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Nowhere were the glamour and wit of these years more evident than in the output of America's graphic designers. . . They have left us their legacy in the simplicity, the clean line work, the fun of these trademarks. . . Once the viewer gets past the grin-and-giigle stage of seeing this collection, there is much to learn about how one idea can be communicated in one small design or illustration. -- Step-by-Step Graphics
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British Trademarks of '20s & '30s
John Mendenhall
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French Trademarks
ASIN: 0877015775 |
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The trademarks in this collection represent some of the finest graphic design to emanate from Britain between the wars. Author John Mendenhall has gathered over 280 trademarks and logos from the archives of the British Library and categorized them by subject. From the carefree exuberance of the twenties to the back-to-work ethic of the thirties, these trademarks reflect the moods and successes of industry prior to World War II and the advent of diversified, multi-national conglomerates.
This book will serve as an inspiration for designers and commercial artists seeking source material beyond the abstract designs of the past twenty years and will fascinate anyone with its unique and often humorous glimpse back to a more innocent era in British life.
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8-Pak Trademarks of 20s & 30s
Blik T. Baker
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ASIN: 0877019479 |
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Remarkably thorough illustrated overview based on rare period photographs, periodicals, other contemporary sources. Description and information about hundreds of fashions: morning dresses, riding outfits, carriage costumes, evening dresses, bridal gowns, more. Also millinery, footwear, underclothing, other apparel. 891 black-and-white line illustrations. 226 halftones. Bibliography. 3 glossaries.
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DEFINITIVE REFERENCE.......2006-08-13
While this book was originally published in the 1930's, it has stood the test of time to become a definitive reference on the subject of 19th-century women's fashion, from the beginning of the Napoleonic/Regency era right into the early years of the Edwardian period. The text is exhaustive, delving into the smallest details (which can sometimes be the most important) of every feature of feminine costume from year to year, and features extensive sidebars on such things as underclothes and headgear. Since I run a website devoted to glove fashion and history, I particularly appreciated the attention given to gloves (which were so much a key - indeed, mandatory - accessory of women's clothing throughout the century that women would often even go to bed wearing gloves!). The hundreds of illustrations are a mix of first-class original work and authentic period illustrations. Since this is a reprint, there are no color illustrations (which are mentioned in the text), but this is a minor flaw. Anyone who has any interest at all in 19th-century women's clothing needs to make this book a basic part of their reference library.
A good resource for historical costumes for reenactors.......2005-10-30
I bought this book a few years ago and I found it very helpful. The information is presented in an interesting way.
The photographs are period black and white photographs. Color photography did not exist at the time the photos were taken.
The black and white drawings are detailed and beautiful.
English Women's Clothing in the 19th Century.......2005-08-30
This is an excellent book to give an accurate picture of clothing worn in the 19th century for a variety of occasions. Also very useful is the information on fabrics used, hat styles, hairstyles, etc. Easy to find the information for different decades. This is an excellent book for individuals trying to create authentic reproduction Victorian fashions.
Overall, I was very pleased with this book........2004-05-02
I am not a costumer. I am simply a person who is interested in 19th century British history. This book is a fabulous reference and definitely worth the $20 I paid for it.
I was disappointed at the lack of color. The photographs (recent ones only, of course) and fashion plates were in black and white.
I would definitely recommend this to anyone interested in women's 19th century British fashion.
A bit too broad-based.......2000-05-02
I really like this book! The pictures are beautiful, as are the descriptions. Unfortunately, it doesn't neccesarily help me out! I wanted it for a research book on costume, but there are so many years and styles covered that it doesn't give me many specifics. If used in conjunction with another costume book, or if the buyer is just interested in general costume, it's fine. If the buyer is looking for something more detailed and specific, try another book!
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Adrian Tomine’s cult comix series Optic Nerve is finally collected into one sharp-looking hardcover volume. Described as the Raymond Carver of comix, Tomine constructs tales of emotional disconnection with an ear for painfully real dialogue. Combined with his deft black and white depictions of urbane lifestyles, Tomine’s fans have often accused him of eavesdropping in on their most intimate moments and, with forensic skill, laying their lives bare. The conflicts between emotional gratification, narcissistic neediness and moral discernment mark the title story in which a socially crippled man nurses an obsessive crush on a young woman. He watches close up, paralyzed by his guilt, as her beauty catches the eye of his neighbor: a hip, selfish young man with a short attention span. One of Optic Nerve’s most popular stories, `Hawaiian Getaway,` features Hilary, telephone service rep who is having the worst week of her life. She lost her job, her apartment, and her grandmother. Close to the edge, she is losing her grip. Reaching out to random strangers on the phone, Hilary is looking for someone to help her. In "Alter Ego" a successful young author has writer`s block. He can`t, or won`t, decide between another ghostwriting gig and finishing his second ‘real’ novel. He stalls on committing to his novel and his girlfriend when a chance postcard leads him to flirt with fantasies of changing the past. Finally, "Bomb Scare" documents the early unease of his generation by setting this coming-of-age story during the tense months of the Gulf War, the event that ushered in the 1990s.
