Design Communication: Developing Promotional Material for Design Professionals

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To be successful today, a design firm must be promoted effectively. This much-needed book shows how to develop the promotional material to do the job. It covers the entire marketing spectrum for design firms, including: marketing planning and research; direct mail programs; proposals and qualifications; interview presentations; project design presentations; computer drawings; advertising and trade shows; and public relations and publicity.

Design Communication: Developing Promotional Material for Design Professionals

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Design Communication: Developing Promotional Material for Design Professionals
Ernest Burden
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OG1BRG

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Splendid sticker illustrations of rosy-cheeked cherubs and other lovely seraphs for creating delightful greeting cards with celestial themes. Apply to 8 blank cards, (4 with charming floral borders and 4 with blue-sky backgrounds), add a brief message and mail.

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Decorative Carousel Animals stickers

Decorative Carousel Animals Stickers
Christy Shaffer
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486410684

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For merry-go-round lovers of all ages — 24 fantastically ornamented sticker images of prancing ponies outfitted in floral garlands, a regal lion and ferocious tiger, fanciful sea monsters, a leaping stag, rabbit and frog; a handsome zebra, and other creatures. Large, beautifully detailed images for accenting personal notes and gift packages.

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Decorative Carousel Animals stickers.......2001-03-05

I really like this book because it has lots of beautiful carousel horses and all kinds of neat animals. My favorite sticker was the Tiger because it is so colorful and it looks sneaky. I also liked the rainbow maned horse with the phoniex bird saddle because the horse looks so wild.

Decorative Butterflies Stickers: 29 Pressure-Sensitive Designs (Pocket-Size Sticker Collections)

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Decorative Butterflies Stickers: 29 Pressure-Sensitive Designs (Pocket-Size Sticker Collections)

Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Misc. Supplies

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ASIN: 0486272885

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Add the decorative beauty of butterflies to windows, posters, notecards and other flat surfaces. This handy collection includes 29 stickers in a variety of shapes and sizes, revealing a brilliantly colored display of Lepidoptera. Handy book format keeps stickers clean and fresh.

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Pretty.......2001-05-30

Lots of realistic (not cartoony) little butterfly stickers. They do have a bit of a white edge around them, which won't matter if you're sticking them on something white. If you do need to trim them, then do it before removing the sticker(s) from the page.

Fly Away to Fabulous Projects with these..........2001-04-10

Amazon has kindly brought these Victorian "Decorative Butterfly Stickers" right to my mailbox. There are 29 vintage butterfly stickers ranging from 1 to 2 inch wing span. All are dark, rich colors with a fine, black drawing line showing extreme details. I will use the 7 more butterflies on the cover by cutting and gluing them on handmade greeting cards for friends.

One of the nice features is that they are produced on acid free paper; perfect for scrapbooks, or any special art project where you want the integrety of the stickers to stay true.

They can be used in so many ways by yourself and are the Perfect Gift to go along with Nature Notecards or a Butterfly Gardening Book from Amazon's Bookstore... a very nice gift package for that someone special in your life.

I am using them to add a garden motif to an old wooden storage box. A little paint, some gold leafing, and these Maggie Kate Decorative Butterflies Stickers (with a quick dash of clear acrylic spray)...and... A wonderful treasure created in a few hours. *smile* What project is waiting for these at your house?

Stock up for last minute gifts to include with a pretty card. They are easy to store and reasonable to ship. Use them to let someone know "Your mind has drifted in the wind" with warm thoughts of them.*wink*

You deserve these... Go ahead... treat yourself... pop them into your shopping cart and enjoy their simple elegance at an affordable price.

maggie kate is great!.......2000-06-22

i love maggie kate sticker books. they are so colorful and i can use them on anything. they are great for decopage.

Decorative Gargoyles Stickers: 36 Full-Color Pressure-Sensitive Designs (Stickers)

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Decorative Gargoyles Stickers: 36 Full-Color Pressure-Sensitive Designs (Stickers)
Charlene Tarbox
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486295389

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Adapted from grotesquely carved waterspouts and architectural ornamentation, these stickers depict mythological monsters, unicorns, winged serpents, bizarre birds, and other fantastic fauna. Add medieval ambience or an eye-catching decorative touch to almost any flat surface. Simply peel and apply.

