Book Description
The timeless and collectible classic on entertaining-at last back in print!
Dorothy Draper (1889-1969), like her contemporaries Diana Vreeland and Elsie de Wolfe, became an icon of stylish living through her interior decorating and many books.
Originally published in 1941, Entertaining Is Fun! is one of Draper's most delightful creations, hailed in the original flap copy of the book as "neither a cookbook nor a book of etiquette, but a vivacious and inspiring book on home entertaining." With its charming retro package, this book teaches you how to host the most fabulous dinner parties, holiday meals, and weddings, and also makes a great gift!
Customer Reviews:
Entertaining is Fun!: How to Be a Popular Hostess.......2007-06-08
What a wonderful book. I enjoy looking at it again and again. Great ideas from years ago that can still be used today!
Entertaining is Fun!.......2006-11-02
Dorothy Draper was known for her sense of style in both decorating and entertaining. Although this book was written in the mid-1900s the entertaining suggestions are timeless. The book itself is fun with its typical 1950s illustrations and speech. This is a book that is fun to use to while away an afternoon.
Charming!.......2005-11-09
This book is wonderful. I just love Draper's tone and conversational way of writing. She offers ideas for all budgets and lifestyles. Charmingly retro, with plenty of good advice for today's hostesses. I could not put it down.
THE housewarming gift for gay men.......2005-05-01
Not as important or famous as Draper's "Decorating is Fun," but her 1941 "Entertaining" book is still amusing, deserving a spot on your coffee table next to an old 1940s Emily Post Etiquette book (when is somone gonna get wise and issue reprints of THOSE?).
Among the highlights is a full list of what every well-appointed home cannot do without, just in case an unexpected guest drops by ("a charming tea set," "a good hall mirror," and "a big metal bell with a lovely tone, to call people in from the garden for games or meals..."), and how to throw a dinner party--1940s style.
Fascinating book. In no time you'll be providing crisp stationery, fresh flowers, 700-thread-count sheets and a luggage stand for your weekend guests...and really, aren't those the "family values" that matter most?
A fun & inspirational read.......2004-11-08
If you're looking for some new ideas, as well as a peek into entertaining during the 1940's, you'll find a lot to enjoy in this reprint of Dorothy Draper's charming guide to entertaining. With an emphasis on simple, unpretentious planning, I think it was quite ahead of its time. This might make a good hostess gift!
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Our special today is a tasty treat called May I Take Your Order? Brimming with classic restaurant menus from the roaring '20s through the fabulous '50s, May I Take Your Order? is the first book to feature this hot new collectible and design resource with hundreds of color reproductions. Author Jim Heimann showcases 250 original menus from all kinds of restaurants, including roadside diners à la Route 66, theme restaurants (travel, Western-style, celebrity eateries), five-star restaurants, nightclubs, bars, and cafés. With menus and vintage photographs from some of the greatest dining establishments of the era, this survey of a popular artform offers an uncommon perspective on design in the early half of the century -- as well as a glimpse of prices and culinary preferences of yesteryear. From the elegance of Art Nouveau to playful Art Deco designs to the ultra-modernism of the late Ô50s, this is an exciting new y'nd for artists, designers, and restaurateurs looking for ideas and inspiration.
Customer Reviews:
Good reference.......2003-04-09
As a designer, I consider this a must-have as a visual reference, though incomplete because of it's general lack of interior art. I suspect the cover art is prevalent because of it's appeal to collectors. Well-designed presentation by Jim Heimann. Glad to have it, but I want to see more.
Excellent historical book inspires journey down memory lane!.......2001-02-16
As the author of "Restaurant China, Identification & Value Guide for Restaurant, Airline, Ship & Railroad Dinnerware, Volume 1 and Volume 2," I was delighted when I received this excellent historical resource. The 1000+ priceless photographs, along with difficult to document dates and locations are most appreciated. In addition, it is a pleasure to simply page through Jim Heimann's books and imagine life as it was in days gone by.
Great Book..........1999-01-16
I thought the book was great, but I was hoping it would show more of menu interiors rather than the covers/exteriors. While folks can show you excerpts from text...it's a bit harder when you are buying a book for the images.
Book Description
Here in a single, thoroughly updated volume, is everything you must know to develop a menu that will dramatically enhance a restaurant's image. The Fourth Edition addresses the full spectrum of restaurant establishments and the entire gamut of menu possibilities from the perspective of design.
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This book contains stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM and are ready to use for professional quality printed media and web page design. The pictures can also be used to produce postcards, or to decorate your letters, flyers, etc. They can be imported directly from the CD into most design, image- manipulation, illustration, word-processing and e-mail programs; no installation is required. For most applications, single images can be used free of charge. Please consult the introduction to this book, or visit our website for conditions.