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Enigmatic...incomplete.......2006-09-03
This was a toughie for your beleagured wiseguys of "Le Reviewe de' Rotten" - an anthology of four stories dealing with alienation, self-loathing and loneliness in different measures. Not so much stories, they look (and read) more like snapshots - still images of various lives. Instead of a story arc, Tomine's stories look more like a trajectory of descent just short of a crash. (taking that metaphor another step, Tomine leaves out the final impact, leaving it to the reader to determine what the outcome is; typically, I'd skip that last page by accident, then have to go back a few pages to inform the cryptic events of the last few panels. Tomine seems to leave enough for the reader to choose either a happy or unhappy ending.)
In "Alter Ego", Martin is a failed novelist - he has transformed a painfully unmemorable youth into a slightly memorable first novel. Having mined all of his unfulfilled life into an arguably failed career as a writer, Martin has yet to publish a follow-up book, and now writes magazines articles and ghostwrites semi-fictitious bios for celebrities. Though he has a girlfriend when the story starts out, Martin nursed an unrequited passion for a classmate in HS - a girl who may have sent a flattering postcard bearing no return address or last name. Despite his ongoing healthy relationship, Martin takes off for his HS dream and instead finds her younger sister and the wreck of the family the older girl left behind.
In "Bomb Scare" a young boy and girl are thrown together by the wicked dynamics of high-school. He (ostracized because of his only friend's overt-yet-ambiguous sexual orientation) and she (cast out when her rep as a plaything for jocks culminates in a moment of scatological humiliation at a party) don't even like each other. Can a relationship form based on being on the outs with rest of the world?
In "Hawaiian Getaway", Hilary is the older and less-adjusted of two daughters of an Asian family. While her younger sister is on her way to med school, Hilary can barely keep her job as a phone operator for a catalog. She is painfully unable to even begin small talk, let alone maintain a career or a relationship. Is it Hilary that's messed up, or the world? She, may learn the answer when - having taken up phone-pranking - she hooks up a possible boy friend.
The best of the stories is "Summer Blonde", in which Neil - who manages the lay-out for porn classifieds at a small, local news-rag - must contend with Carlo, a sexually insatiable poser with a guitar who has just moved in. Neil, who is sex-starved himself, can barely tolerate Carlo before the new neighbor sets his sights on Neil's dream girl, the "Summer Blonde" herself. The story surpasses the others in its more complex character dynamics. Neil's more pathetic than creepy, but our sympathy has its limits. He should be happy, but why there's something selfish about desires that fixate on young summer blondes (it's a point made by his therapist - Neil has a right to be happy, but he discriminates against women who aren't young or otherwise nubile). The subject of Neil's unwanted attentions is aware of Neil, but he's not even no. 2 on her pecking order - instead, she really does think he's a creep, and from her vantage point it's easy to see why.
Unfortunately, "Summer Blonde" feels more incomplete than enigmatic. A graphic novel, "Blonde" lacks any impressive graphics. There isn't a single memorable image in any of the four stories, robbing the narrative of emotional power or any dramatic substance.
More Misses than Hits.......2004-04-12
I did not get interested in graphic novels until recently, when I ran across David B.'s amazing "Epileptic." I then read Daniel Clowes' "Ghost World," which was also very good. My next step was to purchase this book by Adrian Tomine, which is in very much the same vein as "Ghost World."
After two readings,though, I have to admit that I'm a bit disappointed with it. The stories are interesting, in their own way, and they do have substance, but the first two in particular are plagued by inadequate main characters. Tomine goes too far in making them ugly and unlikeable, to the point where they're not even realistic. It's impossible to care about these vain, petty, whiney young men. They don't even have a sense of humor. I can tolerate art that is dark and pessimistic, but only if there is enough substance to make it worthwhile. These first two stories do not overcome the extreme amount of self-loathing exhibited by the main characters.
