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"The ESSENTIAL strategy guide for dominating the t-shirt design
business." Jeffrey Kalmikoff, former CCO of Threadless.com What if
the most prolific and influential people in the modern t-shirt
design scene got together and discussed everything they wish they
knew when they started? That's exactly what we have here. Thread's
Not Dead is the essential strategy guide to the t-shirt design
business. Written by successful graphic designer and diy
entrepreneur Jeff Finley of the creative agency Go Media. Learn the
secrets and strategies employed by the industry's most successful
indie apparel designers and brands. Whether you want to design
merchandise for your favorite bands and indie clothing companies or
start your own fashion brand, this book has it all. Its goal is to
help you dominate the apparel industry. Key topics include design,
freelancing, band merchandise, personal branding, marketing, sales,
printing & production, retail, business strategy, and
e-commerce. Featuring contributions from the people behind
Threadless, Emptees, DesignByHumans, Big Cartel, I Am The Trend, Go
Media, Jakprints, Glamour Kills, Paint the Stars, Cure Apparel,
Fright-Rags, and more
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
In an era that plays host to war, terrorism, civil unrest, and
economic uncertainty, it is more vital than ever to think
critically about the ways in which violence is framed, mediated and
regulated through representations. This book explores the
variegated forms violence can take, not only physical but abstract,
emotional and virtual, and directed not only against bodies but
buildings, faiths, cultures, and classes. With essays by experts in
literature, film, drama, art, and philosophy, Violence and the
Limits of Representation contributes to a richer understanding of
violence and its effects. This collection not only offers insight
into the challenges and ethical issues involved in the
representation of violence but, through a concern with the
socio-political contexts of violence, offers a unique set of
perspectives on the conflicts and concerns of the present.
Silence Escapes Me Still I Dream brings to life some of the most
imaginative, creative, and thought provoking work of our times.
This book covers a wide range of subjects from every aspect of life
and the world we live in. The reader is taken on a journey that
tends to provoke every possible emotion . David L. Bowman hopes
this book will inspire the reader to adapt and overcome while
motivating them to achieve greatness.
Must Have Been Those Butterflies is a collaboration of poetry
with photo art strongly influenced by Nicole's personal experiences
with lust, infatuation and love. The words and images shared in
this book are real notions, created by her highly sensitive,
emotional psyche. An expression of her most intimate, deepest
thoughts, shared vividly and freely, meant to entice, inspire and
enlighten an open minded, curious and emotionally intrigued
audience.
The emotions in both the photos and the poetry are a reflextion
of her complex personality--sensual, sexual, artistic, sadistic,
intimate, aggressive, strong, sensitive, impatient, analytical,
friendly, carefree, funny, loving, trusting,
considerate--intertwining, toying and tangling her in and out of
relationships.
The intention of this poetry and photography book is to express
the emotional torments that tease the soul and taunt the heart on
behalf of the millions of hidden, shunned, shamed, unexplained,
damaged, jaded, sorry, degraded, sad, angry, betrayed, forgotten,
and alas, broken, hearts.May the reader find comfort and
encouragement, inspiration and realization in her words and images;
rest knowing one is not alone in the lonely world of lost loves.
Although she's had her fair share of emotional battles and scars,
she vows to never lose hope in finding true happiness, as she
follows hers: Butterflies.
American education and culture are suffering from a terrible,
soul-numbing imbalance, in which there is an overemphasis on basic,
quantifiable skills and knowledge and a de-emphasis of more
creative areas of the humanities, especially the arts and
aesthetics. Detels indicates that the marginalization of the arts
and aesthetics in American education has been caused by a
hard-boundaried paradigm that has come to dominate American
education. According to this paradigm, the arts are wrongly viewed
and taught as separate, unconnected disciplines of music, visual
arts, dance, and theater, while their intimate connections to each
other and to aesthetic experience and life in general are
completely unrepresented.
The way out of this crisis is to change paradigms, from a
hard-boundaried, single-minded valuation of specialization to a
more soft-boundaried curriculum that allows for specialized
education in individual art forms as well as widespread
interdisciplinary integration of the arts with each other and with
general education at the K-12 and college levels. Without such a
change, we will be unable to equip our students with the necessary
skills to understand and communicate about the increasingly
complex, sensually immersive artistic media and forms of the
future.
An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and
conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking
back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking
whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.
The ideas, people, and events that developed art education are
described and analyzed so that art educators and educators in
general will have a better understanding of what has happened (and
is happening) to visual art in the schools. Peter Smith raises the
issue of art education's inordinate emphasis on Eurocentric art. He
challenges the often expressed notion that the field of education
is the cause of art education's problems and proposes that confused
conceptions within the art world are just as much a root of the
difficulty. No other book in art education history gives such close
and analytical attention to the careers of women in the field. The
materials on Germanic cultural and historical influences are
unequaled as is the scholarly treatment of Viktor Lowenfeld,
probably the most influential single figure in 20th-century
American art education.
