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Here's endless inspiration for graphic artists working on cover designs, page layouts, letterheads, cards, posters and publicity. More than 100 captivating examples are featured in large spreads including information on the designer, specs, production process and client needs.
Page Layout is divided into three intriguing sections: Type Without Limits, a collection of typography-driven designs that challenge and redefine approaches to layout; The Image at the End, a showcase demonstrating how the power of photography, illustration and manipulated images can impact the direction of a design; and The Extra Dimension, a portfolio of work that pushes the envelope to get results. Includes examples of work that utilize special printing techniques, die cuts, foil colors, unique binding, papers and other materials.
Roger Walton is the Art Director at Duncan Baird Publishers and the editor of Typographics 1, 2 and 3, Hot Sites, Cool Sites, and Sites for Sound. He lives in London, England.
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Nice examples.......2001-04-09
If you learn about design from reading, this book isn't for you. It teaches by giving visual examples. The text does nothing more than analyze the design. It has the same feel as an award book. The work is outstanding and worldwide, but mostly from the UK. The writing is decent but mostly lacks depth. The examples, devine.
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a navigation tool for creative process........2002-08-25
Enter with a creative mind and this book will take you on the journey to making more shrewd and unpredictable design choices. Numerous design professionals are profiled and provide interesting and inspiring narratives of various design problems and how they were solved. A section called "Working Out Your Ideas" examines different approaches for bringing ideas to fruitation - the basic theory being that the design problem itself tends to navigate the designer to the final product.
The text versus illustration volume is fairly evenly balanced. Martin's engaging and easy-going writing style, plus heaps of visuals and work sample photos led me to finishing the entire book in one evening and I often refer back to yellow-tabbed passages. This 130-page paperback is a decent value as design books can be expensive. A good read for those planning to enter or re-enter the field of graphic design. Also recommended for an in-depth study of creative process: Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way."
Insights and Innovations.......1998-07-10
This book is full of inspiration, including the artists comments on how they form their own ideas and the process they take to create a finished product. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to find new ways to be inspired.
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Graphic Design: Inspirations and Innovations 2
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GRAPHIC DESIGN: Inspirations and Innovations
Diana Martin
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It's Not about Me Journal
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Pop culture and psychobabble tell us to make ourselves the center of the universe in order to be happy. Churches have communicated the false idea that God exists to give us all that we selfishly want. Max Lucado reminds us that it's not about us, it's all about God. It is through this shift in thinking that we can truly live an unburdened, happy life.
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Choices. . ........2007-03-10
As always, Ann Taintor never fails to please. I love this journal, I only wish it had some pictures and more pages.
<3.......2003-06-01
Anne Taintor is my new hero. I love journaling but was having a hard time finding one with a cover that didn't [stink], until I found this! It's so me! The only thing that would make it better was if it was spiral bound (to make it easier to write in when you get to the edge of the page) but other than that it's great, there's lots of room to write & witty sayings throughout. :)
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- Better than REDS
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Not Without Love: Memoirs
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The Nobbie Stories for Children and Adults
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Constance Webb led a remarkably full life as a committed political activist, a fashion model and actress, a writer whose works include the first biography of her friend Richard Wright, and the wife and confidante of one of the foremost intellectuals of the twentieth century, C. L. R. James.
Raised in Fresno, California, Webb became an ardent Trotskyist while still a teenager. After moving to Los Angeles, she remained politically active and met James on his first US tour when he visited the city to speak. He fell in love instantly with her and established an epistolary relationship, offering advice and support during her two short-lived marriages, the launching of her modeling career, an ill-fated affair with a well-known actor, and her move to New York City in the early 40s.
In New York, where she continued to model and act, she became a member of the inner circle of James's Johnson-Forest Tendency, and eventually James's wife. She also established an enduring friendship with novelist Richard Wright and championed his work. Despite a sometimes-rocky marriage, James and Webb had a son together, but when James finally left the United States for England (under threat of deportation), Webb did not accompany him.