Things improve with the third story, which is actually a collection of related vignettes about a young Asian-American woman. Although she is depressed, she at least shows some glimmers of a sense of humor, and I got the impression that if I met her, I would probably like her. The fourth story brings us back to high school, where a no-name loser-type character forms an odd but somehow functional relationship with the school's most notorious slut.
The artwork throughout this book is solid though not spectacular. It fits the mood of the stories, although there are a few lapses, such as the high school "jocks" in the last story who look like college kids from the 1950s.
I appreciate artists like Adrian Tomine who are using this medium to tell real stories about real people. I just think that these four stories miss the mark more often than they hit it. Maybe now I will look into some of his earlier material, which many people say is better than this.
Slap in the face.......2004-02-03
Just like his other two books of collections, this one is another SLAP in your FACE, when it comes to your emotions. As I read the stories I get drawn into the charcaters' simple events, yet complex emotions surrounding those events and feel hit when the end comes. I love how all of Tomines stories are dreary, having and/or not having closure at the same time, depending on how you look at it. I also enjoy the fact that his stories get progressively longer (from the first book on) and so this books is full of 4 long stories. The graphics are good and do an amazing job at expressing emotions and reactions of the characters. Also, I love how all his comics are based on a miserable real world and are told truthfully.
meow.......2003-12-12
This book is...okay, it's not something thats grand or something that should be considered a cult comic. I mean there are stories in this comic that do absorb you and you feel for the chracter, but most of his stories are pretty much along the same lines, and after a while it gets sort of repeptive, if you're someone who is a hopeless romantic and starting to get into comics, then these comics that are for you, but if you're a teenager or a college student or whatever that is hateful and angsty, then, no, maybe you should read Daniel Clowes, or Nate Powell.
Four Very Similar Stories.......2003-05-21
I really liked Tomine's first collection (32 Stories), and loved his last one (Sleepwalk and Other Stories), so shelled out for the hardcover edition of his latest. The four stories are beautifully drawn in Tomine's instantly recognizable precise style, but the storytelling is rather disappointing. His stuff has always been somewhat similar, focusing on loss and loneliness, but here here four protagonists (three male, one female) are little more than subtle variations of each other. Each is a kind of lonerish social outcast type who has deep problems relating to others and whose imagination is fertile territory for spawning sad obsessions. So you get a hipsterish writer who never got over high school and thus neglects his beautiful girlfriend due to his fascination with the younger sister of "the hot chick" from high school. Then you have the pimply-faced production designer at the alternative paper who seethes at his neighbor's casual sexual prowess and turns quasi-stalker in a surge of misguided imagination. There's the stoic Asian woman who simply cannot manage even a normal conversation. The last story is a totally banal high-school loser story which veers into a loser version of a John Hughes movie with a totally ridiculous ending. I still dig how Tomine just jumps into his character's lives, and manages to convey their whole life with a minimum of exposition, and then stops the story right when they're at a kind of emotional fork. The problem here is that the four stories are simply far too similar, almost as if he's stuck and has nothing else to say but further riffs on the same material he's been doing for ten years. I sure hope this isn't the case and that his next book will show a new maturation of his storytelling, 'cause he is a talented artist.
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Private investigator-slash-crime writer Kit Angelis is closing up shop when trouble walks in. Blond, as usual—the sexy sleuth's favorite flavor.
But this damsel really is in distress: covered in blood, she's carrying a wedding dress, a bagful of cash, a recently fired handgun and Kit's card. And she can't remember a thing….
Suddenly Kit is embroiled in a deadly mystery—and the key is this sultry stranger. She might be a killer. Or she might be totally innocent. All Kit is sure of is that this woman is going to be the hottest thing that ever happened to him….
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DISAPPOINTED.......2007-06-28
I was really looking forward to reading this new series, but was very disappointed when I read the first book.
The writing left me not caring at all about the characters, and didn't draw me into the story at all. The chemistry was also a key component that was missing.
I won't bother to give a summary of the book since it has already been done, but spend your valuable time on another book instead.
a terrific investigative romantic suspense .......2007-06-11
Private investigator Kit Angelis is leaving for the day when trouble right out of one of the novels he writes enters. He does need his paranormal gift to know this blond bombshell is a capital T. She is holding a discharged gun, a ton of cash, and a wedding dress, and her clothing is dripping blood. She tells him she cannot remember who she is and how she got in this condition. He asks her why him; she shows him her other possession, his business card.
Although he knows she might be a killer, Kit agrees to help the woman. He even ignores the SOP that they should notify the police. Soon they are on the lam from thugs who want her dead and the cops who want at least to question her. As they begin to uncover the truth, the danger mounts.