Customer Reviews:
Major disappointment.......2007-10-09
This book is not at all what I expected when I ordered it. It mostly consists of B&W dover-type images which I did NOT find inspiring. A small section of these would have sufficed, and other styles should have been included. Basically, if you want all of your menus to reflect art from the thirties and forties, this book is for you.
Mostly what I thought I was buying was a book discussing or showing different menu layouts. I honestly can't see myself using this book in any graphic design context.
I might also mention that this was poorly indexed.
delightful designs for the aspiring artist and clipart maven.......2003-11-24
This tiny book contains over 800 illustrations ranging from 50's clipart to turn of the century woodcuts and lithographs. From the simple and economic, to the ornate and profusely decorated. There are different categories - people eating food, people serving food, spices, utensils and many more. Different foods from around the world are also displayed.
The book also includes a CD with all the illustrations in TIFF format. The CD is a cross-platform hybrid disc (accessible to Macs and PCs).
The disc and the book are a delightful resource for any artist needing a compendium of clip art to sift through for a project - whether it is truly for a menu, or a newsletter or other project.
The less than perfect rating is for the weird way in which the images are indexed and named and because these are TIFF files - not Encapsulated Post Script (EPS) format, all of various resolutions. Some files were scanned in at 1200 dpi, others as low as 120 dpi. The scans are extremely clean, but why not a consistent resolution for all? Why weren't these run through Adobe Streamline to make them vector based EPS drawings so that resolution wouldn't even be a factor?
There is an odd licensing agreement on the images - you can use up to 10 images in a given project, but any more than 10 requires written permission. I suppose this is to protect the authors from someone taking the images and making their own clipart book.
A good artist can work around these failings with the proper skills and software as needed, however, and for the small amount of shelf space it occupies, it is a real treasure trove of fine-quality clipart.
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The rapid drop in costs and the improved functionality of authoring software has brought DVD production within the scope of every home moviemaker. A good-looking and functional menu is critical to the success of any DVD without it, end users cannot find their way to the real content.
Designing DVD Menus provides both hobbyist moviemakers and design professionals at any level of expertise with all the information and inspiration they need to create slick, stylish, exciting DVDs. It demystifies the jargon and explains technical issues in simple language. Employing plenty of easy-to-follow, step-by-step work-throughs, it encourages readers to focus on getting creative with their ideas. It is full of projects that show how to use animation, picture-within-picture, background movie clips, and audio and imaging effects to create stunning titles, menu screens, transitions, and interactive features. Overall, it offers a wealth of tips and tricks to give DVD designs that cool, professional edge.
* The definitive guide to creating slick, stylish, exciting DVDs.
* Invaluable for design professionals as well as aspiring filmmakers and home users.
* Covers the basics of user interface design as well as advanced techniques for creating animated menus.
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Delivers key elements in menu design to create a more profitable restaurant. The menu is the one piece of printed advertising that the customer definitely reads.
Customer Reviews:
really really basic.......2007-07-25
A lot of repetition of really obvious things. Really basic definitions of margins and profit. The book could have been reduced to 3 pages it would have been good enough. No real focus on restaurant business.
Might be an eye opener if you are 10 years old and were thinking of opening a restaurant. If you are serious about your project, you will not learn anything in this book. Useless...
In depth and thought provoking........1999-10-19
This book is a quick and easy guide to cutting food costs in the restaurant business. More than anything else it makes you think of ideas to make your own business more profitable. This is a book that you will want to assign to your entire kitchen staff.
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Menu Design 4: Marketing the Restaurant Through Graphics (The Library of applied design)
Judi Radice
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This book is designed to be the start to finish reference for creating powerful and attractive menus and menu-based interfaces for the Internet and other interactive software applications. It begins with determining the structure for a site, and how to organize menu categories, and then moves on to the practical information required to complete the graphics for the menu, and finally onto the actual page. The sections are clearly divided for use as a reference for experienced designers. The book covers the use of major apps such as Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, GoLive, and Photoshop.
Customer Reviews:
Okay as a design book.......2004-04-25
Given the various ways menus are presented on the web - via JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, image maps, site indexes, Flash, etc., - MENUS were what I expected the book to be about.
Despite its ill-chosen title, this is a beginning-to-intermediate design book that covers a variety of topics at a somewhat basic level. There's not a lot of hands-on advice for how to determine you menu structures, design the menu's presentation, or how to select among the various techniques available. Disappointing.
How to get things done quickly and effectively.......2003-07-10
If you already understand the basics of web design, this book will take you one step furthur. You'll quickly learn how to build effective, user friendly and compelling navigation into a site and how to organize information to give visitors the best interactive experience by allowing them quick access to what they need.
