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This edition of Rockport's best-selling Best of Business Card Design series features an innovative collection of the most current and best work by top designers worldwide. The "go-to" sourcebook for business card design inspiration, this volume contains no text, aside from design credits, which allows for pages packed with business cards, highlighting front, back, special elements, and materials used. An unrivaled resource, Best of Business Card Design 6 provides professional designers, corporate executives and in-house marketing departments with essential identity and branding insight for all types of clients.
What are the trends in business card design? This book provides the answers and highlights cards printed with special techniques, such as die-cutting, embossing, foil stamping, and much more; cards printed on unique substrates; and those that are simply downright unusual and memorable.
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I waited more..........2007-08-26
The content leaves to desire. The election of cards that compose the book could have been better. The majority of them is common and it did not deserve to be in a book.
i love this book!.......2007-07-11
i highly recommend this book! it has inspired me to enjoy the art of biz card designing again!
Simplemente Excelente!.......2007-06-06
No hay mas palabras que simplemente uno de los mejores libros que he visto sobre el tema. Tiene un GRAN variedad de ejemplos; el diseño, la impresion y los acabados son de primera. Sin duda es sumamente util para cualquier diseñador grafico interesado en el tema de las tarjetas personales. Altamente recomendado.
Really good book for fueling your design.......2007-05-24
Call me weird but I like perusing good design to get ideas for my projects. I got this book sight unseen and have flipped through it every couple of days since receiving it. I use it to fuel color choices and layout for everything from websites to brochures and menus and of course business cards. I would highly recommend this book to anyone needing a breath of inspiration in their design world.
Great Service.......2007-04-05
Awesome book. Great inspiration & fast shipping. A winning combination.
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An "A"++.......2003-03-06
I found the words to be spelled correctly and the pictures to be pretty. I would highly recomend this book to anyone seeking these qualities from a book.
I was better than CATS.......2000-06-28
This book is great, full of great vision. I especially liked the yellow business cards from Art Director "Tedd Asbill". It was better than CATS! I would read it again and again.
Great Book.......2000-06-13
I love this book. The art is presented in a beutiful fashion. Clean, crisp printing on wonderful paper. I only wish that they included statements from each designer. But over all a great book.
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A spectacularly illustrated and designed full-color volume takes readers on a trip around the world in search of headwraps.
Stop for a visit in the Czech Republic, where headscarves called satkas serve as symbols of national pride. Journey east to Malaysia, where handwoven kain dastars are wrapped for grooms by village elders. Explore the origins of the pagri, a turban worn by male Sikhs in India. Or swing by southern Nigeria to admire the color-drenched gélés of Yoruba women. These headwraps all look remarkably different and serve very different functions in dramatically different cultures. How and why does the headwrap exist in such variety? What are its meanings? How has it changed?
Headwraps are stunning creations of silk, cotton, gauze, muslin, wool and other fabrics. They are tossed, wrapped, draped, tucked, tied or pinned in hundreds of styles. They can distinguish the highbred from the pauper, Christian from Muslim, men from women, and clan from clan. They currently make for hip fashion statements in France and America.
In Headwraps, Georgia Scott retraces the dizzying year she spent travelling the globe in search of headwraps. Scott researched headwrap styles, documented their folklore, and snapped photos wherever she went. The result is a stunning collection of images and anecdotes of a remarkable journey to chronicle our mysterious and fascinating efforts to cover our heads.
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Headwrap... A Scarf By Another Name..........2007-06-12
I agree with the other reviewers, this is a great book... a travel/journey through countries, cultures, histories and religion. And as well, I agree, that to have some diagrams for a reader to try some of the amazing wraps would have been more than fun! I think it may have been to learn exactly that - to try to do some of these wraps - is why some of us bought the book. The only other downside, is that the treatment of head wraps or head dresses in the United States (?Canada) was very very sparse. I come from a tribe that had a significant scarf/headwrap practice. As each scarf adorned paragon goes to the other side, we can measure the loss of our culture. Of course, although we (my Salish/Plateau culture group) 'traditionally' did not have woven materials until after 1850, we had some unique scarf configurations. This is an excellent book pictorially, but I want to know more.
Gorgeous, Inspirational Picture Book.......2005-04-05
I love this book. It is full of people from around the world, wearing the sacred crown wrap. The author Georgia Scott takes us through her own global journey. We see with her eyes and Scott shows us a wide diversity of headwraps. Clearly, Scott is very open-minded as "Headwraps: a Global Journey" presents all types of wraps including those that are religious, traditional, cultural, historical and simply costuming. The book is great for gift giving and it is basically a sumptous picture book at a very reasonable price.
beautiful pictures, no directions.......2004-10-17
The book is a beautiful photo essay of headwraps from around the world. Although it shows an extensive variety of styles and forms and discusses the culture of their wearers, I had hoped that there would be some diagrams or instructions on how to duplicate some of them. There may be a sentence or two saying something like fold it in a triangle, overlap the ends, and throw the corners back but that's about it. Lovely coffee table book but not at all useful if you want to know how to copy the styles.
A unique, highly recommended work.......2004-06-03
Scott traveled around the world assessing headwraps of different cultures: while her book is a specialty item recommended for collections featuring in-depth cultural histories, Headwraps should not be missed by any who are interested in clothing and ethnic history. Chapters consider why women cover their heads, who wears headwraps, and the world history of the habit. Beautiful color photos accompany her travels to countries around the world. A unique, highly recommended work.
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Darryl and Wanda have the parenting thing down all right, but they still continue to be surprised by the delightfully devilish antics of their two live-wire children. From first steps to bedtime snacks, from shopping adventures to sibling rivalry, Zoe and Hamish keep their parents on the move and the rest of us in stitches. For more than a decade, Baby Blues has chronicled the chaotic entertaining lives of the MacPherson clan as they chart a course through the everyday demands of family life. In a style that speaks to parents and nonparents alike, Baby Blues charms its followers with scenes of child-rearing mayhem and devotion.In Lift and Separate, Wanda and Darryl continue to confront the ever-changing challenges of raising two active youngsters. Syndicated in more than 500 newspapers, Baby Blues has attracted nearly 40 million faithful readers who turn in daily to witness the MacPhersons' latest challenges.
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Too funny!.......2002-05-24
"Baby Blues" is a wonderfully hilarious comic strip! "Life and Separate" is just as funny as "She started it!: a Baby blues cartoon collection." No matter how many times you read them, you'll still laugh! Need a pick-me-up? Get the "Baby Blues" books! I recommend!
If you're a fan of Baby Blues you'll love this one........2000-08-23
If you've ever read the Baby Blues comic strip or any of their other books you'll love this one. This book is absolutely hilarious and really delves into the relationship of siblings and what it's like to be a parent of more than one child.
BabyBlues a.k.a My Life in Review by Kirkman & Scott.......2000-04-07
I truly recommend Baby Blues to everyone with or without children. I honestly believe Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott live in my house. I have been an avid fan of Baby Blues since it's inception. I have collected every book written by them. I know that this is only a comic but it is well written from both a parent's and a child's view. It is soemthing that can be read and enjoyed again and again.
True to Life.......2000-03-24
I have been a fan of Baby Blues since my daughter was born, eight years ago. I sometimes think that Mr. Kirkman and Mr. Scott hide outside my windows and take notes, because so many of their strips are right on the mark! If you have small children, are thinking about having small children, or just want a god belly laugh, I highly recommend the entire series of Baby Blues collections. Enjoy!
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Twelve episodes in the everyday life of the community of Mariposa
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In the city, people never read the newspapers, not really, only little bits and scraps of them. But in Mariposa it's different. There they read the whole thing from cover to cover, and they build up on it, in the course of years, a range of acquirement that would put a college president to the blush. Anybody who has ever heard Henry Mullins and Peter Glover talk about the future of China will know just what I mean.
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funniest book i've ever read.......2003-06-22
no hype. i couldn't stop laughing as i was reading this. and i mean laughing out loud. in a cafe. with everyone staring at me. but i didn't care. and i couldn't help it if i did. it's just too hilarious.
