of Getting Things Done
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
'If you’re stuck for an idea, have a big decision to handle or need a new perspective on a problem, here are some approaches for thinking, communicating and creativity. An upbeat guide that anyone can use to help with the big and small challenges we face every day.’ Anthony Burrill
A life-affirming...
The Little Book of Puns
Ingenious wordplay and groan-inducing quips
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Ingenious wordplay and groan-inducing quips
In today’s busy world, where text-speak seems to be the prevalent form of written English, and the average teenager can barely form a proper sentence without using the numbers '4' or '8' as substitutes for letters, is the pun becoming an endangered...
Glamour
Women, History, Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
How do we understand glamour? Has it empowered women or turned them into objects? Once associated with modernity and the cutting edge, is it entirely bound up with nostalgia and tradition? This unique and fascinating book tells the story of glamour. It explores the changing meanings of the word, its...
by Richard Brilliant
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
This is the first general and theoretical study devoted entirely to portraiture. Drawing on a broad range of images from Antiquity to the twentieth century, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, cartoons, postage stamps, medals, documents and photographs, Richard Brilliant investigates the...
by Gilda Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
An essential handbook for students and professionals on writing eloquently, accurately, and originally about contemporary art
How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring...
by Jack Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Are you the world’s biggest Eurovision fan? Can you prove it? In this eBook you will find 180 questions about the world’s greatest song contest. Sections include who won in a particular year, where the contest was hosted, name the nationality, general questions about the competition and of course...
The Arts in Canada
The Last Fifty Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
In this volume a baker's dozen of creative Canadians make personal responses to the state of the arts in Canada: Northrop Frye and Guy Rocher write on general cultural trends; Hugh MacLennan and Gérard Bessette on fiction; Ralph Gustafson and Michèle Lalonde on poetry; Robertson Davies and Gratien...
Paperbacks from Hell
The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
An affectionate, nostalgic, and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of the 1970s and ’80s
Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades . . . if you dare. Page through dozens and dozens of amazing book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Writer, broadcaster, and wit Gyles Brandreth has completely revised Ned Sherrin's classic collection of wisecracks, one-liners, and anecdotes. With over 1,000 new quotations from all media, it's easy to find hilarious quotes on subjects ranging from Argument to Diets, from Computers to The Weather....
1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments
Of Which We Could Remember Only 254
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The president who left the nuclear launch codes in a suit at the dry cleaners. The novelist who put the orange juice outside and the kitten in the refrigerator. The Russian general who left home in full military dress . . . minus his pants. The famous sex goddess who blew the same line through 52...
1913
The Year Before the Storm
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
An International Bestseller
“An absolute gem of a book.” —The Observer
Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . .
It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong...