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It's the universal challenge every designer faces: how to create stellar work on a skimpy budget. And with more companies cinching their budgetary belts tighter than ever, designers are pressed to find new and more inventive cost-cutting strategies. Great Graphics on a Budget shows how some of the world's top designers and suppliers have invented, stumbled on, and recycled innovative ways to produce high- quality, low-cost work.
Organized around ingenious ways to save money—on art pieces, with paper choices, on printing, or through dimension choices—the book offers an in-depth look at 70 cost- cutting yet cutting-edge projects. Each contributing designer walks the reader through his or her thought process, revealing the key moments and stages when cost-cutting solutions were discovered and implemented. Covering everything from the original budget to the final cost of the piece, and from descriptions of strategies used to photos of the finished pieces, this is every designer's guide to wowing clients without squeezing their wallets.
A multidisciplinary design consultancy in London, dixonbaxi works in print design and management. The firm's specialties include editorial and book design, annual reports and brochures, brand identity, corporate identity, broadcast and film, and interactive design.
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Red Hat Romance.......2006-09-09
This is another installment in the Red Hat Series, nothing heavy or cerebral. On the order of Fannie Flagg's fiction--light ladies' lit. Several of the women in this small Texas town who are bound by their participation in the Red Hat Society discover that middle age doesn't preclude them from finding romance and happiness in their lives after experiencing painful losses. Things pretty much end "happily ever after" but sometimes that's all you're asking of a book. An enjoyable, easy read.
Do not recommend this book .......2006-08-05
This is a terrible book. It is poorly written and extremely predictable. If you are in High School it "might" be a good choice just to pass the time if you are bored to death.
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The Queens.........2006-08-26
Ellie is told after many years of marriage that her husband has found someone else. A waitress from Hooter's who is years younger. So nine months later she has a house on Woodlawn Avenue. A far cry from her old life. But one day she receives a knock at the door; a lady with pound cake proclaiming she has to come to tonight's bridge game, because she is Queen #4, Queen of Hearts, because she has the heart arch in her house. Where the other members have the spade, diamond and club. She reluctantly goes, and soon finds out the bridge rules are paralleling her own life.
I gave this book 4 stars because all the bridge talk confused me a bit, as well as a tad bit boring. I am really not a card player. However, I do want to read the other books, so this was indeed a good read!
Do not recommend this book.......2006-08-05
This is a terrible book. It is poorly written and extremely predictable. If you are in High School it "might" be a good choice to pass the time.
Comfort Food for the Soul.......2006-06-13
Reviewed by Kristina Patton for Reader Views 06/2006
Tea parties and endless chatter about the weather and men is what comes to mind when I think of a Red Hat Society get-together. Boy, did I have the wrong idea. Regina Hale Sutherland shows us that these get-togethers are all but boring. With mystery, blossoming friendships, heartache, and life lessons through a game of cards, "The Red Hat Society's Queens of Woodlawn Avenue" is a fun, heartwarming read.
Now, personally, I've never sat down to a bridge game, or even watched anyone play. But, by the end of this book, I learned that the rules of bridge and the rules of life are almost one in the same. Sutherland's elegant writing had me looking for a double meaning around every corner. For example, all of Ellie's lessons are the titles of the chapters. My favorite of those lessons is called "Becoming a Captain". Jane, the Queen of Diamonds, tells Ellie that "now that he's revealed his hand, you can become the captain." So, this quote refers to 1) the point in bridge where your partner makes her bid, which limits her hand, and you can take the lead, or become the captain with your hand, and 2) when someone you know reveals a secret that you can use to your advantage. Yes, even the Queens resort to blackmail when they feel it necessary.
Sutherland's cozy characters became my best friends for the weekend. This storyline shows the way that I would want my life to turn out if I were in the same situation as Ellie. Because in the end all the good things were definitely worth all the bad. I found myself hoping for the best and wondering what would happen next. I will definitely be a frequent reader of Sutherland's upcoming Red Hat Society books. Whether it's mystery, romance, or friendship that you are seeking, I would recommend this cozy read to anyone who needs comfort food for the soul.
amusing poignant read.......2006-05-25
Without ever knowing it, Ellie Johnson became one of the Queens of Woodlawn Society when she moved into a house on Woodlawn Ave. By moving there she automatically became a member of the bridge club along with Grace, Jane, and Linda. Each of the foursome have an arch in their home designed in the shape of a card suit with Ellie being the queen of hearts. The others take the recently divorced Ellie under their wing. Grace teaches her how to repair her garden; Linda helps her regain her place in Nashville society; and Jane assists her with a new business start-up.
