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The seminal artist's recent art and poster works, and his
triumphant return to his street-art roots with murals, all in work
never before published. Shepard Fairey rose out of the
skateboarding scene, creating his Andre the Giant Has a Posse
sticker campaign in the late '80s, and has since achieved a
mainstream recognition that most street artists never find.
Fairey's Hope poster, created during Obama's 2008 presidential
campaign, is arguably the most iconic American image since Uncle
Sam. Fairey has become a pop-culture icon himself, though he has
remained true to his street-art roots. OBEY: Covert to Overt
showcases his most recent evolution from works on paper to grander
art installations, cross-cultural artworks, and music/art
collaborations. The book also includes his ubiquitous streetwear
and chronicles his return to public artworks. His signature blend
of politics, street culture, and art makes Fairey unlike any other
subculture/street artist working today. This book showcases the
significant amount of art he has created the last several years:
street murals, mixed-media installations, art/music events,
countless silk screens, and work from his extremely successful OBEY
brand.
"Start Your Engines" compiles works from Scott Robertson's, vast
archives of ground vehicle drawings and renderings, and features
the following chapters: Cars, Bicycles, Snowcraft Mechanimals and
selected work from the conceptual design of vehicles for the video
games "Field Commander" and "Spy Hunter 2". The Cars chapter
comprises about half of this book and features original designs
both futuristic and retrospective.
Graphis Journal Take a deep dive into the minds of some of today's
renowned designers, photographers, art directors, and more inside
the Graphis Journal A quarterly print and digital magazine we hope
inspires your creativity -- The Journal is filled with
thought-provoking, intimate, meaningful interviews and stories that
take you inside the minds, work, and spaces of top designers,
agencies, photographers, artists, and other outstanding creatives
around the globe. Each Journal issue is beautifully printed and
features 12 lead stories and Q&As from creatives in their own
words plus images of some of their finest work. You'll learn the
celebrations, challenges, and what inspired them along the way
Featuring fine art quality print, full-page images of Platinum and
Gold Award-winning work, Silver Award-winning work and Honorable
Mentions are also presented.
Video cover art is a unique and largely lost artform representing a
period of unabashed creativity during the video rental boom of the
1980s to early 1990s. The art explodes with a succulent, indulgent
blend of design, illustration, typography, and hilarious
copywriting. Written and curated by Tom "The Dude Designs" Hodge,
poster artist extraordinaire and VHS obsessive, with a foreword by
Mondo's Justin Ishmael, this collection contains over 240
full-scale, complete video sleeves in the genres of action, comedy,
horror, kids, sci-fi, and thriller films. It's a world of
mustached, muscled men, buxom beauties, big explosions, phallic
guns, and nightmare-inducing monsters. From the sublime to the
ridiculous, some are incredible works of art, some are insane, and
some capture the tone of the films better than the films
themselves. All are amazing and inspiring works of art that
captivate the imagination. It's like stepping back in time into
your local video store!
This reprint of Charles Dana Gibson's iconic drawings features
numerous comic situations involving his celebrated 'Gibson Girl',
an idealised vision of young American womanhood at the turn of the
20th century.
Kenneth Paul Block is one of the most influential fashion
illustrators of the twentieth century. His childhood dream was "to
draw glamorous ladies in beautiful clothes". After graduating from
Parsons School of Design, his first job was at the powerful
"Women's Wear Daily" in the 1950s, an association that lasted over
thirty years and where Kenneth witnessed and recorded one of the
most important periods in fashion history - the postwar shift as
the exclusive world of couture transformed into pret-a-porter.