Webb offers a candid memoir of political, sexual, and social awakening at a pivotal time in twentieth-century America. Politically committed, she was nevertheless repelled by the misogyny and petty feuds that often marred the actions of the Left. She was able to earn her living by using her beauty, but she was compelled to live a double life because of the virulent racism that surrounded her working days. Through James, before their marriage, she became a close friend of Wright, Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes, and James Baldwin. Webb provides vivid, first-hand portraits of the radical left, the African-American literary scene, and especially, the intimate daily life and thoughts of C. L. R. James.
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Better than REDS.......2006-10-02
As a love story, this one's better than the movie REDS with Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton. As a book of memoirs, it's a little frustrating because it closes around 1960, right at the "first half of her life," as Constance Webb wrote. Perhaps she planned to write a sequel, but the recent announcement of her death makes us feel a great loss. She did manage to edit a book of her third husband's fairy stories for children, a wonderful boon for all those who enjoy great writing. Her third husband, after two inconsquential white pigs, was the black, London-based cricketer turned economist and political theorist CLR James, whom his intimates called "Nello," for one of his midddle names was "Lionel" and "Nello" was a pet name for Lionel.
On her side, she was a passionate labor activist and top model for the Conover agency. It's almost like a pulp novel, for during the day she's running around visiting California labor camps like Angelina Jolie in BEYOND BORDERS, saving dying babies, and yet when night falls, she's a supermodel drinking in the sophisticated nightspots of 40s Manhattan like El Morocco and the Stork Club. In those days there were two top modeling agencies, one run by John Robert Powers, the other by Conover, who had the knack for re-naming all of his discoveries with colorful names, rather like Andy Warhol did later on during the period of the Silver Factory. Conover's names were themselves lively and fun as the women who had to smile wearing them--including Choo Choo Johnson, Dusty Anderson, Jinx Falkenberg, Chili Williams, and Candy Jones. Conover didn't like "Constance" Webb as a name, so he called her "Frosty." And her career took off, but in the back of her mind she wondered how long she could continue as a supermodel while her black friends, who included Chester Himes and Richard Wright, were suffering from pervasive race prejudice.
She took the plunge and fell in love with a kind friend, Nello, with whom she had a son, the unfortunate Nobbie. Later in life poor little Nobbie became a mentally ill street person. And many have wondered why Constance Webb refused to accompany her husband when McCarthy's henchmen had him deported back to London. Instead, she preferred to stay at home, raising little Nobbie, and corresponding with "Nello" by airmail, eventually divorcing him.
This book tells all! For anyone interested in black participation of leftift causes of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, this book is a natural, and also of course, if you are curious about the political lives of supermodels. Fans of the comedian Jack Gilford will enjoy this book too, as well as those who want to read garish tales of Salvador Dali's habit of licking his own sperm off the bodies of his love partners. And underneath all the gossip, you get a tragic love story.
Beyond the Academic Review.......2006-02-17
While this story can get a bit bogged down, one of the interesting questions this book raises is how did a young white woman from a bigoted family in small town, Fresno, California in the 1940's, find herself part of one of the earliest groups willing to express civil rights philosophies? Why was she willing to endure ridicule and estrangement from family, friends and strangers to continue her life-long relationships with Richard Wright and other "negros" seeking to speak honestly about their "American" experience? Underlying all is the feeling that this is an incredibly intelligent and loving woman, who stubbornly refuses to give up her ideals in the face of hate and prejudice.
Insight into Political Sects.......2004-05-24
At first blush, there seems little to recommend these reminiscences of an elderly lady. It seems that some six decades ago she had quite a few husbands and even more lovers, and that these men, in turn, were not shy about sex with still other partners. The prose is plain. There are no literary pretensions, and, it would seem, there is little that a reader of today can gain by way of insight into the human condition by reading this book.
But it so happens that Constance Webb is a one-time wife of the noted West Indian political theorist C.L.R. James, and these reminiscences do add to our knowledge and understanding of this writer. Webb recounts many other entanglements with men, but her relationship to James, in and out of marriage, was life-long.
So we learn a great deal about James and his curious band of "Johnsonites." James used "Johnson" as a pseudonym while he was a member of the American Trotskyist movement, and the "Johnsonites" were his cult-followers; they were a cult within a sect.