Ellie remains bitter over her marital break-up due to her husband playing with a Double D bimbo after twenty fives years together. She soon learns that she is considered attractive by men when her first client, a suave Frenchman pursues her and a police officer wants to date her. Her former spouse keeps calling and over time their contacts become less acrimonious. However, Ellie remains uncertain as to what she wants especially from him and whether she can forgive him. He becomes her rock when she wants to host a society event and when one of regal peers is jailed. Ellie knows she still loves the rat, but doubts she can ever trust him again.
The members of the QUEENS OF WOODLAWN SOCIETY belong to the Red Hat Society, a women's group that is a combination social club and helping hand to one another. Ellie learns to accept what happened and to move on with her life applying the rules of bridge to making decisions. Readers will adore Ellie and her friends as this deep character study is an amusing poignant read.
Harriet Klausner
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- Hilarious and sad at the same time
- Sometimes funny, but mostly depressing
- Hillarious & Poignant
- Moosic to Singles Everywhere!
- A must read for all women all ages!
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Rescue Me, He's Wearing a Moose Hat: And 40 Other Dates after 50
Sherry Halperin
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With some trepidation, author Sherry Halperin reentered the dating scene in 1994 at age 51, several months after her husband of 26 years passed away. At first she thinks the dating game isn't for her, until she gets set up by a friend and begins to feel some long-lost emotions. Halperin goes on 40 dates, which she finds through web sites like match.com, professional services that cost up to $5000, blind dates, singles parties, and more. Each chapter is a short vignette — often funny and poignant, sometimes sad, and always candid — with a humorous caricature of the featured man.
Though most of her dates can be considered calamities, with partners such as Moose Hat, Turkey Neck, and Rich Old Man, she also dates several younger "studmuffins," gets hit on by a woman, and even falls in love again.
Rescue Me hits a nerve by shelling out the real deal on what being single again truly means. As Halperin continually revises her Perfect Man list, she is transformed from idealist to realist, eventually coming to terms with being single. Meanwhile, she's still tackling her inexhaustible dating options with gusto, humor, and an energy that outpaces any 20-year-old dating enthusiast.
Customer Reviews:
Hilarious and sad at the same time.......2007-05-07
Sherry Halperin writes (with great wit), about her dating angst over a span of ten years after losing her much loved husband at an early age. The variety and number of LOSER's that she runs into during that period of time is sobering though. The odds are stacked very much in favor of men as we get older. There are lots of bright articulate, attractive women to go around, but their male counterparts are few in number. I am passing this book around to all my single girlfriends who agree, dating after 50 can be hazardous to your mental health. It's far better to surround yourself with good friends than to look for Mr. Right. Mr. Right at this age has a far greater chance of being Mr. Wrong! But for all those men out there, with bald pates, potbellies, and marginal personalities..the world is your oyster! M. Schmit Phoenix AZ
Sometimes funny, but mostly depressing.......2007-05-01
This book may be good for a laugh here and there, but ladies don't look to it for advice. The author is looking for men in California, preferably in the entertainment biz as she is. It's not what the rest of us encounter!
Hillarious & Poignant.......2005-12-22
This wonderful book is a hallarious and all-too-poignant commentary on our contemporary social scene. Sherry captures the essence of human relationships. An enjoyable read for all . . .
Moosic to Singles Everywhere!.......2005-12-20
This is a hilarious read into a 50-something's return to the world of dating, the latest derring do's and don'ts of the mature singles scene. It is a laugh out loud experience for all women going the travails of having, losing,or imagining what it means to have middle-aged sex appeal and if the youth-at -all-costs philosophy will keep us warmly snuggled into old age. Highly recommend for fun reading.
A must read for all women all ages!.......2005-12-19
What a fantastic read and actually quite relevant to a single woman in her mid thirties. Extremely funny and ever so witty. Ms Halperin paints such a vivid picture you are immediatley immersed and it's a definate "can't put it down " read.
