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Houses of the future will be smaller, more energy-efficient, and better suited to their environments. And intelligent design solutions can help expand the scope and livability of a compact house, making it elegant as well as practical. In 1990, Storey Communications sponsored the Compact House Design Competition, a juried contest open to architects, designers, and architecture students. From the numerous entries that were received from all over North America, professional architects Don Metz and Peter Woerner selected the best and most innovative designs to include in "New Compact House Designs". Although the top three designs received cash awards, all 27 of the designs in this book are winners--and each design illustrates a classic or contemporary approach to living gracefully in a small house. The basic guidelines were clear: design a single-family house with a minimum of two bedrooms whose gross floor area does not exceed 1,250 square feet. Aside from these stipulations, almost anything went, and the broad spectrum of designs included in this book reflects the geographical and stylistic diversity of the winning entries--from a classic New England farmhouse to a sophisticated postmodern design, from a New Mexican desert hacienda to a fanciful house with Elizabethan overtones. The perfect idea book for current and future homeowners, "New Compact House Designs" will also appeal to anyone interested in architectural design. Each entry included in the book features a site drawing, floor plans, elevation and section drawings, judges' comments, and a complete description of the project. Addresses for architects and designers are also provided for readers interested in obtaining scale plans or more information on any particular house.
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Unique collection of small homes.......2004-06-14
I like this book, and have had it in my home plan collection library for years. I still refer to the designs in this book because they are still fresh today, as compared to other similar books on the market. The layouts are livable, given the tight quarters imposed by the square footage limitation, and the floor plans are easy to read. A few of the houses are economical to build as well as graceful, unique, and stylish. Several of the houses have modern facades. If you need someting small, but have no interest in the average ranch/saltbox/Mediterranian, this could be your book.
I would not recommend it to those who want a typical small suburban tract house, or to those using Sunset plans, Home Planners, or Garlington House as a bench mark for modern style house plans.
Need more books like this!.......2003-07-29
If you are looking for some creative ideas for small homes then this is a great book. If you are looking for the typical traditional home, then there a lot of other plan books or online plan stores that you may prefer. This book has a variety of home styles with a lot of great ideas. Some are pretty simple and some are a bit outlandish, but you'll see some designs that you don't see in the regular plan books, which is what makes this book so good.
Editor is no better than the designs........2003-07-10
I bought this book because I was designing a sub-1250 square feet house for my parents, which I have since finished. I thought the book had potential until I attempted to apply some of the ideas of the "winning" plan. The winning house is not 1250 square feet. Not even close. When I contacted Mr. Metz through his publisher for an explanation, his response was that he "couldn't care less if the houses featureed(sic) are a bit under or over the 1250 advertised." I think it says quite a bit that the editor doesn't think the title has to be accurate.
Moreover, I agree with some of the other reviews that questioned the merits of many of the designs in the book. If these are the best plans, what could possibly have been rejected? I found perhaps a half-dozen plans that had anything new to say architecturally.
This book is a waste of time and money. You can get close approximations of most of these plans from the Sunset books at the library, and you won't get lied to about the size.
Disappointing.......2003-06-23
Unless you like ultra modern home designs, skip this book. The plans are impractical, especially with respect to kitchen layouts. Most of the homes have no vestibules in their entrances, which are a neccessity in colder climates.
Creative, sophisticated, and SMALL!.......2001-09-11
If you are tired of McMansions (and are comfortable reading floor plans), you will enjoy these clever and imaginative house plans. Many are designed for a specific area of the country - Florida, the urban south, the Colorado mountains, New England - which gives a flavor lacking in most generic designs. All feature the creative use of space and an emphasis on low-cost heating and cooling. I find these plans more interesting than those in Small House Designs (ed. Tremblay), also based on a competition. I am considering asking one of the architects to modify a plan for my site, as a vacation home now and a retirement home in a few years.
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This book has taught thousands the craft and science of making neon signs, since its first edition, Neon Signs was published in 1935. Updated in 1997 by an expert in the neon field, Neon Techniques, now in its fourth edition, covers everything you need to know to design, fabricate, troubleshoot and repair neon signs and graphics, from the basic equipment to the techniques of bending glass, to filling the tubes with various gasses, to the electric aspect, and finally to installation and maintenance. Hundreds of illustrations, photos, charts, graphs and tables provide invaluable information for anyone in the neon signmaking trade. No neon shop should be without this book.
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i'm the manager of neon jundi company in lebanon.......1999-10-10
the price about hand book of neon sign
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For many people, Walker Evans's name conjures up visions of the rural American South of the 1930s, where the photographer made some of his most notable images. But signs--marking buildings; advertising grocery prices, churches, and cabarets; communicating political messages--transfixed him throughout his life. Evans was interested in all aspects of signs, from the typography and graphic layout to the messages they conveyed and the objects themselves. He collected nearly as many of them as he photographed and often exhibited actual signs alongside his photos. Andrei Codrescu, in the essay he wrote to accompany the images in Signs, offers a concise explanation of the power of this subject matter. He writes that Evans's era was, "the time of popular writing, of huge advertisements, of lettering that invaded every nook and cranny and even wrote the skyline. America wrote big, with bold new alphabets, in lightbulbs, in neon, in smoke. One could follow the text of twentieth-century America from coast to coast...."