It Soothes the Soul.......2003-02-27
There is at least one author who may remind you of Stephen Leacock, namely Garrison Keillor of Lake Wobegon fame, but Leacock should be recognized as the ultimate master of quaint, bucolic humor. Leacock, who died in 1944, became arguably the most prominent Canadian humorist of his day (and probably of all time). What is ironic about that claim is that Leacock worked for most of his life as a professor of economics. We do not usually equate economics with humor, preferring to think of that profession as one of bow ties and supply and demand charts. Throw that presumption out the window and pick up a copy of "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town," Leacock's best known work available through the New Canadian Library series.
For me, one of the funniest sections of the book was the introduction written by Leacock, where he gives you some background about himself and his profession. This short piece of writing quickly gives you an idea of the type of humor you will find in the actual sketches: a very sly, very quiet and clever type of humor that often takes a while to sink in. Leacock does not rely on rim shot jokes or manic posturing in his writings. Instead, he creates the fictional Canadian town of Mariposa and populates it with small town archetypes that are wonders to behold.
All of the characters are hilarious in their own way: Mr. Smith, the proprietor of the local hotel and bar, full of schemes to earn money while trying to get his liquor license back. Then there is Jefferson Thorpe, the barber involved in financial schemes that may put him on the level of the Morgans and the Rockefellers. The Reverend Mr. Drone presides over the local Church of England in Mariposa, a man who reads Greek as easy as can be but laments his lack of knowledge about logarithms and balancing the financial books of the church. Peter Pupkin, the teller at the local bank, has a secret he wants no one to know about, but which eventually comes out while he is courting the daughter of the town judge. All of these characters, and several others, interact throughout the sketches.
Leacock has the ability to turn a story, to make it take a crazy, unexpected twist even when you are looking for such a maneuver. That he accomplishes this in stories that rarely run longer than twenty pages is certainly a sign of great talent. By the time you reach the end of the book, you know these people as though you lived in the town yourself, and you know what makes them tick.
Despite all of the crazy antics in Mariposa, Leacock never lets the reader lose sight of the fact that these are basically good people living good lives. There seems to be a lot of feeling for the citizens of Mariposa on the part of Leacock, which comes to a head in the final sketch in the collection, "L'Envoi. The Train to Mariposa," where he recounts traveling back to the town after being away for years, with all of the attendant emotions that brings as recognizable landmarks come into view and the traveler realizes that his little town is the same as when he left it years before.
I suspect there is a historical importance to "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town." These writings first appeared in 1912, a time when many people living in the bigger Canadian cities still remembered life in a small town. In addition to the humorous aspects of the book, the author includes many descriptive passages concerning the atmosphere and layout of Mariposa, something instantly recognizable to anyone who grew up in such a place. Nostalgia for the simpler life of the small town probably played a significant role in the book's success.
I look forward to reading more Stephen Leacock. While much of the humor in the book is not belly laugh funny, it does provide one with a deep satisfaction of reading clever humor from an author who knows how to tickle the funny bone. You do not need to be Canadian to enjoy this wonderful book.
the funniest book i've ever read.......2002-12-04
Like the heading says, this is the funniest book I've ever read. Leacock was a comic genius and this is his best work. Buy it, read it, love it.
An endearing portrait of Oriliia -- my home town.......2001-12-17
Perhaps the finest comment about Stephen Leacock in the last half century is that "he is a
Will Rogers for the 90's."
Rogers, of course, is one of the most beloved of American humorists -- he was killed in
1935 when his plane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska. Leacock died on March 28, 1944.
Like Rogers, he had been Canada's favorite humorist for decades.
Sunshine Sketches is about Orillia, Ontario, Canada, where Leacock had his summer home
on Brewery Bay (he once wrote, "I have known that name, the old Brewery Bay, to make
people feel thirsty by correspondence as far away as Nevada.") His home is now maintained
as a historic site by the town of Orillia. I lived there for almost 30 years, and the people of Orillia are still much the same as Leacock portrayed them in 1912.