Decorative Fruit Stickers/24 Pressure-Sensitive Designs

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Decorative Fruit Stickers/24 Pressure-Sensitive Designs
Charles Waller
Manufacturer: Dover Pubns
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486280195

Decorative Stickers: For Gift Wraps and Crafts (Milner Craft)

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Decorative Stickers: For Gift Wraps and Crafts (Milner Craft)
Nerida Singleton
Manufacturer: Sterling Pub Co Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1863512098

Japanese Decorative Stickers: 24 Pressure Sensitive Designs

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Japanese Decorative Stickers: 24 Pressure Sensitive Designs

Manufacturer: Dover Pubns
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ASIN: 0486277070

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In 1913 Italian-born Modotti (1896-1943) immigrated to the United States, where she enthusiastically embraced both radical politics and photographer Edward Weston, the first of many prominent men who would love the charismatic artist. Apart from the formally rigorous, socially engaged photographs that made her reputation, Modotti's most ardent passions were for revolutionary Mexico, where she lived from 1922 to 1930, and for Communist activist Julio Mella, whose murder in 1929 engulfed her in the juicy scandal with which Italian journalist Cacucci opens his dishy biography. Modotti spent the 1930s serving the Soviet Union's interests in many of the world's hot spots, notably Spain during its vicious civil war; commitment to Communism gave her a sense of stability her turbulent personal affairs did not. She died mysteriously four years after her return to Mexico, by rumor at the hands of Stalinist poisoners. Cacucci's fascination with abstruse Communist ideological squabbles may not be shared by all readers, and his methodology is decidedly slapdash: he doesn't provide footnotes, and pages of direct dialogue have no discernable source other than the author's imagination. However, his breathless prose certainly conveys the drama of Modotti's short, intense life. --Wendy Smith

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The life of Tina Modotti is the stuff of enduring legend. Her sensual, melancholic beauty inspired the work of the most brilliant artists, photographers, and writers of her time, including Diego Rivera, Edward Weston, and Pablo Neruda. Her fierce commitment to the social and political causes of the working class and her affiliation with the Mexican Communist Party landed her at the center of national controversy in Mexico. A gifted photographer in her own right, Modotti is now widely recognized as one of the great artists of the early twentieth century.

Born in Udine, Italy, in 1896, Tina Modotti immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen, settling with her family in San Francisco in order to escape the misery and poverty of the world from which they came. Modotti initially sought work in the local silk factory and as a dressmaker, but her beauty and poise soon launched her into a career as a silent film actress and artist's model. It was through her work as a model that she met photographer Edward Weston. Though already married to California poet Roubaix de l'Abrie Richey (known as Robo), Modotti fell in love with Weston and with photography and left with him for Mexico in 1922.

It was in Mexico that Modotti blossomed, both as a talented artist and as a fiery and dedicated worker for the cause of the revolutionary left, and where she befriended artists Rivera and Frieda Kahlo. However, in 1929 Modotti, long under suspicion by the Mexican police, was arrested in connection with the murder of Julio Antonio Mella, a Cuban revolutionary and also her lover. Though the real killers were never identified, the Mexican press raised a scandal by publishing nude photographs of Modotti taken by Weston and depicting her as a woman of easy virtue. She was eventually exiled from Mexico. Denied re-entry to the United States, Modotti fled first to Germany and then to Moscow, where she abandoned her photography and worked as a bureaucrat for the Communist Party and traveled on clandestine missions for the "Red Rescue."

In 1936 Modotti moved to Spain, where she met Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Andre Malraux, and Robert Capa. Although Capa tried to encourage her to take up her photography again, Modotti was by now dedicating herself exclusively to political militancy. At the fall of the Spanish Republic in 1939, Modotti returned to Mexico, where she died on January 5, 1942.

In this internationally acclaimed biography, Pino Cacucci brings the adventurous, riveting, and tragic story of Tina Modotti to life. He shows great compassion for his subject even as he explores the darker side of the passion that drove her--a side filled with doubts and fears regarding her actions and her commitment to the political cause in which she found herself entrenched. Set in Mexico, Germany, and Spain, with a large and fascinating cast of notable characters, Tina Modotti penetrates the inner sanctum of communism and the artistic circles of the late 1920s and '30s, and it paints a brilliant portrait of a woman and an era.

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LAUGHABLE for its historical value.......2000-12-20

Although I agree that San Francisco was home to many artistic and cultural activities that make it distict from any other American city, to assert that it was "Not founded by Anglo-Saxon Protestants, San Francisco developed as a city without Puritan influences, much like the great European cities that favored radical innovations and a healthy indifference toward conventional morality." (can you taste the superiority of the european writer in that quote?)