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- A period piece -- a 1924 bestseller that hasn't quite survived
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The Green Hat: A Romance for a Few People
Manufacturer: W. Collins Sons
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000FMQIBS |
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A major bestseller in its time, and the basis for the 1928 Clarence Brown film A Woman of Affairs featuring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Also filmed in 1934 by Robert Z. Leonard as Outcast Lady with Constance Bennett and Herbert Marshall. His fifth book.
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A period piece -- a 1924 bestseller that hasn't quite survived.......2007-08-12
The Green Hat was a major bestseller in 1924, when it was published. It was twice made into movies, the most famous of those being a late silent movie, A WOMAN OF AFFAIRS (1928), starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. (The Green Hat was sufficiently controversial that the censors made the producers change the title, the character names, and such major plot points as one character having a venereal disease.) Michael Arlen, original name Dikran Kouyoumdjian, was born in Bulgaria of Armenian parents, but moved at a fairly young age to England, and later in life moved to the US.
The Green Hat is an interesting book to read, but to a contemporary reader I think it mostly fails. At least it does for me. The main issue is that the character motivations fail to convince -- there is just too much melodrama. Perhaps these motivations really did make sense in 1924, but I'm not really sure of that.
The Green Hat tells of the doings of a small group of English people, the main ones around 30 years old, in 1923 and 1924. Thus it is set just after the debacle of World War I, and indeed its theme -- stated fairly baldly at places in the book -- is one of reaction against the "old values" of European civilization that were, as it is sometimes said, "destroyed" by the War. The story is told by an unnamed narrator who is more of an observer of events than a participant (though he does take some actions in the novel).
The central story is of Iris Storm, the woman in the green hat of the title, a woman of rather unsavoury reputation. The narrator meets her at the opening -- he lives in the same building as her estranged alcoholic brother -- and from her he hears some of her personal story (and perhaps sleeps with her). We gather that Iris has been married twice, both husbands dying very soon after the marriage (her first, a suicide, on their wedding night). She is rumored to have had multiple lovers. She herself thinks her family under a sort of curse.
As the story continues a traumatic event seems to drive Iris to a further destructive act -- the seduction of Napier Harpenden, a childhood friend and an up-and-coming civil servant, only three days before his wedding. Napier still gets married, but months later Iris lures him back, and makes ready to run off with him, at which point a final confrontation reveals the true secret behind Iris's rackety life.
It's a very melodramatic novel. It's told with considerable verve, and plenty of arch turns of phrase, that at times intrigue, but often come off (at this removes) forced or false. The tone varies a bit -- though appropriately, I think -- from comic to cynical to tragic to resigned. The major problem is that the character motivations never really convince. They are given dramatic gestures to make, and I just didn't believe in them. We are told that the characters have certain features -- but we aren't shown them, and so they don't come alive. (Not even Iris Storm, though she comes closer to being fascinating than any of the men.) I'm not surprised that it was a bestseller, and I do think it reads rather better today than many bestsellers of its time, but it is ultimately slight and artificial. But I'm glad I read it.
Book Description
A hat is one article of clothing that seems to have almost magical power to turns its wearer into yesterday's romantic heroine or today's sophisticated career woman. It can be elegant, witty, whimsical, sporty. It is always lovely.
The Romance of Hats is Victoria magazine's tribute to this wonderful creation. Its pages include profiles of four of the country's most innovative hatmakers, as well as practical advice on caring for hats; ideas for refreshing an old hat or giving a new one the patina of age; a whimsical look at hat pins -- even the secret to wearing a hat with style.
Customer Reviews:
Very pretty little book.......2006-04-13
"The Romance of Hats" is excellent eye candy. I keep borrowing it from the library; I really must buy it so I can forget about due dates. It has no millinery instruction. It's full of photographs, not drawings, except for little impressionist masterpieces here and there. It's mercifully free of novelty hats. Look elsewhere if you want pictures of hats that look like historical buildings, vegetation, musical instruments or what-have-you.
I love the selections of hats in this book. Classics, they tend towards the old fashioned, but made by contemporary milliners with materials available today, which I find inspiring. Just the pictures of what can be done to dress a hat with a swath of ribbon, lace or dried flowers is enough to make you want to do that right now.