Attending all the major fashion shows in Paris, London, and New
York, Kenneth was the first one on the scene, drawing the latest
style-setting clothes from such venerable houses as Balenciaga,
Chanel, and Saint Laurent.He also documented the up and coming
designers of the time, including Marc Jacobs, Perry Ellis, and
Halston. He was well known in society, sketching Gloria Vanderbilt
and the Duchess of Windsor. He reported on sensational parties in
Palm Beach and New York attended by Babe Paley and Jackie Kennedy
Onassis and created a unique archive of the era. "Drawing Fashion:
The Art of Kenneth Paul Block" is the first monograph on the artist
and brings together a lifetime of drawings, watercolours, and
observations. Fashion illustration disappeared from publications as
photography took over, giving added emphasis to this book as an
important historical document. "Drawing Fashion", designed by
Shahid & Company, captures a critical moment in time when
fashion, art, and commerce coincided.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Germany turned toward
colonialism, establishing protectorates in Africa, and toward a
mass consumer society, mapping the meaning of commodities through
advertising. These developments, distinct in the world of political
economy, were intertwined in the world of visual culture. David
Ciarlo offers an innovative visual history of each of these
transformations. Tracing commercial imagery across different
products and media, Ciarlo shows how and why the "African native"
had emerged by 1900 to become a familiar figure in the German
landscape, selling everything from soap to shirts to coffee. The
racialization of black figures, first associated with the American
minstrel shows that toured Germany, found ever greater purchase in
German advertising up to and after 1905, when Germany waged war
against the Herero in Southwest Africa. The new reach of
advertising not only expanded the domestic audience for German
colonialism, but transformed colonialism's political and cultural
meaning as well, by infusing it with a simplified racial cast. The
visual realm shaped the worldview of the colonial rulers,
illuminated the importance of commodities, and in the process, drew
a path to German modernity. The powerful vision of racial
difference at the core of this modernity would have profound
consequences for the future.
Now back in print, "the ultimate book-lover's gift book" (Los
Angeles Times) In 1561-62 the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay
(died 1575), imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand
I, created Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy)
as a demonstration of his own preeminence among scribes. Some
thirty years later, Ferdinand's grandson, the Emperor Rudolf II,
commissioned Europe's last great manuscript illuminator, Joris
Hoefnagel (1542-1600), to embellish the work. The resulting book is
at once a treasury of extraordinary beauty and a landmark in the
cultural debate between word and image. Bocskay assembled a vast
selection of contemporary and historical scripts for a work that
summarized all that had been learned about writing to date-a
testament to the universal power of the written word. Hoefnagel,
desiring to prove the superiority of his art over Bocskay's words,
employed every resource of illusionism, color, and form to devise
all manner of brilliant grotesques, from flowers, fruit, insects,
and animals to monsters and masks.
Acclaimed artist Andrew DeGraff has created beautiful hand-painted
maps of all your favorite films, from King Kong and North by
Northwest to The Princess Bride, Fargo, Labyrinth, Pulp Fiction,
even The Breakfast Club - with the routes of every major character
charted in meticulous cartographic detail. Follow Marty McFly
through the Hill Valley of 1985, 1955, and 1985 once again as he
races Back to the Future. Trail Jack Torrance as he navigates the
corridors of The Overlook Hotel in The Shining. And of course you
ll join Indiana Jones on a globe-spanning journey from Nepal to
Cairo to London on his quest for the famed Lost Ark. Each map is
presented in a large 11x14 format, with key details enlarged for
closer inspection. The paintings are accompanied by illuminating
essays by film critic A.D. Jameson, who speaks to the unique
geographies of each film. This beautifully designed atlas is an
essential reference for anyone who loves great art and great films.
Copyright-free architectural ornaments, decorative motifs and border elements, engraved after drawings by l7th-century French artist. 46 illus.
Graphis Advertising Annual 2022 Explore the A to Z of modern
advertising in Graphis Advertising 2022. A phenomenal homage to
some of the finest work selected by an acclaimed international jury
of ad agencies creative directors. Each ad takes readers behind the
scenes of the imagery with personal tales of inspiration and the
passion, intent, and results behind each project. Featuring fine
art quality print, full-page images of Platinum and Gold
Award-winning work, Silver Award-winning work and Honorable
Mentions are also presented.
A unique collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a different
and iconic Puffin book cover. From picture books to paperbacks,
teen fiction to Puffin Classics, this is a selection from seventy
years of outstanding British design and illustration in one sturdy
little box.
