HELLER STEVEN

(H/B) ALL AMERICAN ADS OF THE 50's
As McCarthyism swept across the United States and capitalism was king, white America enjoyed a feeling of pride and security that was reflected in advertising. Carelessly flooding society with dangerous misinformation, companies in the 50s promoted everything from vacations in Las Vegas, where guests could watch atomic bombs detonate, to cigarettes as healthy mood-enhancers, promoted by a baby who claims his mother feels better after she smokes a Marlboro. From "The World's Finest Automatic Washer" to the Cadillac which "Gives a Man a New ...
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(P/B) FREE HAND NEW TYPOGRAPHY SKETCHBOOKS
Yves Saint Laurent was always fascinated by the art and culture of Asia. Taking his cue from elegant brocades, lavish embroidered silks and delicate lacquerwork, he used his collections to construct his own imaginary vision of the East, a dreamlike realm of luxury and delight. Influences from India, China and Japan are brought together here in a glittering showcase of Asian-inspired couture, alongside the designer's original sketches and a selection of striking art objects from his personal collection. (From the publisher) Typography can e...
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(H/B) FREE HAND NEW TYPOGRAPHY SKETCHBOOKS
Typography can embrace functions beyond the purely communicative. From type designers to expressive illustrators, each graphic designer has his or her own way of crafting or applying typefaces. This show-all tour through leading graphic designers' personal sketchbooks reveals the creative processes behind the creation of typefaces, word-images and logos. Arranged alphabetically by name, the world's most exciting designers and typographers, including Philippe Apeloig, Ed Benguiat, Hoefler Type Foundry, Henrik Kubel, Toshi Omagari and France...
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(H/B) EDWARD GOREY
The master creator of finely crosshatched illustrations and sinisterly amusing tales, Edward Gorey (American, 1925-2000) got his start in publishing by designing book covers for such New York houses as Doubleday, Grosset & Dunlap, Vintage Books, and later Random House. Today, his prodigious output of hundreds of dust jackets and paperback covers evidences his distinctive flair for design and his extraordinary ability to portray the essence of the books that came his way. Edward Gorey: His Book Cover Art & Design features a broad selection ...
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(P/B) COMICS SKETCHBOOKS
Comics Sketchbooks gets inside the private notebooks of more than 80 of the planet's most inventive, innovative and successful artists, alongside new talents and emerging illustrators, in a breathtaking range of imaginative output. Here is a chance to see the thinking - the image-and-word play, narrative sequencing, or just plain doodling - that leads to fully formed visual ideas and stories. Featuring political cartoons, offbeat graphic stories, the 'funnies', underground comics and more, this jam-packed celebration?of comic art presents ...
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(H/B) 100 CLASSIC GRAPHIC DESIGN JOURNALS
100 Classic Graphic Design Journals surveys a unique collection of the most influential magazines devoted to graphic design, advertising and typography. These journals together span over 100 years of the history of print design and chart the rise of graphic design from a necessary sideline to the printing industry to an autonomous creative profession. Each magazine is generously illustrated with a large selection of spreads and covers. A descriptive text based, where possible, on interviews with editors, designers and publishers is also in...
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(H/B) NEW MODERNIST TYPE
Modernism's timeless functionality and utilitarian beauty are constantly reinterpreted in the world of design. New Modernist Type gathers hundreds of contemporary examples showing how simplicity, clarity and homage to historical modernism are still at play in the work of today's most exciting graphic designers. Steven Heller, design historian and critic, and Gail Anderson, designer and educator, have made an international selection of 'new modernist' designs, from classical, constructivist or retro works to optical, kinetic or metaphorical...
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(P/B) NEW VINTAGE TYPE
Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts play in contemporary graphic design and typography. Written and compiled by the world's leading graphic-design historian, the book provides hundreds of examples, as well as informed texts that will entertain and inspire a new generation of students and practitioners to appreciate that the past contains typographic riches for the future. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) HANDWRITTEN - EXPRESSIVE LETTERING IN THE DIGITAL AGE

NEW VINTAGE TYPE - CLASSIC FONTS FOR THE DIGITAL AGE

(H/B) MERZ TO EMIGRE AND BEYOND (0714839272)

HANDWRITTEN - EXPRESSIVE LETTERING IN DIGITAL AGE (0500511713)

(P/B) 80'S ALL - AMERICAN ADS (3822838330)
See original print ads for cars, travel, technology, food, liquor, cigarettes, movies, appliances, furniture, defense, transportation, you name it- all digitally mastered to look as bright and colorful as they did on the day they first hit the newsstands. (From the publisher)...
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EURO DECO (0500512140)