It's a great book for flipping through, over and over again, for you and your friends and visitors.
Nice Addition to Books on Hats Collection.......2005-12-14
This small volume profiles 4 modern milliners and includes some nice photographs and little textual ditties on women's hats. A nice little book for the bathroom side table (better than those stupid joke books).
A lovely book in praise of hats........1999-06-04
"The Romance of Hats" is a beautifully illustrated book extolling hats, their makers, and those who wear them. I enjoy looking through this book for ideas or just to relax.
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The Romance of Hats
N. Y.) Victoria (New York
Manufacturer: Hearst Books
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Coffee Table Book.......2007-08-12
For those who want "arty" photographs (the kind that look like they were taken through a stocking), this is your book. However, if you're wanting clear photographs and ideas for your own hats, keep looking for another book - this is not it. Perhaps I should've been leery because the title says "The Romance of Hats". I am so disappointed in this book and am sorry I bought it.
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- Quirky characters and a happy ending
- a quirky, fun read
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Naked Without a Hat
Jeanne Willis
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ASIN: 0385731663
Release Date: 2004-05-11 |
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Life isn’t going so well for 19-year-old Will. His mother is always nagging him about the lucky knit hat that he never takes off; his mother’s boyfriend has forbidden Will to play “Wild Thing”—the only song he knows—on the guitar; and he just got fired from his job at Burger King. But Will’s luck changes when he moves into a flat with Chrissy, James, and Rocko and gets a new job at the local park.
At the park Will meets Zara, a gypsy girl whose family is camping there illegally. Will has never been happier. Until his mother threatens to ruin everything by revealing Will’s childhood secret. Is Will and Zara’s love for each other strong enough to survive?
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Quirky characters and a happy ending.......2005-11-27
Something seems not quite right about the main character in this book, who tells you almost right off the bat he has a secret. Is it his straightforward tone? His gullible demeanor? His sensitivity? When Will's guitar playing is driving his mother's lover crazy so Mom dumps son Will off to live in some sort of rooming house with two other men who make him look normal - Rocko, a vegetable obsessed painter who may be autistic, and James, who seems immature and sex-crazed. A woman named Chrissy finds them jobs and seems to be responsible for keeping their lives in order. When Will falls in love with a gypsy girl, he discovers that love means honesty and sharing, but can Zara live with the secret he can't bear to tell?
The quirky characters are beautifully presented here. Although the reader senses something is a bit off, it turns out that these broken people are actually quite ordinary and have the same wants and needs as anybody else. "We're all nuts, aren't we? Just different kinds of nuts," says James at the end. And this epiphany makes the chaos of the first 200 pages completely believable, from the hats to the pick mucking to the birthday party to a cat names Fuzzydude. Yep - all that, and a happy ending. Not a necessary purchase, but this is one of those books that will increase the scope and breadth of your collection.
a quirky, fun read.......2004-05-18
NAKED WITHOUT A HAT is a coming-of-age story told in first person by the main character, Will Avery. Will must learn to assert himself with his mother and gain his independence. When he moves into a flat with Chrissy, James and Rocko, Will is well on his way to starting a new life for himself. Chrissy helps him get a new job at a park where he meets Zara, a gypsy girl whose family is camping illegally there. A romance soon blossoms between Will and Zara.
Will enjoys his first opportunity to live away from his mother. He makes new friends and earns the respect of his boss. Just when his life seems to be getting on track, his mother threatens to reveal their family "secret." Will's relationship with Zara is compromised. Will their love be strong enough to survive the truth? You will have to read NAKED WITHOUT A HAT to find out.
Ultimately, this story deals with prejudice of one kind or another. Almost everyone in the story has something to hide. When Will's secret is revealed at the end of the novel, the reader will see the narrative in a new light.
With a cast of quirky characters and an original plot, NAKED WITHOUT A HAT is a fun read for teens.
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The Boy, the Dollar and the Wonderful Hat
Marilyn Helmer
Manufacturer: Fitzhenry and Whiteside
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Release Date: 1992-01-01 |
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When Benno goes to the fair with his father there is so much he wants to do. But he only has a dollar and that won't go far. Then he sees the wonderful hat. And then he has a wonderful idea.
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