Webb gives details of the extraordinary nature of the cult. It was a group built around a worship-like adulation of the leader and the strict subordination of the followers. Webb did become disillusioned with the cult in time, but, to this day, she does not seem to realize just how ludicrous the cult's pretensions to wisdom and virtue must appear to outsiders.
Another former member of the same group, Grace Lee Boggs, has also written her memoirs ("Living for Change"), and the two books should perhaps be read together because they complement one another. Both will be valuable to students of American Trotskyism, and, more generally, to students of small religious and political sects.
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A Heart Breaking is not a quiet thing... (The Divorce Diaries, Book One)
Karen Leslie
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This unique "diary" is the beginning of one woman's journey through the sadness and heartbreak of betrayal and infidelity...from the first painful moments of discovery...through the shock and despair of the truth...Anyone who has ever loved and lost will find themselves somewhere on these pages...and every step of the way is shared...with you...in Book One of "The Divorce Diaries" series...
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Uprooted from a quiet existence in suburbia, the author takes us through the shocks and challenges of her new life in India as a Foreign Service wife.
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Frank D. Gilroy is a compulsive diarist who wrote I Wake Up Screening! while he made four independent feature films—each accorded three stars in Leonard Maltin’s TV Movies and Video Guide—with a total investment of two million dollars (for all four films!).
These intimate logs of the making of Desperate Characters, Once in Paris, The Gig, and The Luckiest Man in the World show clearly that a film school that doesn’t include in its curriculum discussions of negotiating with the Teamsters and of raising money as independent producers is leaving out vital parts of the filmmaking process.
Because Gilroy wrote the scripts, raised the money, assembled the production team, directed, opened each of the four films, and even ventured into the murky world of distribution, I Wake Up Screening! is a vast repository of information about filmmaking in general and independent filmmaking in particular. It is not recommended, however, for anyone who wishes to preserve a fairy-tale notion about feature filmmaking. When Gilroy first considered publishing these logs, his wife encouraged him. "Do it," she said. "If it stops one person from following in your footsteps, it will be worthwhile."
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From the world’s foremost authorities on the bizarre come 365 of the freakiest, funniest, and most outrageous facts, stories, feats, and records—all real and all recorded by the editors of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Categories include Accidents & Disasters; Animals & Insects; Feats & Stunts; Habits & Eccentricities; Illusions, Inventions, Lies & Hoaxes; Miniatures & Replicas; Occult; Prophecies; Records; The Unexplained; and much more! Based on the wildly popular book Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Encyclopedia of the Bizarre—more than 200,000 copies sold—this calendar is packed with plenty of original Ripley’s artwork and photographs for extra fun.
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Very Interesting, but Lacking Pictures.......2007-01-18
The page a day definetely has interesting information that gets you thinking - no question about it. However, the box showed pictures, and I was hoping for more. Most of the days are either straight text with some having drawings. Also, it is all in black and white. Maybe they'll come out with a color photo edition in a future year.
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Science, Not Art: Ten Scientists' Diaries
Manufacturer: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
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- an author waiting to be discovered
- Not a book about giving up smoking
- SMOKING good book... har har
- Addicted to Association
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X20: A Novel of "Not" Smoking
Richard Beard
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At 30, Gregory Simpson, son of a tobacconist and member of the smokers-only Suicide Club, decides to kick the habit. The incentives are all there, beginning with the prospect of living longer than his dead cigarette f(r)iend, Theo. On the other hand, what is he to do with his hands, his anger, and 104-year-old Walter, who keeps knocking over his ashtrays? Worse, how will the Company--which has financed his addiction and monitored his surprisingly good health--react? Writing a memoir (in which nicotine and smoke have the largest part) might quell Gregory's craving, keep his hands occupied, and put off mortality: "I have a vague but insistent memory of Miss Bryant in English Composition teaching us that the narrator can never die. That if the narrator died at the end of the story, then how could he possibly tell it?" He hopes she's right. On the other hand, someone asks him, "If you took up writing to give up smoking, how are you going to give up writing?"
