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Work from leading designers from around the globe.
Rockport's best-selling Letterhead and Logo Design series has become one of the ultimate creative resources for new letterhead and logo design projects from top international designers. Now from the editors at Rockport Publishers comes The Best of Letterhead and Logo Design in a new, small format, paperback edition offering the reader the cream of the crop. This unrivalled collection of the best and most innovative new graphic work, beautifully presented in full color, is sure to be an essential reference and resource for professional designers seeking inspiring ideas that grab the viewers' attention and create a lasting impression. From logos to letterheads, business cards to envelopes, the creative techniques portrayed in this broad range of work will inspire new design solutions for age-old challenges.
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good book that doesn't deserve it's low ratings!.......2007-02-22
The reviews I've read for this don't make sense. Adding a web address is easy. This book gives you a wide variety of ideas and work with a wide variety of budgets. It covers corporate identity, non-profit and retail. It doesn't cover promotional material design. If you want a reference book, this is it. If you want to see what's trendy, buy a subscription to "Communication Arts".
Outdated, only a few good examples........2006-01-05
As another reviewer stated, this compilation is outdated. Rockport does not usually disappoint but they do with this title. Most of the examples are old and very few are well done. Hopefully better work is being done than this!
Disappointingly Dated.......2004-07-09
Before purchasing this book, I checked to see when the book was published, or at least updated...2004 the copyright page said.
How disappointing, then, to discover (after I'd puchased the book) that many of the examples used for the book are outdated. For example, few of the many business card examples display web or internet addresses.
How far back do these wonderous examples take us if they were gathered from pre-internet days? I was hoping for progressive examples of the best of today's work, not yesteryear's.
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Excellent Logos.......2007-03-23
Great logo reference. Thats all it is, top notch logos, and it really gives good ideas. All designs are very relevant to today's design trends. What more can you expect? Got it used, think I paid about $9 total including shipping, can't beat that.
So so.........2006-07-10
It's not a very impresive amount of best logos and symbols. I think the simplicity is the best way to show an excellent graphic job. Most of them are very well-elaborated ideas, some very old-fashioned, and you know as a graphic artist, that those logos require a large amount of time to be created in a computer. This book is lack of good examples and i know that you could find better logos and symbols in your desktop than the ones you find here. There are good reviews in each page about the origin of the design. That's a good idea to understand the creative proccess involved. But if i were you...i'll choose another book.
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Graphic Design - Bookshelf Basic- thumbs up!.......2002-04-24
I find this book to be a good information and idea source for logo design. I love the examples and the chapter explanation at the beginning of each chapter, explaining the thoughts and reasons behind particular design.
To me, I would like a bit longer of an explanantion in the intro pages to the chapters, that is the only reason I gave it a 4 out of 5.
Over all, I would suggest this book be on any designers bookshelf.
good resourse for graphic designers.......2000-09-05
Out of the books with logos I've seen, Print has the best ones, this book has tons of creative logos and symbols, most of them have been created using great conceps, others are simple and aparentelly just have been done to do something that looks nice but I still like it. I don't like logos not only that looks "cute" or that have a just the concep and nobody get what is it about, I mean from my point of view a good logo or symbol must have both and when you see them you have to know what is it really about, this book has great samples. I would like to see logos from arround the world but I think there isn't such as that thing, I hope to see a book with a huge collection of best logos and symbols from arround the world.
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Successful Logos Worldwide: Designers Present Their Best Work
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At the age of 44-at the height of his success- Richard Lewis found himself on a gurney in an emergency room, suffering from a lethal mix of alcohol and drugs. The same dysfunctions that had been the basis for his successful stage persona and had generated so much wonderful material for comedy had turned on him. In this blistering memoir, Lewis tells how he got to that point, how he got on the road to recovery, and how he copes with being Richard Lewis, sober, on a daily basis, in this very funny, profoundly honest, inspiring but unsentimental book. He shares candid and revealing anecdotes about love, sex, fame, family, drinking therapy, eating disorders, and the serious business of comedy.
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depressing.......2004-05-25
I love Richard Lewis, but this book was actually ... depressing. I had to stop reading and just skim the rest. It was repetitious. I never really understood what pain of his childhood he was trying to escape by drinking. I think some editor should have fixed the tone to make it either funnier or more-serious-and-readable. It was too shticky to be meaningful, but too serious to be funny.
