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Nowhere in the world does the interior design of a shop influence sales as it does in Japan. Retailers spare no trouble or expense when planning and realising the design or renovation of their premises. PowerShop presents the best and most recent retail designs by ten Japanese interior architects. Shops and showrooms created for established names like Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Nissan share centre stage with numerous smaller, cutting-edge boutiques. The designers presented here prove that a shop can resemble an art installation and still be successful. They prove that it pays to invest in creativity. And they certainly prove that in Japan imagination reigns. The author Carolien van Tilburg is a Dutch journalist and media producer who has lived in Japan since 1995.
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From decorative paper bags to elegant home furnishings, the 26 attractive projects in this beginner’s manual will win converts to the simple, fabulous craft of screen printing. The entire printing process receives in-depth explanations and unfolds in numerous detailed photos. Find out how to select and mix inks, print a picture evenly, care for screens, and transform basic sketches into scale images for a design. Make a light exposure unit to create prints of drawings, photographs, and found objects. The fun begins when these techniques turn into projects, including a pretty hand-stamped pillow, a lovely embellished table runner, and a keepsake picture album that features a screen-printed family photo on its cover. Gallery-quality items pictured throughout provide extra inspiration.
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Took me by the hand and led me through screenprinting!.......2007-09-12
[...]Have you ever tried the silkscreen printing process? An excellent, well thought out book that can get you started is Simple Screenprinting (Basic Techniques & Creative Projects) by Annie Stromquist, published by Lark books in 2004. (ISBN 1-57990-490-4). The eye of an artist is evidenced throughout this book, which is a visual joy, filled with clear, colorful photographs and appropriate use of "white space."
Assuming the reader is a total novice to screen printing, Ms. Stromquist begins with a brief history of screen-printing, then describes the tools and inks that are used. Next, selection and preparation of the screen itself is clearly described. This is followed by an illustration showing attachment of the frame to special hinges and backboard. As the method is further developed, a paper stencil for defining the printed image is shown and the first project, a stenciled postcard, is begun. The more advanced printmaker will find later in the book that photo emulsion preparations allow a simple and accurate means to create a screen that offers the ability to print photographically derived images. The reader is shown how to register the print so that multiple screens may be used in order to print with different colors and to ensure the image is properly aligned. A very clearly descriptive section shows exactly how to use registration pins and tabs to maintain correct and accurate image registration. The reader quickly discovers that many parallels exist between overcoming screen-printing problems and intaglio or lithographic printing problems that use multiple color plates. This book goes beyond printing only on paper by exploring and explaining how screen-printing is done on fabric. One such project shows how to create place mats or even how to print aprons for a group (maybe even Maryland Printmakers print shop aprons!)
Traditionally, this method had been called "silk screen" printing, but polyester material is now used in place of silk simply because polyester is more readily available and far less costly. Density of the weave of the fabric will dictate the screen's ability to register detail and the system of grading the screen fabric densities is also explained.
Opaque or transparent inks used for screen-printing may be either water- or oil-based. Ms. Stromquist explains how to test the inks using colors with different levels of transparency and shows how the colors combine to create different color results when they are printed one color over another.
There are twenty-six screen-printing projects included in the book. Each one uses a different method to produce the image. The projects begin with a simple single color stenciled post card. This teaches the basic skills and acquaints the user with the tools and technique. Each project requires using a new technique, and as the artist proceeds through the book, competency is developed as the level of sophistication in printmaking increases. Each new technique becomes the basis for learning the next level. T-shirts, Aprons for a Group, posters, a greeting card, and photo-booth portrait are all part of the succession of learning projects. By the time you have walked your way through the projects, you will be a well-qualified screen-print maker and well on your way to producing some interesting new art.
Making difficult and complex concepts so very easy to understand are hallmarks of an experienced and skilled teacher / author. It is a joy to discover a book that is useful, friendly, and easy to understand, and this book is all of that.
Ideal Intro to Screenprinting.......2007-09-02
This book is well set out with plenty of colour photographs stepping the reader through the processes of screen printing. Written instructions and advice is thorough and simple to understand. Projects are ideal for a novice and provide ideas for imagination. The inclusion of the gallery of other works is inspiring.
Great introductory book.......2007-06-14
I recently decided to take up screen printing and bought this book to help me learn the techniques. I've been very pleased with it so far. The instructions are simple to follow and explained well. There are also images illustrating most steps described in the text, useful for visual people. The author goes through the basics, such as choosing a suitable screen and paint and the equipment necessary, so it's easy to get started right away. The specific projects outlined in the book are fun and interesting, though perhaps best used as inspiration for your own designs. Best of all, the author describes several different ways to make prints, including some that don't involve any toxic chemicals.
