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Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Illustration & commercial art > Illustration
Do you want to know what life has in store? It's all here in this
book. All the little things we learn in the course of our lives. A
page a year, from nought to a hundred. 5: You learn that boys and
girls fall in love. Incredible! 13: When will your parents learn?
Not in front of your friends. 36: A dream came true, but it feels
different than you thought. 45: Do you like yourself as you are?
75: You learn to unlearn things. Can you still do a somersault? 86:
Everything can be different in every moment. How does our
perception of the world change in the course of a lifetime? When
Heike Faller's niece was born she began to wonder what we learn in
life, and how we can talk about what we have learnt with those we
love. And so she began to ask everyone she met, what did you learn
in life? Out of the answers of children's writers and refugees,
teenagers and artists, mothers and friends, came 99 lessons: that
those who have had a difficult time appreciate the good moments
more. That those who have had it easy find it harder getting old.
That a lot of getting old is about accepting boundaries. And of
course, as one 94 year old said to her, 'sometimes I feel like that
little girl I once was, and I wonder if I have learned anything at
all.' A bestseller in Germany, HUNDRED is a book given by children
to grandparents and the other way around, for christenings and
Mother's days, significant birthdays and times of celebration. With
every age beautifully illustrated by Valerio Vidali, Hundred cannot
simply be read because, like life itself, it must be experienced.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the demand for magazine and
book illustrations was at an all-time high, offering women artists
an unprecedented number of professional opportunities. This unique
anthology features 120 color and black-and-white artworks by the
Golden Age of Illustration's finest female illustrators, including
Beatrix Potter, Kate Greenaway, and Jessie Willcox Smith.
A career in illustration represented an ideal opportunity for women
in post-Victorian society. Every well-bred girl was schooled in the
arts of sketching and drawing, and by working at home, a woman's
modesty could remain uncompromised. Successful competition in a
world dominated by male artists, however, called for determination
as well as talent. This compilation celebrates the accomplishments
of twenty-two female illustrators, including Elenore Abbott, Mabel
Lucie Attwell, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Ruth Mary Hallock, Jessie
Marion King, Dorothy Lathrop, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Margaret
Winifred Tarrant, and others.
A tale from the Brothers Grimm provides inspiration for three
gifted students from the world-renowned Art Center College of
Design in Pasadena, California. Khang Le, Mike Yamada, and Felix
Yoon were guided by their instructor, Scott Robertson, to create
original design solutions for the environments, characters, props,
and vehicles found within "The Skillful Huntsman". The trio's
sketches and full-color renderings thoroughly document the creative
process of concept design, revealing a host of intriguing places -
from sci-fi cities to castles - and people - from giants to
royalty. A must for artists, aspiring entertainment designers,
comic aficionados, and anyone interested in the creative process,
"The Skillful Huntsman" offers insight into the mysterious world of
the imagination.
Edward Ardizzone RA (1900-79) was one of relatively few British
artists who defined the field of illustration for their generation.
Although his work as an artist and illustrator was wide-ranging, it
is for his illustrated children's books, almost continuously
available since they were first published from the late 1930s
onwards, that he is best known. This book provides the first fully
illustrated survey of Ardizzone's work, analysing his activity as
an artist and illustrator in the context of 20th-century British
art, illustration, printing and publishing. Copiously illustrated
with many previously unpublished images, Edward Ardizzone: Artist
and Illustrator also contributes more broadly to the current
reassessment and investigation of mid-20th-century British art and
illustration. Alan Powers (author of the bestselling Eric
Ravilious: Artist and Designer) has written a critically considered
text which draws for the first time on the family's archives, those
of Ardizzone's publishers, and conversations with those who knew
the artist. This beautiful and enlightening book, which reflects in
its design and production values the aesthetic of an artist who was
closely involved in the production of his own illustrated books,
will be a fascinating read both for specialists as well as for
readers who have grown up with the unforgettable characters of
Ardizzone's classic children's stories.
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