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B3343. Real Life Journals / Diehn
Real Life Journals: Designing & Using Handmade Books by Gwen Diehn. 2010. 180pp. 9"x9". Hardcover $24.95
This celebration of making and keeping journals will help you design a journal that enhances the experiences you are chronicling. A little book that comes within the main book helps you choose a bookbinding structure that fits your purpose - for example, a travel journal that is portable and has both lined pages and blank ones to paint on. The booklet directs you to the instructions in the main book that explain how to make that specific design. There are instructions and beautiful illustrations for 16 kinds of books and 10 cover styles. A removable foldout found on the inside back cover explains essential bookmaking basics. A variety of people share their processes and their pages. The journals and the profiles of the journal keepers will inspire you to start writing and drawing.
Gwen Diehn, the author of The Decorated Journal and The Decorated Page, showed me her BRAND NEW BOOK, Real Life Journals. It's a marvelous book, full of journal pages, including some of mine. It has great instruction, as well as a huge gallery, and is very accessible to all kinds of people. Perhaps because it was co-sponsored by AARP, the author and publisher were able to produce a really GOOD book. - Annie Cicale
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B3340. Creative Mixed Media / Kahn
Creative Mixed Media: Paint Print Stitch Stamp Embellish by Sherrill Kahn. 2009. 112pp. 8-3/8"x10-7/8". Paper
16 creative techniques to try with paper and fabric, using everyday items such as baby wraps, hair gel, and shower mats in out-of-the ordinary ways. The techniques range from stamping and paper embossing to working with stencils, digital images, and glue batik. Includes a color gallery of the techniques. Provides guidelines on design and composition. Full of colorful inspiration. "Excellent" - Cherryl Moote
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B3329. Applied Calligraphy & Graphic Design / Campedelli
Applied Calligraphy & Graphic Design by Marco Campedelli. 2010. 252pp. 8.75"x8.75". Paper $39.00
A wide-ranging selection of graphic design that features calligraphy and lettering. Includes packaging, fashion, publishing and advertising. The 28 lettering artists are primarily from Europe and little known in the USA. Full color throughout.
Italy: Luca Barcellona, Francesca Biasetton, Barbara Calzolari, Marco Campedelli, Cinzia Castelli, Monica Dengo, Elisa Fior, Roberta Maddalena, Massimo Polello, Anna Ronchi, Anna Schettin, Ivana Tubaro. Spain: Iván Castro, Oriol Mirò, Ricardo Rousselot, Pierre Valmont. From Argentina: Paola Camano, Carla Campoy, Estudio Roballos/Naab, Fabian Sanguinetti. Russia: Svetlana Gorodnichenko, Harina Yuliya. USA: Claude Dieterich, Natasha Mileshina.
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B3333. Lindisfarne Gospels & Early Medieval World / Brown
The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Early Medieval World by Michelle P. Brown. 2010. 160 pp. 100 color plates. 8.5"x11.5". Hardcover
Free media mail shipping on pre-orders for this book.
Your card will not be charged until the book is ready to ship. Available Sept/Oct 2010.
The Lindisfarne Gospels, written and illuminated at the beginning of the eighth century, is one of the most outstanding masterpieces of early medieval European book illumination. Costly in time and materials and superb in design, the manuscript is an artistic and religious world treasure. Although written in Latin, the manuscript also contains the oldest surviving translation of the Gospels into English, added to the manuscript around 970 AD.
The text of this new book brings together historical,
archaeological, paleographical, and theological perspectives to explore and understand the full significance of this magnificent illuminated manuscript. Lavishly illustrated with full-page color reproductions - there are 100 color plates. The text incorporates new research on relations between the British Isles, continental Europe and the Near East during the early Middle Ages.
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B3327. Alphabet From A To Y / Martin & Chast
The Alphabet from A to Y With Bonus Letter Z! by Steve Martin and Roz Chast. 2007. 64pp. 10.25"x8.5". Hardcover $17.95
Steve Martin has supplied the rhyming and alliterative couplets. Roz Chast, whose cartoons frequently appear in The New Yorker, has provided the illustrative facing page. Will your child or grandchild understand everything in this book? No, but that does not mean they won't enjoy hearing it, again and again and again. And you may still enjoy reading it to them the tenth time. Your youngster may have plenty of questions - which is a good thing. "In varsity Victor was often victorious - sadly, his winning made him vainglorious." "Excellent Edward, exceedingly picky, ate eggs with an eel whose earwax was icky."
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B3330. Calligraffiti / Meulmann & Eeuwens
Calligraffiti: The Graphic Art of Niels Shoe Meulman by Niels Shoe Meulman and Adam Eeuwens. 2010. 144pp. 9.25"x9.25". Hardcover
Before Dutch calligrapher Niels Meulman started writing on paper, he had already gained fame as a graffiti artist. The book's title lets you know that many of the pieces in the book blend calligraphy and graffiti with bold strokes and splattered or dripping ink. Other pieces are drawn and tightly rendered lettering. Each spread offers two contrasting visuals that interact with each other. These interplays include such concepts as idea/execution, rise/fall, observe/imagine, and destroy/create. Both the text and the lettering are used to illuminate the concept.
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B3555. An Illustrated Life / Gregory
An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers by Danny Gregory. 2008. 272pp. 10"x8". Paper
Offers a look into the imaginations of top illustrators, designers and artists from around the world through the pages of their personal visual journals. These are sketches, often with text; some are rough, some polished. The pages shown are sometimes startling, sometimes endearing, but always inspiring. The book discusses how and why keeping a consistent, visual journal leads to a more fulfilling creative life.
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B3335. 300 Art Nouveau Designs and Motifs in Full Color
300 Art Nouveau Designs and Motifs in Full Color by Carol Belanger Grafton. 48 pp. 8.25"x11.". Paperback
Selection of beautiful Art Nouveau designs from the Dekorative Vorbilder, an extremely rare early 20th-century stylebook. 44 full-page, full-color plates display the sensual lines and muted colors typical of Art Nouveau in a variety of ways — in frames, borders, panels, cartouches, head-and tailpieces and dingbats. All permission-free. On coated stock.
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B3336. Art Nouveau (Dover Pictura)
Art Nouveau (Dover Pictura) with CD-ROM. 128pp. 8.25"x9.5". Paperback.
A remarkable array of the most popular Art Nouveau motifs, among them graceful female figures, flowing florals, bird and animal designs, abstracts, and repeating patterns. Reproduced from rare original sources, the lovely llustrations appear in both book format and on a high-resolution, print-quality CD. 266 color and 11 black-and-white illustrations.
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B3337. Banners, Ribbons & Scrolls / Grafton
Banners, Ribbons and Scrolls edited by Carol Belanger Grafton. 96pp. 8-3/8" x 11.5". Paper
503 copyright-free designs of ornamental scrollwork from authentic Victorian sources. Many styles, motifs, sizes. A favorite resource of Heather Victoria Held.
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