This book might not be appropriate for advanced screen printers as I'm sure the information contained in it is pretty simplistic. However, it's great for someone like me who knew nothing about screenprinting before I bought this book. I've created some really great images following the instructions of the authors, and I couldn't be happier with the results.
screenprinting book good for hooby crafters.......2007-02-01
As a screenprinting teacher, I am always on the lookout for good screenprinting manuals to recommend to my students. Unfortunately, this is not one. It is an OK book if you know NOTHING about screenprinting and want to do it for a hobby to make some cards or do projects with your kids, but I do not recommend it for someone who is looking to get into screenprinting more seriously.
Told me everything I needed to know!.......2006-11-04
This book was so helpful! My husband and I are trying to start a t-shirt company and we didn't know were to start. This book showed us all of the different techniques and really spelled out how to do each of them. It was very easy to understand, gave us some great ideas and it even showed us how to make our screen from scratch. I would recommend getting this book if you are wondering how to screen print.
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Creating Brochures & Booklets (Graphic Design Basics)
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Yikes !.......2003-08-30
I'm relatively new to the world of graphic design, but I'm quite comfortable with desktop publishing and computer graphics. I found this book to be a mish-mash of ideas and concepts that confused more than educated. I found over 20 terms introduced in one chapter with no follow up definition or description. The author jumps from one subject to another aimlessly; like going from a discussion on papers to handling a client's budget (she calls it the "Budget Ogre")in the same paragraph. Don't waste your time on this book.
Excellent for beginners.......1998-03-05
This is a somewhat simplistic, but very good book for beginning designers. There are a lot of good samples and the author talks you through the why's and wherefore's. I wish it had more specific information on how to accomplish these designs using more standard software (like Pagemaker). Oh, well, it's still a good book.
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Someone is stealing ideas.......2001-05-13
Not to say that this author has, but I have seen the Dee G. vidoes before I bought this book and they seem almost identical. Every technique in this book I have seen first on the Dee vidoes. The only helpful advice that I got from this book was on managing my space. If you have seen the Dee videos, don't waste you money on this book.
Good, comprehensive guide to materials and techniques.......1999-02-11
When I opened this book, I was sorely disappointed that there were few "step by step" instructions. But when I began reading it, I found that it answered almost all of my questions! This book is a comprehensive guide to rubber stamping. Both novice and intermediate stampers can benefit from the creative techniques described in this book. Michele goes through basic stamping materials and techniques as well a more advanced methods including the combination of rubber stamping with computer-generated artwork!
The only "minus" I would give the book is the lack of comprehensive illustrations. The adage "a picture is worth a thousand words" rings true here. While there is a color photo section of examples (and descriptions of each of the techniques applied to make those examples), I feel that the book would benefit from illustrations for each technique on the page describing the technique.
A must have book for all new stampers.......1999-01-04
As a "novice" stamper, this book runs the gamut of basic techniques, to the advanced. It also give a lot of explanation of terms used in the craft, and helps to fill in the blanks. Of all the books and magazines I have relating to rubber stamp, this is the one I turn to most often.
Fantastic!.......1998-10-10
This is a great book covering very basic to more advanced stamping techniques. Full of useful information. I refer to it quite often. I highly recommend it.
Very helpful and full of ideas.......1998-06-04
This is the first rubberstamping book I ever bought and it was definitely worth buying- it's a keeper! Full of ideas and complete explanations, it is very helpful. I would definitely recommend this book for stampers new to the art form, and even to those who've stamped for a while may get some great ideas.
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A Printshop Handbook: A Technical Manual For Basic Intaglio, Relief, And Lithographic Processes
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Thank you for a fast delivery. .......2004-08-19
I got this book today!
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Universally acknowledged as the greatest British photographer and one of the great masters of all twentieth-century photography, Bill Brandt left an indelible mark on the medium during a career that spanned more than fifty years. Trained in the Paris studio of Man Ray, Brandt returned to England and produced a body of work that ranged from insightful portraits of English upper-crust society to views of the gritty poverty of the industrial north. During the Blitz of World War II, Brandt created an epic picture of blacked-out London, with images of bomb-damaged landmarks such as Saint Paul’s Cathedral and residents sheltering in underground subway stations.