This book is an excellent, no nonsense, "roll up your sleeves and get it done rapidly" book that is thankfully low on jargon, buzzwords and puffery and high on technique and standards compliant code. I recommend it highly.
A Good First Draft.......2003-03-31
On several occasions, the author, Wendy Peck, admits to 'circling back' to previous topics, and hearing her readers 'muttering' about when she is finally going to get to the point. How true.
I gleaned some useful tips, such as where to find sources for 'tiny text' fonts on the Web. I found Peck's discussion of using tiny text and her chapter on CSS to be quite good. Unfortunately, the sum of this book is not equal to or greater than its parts. The book's organization seems good at a high-level, but Peck does not rigorously explain each topic and spends far too much space bragging about how she accomplished various tasks without setting forth a clear process for how her readers can follow in her footsteps. Her writing is often sloppy, with grammatical errors and clunky sentences.
Compared to the CD, however, Peck's writing is scintillant: files on the CD often do not match references in the book, and some of the files are rife with errors. The CD in Peck's earlier Dreamweaver book had similar problems. I know quality assurance isn't glamorous, but come on, somebody has to do it.
In the book itself, much space is wasted giving separate exercise directions for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and Fireworks. Pick one. Better yet, put these directions on the CD (provided someone at Hungry Minds can figure out how to make a good CD) and cut the size of the book by 1/4. If Peck also cut out the diarrheal happy talk that plagues nearly every paragraph, she'd be able to cut the size of the book even further. With better organization, exercises on the CD, and no cute chatter, we'd have a wonderfully useful 150-page book instead of a bloated 340-page tome.
Bottom line: many of the good parts in this book are available for free at webreference.com, where Peck writes a semi-regular column. Read her columns before you consider buying the book.
Promises unkept.......2003-03-09
I started to read this book with high hopes. I finished it feeling that I was still at the beginning. There was no follow through on the concepts. I did not learn much about how to implement various types of menus, nor on the fundementals of the underlying code and concepts to get me going on my own. With the exception of her discussion on CSS, which I feel is the only redeeming feature of the book (and why I gave it threes stars instead of two), I feel like I was listening to someone talk around the topic, rather than get to the heart of the matter. Unless you are using exactly the same tools to do exactly the same task as her demos, this book is not going to be much help.
If you buy this book thinking that you will learn how to implement various types and styles of menus you will be disappointed.
Finally! an intermediate-level design book.......2002-12-17
The problem with web design books is that they all seem to be written either for the beginner or for the person with ten years of art training or programming background. This book at first appeared to be for beginners; and in fact, I probably knew 80% of what's in it. (I teach beginning Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Fireworks, and know a lot of the rules of design, but I was born without an art gene. Plus as a freelancer, sometimes I go long enough between jobs to forget what I learned from my last site.)
As I read this book from cover to cover, (skipping the Flash and Wireless chapters)I realized that its excellent summation of many design points was serving as a solid, mid-journey, take-stock refresher that let me put my knowledge into a new context. For example, Wendy takes issue with exporting an entire sliced page from a graphics program into an editing program. It took me two years to decide that YES, that way is easier, and now Wendy Peck has forced me to rethink about a faster way.
But most of all, I was very happy with the unexpected chapter on liquid design. I've spent uncountable hours trying to figure ways to acheive this: Wendy gives me an excellent starting point, mostly because she did the math to figure which fixed widths were the best compromise for stretching from 640 to 1200 pixels. Now what I really, really want is a book that starts from that chapter and goes on to demonstrate liquid design in a dozen different circumstances with step-by-steps that are as clear as Wendy's. WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE WRITE THAT BOOK!!! And if it offers really useful coverage of the aspects of CSS that can be trusted to help achieve it without going to browser sniffing, I'll not only recommend it for all my classes I'll send the authors a cake and light candles for their successful life.
PS: Something I expected from this book and didn't get was an authortative summation of the chaos surrounding points versus pixels and the implications of making menus one and body text the other. As a consolation prize, I got excellent tips about using anti-aliasing fonts for small type menus and a sample of those fonts on the CD. (Haven't opened the cd yet, but if it has the problems other reviewers complain of, web references are also given for these fonts.)
Product Description
These are not just unusual restaurants, but also unusual menus for unusual restaurants, with interesting designs, layouts, and illustrations! Most of the restaurants are in Los Angeles or San Francisco, with a section of Hawaii places. There is a paragraph description and review of each restaurant, as well as an exact reproduction of the menu, and contact info on each restaurant. Since this is a vintage book, of course the prices are vintage, as well! It will make you hungry and wistful that you could have some of the meals listed here...
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Frank Harris
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