This playful first novel is full of elegant observations about the rituals of tobacco and of another equally important addiction: love. For Gregory, foreign films have hopelessly intertwined sex and smoke. His first girlfriend takes him to a series "where a sign in the toilet said No Smoking Rauchen Verboten Ne Pas Fumer Non Fumare while the screen filled with unrepentant images of the twentieth century's most proficient smokers.... I saw nobody die of lung cancer, not on screen. Nobody even coughed or had a sore throat, except perhaps Marlene Dietrich."
Intercutting present woes and nicotine nostalgia, Richard Beard has fashioned a hyperimaginative and moving novel of obsession. Louis MacNeice famously remarked of Auden, "Everything he touches turns to cigarettes," and the same can be said for most of X20's characters, down to Bananas the cat. Bananas's desire is so great that he ends up with his own tobacco pouch, which he carries with him from living room to laboratory: "It was a long time since he'd been satisfied with the delicate inhalation of ambient air above ashtrays."
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Gregory Simpson is thirty and trying to quit, keeping ten fingers glued to a keyboard in order to fight their incessant ache to hold a burning paper tube filled with dead leaves. In twenty entries in twenty days for twenty to a pack -- one word for each cigarette inhaled over the course of ten smoke-filled years -- he examines his life in tense, withdrawal-induced fits and starts: the friendships cemented and defined by nicotine; the intimate relationships crushed or stifled; the acrid, immoral and rebellious satisfactions. But with strength of purpose and improved concentration comes the sobering revelation that his habit is more political than personal. Even if he kicks, Gregory realizes, he's still living in a tobacco world.
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an author waiting to be discovered.......2006-01-27
In X20, our narrator Gregory keeps a journal for his first 20 days of giving up smoking. In doing so he lets the reader into his mind with a series of flashbacks alongside the main narrative which he also intersperses with nuggets of tobacco history and folklore. As the journal progresses the various story strands come together to reveal the bigger picture of Gregory's life.
Richard Beard is one of the few modern exponents of interesting and exciting experimental fiction. His experiments do not always pay off but half the fun is in the trying and he successfully brings the reader along with him for the ride. X20 struggles to achieve sufficient narrative flow within the main story thread but there is enough momentum there for the reader to keep going. This is Beard's first novel and I have also read Damascus for which I would give a very similar review.
If you are a fan of BS Johnson or Georges Perec then X20 may be of interest. Readers who have recently enjoyed the works of David Mitchell and Dan Rhodes may also find something to appeal here. Certainly Beard deserves a wider audience.
Not a book about giving up smoking.......2004-04-21
This is a cleverly written book, WITHOUT Beard trying to outsmart the reader. For example note the names of the characters. Great. This was so readable, I too could not put it down. This book I swear, energized me. I felt better for reading it. What better thing can you say.
Adrian
SMOKING good book... har har.......2004-02-09
loved this book- best book i've read in quite awhile. one of those books for which you try to SLOW DOWN your reading in order to put off the inevitable end. highly highly recommend. i'm back today trawling for anything else he may have written since this one... :)
Addicted to Association.......2001-10-15
More than a book about smoking, Beard's character finds himself addicted to memories, lust, love and companionship. Living in a world he can't really get into, but can't give up.
The book is written in the style of a man trying to give up smoking, writing entries to keep his hands busy and the length of the entries as well as thier content, show the withdraw. The main characters life unravels through these entries as well which give it a nice touch. At times witty, at times rather morbid, this book is a great read. Though I don't like this edition's cover art... cough, cough...
An excellent first effort.......1999-04-14
An author's first novel will set the tone of his career. Therefore, the career of Richard Beard is one that I shall be following. In "X20", Beard involves the reader with a host of characters. He has shown the ability to give depth to his subjects, and allow them to grow throughout the novel.
This book does seem to start off with a noticeable lack of focus. The author tells the story from a several different points in time, jumping back and forth between periods in his life. Hearing the story from the start and the finish concurrently can be a little overwhelming at first, but that is soon remedied. By the end of the book, I was wishing that there were more cigarettes in a pack. This is a very worthy read for smokers and non-smokers alike.
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