This fascinating, colourful book offers in-depth insights and
first-hand working experiences in the production of art works,
using simple computational models with rich morphological
behaviour, at the edge of mathematics, computer science, physics
and biology. It organically combines ground breaking scientific
discoveries in the theory of computation and complex systems with
artistic representations of the research results. In this appealing
book mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, and engineers
brought together marvelous and esoteric patterns generated by
cellular automata, which are arrays of simple machines with complex
behavior. Configurations produced by cellular automata uncover
mechanics of dynamic patterns formation, their propagation and
interaction in natural systems: heart pacemaker, bacterial membrane
proteins, chemical rectors, water permeation in soil, compressed
gas, cell division, population dynamics, reaction-diffusion media
and self-organisation. The book inspires artists to take on
cellular automata as a tool of creativity and it persuades
scientists to convert their research results into the works of art.
The book is lavishly illustrated with visually attractive examples,
presented in a lively and easily accessible manner.
The Art of Transitional Justice examines the relationship between
transitional justice and the practices of art associated with it.
Art, which includes theater, literature, photography, and film, has
been integral to the understanding of the issues faced in
situations of transitional justice as well as other issues arising
out of conflict and mass atrocity. The chapters in this volume take
up this understanding and its demands of transitional justice in
situations in several countries: Afghanistan, Serbia, Srebenica,
Rwanda, Northern Ireland, Cambodia, as well as the experiences of
resulting diasporic communities. In doing so, it brings to bear the
insights from scholars, civil society groups, and art
practitioners, as well as interdisciplinary collaborations.
Writing and Reporting News You Can Use instructs students on how to
produce news that is informative, interesting, educational, and
most importantly, compelling. It addresses roadblocks to student
interest in writing news, using illustrative examples and exercises
to help them understand how to write news that is interesting and
accurate. Trujillo's hands-on approach is based on real-world
strategies that deal with audience and market characteristics.
Students are writing from the very beginning while also getting the
ethical and legal grounding necessary to understand the field. This
textbook is a complete resource for students learning broadcast
news, including how to get a job after leaving the classroom.
At a time when the methods and purposes of intelligence agencies
are under a great deal of scrutiny, author Wesley Britton offers an
unprecedented look at their fictional counterparts. In Beyond Bond:
Spies in Film and Fiction, Britton traces the history of espionage
in literature, film, and other media, demonstrating how the spy
stories of the 1840s began cementing our popular conceptions of
what spies do and how they do it. Considering sources from Graham
Greene to Ian Fleming, Alfred Hitchcock to Tom Clancy, Beyond Bond
looks at the tales that have intrigued readers and viewers over the
decades. Included here are the propaganda films of World War II,
the James Bond phenomenon, anti-communist spies of the Cold War
era, and military espionage in the eighties and nineties. No
previous book has considered this subject with such breadth, and
Britton intertwines reality and fantasy in ways that illuminate
both. He reveals how most themes and devices in the genre were
established in the first years of the twentieth century, and also
how they have been used quite differently from decade to decade,
depending on the political concerns of the time. In all, Beyond
Bond offers a timely and penetrating look at an intriguing world of
fiction, one that sometimes, and in ever-fascinating ways, can seem
all too real. At a time when the methods and purposes of
intelligence agencies are under a great deal of scrutiny, author
Wesley Britton offers an unprecedented look at their fictional
counterparts. In Beyond Bond: Spies in Film and Fiction, Britton
traces the history of espionage in literature, film, and other
media, demonstrating how the spy stories of the 1840s began
cementing our popular conceptions of what spies do and how they do
it. Considering sources from Graham Greene to Ian Fleming, Alfred
Hitchcock to Tom Clancy, Beyond Bond looks at the tales that have
intrigued readers and viewers over the decades. Included here are
the propaganda films of World War II, the James Bond phenomenon,
anti-communist spies of the Cold War era, and military espionage in
the eighties and nineties. No previous book has considered this
subject with such breadth, and Britton intertwines reality and
fantasy in ways that illuminate both. He reveals how most themes
and devices in the genre were established in the first years of the
twentieth century, and also how they have been used quite
differently from decade to decade, depending on the political
concerns of the time. And he delves into such aspects of the genre
as gadgetry, technology, and sexuality-aspects that have changed
with the times as much as the politics have. In all, Beyond Bond
offers a timely and penetrating look at an intriguing world of
fiction, one that sometimes, and in ever-fascinating ways, can seem
all too real.
This important new book offers an intellectual history of the 'arts
council' policy model, identifying and exploring the ideas embedded
in the model and actions of intellectuals, philanthropists and
wealthy aesthetes in its establishment in the mid-twentieth
century. The book examines the history of arts advocacy for
national arts policies in the UK, Canada and the USA, offering an
interdisciplinary approach that combines social and intellectual
history, political philosophy and literary analysis. The book has
much to offer academics, cultural policy and management students,
artists, arts managers, arts advocates, cultural policymakers and
anyone interested in the history and current moment of public arts
funding in the West.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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