Author: David KindersleyPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Ephemera Produced for David Kindersley.
Author: David KindersleyEncyclopedia of Ephemera
Author: Michael TwymanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113678778X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
The joy of finding an old box in the attic filled with postcards, invitations, theater programs, laundry lists, and pay stubs is discovering the stories hidden within them. The paper trails of our lives -- or ephemera -- may hold sentimental value, reminding us of great grandparents. They chronicle social history. They can be valuable as collectibles or antiques. But the greatest pleasure is that these ordinary documents can reconstruct with uncanny immediacy the drama of day-to-day life. The Encyclopedia of Ephemera is the first work of its kind, providing an unparalleled sourcebook with over 400 entries that cover all aspects of everyday documents and artifacts, from bookmarks to birth certificates to lighthouse dues papers. Continuing a tradition that started in the Victorian era, when disposable paper items such as trade cards, die-cuts and greeting cards were accumulated to paste into scrap books, expert Maurice Rickards has compiled an enormous range of paper collectibles from the obscure to the commonplace. His artifacts come from around the world and include such throw-away items as cigarette packs and crate labels as well as the ubiquitous faxes, parking tickets, and phone cards of daily life. As this major new reference shows, simple slips of paper can speak volumes about status, taste, customs, and taboos, revealing the very roots of popular culture.
Rolling with the Stones
Author: Bill WymanPublisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780789499981
Category : Rock musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The longtime bass player for the Rolling Stones combines firsthand reminiscences with personal memorabilia to provide an insider's look at four decades or rock 'n' roll history.
An A-Z of Type Designers
Author: Neil MacmillanPublisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 1856693953
Category : Type and type-founding
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This illustrated A-Z features outstanding type designers from around the world, from Gutenberg to the present day. Arranged alphabetically by designer's name, the book contains over 260 biographical profiles. Entries are illustrated by key typefaces taken from a wide range of sources, including type specimens, original posters, private press editions and magazine covers, and also give a list of work and, where applicable, further reading references and a website address. An essential reference for typographers, graphic designers and students, the book also features a full index and eight short texts by leading typographers - Jonathan Barnbrook, Erik van Blokland, Clive Bruton, John Downer, John Hudson, Jean Francois Porchez, Erik Spiekermann and Jeremy Tankard - that cover a variety of different aspects of type design, including typeface revivals, font piracy, designing fonts for corporate identities and the role of nationality in type design.
The Origin of the Serif
Author: Edward M. CatichPublisher:
ISBN: 9780962974021
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Voices from a Trunk
Author: Sara WoodallPublisher:
ISBN: 9781939995162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A chance discovery of a trunk of documents by author Sara Woodall opened up a window onto the rapidly expanding cities of Leeds and London in the nineteenth century. Cholera epidemics, Luddite disruptions, hopeless medical interventions, the birth of the railways, a discovery of a murder, the mystery of an ancestor believed to be the unknown great-great grandfather of renowned inventor Thomas Alva Edison, an unsettling great Quaker bank crash and travel in America newly recovering from the Civil War - all were intertwined with the painful life of Leeds lawyer Edwin Eddison. Format: 6" x 9" perfect bound paperback, color cover and interior on permanent paper, printed in the United States Pages 294, including Acknowledgments, Family Tree, Prologue, twenty chapters of text, Bibliography, Index and About the Author. Illustrations: 173, including period photographs, engravings, newspaper images, etchings and Eddison/Edison family trees ISBN 13: 978-1-939995-16-2 Library of Congress Number: 2016031061
Bad Island
Author: Stanley DonwoodPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324001860
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A starkly beautiful, wordless graphic novel about the end of the world by the cult artist and longtime Radiohead collaborator. A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon. Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge, strange beasts. Time passes and man appears, with clubs, with spears, with crueler weapons still—and things do not go well for the wilderness. Civilization rises as towers of stone and metal and smoke choke the undergrowth and the creatures that once moved through it. This is not a happy story, and it will not have a happy ending. Working in his distinctive, monochromatic linocut style, Stanley Donwood achieves with his art what words cannot convey, carving out a mesmerizing, stark parable of environmental disaster and the end of civilization.
Fine Print
Author: Book Design and Production
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ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Contemporary Calligraphy
Author: Trefoil PublicationsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780862941512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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