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Popular sayings from around the world come to life in Seymour
Chwast's iconic and humourous design style, perfect for graduates
and curious kids. "If you walk on thin ice, you might as well
dance"-this and many other wise sayings from many countries take on
a whole new dimension when Seymour Chwast's pen delivers a
memorable visual rendition. Life lessons have never been so amusing
to think about and maybe even learn from. This colourful book is a
perfect gift to spur laughter, learning, and cultural savoir faire
for curious kids, graduates, or anyone starting a new chapter.
Includes a brief and fascinating afterword explaining the history
and staying power of these sayings around the world.
With bright, whimsical art, this humorous guessing game and visual
puzzle from a legendary graphic designer will delight design fans
of all ages. Is that a table--or a cow? You won't believe your eyes
as this humorous guessing game and visual puzzle from award-winning
graphic designer Seymour Chwast, co-founder of the legendary Push
Pin Studios, transforms a simple object into something completely
different. Each delightfully drawn initial image is revealed, after
a page turn, to be part of a larger or more elaborate thing. The
objects become both more complex and sillier--ball and toaster?
Nah, it's a bulldog--as we make our way to the final
transformation, a pair of scissors that becomes the face of the cat
we've been waiting for. Readers young and old will giggle as they
see the importance of recognizing odd but simple shapes and
learning how they work together to form more complicated images.
Making friends has never been so adventurous as in this hilarious
tall tale from design legend Seymour Chwast! How far would you
travel to find a friend? Whether you go to the South Pole to party
with penguins, to the moon to have lunch with an astronaut, or high
up a building to meet a window washer, bring a little gift, and all
will go well. Award-winning graphic designer Seymour Chwast,
co-founder of the legendary Push Pin Studios, takes us on a journey
around the world (and off it!). And in the end, of course, it turns
out you don't have to go far at all to find a friend.
Getting lost is a matter of perspective in this clever picture book
about a dog making his way home�with help from new
friends�after a gust of wind blows him halfway across the world!
In this charmingly illustrated picture book for ages 3 to 6, a dog
is blown away by a rogue gust of wind, sent far away while he's in
the middle of his bath with his owner. As the dog finds his way
back home, he makes new friends all over the world who offer timely
and generous help. Like all of Chwast's stories, there is a truth
hidden in its goofball premise: that if you keep your head on you
and are willing to ask for help, all sorts of good folks may come
to your aid.
A descent into discovering different versions of hell and its
realms of torture around the world across literature, religions,
culture, and folklore, gorgeously illustrated and accompanied by
writing on the origins and details of each hell. Whether it's a
real place, a human construct, an idea, or a superstition, hell is
a grotesque demimonde in literature, cultures, religions, and
folklore throughout the ages. There are many different hells to be
found, each one distressing in its own way. But they all share the
same essence: they are terrible places guarded by one or more evil
spirits, where punishment is split into various levels of
damnation. Those who wish to venture on this dangerous journey
beyond the gates of the underworld will find their guide in two
extraordinary authors and graphic designers: Steven Heller and
Seymour Chwast. And like Dante in the footsteps of Virgil, they
will be able to navigate their way through the burning (or icy!)
dark realms that lurk in the heart of the human imagination-the
Jewish Gehenna, the Sunni Jahannam, the Swahili hell, the Mayan
myth of Xibalba, and many others-as well as all the characters who
have created hell, visited it, or been involved in more or less
fortunate descents into it. Equally appealing to fans of the
literary hellscape of Dante's Inferno, the bright utopia of The
Good Place, and the dark humor of Edward Gorey, Hell offers a feast
of chillingly hilarious graphic art and illuminating content that
comprehensively plumbs the multiple depths of the underworld.
The Mighty Elvis is a commemoration of his life and times in the
form of an art book, told through the unique vision of legendary
designer and illustrator Seymour Chwast. Beautifully illustrated
throughout, it presents an enhanced portrait of one of America's
greatest celebrities. With text by author Steven Brower (Satchmo:
The Life and Art of Louis Armstrong), The Mighty Elvis reminds us
of the continuing stardom of one of the most popular American
singers of all time. Through Chwast's illustrations, cartoons and
comics we get to relive his early life, his meteoric rise to fame
and how he was affected by, and in turn, affected the world of
music in the many genres he mastered. The book covers his first
appearances on television, Graceland, his meeting with President
Nixon and his wedding to Priscilla, and much more. Millions of fans
loved him, purchased his records, attended his sold out shows and
went to his thirtythree films. Death, forty years ago, has not
diminished his fame. "Elvis Lives!" The Mighty Elvis is a
celebration, in art and design, of the life of a great icon of the
American Scene!
This collection of over 140 curated posters by the revolutionary
graphic artist Seymour Chwast provides context and insight into not
only his five-decade career, but the poster genre itself. Since
founding Push Pin Studios alongside Milton Glaser and Edward Sorel
in the 1950s, Chwast's posters have been widely celebrated for
their combination of subversive style and strong political satire.
His caustic humor, graphic hand, and visual commentary cleverly
synthesize in a way that is both wry and immediately
understandable. Posters are arranged by type-Causes, Commerce,
Information, Exhibits, and Lectures-rather than chronology, which,
along with the large format, invites readers to engage thematically
with the designs. Commentary on each poster makes this a valuable
resource for students, educators, historians, and all who
appreciate the unique ability of posters to subvert notions of
popular culture, politics, and design at once. Essays by Shepard
Fairey and Steven Heller contextualize Chwast's impact on
20th-century design.
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