Painful, shocking......a soul stripped bare........2004-05-06
I would personally like to hit Mr. Lewis on the head for his three year romance with one of the greatest fantasy figures of the seventies, Baronss Nina van Pallandt. If you were a teenage or adult male at that time, you were reduced to jelly by her picture. You knew she was not for mere mortals but for billionaire mega studs in Cannes, or on the Riviera.
So who gets her? A shleppy Jewish standup comic from NY, whose father was, and this is so perfect, and so very Jewish, a caterer.
As a barmitzvah bandleader, I have spent many years fighting, working with, and plotting the forceful overthrow of many Jewish caterers. Not one of whose children ever dated anyone faintly resembling Nina van Pallandt.
Let me say this. Being a standup comedien is one of the most difficult jobs there is. Mr. Lewis succeeded admirably, and yet his personal demons, or many would say his progammed genes, and the chemical constuct of his body resulted in a breakdown fueled by drugs and alchohol. The scenario is familiar and Mr. Lewis tells it well. My vocabulary contains many of the profanities used by Mr. Lewis, but I think it was a wrong decision to use them this liberally. Mr. Lewis describes his father as the Lee J. Cobb waterfront union leader in "On the Waterfront". You know how the longshoremen speak. The only profanity in the movie was when Brando said to Karl Malden, the priest, "You go to hell". That's it. Not bad for one of the greatest movies ever made.
My life has paralleld Mr. Lewis. It's a war with no armistace, and he seems to be doing well, and I wish him well. Those who like the book may want to see "Drunks", a pretty good movie starring Mr. Lewis, and the late Howard Rollins.
Applause for Lewis!.......2002-11-05
Lewis does a great job describing the insanity of his addiction and the depths in which it can take a person. I give him a lot of credit to be as bold as he was. Lewis writes of issues, episodes, and obsessions that might be harshly criticized by anyone, but to another alcoholic/addict, these events are all too real. Lewis doesn't hold anything back -- his humor and neurotic personality give this book layers of dynamic energy. Addicted or not, I would recommend this book to anyone who wants or needs to know about the perverse, insidious nature of addiction. Lewis has the strength to discover himself, the courage to face his addiction, and the candor to give it a voice. We can all learn from this intriguing and provocative story. To Lewis I say -- keep working it baby 'cause you're worth it! One day at a time.
Honest, Hilarious, Scary and Ultimately Spiritual.......2002-02-23
I didn't think I had a drinking problem--and still don't but for sure I have an addict's state of mind in a myriad of other areas and thanks to Mr. Lewis' amazingly candid memoir it has given me the courage to keep an eye out on myself before I could conceivably fall into the hell he did--and yet--his story gives such hopefulness and good advice I heartily recommend it to anyone who`like myself has doubts about one's own manner of living or those of loved ones.
This should have been TWO books!.......2001-12-19
As a recovering alcoholic with 5 years of sobriety under my belt, I can say that Richard Lewis shows a great deal of insight regarding the issues of addiction and recovery. It is unfortunate that one must plow thru so much dross to uncover the gems.
I think the book would have been much stronger if he had focused on his alcoholism and his success with it. I understand that there is a strong need for honesty in recovery; however, I would have preferred he address his sexual addiction and his eating disorder by simply saying that he is still struggling with them and hopes someday to write of his success with them.
Because he did not list his acknowledgements until the end, I read thru the whole book wondering if he had simply typed it up himself, run a spell-check on it, and bundled it off to the publisher with the instructions, "Don't change a comma!!" So I have to agree with an earlier reviewer who stated that the book needs a good editing. It's unfortunate that it did not get this treatment. It is a good book. With strong editing, it could have been a great book.
I do look forward to hearing of Richard's continuing success in the future.