The first of Cara Summers' Tall, Dark and Dangerously Hot! trilogy is a terrific investigative romantic suspense due to the mixed feelings and signals coming from Kit to the woman in distress that he rescues. He wonders if she is a runaway bride who killed her groom while fighting his attraction the mystery female. Fans will appreciate the adventures of the P.I. and the bride in love, murder, and mayhem while looking forward to the tales of the cop and the DA to follow.
Harriet Klausner
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Beach Blondes: June Dreams, July's Promise, August Magic (Summer)
Katherine Applegate
Manufacturer: Simon Pulse
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ASIN: 141696133X |
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Summer Blonde collects four stories, each exploring conflicts of urban detachment and misguided emotional gratification. Dubbed the Raymond Carver of comix, Tomine's fans have often accused him of eavesdropping in on their most intimate moments and, with forensic skill, laying their lives bare. Brilliant. . .Visually gripping and emotionally challenging. . .A major young comics artist. -Kirkus Reviews. Gorgeous. -Time. Immaculately rendered. . .emotionally adroit.-The Village Voice.
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My Usual Game
David Owen
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ASIN: 0385483384
Release Date: 1996-05-01 |
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The title sets the tone for David Owen's delightful romp through golf's mysteries, marvels, and malevolences: "Just once," goes the traditional Scottish lament, "I wish I would play my usual game." Owen, who turned away from golf as a kid because Richard Nixon played it and Jerry Garcia didn't, sets out anew to find his game in all the usual--and not so usual--places: he searches for a swing at golf school; pursues golf's enigmas in Scotland; explores the secrets of club design at the Ping factory; follows Freddie Couples at the Ryder Cup; and, once he gets his handicap down to a respectable single digit, sets out to tear up some of the best courses in the land. This is a wonderful odyssey into a maddening game, and Owen covers his course with sharp insight, prose as smooth as Augusta's greens, and wit as inviting as the bottom of the cup. But don't let his sense of humor lull you; Owen is serious about his quest to come to terms with this game. His ability to accept "the difference between a slice and a draw is a certain number of beers" is--no kidding--sober testament to that. No hacker on the planet would disagree. --Jeff Silverman
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My Usual Game chronicles David Owen's funny and enlightening quest to come to terms with a game that has frustrated and fascinated him ever since he was a child. Follow Owen as he rescues his swing at golf school, spends a week with the inventor of the modern golf club, nearly wins a three-day Pro-Am at a tournament on the PGA Tour, travels with three golf-crazed friends to tacky Myrtle Beach, follows Fred Couples and Paul Azinger at the Ryder Cup, and discovers what may be the darkest secret of the golf swing: The difference between a slice and a draw is a certain number of beers.
My Usual Game is a hilarious and wonderfully literate tour through the sometimes peculiar culture of this very popular sport. Golfers of all ages will discover My Usual Game for many years to come. It is destined to become a classic of golf literature.
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Great Book.......1999-12-11
I laughed (Myrtle chapter).. I cried (Top Ten chapter).. A roller coaster of action and suspense (Disney Pro-Am Chapter).. a Thriller (Ireland Chapter- or more specifically, Irish cuisine)...Humorously captures the emotions of anyone who suddenly (and dramatically) becomes smitten with this game. Only true golf lovers need apply.
He is every avid golfer.......1999-02-02
If you think of golf while at the office, in the car, on the can; if you perform practice swings whenever you are sure you will not hit a wall, furniture or another person; if you dream of playing every course that has been mentioned just barely favorably in print, you will love this book. I saw myself and every golfer I have ever met in this book. And I couldn't help but laugh at most of those golfers that Owen met including himself sometimes. I also felt much envy for the courses he was able to play especially in the UK. He moves from subject to subject as smoothly as a putt on the number 1 green on the first day of the Masters. This book brings an understanding to the game for hackers that you don't get from watching pros. Loved it.
This book is laugh out loud funny........1998-08-27
This book is laugh out loud funny for any hacker who enjoys the frustration of this game. David Owen is obviously in love with the game and gives us many a humorous note as well as useful tips. He takes the edge off those momentary urges to throw our clubs into the nearest lake. L.J. Skeie
Outstanding.......1998-03-08
Wonderful book...easily the best book I read all last year. I've read it twice thru now and its still great. I laughed out loud many times--mainly because I saw myself or others I know in Owen's stories. A must-have for anyone who enjoys golf.
Brilliant.......1996-06-29
This was one of the most enjoyable books I've read all year! Very funny and full of interesting information. The guy is a hoot! I especially loved the chapter about his trip to Myrtle Beach
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