After the war, he began a series of ninety remarkable nude studies using lens distortions and unusual points of view to interpret the female form in new and exciting ways. At the same time, he photographed the movers and shakers of the English artistic scene, making portraits of everyone from Alec Guinness to David Hockney, and he toured the island nation tracking down landscapes that had been influential to important British writers for a historic series called “Literary Britain.”
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Exploring his connections to literature.......2004-05-16
Bill Brandt Behind The Camera is a study of twentieth century British photographer Bill Brandt's life and works, featuring striking black-and-white samples of his photographs and an insightful biographical, deconstructive, and artistic essay of his pursuits. Exploring his connections to literature, and his deep immersion in the streets of Spain, Paris, and his home nation of Britain, as well as the revelations his camera captured, Bill Brandt Behind The Camera for photography shelves.
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The Land: Twentieth Century Landscape Photographs
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Nudes, 1945-1980: Photographs
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Bill Brandt: A Life
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Bill Brandt, the greatest of British photographers, who visually defined the English identity in the mid-twentieth century, was an enigma. Indeed, despite his assertions to the contrary, he was not in fact English at all. His life, like much of his work, was an elaborate construction. England was his adopted homeland and the English were his chosen subject.
The England in which Brandt arrived in the Thirties was deeply polarized. He photographed both upstairs and downstairs, and recorded the industrial north as well as the society rounds of the affluent south. Although much of his work was for the new illustrated magazines, it was frequently influenced by surrealism and an eye for the slightly strange. The subjects of his portraits include the greatest creative figures of his age, and his English landscapes were sublime. His radical treatment of the female body forms a landmark in the history of the photography.
Paul Delany ambitiously traces the details of Brandt’s life and reveals how the biographical facts and the fantasies that accompanied them deeply affected Brandt’s work. The biography is richly illustrated with duotone reproductions of his masterpieces and a number of unpublished private photographs.
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Bill Brandt: Photographs 1928-1983
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Vivid, starkly beautiful chiaroscuro of "austerity" Britain........1999-06-24
Bill Brandt's work has a striking poetic immediacy and a potent suggestiveness of mood rarely seen in still photography. Sombre landscapes, brooding portraits of prominent literary figures, and surreal, distorted, abstract nudes are featured in this superb, nearly comprehensive volume of the great man's oeuvre.
Just a slight glance at some of these unforgettable pictures and the viewer is hypnotized--eyes rapt to the page--drawn into a strange, mysterious world of the past and overwhelmed by its melancholy lyricism. One senses a profound humanity in Brandt's treatment of desolation and poverty: a quality comparable to the best work of Expressionist painters like Munch or Schiele.
It is interesting to note that the visual sensibility found in Brandt's high contrast, black-and-white compositions and sometimes startling, baroque perspectives also bears comparison to the cascading, labyrinthine imagery of Orson Welles's films. And the influence of Brandt's work appears evident in a number of other dreamy/nightmarish films: e.g., Ingmar Bergman's "The Silence," Roman Polanski's "Repulsion," David Lynch's "Eraserhead" and "The Elephant Man," and Michael Radford's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," to name but a few.
To put it simply: Bill Brandt is a genius of the lens--a supreme master of light and shadow--and, without a doubt, one of the most vital and innovative artists of the twentieth century.
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Bill Brandt: Selected Texts and Bibliography (World Photographers Reference, Vol 5)
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Bill Brandt: Vintage Photographs
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Homes Fit For Heroes: Photographs By Bill Brandt 1939-43
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Despite Bill Brandt's fame and considerable influence on the development of modern photography, the photographs in this book are a little known body of work and have never been previously published. The work was carried out between 1939 and 1943 when Brandt worked on a commercial assignment for the Bournville Village Trust. The photographs illustrate living conditions and form distinct picture stories where direct contrasts are made between slum and municipal housing. Many books and articles published around this time sought to address the issue of the living conditions of the working classes and photography played a key role.
2004 sees the celebration of Brandt's centenary year. Major collections of his prints are held by MoMA and Rochester's International Museum of Photography.
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Let the sunshine in.......2006-06-01
A fascinating book of Brandt photos contrasting English slums with planned municipal estates. This was the kind of assignment that he loved: the chance to put across a social point-of-view using real people and places. The sixty-three photos (beautifully printed with 200dpi) are probably the best of visits he made to Birmingham and London for the Bournville Village Trust.
There seems to be a continuing mystery about these photos though because they were discovered in the Trust's archives as a series of seventy-seven prints mounted on cardboard with the negatives (but actually missing eight of these). It would be rather unusual for a commercial photographer to hand over negatives to the client because additional income could be made by doing extra prints and the print quality could still conform to the original supplied prints. Brandt said of the commission that it was "...a job well done".