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Faulkner And the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, And Cultural Politics
Ted Atkinson
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political and social aspects of the Great Depression bound in Faulkner's works.......2006-02-23
In seeing the barn-burning scene in "As I Lay Dying" as representing "the impulse toward revolution" and a section of Jason's narrative in "The Sound and the Fury" as indicating capitalism standing triumphant after a period beginning about 1890 "when the expanding mercantile economy with an industrial base substantially redefined America's socioeconomic order," Atkinson discloses how Faulkner can be read as a "Depression writer who, in keeping with the times, found his own means of radical and revolutionary expression." Overall, "Faulkner gave to Depression readers an order of things in which totalizing concepts of unity, organic wholeness, and harmony exist not as achievable ends but rather as tenuous constructs" always vulnerable to the natural human desire to pursue individual liberty in multifarious ways. This reading of Faulkner is not an alternative to the generally accepted one of Faulkner as dealing mainly with the rural culture, class and personal relationships, and the psychodynamics peculiar to the latter 1800's and early 1900's South, but it expands it considerably. Rather than seen only as regional inhabitants suffering from their incapacity to accept defeat and in often half-crazed ways trying to maintain a semblance of the traditional social structure, Faulkner's Southern characters can be seen as well as representative Americans dealing with economic hardships and uncertainties of the Depression and struggling with political questions and temptations relating to an authoritarian regime, forms of socialism, and the budding new order offered by Roosevelt. Faulkner's place in the literary politics of his time, a topic often passed by in critical work to unravel the complexities of his characters and his style, is also dealt with in developing how his work reflects the conditions and mentality of his time. Atkinson--who teaches at Augusta State U. in Georgia--sheds light on this broader view of this major American author active in the mid 1900s by focusing on individual characters, incidents, and circumstances in his novels.
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The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Rita Barnard
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The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance examines the response of American leftist writers of the 1930s to the rise of mass culture, and to the continued propagation of the values of consumerism during the Depression. Rita Barnard traces in the work of Kenneth Fearing and Nathanael West theoretical positions associated with the Frankfurt School (especially Walter Benjamin) and with contemporary theorists of postmodernism. As well as probing the relationship between literature and mass culture, the book offers a new reading of two of the most unjustifiably neglected literary figures of the 1930s.
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Twenty Five Milk Runs (And a Few Others)
Richard Riley Johnson
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The author takes you through the Great Depression growing up as the son of migrant farm workers. Fly with him as the pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress over Germany in 1944.
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Written from the heart.......2007-04-16
Very enjoyable and readable. The writer has had a very interesting life and has written his story with passion. Starting with his childhood and leading to his experiences in WWII the book is engrossing. I recommend reading this if you enjoy autobiographies or a pilot's perspective of WWII - especially coming from a pilot who could fly a 4 engine bomber before he could drive a car.
A Fortress Pilot's Life and War.......2005-03-17
As a 21 year old B-17 bomber pilot Richard Johnson completed 32 combat missions over Europe as a member of the "Hell's Angels" of the 303rd Bomb Group from RAF Molesworth, United Kingdom. Not bad for a guy who didn't learn to drive a car until he returned to the USA after his combat tour!! What separates this memoir from the many others of similar origin is author Johnson's attention to detail and unfailing, often self deprecating, sense of humor. This is really two books, the first and last thirds of the book devoted to his life before the war as a vagabond itinerant farm laborer's son and after the war as a member of post-war American society and pilot with the Civil Air Patrol. The remainder of the text is some of the most entertaining and detailed reading this reviewer has encountered relative to the daily horrors, triumphs and uncertainties of flying bombers against a capable and determined German enemy. The author chronicles each of his 32 combat missions, plus some others, in sufficient detail about his plane, his Squadron and his Group as to give the reader a great sense of what was happening. His post war friendship with one of the German 88 mm FLAK gunners against which Johnson's unit flew results in some very good explanations of how the anti-aircraft units functioned. He is objective, sometimes brutally honest about events and personalities, and unfailingly interesting. Dick Johnson is not a professional writer, and this may lead to the strength of this book, which is its total readability. He tells the stories just like they happened, no embellishments, just factual narration with humor as the lubricant. While the portions of the narrative about his non-USAAF life may not appeal to all, this reviewer found the author's experiences growing up during the Depression and facing a very uncertain future with only a high school diploma, DFC and Air Medals after the war both interesting and relative to what he learned as a young pilot during war time. This is an excellent book and is recommended for those who like WWII aviation and a good story.
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Hanging On, Or, How to Get Through a Depression and Enjoy Life (Great Lakes Books)
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Marcella's once upon a time stories: For grandmas and other kids, too
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