Anyone who believes that does not know who founded San Fransisco. Guess what. It was Mormons. Yep. They pulled into the bay and off loaded from the Good Ship The Brooklyn, before the gold rush and mass influx of others. Before that, it had been all but abandon as a Presidio by the Spanish. And since I know my history, I can tell you the Mormons of that time had more in common with the Puritanism of the original colonies than other Anglos. But that is just one of the stretches... Of course the Mormons were over run with the advent of the Gold Rush. San Francisco has been a pendulum that swings back and forth from anarchy to corruption in its city government in the last 150 years.

As for the rest of the book, take out some of the added quasi-history spices and it would have been much more valuable, or at least worth recommending. But maybe I shouldn't look at it for historical value, but as a great romance?

An astonishing life!.......1999-02-16

Tina Modotti -- photographer, model, lover of famous men, revolutionary Communist. What a fascinating life. I finished this biography -- which flows like a novel -- inspired to follow my own convictions and amazed by this bewitching, powerful woman.

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Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life
Mildred Constantine
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0811805026

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Now widely recognized as one of the early twentieth century's most extraordinary photographers, Tina Modotti was remembered until recently more for her relationship to Edward Weston than for her own strong, sensuous work. This comprehensively produced biography, now published for the first time in paperback, captures in over 100 striking photographs and a sympathetic, meticulously researched text the fullness of a life wholly committed to political, personal, and artistic freedom. From her early days in Hollywood as a silent film actress, through the creative, fruitful years in Mexico with Weston and her political exile in 1930s Europe, to her sudden death in 1942, Tina Modotti's courage, clear vision, and dramatic flair made her one of the most internationally controversial and widely admired artistic figures of her day. Perceptive and authoritative, Tina Modotti lifts the veil on a fragile life of iron.

Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti

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Tina Modotti's Life with Historical Context
Dull writing style
A person worth reading about!
A person worth reading about!
What a Life! - What a book!

Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti
Patricia Albers
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0520235142

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Tina Modotti's short, intense life (1896-1942) has sparked numerous biographies, but museum curator Patricia Albers's is the first to do true justice to Modotti's photography and to persuasively trace its roots in her personal experiences. Albers does a fine job nailing down the particulars of this remarkable woman's picaresque journey: impoverished childhood in Italy; introduction to bohemianism and radicalism in California; amorous and artistic fulfillment in Mexico; a murder that launched her into the maelstrom of Communist Party activism in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and Spain; return to Mexico and premature death. Even more importantly, Albers conveys the essence of Modotti's haunting images, which displayed a modernist technique similar to that of her lover Edward Weston, but applied it to the respectful, loving portrayal of Mexico's common people. Contemporary readers may regret Modotti's decision to abandon photography in 1932 and her unflinching loyalty to Stalinism (including a decade-long liaison with a particularly dogmatic party functionary), but Albers makes readers understand that the same passion that fueled her art and her many love affairs underpinned her commitment to Communism. Modotti's story is not one of reasoned choices and measured steps, but a wild, romantic saga of intrigue, heartbreak, excess, and catastrophe all vividly captured in this poignant book. --Wendy Smith

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Ten years of research and the discovery of long-forgotten letters and photos enabled Patricia Albers to bring new recognition to this talented, intelligent, and independent photographer whose life embodied the cultural and political values of many artists of the post-World War I generation.

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Tina Modotti's Life with Historical Context.......2005-01-18

Tina is fascinating. The author gives a lot of history which is necessary to understand Tina..from SF North Beach to LA to Mexico City. Very insightful about Communist party of 20's/30's and sets up the scenario for membership and activism. Very good book.

Dull writing style.......2004-07-24

I really wanted to read a good book about Tina Modotti, but Albers writing style is so dull, and so flat, I barely made it through chapters. She goes into tedious detail, and I have not gotten any feel at all for Tina. Fortunately, I took the book out of the library, and will return it tomorrow. Perhaps I will try another author, but this is really a great disappointment.