A stunningly presented portfolio containing a sumptuous selection
of the most spectacular full-colour splash pages from Brecht Evens'
illustration, commercial and graphic novel oeuvre. Not bound,
beautifully printed on a perfectly frameable format (30cm x 40cm).
This new title in the highly-successful "Design Series" features
the design work of the acclaimed artist Peter Blake. Best known of
the British pop artists, Peter Blake came to fame in the late 1950s
and early 1960s with iconic works like "On the Balcony" and "First
Real Target" both now in the Tate Gallery. Tate held an exhibition
of his works in 1983 as well as a more recent retrospective at Tate
Liverpool in 2007. His famous works for album covers, such as "The
Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", the Band Aid single
"Do They Know Its Christmas", the Oasis greatest hits album "Stop
the Clocks" and Paul Weller's "Stanley Road" brought him to a wider
audience. This stunningly designed book celebrates the brilliant
creative talent of a unique British artist. "The Design Series" is
the winner of the Brand/Series Identity Category at the British
Book Design and Production Awards 2009, judges said: 'A series of
books about design, they had to be good and these are. The branding
is consistent, there is a good use of typography and the covers are
superb'.
The official art book for the animated movie Spies in Disguise.
Super spy Lance Sterling (Will Smith) and scientist Walter Beckett (Tom Holland) are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is… not. But when events take an unexpected turn, this unlikely duo are forced to team up for the ultimate mission that will require an almost impossible disguise - transforming Lance into the brave, fierce, majestic… pigeon. Walter and Lance suddenly have to work as a team, or the whole world is in peril.
In this coffee table hardback, uncover the concept designs, character sketches, storyboards, and production art, alongside insight from the artists, filmmakers, and directors for this animated buddy comedy set in the high-octane globe-trotting world of international espionage.
Graphis Journal Take a deep dive into the minds of some of today's
renowned designers, photographers, art directors, and more inside
the Graphis Journal A quarterly print and digital magazine we hope
inspires your creativity -- The Journal is filled with
thought-provoking, intimate, meaningful interviews and stories that
take you inside the minds, work, and spaces of top designers,
agencies, photographers, artists, and other outstanding creatives
around the globe. Each Journal issue is beautifully printed and
features 12 lead stories and Q&As from creatives in their own
words plus images of some of their finest work. You'll learn the
celebrations, challenges, and what inspired them along the way
Featuring fine art quality print, full-page images of Platinum and
Gold Award-winning work, Silver Award-winning work and Honorable
Mentions are also presented.
Graphis Journal Take a deep dive into the minds of some of today's
renowned designers, photographers, art directors, and more inside
the Graphis Journal A quarterly print and digital magazine we hope
inspires your creativity -- The Journal is filled with
thought-provoking, intimate, meaningful interviews and stories that
take you inside the minds, work, and spaces of top designers,
agencies, photographers, artists, and other outstanding creatives
around the globe. Each Journal issue is beautifully printed and
features 12 lead stories and Q&As from creatives in their own
words plus images of some of their finest work. You'll learn the
celebrations, challenges, and what inspired them along the way
Featuring fine art quality print, full-page images of Platinum and
Gold Award-winning work, Silver Award-winning work and Honorable
Mentions are also presented.
From the late 1800s to the early 1960s, millions of bright and
colorful, attention-getting paper labels were used by fruit growers
to identify and advertise boxes of fresh produce. Today these true
works of art are avidly sought by designers, collectors, and
decorators. Over 1700 stunning color images of fruit labels are
presented here alphabetically: stock and private labels from
growers and associations ranging from Acme and All American to
Yakima Valley and Zirkle. Many decorative motifs, including fruit
still-lifes, anthropomorphized fruit, scenic vistas, and elaborate
portraitures, are featured. Today they are clearly incorporated
into interior design. The text includes histories of major fruit
companies and the rise of fruit labels, useful collecting hints,
values information and codes with every caption, and a detailed
bibliography. This book is a must for anyone with a passion for
beautiful graphic design.
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