These stories about various personalities in town were printed in the local newspaper in the
1910 - 1912 era, before being compiled into this book which established Leacock's literary
fame. The people portrayed really lived, though some are composites; the events are of a
kindly humorist looking at the foibles of small town life. Once they came out in book form
and soared to national popularity, everyone in town figured the rest of the country was
laughing at them because of Leacock's book and he was royally hated in Orillia to the end
of his life.
Gradually, and this took decades, Orillians came to recognize that genius had walked
amongst them for several decades. (It's hard to recognize genius when your own ego is so
inflated.) Orillia now awards the annual "Leacock Medal for Humor" -- Canada's top literary
prize for the best book of humour for the preceding year.
Leacock died when I was six, but I did know his son, who still lived in town. I delivered
papers to the editor of the "Newspacket," Leacock's name for the Orillia Packet and Times
(where I worked) and the rival Newsletter. The Packet had the same editor in the 1940's as
when Leacock wrote about him in 1910.
But the book is more than Orillia; it is a wonderfully kind and humorous description of life in
many small towns. The American artist Norman Rockwell painted the same kinds of scenes;
it is the type of idyllic urban life so many of us keep longing to find again in our hectic
urban world.
Leacock realized the book was universal in its description of small towns, and in the preface
he wrote "Mariposa is not a real town. On the contrary, it is about seventy or eighty of
them. You may find them all the way from Lake Superior to the sea, with the same square
streets and the same maple trees and the same churches and hotels, and everywhere the
sunshine of the land of hope."
True enough, which gives this book continuing appeal nearly a century after it was written.
All great writing is about topics you know, and as a longtime resident Leacock knew Orillia
well. As for Leacock himself, he wrote, "I was born at Swanmoor, Hants., England, on Dec.
30, 1869. I am not aware that there was any particular conjunction of the planets at the
time, but should think it extremely likely."
He says of his education, "I survived until I took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in
1903. The meaning of this degree is that the recipient of instruction is examined for the last
time in his life, and is pronounced completely full. After this, no new ideas can be imparted
to him."
In reviewing Charles Dickens' works in 1934, Leacock wrote what could well be his own
epitaph: "Transitory popularity is not proof of genius. But permanent popularity is." The fact
his writings are still current illustrates the nature of his writing.
In contrast to the sometimes sardonic humor of modern times, Sunshine Sketches reflects
Leacock's idea that "the essence of humor is human kindness." Or, in the same vein, "Humor
may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic
expression thereof."
Granted, this book is not what he recognized to have widespread appeal to modern readers.
In his own words, "There are only two subjects that appeal nowadays to the general public,
murder and sex; and, for people of culture, sex-murder." Yet, anyone reading this will
remember scenes from it for much longer than anything from a murder mystery.
In today's world, where newspapers almost daily track Prime Minister Tony Blair's dash to
the political right, Leacock wrote, "Socialism won't work except in Heaven where they don't
need it and in Hell where they already have it."
He described his own home as follows, "I have a large country house -- a sort of farm
which I carry on as a hobby . . . . Ten years ago the deficit on my farm was about a
hundred dollars; but by well-designed capital expenditure and by greater attention to
details, I have got it into the thousands." Sounds familiar to today's farm policies ?
It's what I mean by this being a timeless work.
Leacock himself noted, when talking about good literature, "Personally, I would sooner have
written 'Alice in Wonderland' than the whole of the 'Encyclopedia Britannica'." This is his
'Alice' and it well deserves to be favorably compared to Lewis Carroll's work.
By all measures, it is still the finest Canadian book ever written.
Wonderful satire on small town life.......2001-07-07
This 1912 work uses sketches about the residents of a small Ontario lake town. The tone is mock-boosterish, giving rise to some sly comic moments. This is a wonderful parody of that can-do mentality that seems to infect us in North America. The work anticipates Lake Woebegone by some years, but has a distinctly Canadian feel. We've seen lots of works take mythical townspeople one by one, but I can think of few that do it as well and as simply as this one. This is a must read.
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