Cruise down the inner-city streets of Detroit and your eyes take in an array of familiar images of poverty and decay. What renowned photographer David Ciements sees on these gritty Detrolt streets are the ad displays on so many local businesses, including salons, churches, and car washes. In Talking Shops, Clements captures mural facades that transform what might have been a typical urban landscape into a canvas for some of the city's most vibrant folk art. With more than 130 full-color photogra...
Design Matters: Logos 01: An Essential Primer for Today's Competitive Market
By the author of Populuxe. This text explains how manufacturers play with the consumer's mind in an attempt to sell day-to-day products such as soap and breakfast cereal, each product sitting on a supermarket shelf having been carefully designed to promote instant desirability.
This lavish coffee-table book highlights 500 of the best posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during America's 1930s and 1940s. The WPA employed hundreds of out-of-work artists to raise awareness about public issues and civic life in the United States. These posters provide a snapshot of life (and graphic design) during the Great Depression and offer timeless messages about the merits of hard work, good parenting, a clean house, and healthy personal hygiene. "Posters for t...
The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s-1900s is a cultural history that situates the poster at the crossroads of art, design, advertising, and collecting. Though international in scope, the book focuses especially on France and England. Ruth E. Iskin argues that the avant-garde poster and the original art print played an important role in the development of a modernist language of art in the 1890s, as well as in the adaptation of art to an era of mass media. She moreover con...
Cosmetics (Graphics & Design S.)
American Corporate Identity
The rip-roaring twenties Prohibition made liquor illegal but all the more fun to drink. Speak easies, luxury cars, women's liberation, and a booming economy kept the country's mood on the up-and-up. Women sheared off their locks and taped their chests, sporting pageboys and flapper dresses and doing the Charleston until their legs gave out. Gangsters flourished in the big cities and gangster movies flourished in Hollywood. It was the roaring twenties in America: a singular time in history, a lul...
Poster Graphics 2
Advertising Identification and Price Guide (Confident Collector)
by Dawn E Reno
Europe's Best Advertising (Epica)
Not only does this title showcase work from all over Europe, it is also the only reference annual on European advertising that features print publications and television commercials, Internet sites and integrated marketing campaigns. Conveniently arranged by product category, with over 900 high-quality colour images and creative credits and translations, Epica Book 25: Europe's Best Advertising is an indispensable source of information and inspiration for all those interested in advertising.
This excellent resource provides basic step-by-step guidance to drawing the human figure, emphasizing an understanding of human anatomy and its role in illustration. Reference photographs are provided to enhance the student's interpretation of the human figure.-- step-by-step illustrations provide a clear understanding of the human figure-- special attention is given to difficult areas such as textures, shapes, gestures, and folds, in addition to various exercise suggestions
David Ogilvy is remembered as one of the most influential admen of all time. His bestselling book Ogilvy on Advertising gave no-nonsense, essential advice to those in marketing, PR, advertising and other related industries wanting to improve their success rate. It has become the industry handbook. Ogilvy wrote his book before the Digital Revolution, and in this sequel, Miles Young brings the same erudite scrutiny to advertising in the digital age as he examines the challenges that agencies and t...