An interesting essay in the front of the book reveals how Brandt manipulated the artificial light in the slums to contrast with the brighter better homes where sunlight through open windows is the light source. Frequently a semi rural location is shown outside the windows. There is a stunning shot on page eighty-four of a young boy looking in a window at his parents eating a meal (with full plates) heavy shadows on the tablecloth from the bright sun and trees in the background. Compare this with a family eating in their dark slum living room on page twenty-nine, cups of tea and sandwiches possibly the main meal of the day.
As well as the sixty-three photos, one to a page, there are the eleven cardboard mounts shown that had the original prints, again one to a page, and three essays about Bill Brandt and his approach to photojournalism. A worthwhile photobook in my view.
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- Original and intriguing, Bodylines is a great read.
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Mortal Coils: Bodylines
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Mortal Coils: Bodylines marks the first trade paperback collection of A. David Lewis' dark suspense comic series. Bodylines features ten fresh art talents, three all-new tales, seven retouched stories, interviews, annotations, a Foreword by Mark Waid (JLA, Fantastic Four), a 16-page color section, and sketches from artists including Mark Wheatley (Frankenstein Mobster), Bill Reinhold (Earth X), Sean Wang (The Tick), Joanne Mutch (Rummblestrips), and Scott Dalrymple (Fade from Blue). This edition brings together the first sold-out issue, the following critically-acclaimed installments, the exclusive color supplement, and the new, three-part "Blind Leading the Blind" arc - each telling just one harrowing story in a world where nothing can be taken for granted... not even one's own existence.
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Tasty & Twisted Tales .......2005-02-24
Whether comic-book connoisseur, literary buff, or someone simply looking for something more than primetime-variety stimulation ... Mortal Coils is a Must. While I've only recently commenced my foray into the world of graphic novels, I couldn't help but be drawn into the twisted, provocative Coils world - and become utterly mesmerized with the unique and eerily-tangible characters born into it. If catching literary allusions is as gratifying for you as it is for me, a true appreciation of the multi-layered dialogue may mandate hours of companion research through literary & biblical works from your past. But do yourself a favor - don't let my personal obsession with literary innuendos scare you off - even if the last weighty literature you read was an article in Reader's Digest, you won't be able to resist the mind-bending twists that make these tales truly delicious.
Comic Intrigue.......2005-01-18
Never before had I been exposed to comic books and this being my first one changed all previous ideas I once held for them. This anthology of sci-fi mind bending stories follows no stereotypes and was a thrill to read. The subtleties that are dropped throughout all the stories show Lewis' intellect and enjoyment of writing. Although it was a bit hard to follow at times, these stories are original and show true dedication to an art form that I have recently become aware of. A trully wonderful read.
Mortal Coils is the new Twilight Zone.......2004-11-10
Mortal Coils is an anthology very reminiscent of the original Twilight Zone and Outer Limits TV shows. These tales walk the fine line between sci fi, horror and pulp fiction. They take bits and pieces of each genre and blend them together in just such a way as to create an all-new philosophical journey down the back alleys of darkness where light fears to tread.
Overall, this series has great potential. Anyone intrigued by the Tales From The Darkside, Twilight Zone or Outer Limits shows should grab this up.
Original and intriguing, Bodylines is a great read........2004-07-22
The world is not quite what it appears to be and regular folks are caught in the middle of things they can't control in A. David Lewis' genre mixing work. Mortal Coils: Bodylines collects his series of stories chronicling what appears to be disparate, surreal events transpiring in the world to seemly disconnected people. The individual stories are intriguing in, and of, themselves, but what makes this collection truly compelling is the way in which Lewis ties the various narratives together. Each story finds ordinary people glimpsing at the darker, more sinister forces lurking behind the mundane world and, at times, falling victim to those forces. Each episode reveals a little bit more of what might be an overall story arch; an arch that seems to offer readers that fuller view of what's behind the things happening to the character we meet. Right now, in these stories, the arch is more of a trajectory of characters; just a hint of what might be down the road. At its conclusion, Mortal Coils: Bodylines leaves you wanting more. This first collection really is a first chapter of what, I hope at least, is a much larger story. With Lewis as the sole writer, various artist complement the story-telling with their visual realizations in an eclectic mix of styles. If you want something original and exciting, pick up this collection.
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- Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts; or, Practical Aesthetics (Texts & Documents)
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