This small book is beautifully designed. The 50 gelatin silver prints selected from the Getty Museum's collection are reproduced on full pages with little or no cropping, and are meticulously documented at the back of the book with notations on dimensions, dates the photos were shot, and printing dates. A wide range of images, from the Photographer's Window Display, in which miniature portraits are displayed behind a pane of glass on which the word studio is painted, to a pair of commercially produced movie posters advertising a double feature of The Man from Guntown and I Hate Women, offers readers perspective on the breadth of Evans's vision. This focused look at an element of Evans's photography helps broaden the understanding of his entire body of work.
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Walker Evans photographed signs throughout every phase of his career. From the 1920s to the time of his death in 1975, Evans was obsessed with the signage he found in modern America--from billboards to gas station pumps to street graffiti to handmade announcements of a Saturday-night dance.
This book features fifth photographs of signs from the Getty Museum's collection, presented with a lively, provocative essay by Andrei Codrescu. Codrescu trains a perceptive eye on the artistic and social climate in Evans's America and reflects on the photographer's images as documents and
commentary. Some of the images included come from the place and era most closely associated with Evans--the rural South of the 1930s. But also included are photographs that will be less familiar to many of his admirers, such as his images of New York City street scenes and advertising signs, or
pictures he took in Havana and in Sarasota, Florida.
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Graphics / Black & White fans MUST BUY.......2002-12-28
Another beautiful collection from Walker Evans, showing his greatest photos of billboards, movie posters, newspaper headlines, theater marquees, graffiti, street signs, hand-painted shop frotns, covering 1920-1975. You will discover variety of ways to interpret the different layers of meanings from his photos with striking impression. It provides an excellent documentary about American culture. Walker Evans also collected and exhibited signs, sometimes next to his photographs, which brings his work into another level. From letters to graphics, from graphics to signs, sometimes people is becoming helpless under the mass media. Highly recommended for graphics / black and white fans.
Just Beautiful!.......2000-06-22
Walker Evans SIGNS are unique and wonderful. These images glow in there black and white surroundings. Some of the images are simple and delicate and other are busy and loud...a great mixure.Codrescu's essays give you a delightful walk through of Evans life.Andrei has an original insight... description of these signs from our past.There is excitment in these essays...energy in which Evans must have had as he photographed these images.As you read on you will see Evans attraction to signs. I also enjoyed the layout of the book. The images have room to breath and the text is perfect. I was very happy to add this book with my collection of photography books.
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Commercial Sign Techniques
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Vinyl Graphics How-To: Master Principles
ASIN: 0944094155 |
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In more than 250 full-color photos, this book covers the techniques used by the world's leading signmaking experts to fabricate the kind of signs commercial signshops make, and businesses need, every day: vinyl graphics, signs and banners; carved, painted and gilded (gold leaf) signs; pinstriped vehicles; airbrushed and faux finished signs; screen printed flat signs. Includes step-by-step photos and advice from the best. Learn different techniques and diversify your business. Your ability to create more valuable signs will earn you higher profits.
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More of a Coffee-Table Book.......2005-07-11
The book is quality made, excellent photo's, sturdy binding, quality paper; and so that may justify the price. It is a fun read, but there is not a lot of information.
You could not make a sign after reading this book. It is not a how-to book, so if that's what your looking for, don't spend the money. But if you're looking for an interesting read, and aren't put-off by the price, then you will enjoy the book.
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The Designer's Guide to Creating Corporate I.D. Systems
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Location Scouting and Management Handbook: Television, Film and Still Photography
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The Complete Film Production Handbook, Third Edition (Book & CD-ROM)
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Discover what makes an excellent location, how to manage the location and how to handle any problems that might come up. This book provides an in-depth, practical look at location scouting and management. Written with many years of scouting experience in mind, the author has imparted much professional 'savvy' that beginning or experienced scouts or location managers will find invaluable to finding and keeping their next scouting assignment.
Handles both the jobs of the location scout and the location manager
Step-by-step approach gives a realistic view of the process of location scouting and management
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Review of Location Scouting and Management Handbook : Television, Film and Still Photography.......2005-10-28
I also bought this book back in the '90's and lent it to an associate who never returned it!
The person I loaned it to knew very little of location scouting and location management and since I never got the book back I can only assume they found it very useful...
Perhaps this novice level of reader was the target audience; the book does give some of the basic 'mechanics' and duties expected of a location professional but does not go into the many intracies of diplomacy and, as an example, being able to purvey to a lay property owner in a succinct way what you are doing, what production will be doing, what is expected of them and what is in it for them.
One does a lot of real-time thinking on one's feet when there is a show in production, perhaps there is no way to convey in print the 'best way' to do any single location service?
Location services are an arcane and to many, obscure arm of the production process. As a professional, one of the most frequent questions I am asked (even by many production professionals) upon introduction is "what exactly do you guys do?"
Additionally, this book was written, as I recall, from the viewpoint of a suburban location scout, urban scouting in a large city such as New York, especially in Manhattan, has its own unique set of challenges which were not really addressed.
At the time this book was written independent film making was at a different level of development as an industry and being a large part of the total volume of film making nowadays I think some of its unique challenges are due some page space which I dont recall being given their due in the book.
Most of my location scouting nowadays is done digitally and presentations are done online. This book was written at a time when digital imaging was still in an infancy stage for the status quo and does not address many aspects of scouting in a digital world.
I would repeat that I think book is a valuable tool for the novice but on a more advanced level I would have to say that this tome may be due for some updates and expansion on its theme.
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Put Up and Shut Up!: The 90's So Far in Cartoons
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