A person worth reading about!.......2000-01-02

"I look upon people now not in terms of race...but in terms of classes...," wrote Tina Modotti to a friend towards the end of this excellent biography. A complex woman with many passions, Modotti's life is described by Patricia Albers in vibrant terms, totally capturing the reader's attention and taking that reader on a journey through the Italy of Modotti's childhood to the United States and finally Mexico, her chosen home. Along the way Modotti's relationships with such artists as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo is explored as well as with other notables of her time. Through Albers' exploration of her subject, the reader discovers the evolution of Modotti from actress to noted photographer to active politico. Because of Modotti's many facets the book would be an excellent gift choice. This is a story that makes the reader want to snuggle up in a comfortable chair on a rainy day and read until the sun comes out. It is well-written, informative, colorful and very human.

A person worth reading about!.......2000-01-02

"I look upon people now not in terms of race...but in terms of classes..." wrote Tina Modotti to a friend towards the end of this excellent biography. A complex woman with many passions, Modotti's life is described by Patricia Albers in vibrant terms, totally capturing the reader's attention and taking that reader on a journey through the Italy of Modotti's childhood to the United States and finally Mexico, her chosen home. Along the way Modotti's relationships with such artists as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo is explored as well as with other notables of her time. Through Albers' exploration of her subject, the reader discovers the evolution of Modotti from actress to noted photographer to active politico. Because of Modotti's many facets the book would be an excellent gift choice. This is a story that makes the reader want to snuggle up in a comfortable chair on a rainy day and read until the sun comes out. It is well-written, informative, colorful and very human.

What a Life! - What a book!.......1999-05-05

Finally! At last, Tina Modotti's fascinating life is fully realized in print! Albers' attentive eye coupled with the gorgeous photos make this an incomparable experience.

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Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti
Patricia Albers
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PH2LSC

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Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life
Mildred Constantine
Manufacturer: Paddingtion Press LTD
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RJDWYK

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Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life.
Tina]. Constantine, Mildred. [MODOTTI
Manufacturer: San Francisco: Chronicle Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UG3OB6

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TINA MODOTTI: A LIFE
Pino (translated by Patricia J. Duncan) Cacucci
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J3V1S8

La vida política de Tina Modotti. (fotógrafa y militante italiana)(TT: The political life of Tina Modotti) (TA: Italian photographer and militant): An article from: Fem

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La vida política de Tina Modotti. (fotógrafa y militante italiana)(TT: The political life of Tina Modotti) (TA: Italian photographer and militant): An article from: Fem
Bibiana Dueñas O'Kelard
Manufacturer: Difusion Cultural Feminista, A.C.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Fem, published by Difusion Cultural Feminista, A.C. on March 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1278 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: La vida política de Tina Modotti. (fotógrafa y militante italiana)(TT: The political life of Tina Modotti) (TA: Italian photographer and militant)
Author: Bibiana Dueñas O'Kelard
Publication: Fem (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 1997
Publisher: Difusion Cultural Feminista, A.C.
Volume: v21 Issue: n168 Page: p42(2)

Article Type: Biography

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Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: New Criterion

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Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: New Criterion
Stephen Schwartz
Manufacturer: Foundation for Cultural Review
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on October 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2625 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: Stephen Schwartz
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 1999
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 18 Issue: 2 Page: 70

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Tina Modotti: A Life.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: New Criterion

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Tina Modotti: A Life.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: New Criterion
Stephen Schwartz
Manufacturer: Foundation for Cultural Review
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on October 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2628 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Tina Modotti: A Life.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: Stephen Schwartz
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 1999
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 18 Issue: 2 Page: 70

Article Type: Book Review

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Merely A Flesh Wound, Chief.......2003-09-27

"Fearless Fosdick", a ruthless parody of Chester Gould's "Dick Tracy", was one of Al Capp's many brilliant creations within his comic strip masterpiece "Li'l Abner". It was also one of the funniest things ever to appear in the funny pages. Fosdick, a skinny, hatchet-jawed detective who is frequently riddled with enormous bullet holes (hence the title of this book), is the ideal of Abner Yokum and every red-blooded American boy, and stars in their favorite comic strip, within the "Abner" strip itself. Fosdick endures a world of corruption and his seventeen-year engagement to the beastly Prudence Pimpleton in order to slaughter members of the criminal underword for twenty-two-fifty a week.

This handsome paperback from Capp's faithful re-publisher Denis Kitchen picks up where an earlier volume left off, collecting a handful of Fosdick stories (and one about Fosdick's fictional creator, Lester Gooch) from the late fifties and early sixties, as well as a few of Fosdick's "Wildroot Cream Oil" ads from the period. Dave Shreiner's commentary is, as always, insightful and intelligent.

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