Visual Literacy: A Conceptual Approach to Solving Graphic Problems

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The task of creative visual communication is to interpret problems in a personal way while meeting the practical communicative needs of others. This book is divided into two main parts. Part 1, "Graphic Design Exercises", offers 400 original solutions to 25 design projects and problems. Each assignment is designed to promote an understanding of a fundamental design idea or principle. Part 2, "Illustration Exercises", over 200 solutions to 10 problems are presented. ... More >>

Visual Literacy: A Conceptual Approach to Solving Graphic Problems

Depression Glass: Warman's Companion

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*Illustrated with concise line drawings to show intricate details of patterns *Features a chapter on learning to spot reproductions - helpful for avoiding the frustrating and potentially costly issue of forgeries During America's darkest economic period, Depression glass, with its hundreds of patterns and wide variety of colors, became part of the marketing machine for everything from consumer goods to bank accounts. Its popularity helped stimulate... More >>

Depression Glass: Warman's Companion

Making Miniature Dolls With Polymer Clay: How to Create and Dress Period Dolls in 1/12 Scale

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Guided by the imagination and expertise of polymer-clay expert, Sue Heaser, this book shows the reader how to create unique and beautiful miniature dolls, perfect as gifts or for adding to your doll's house.... More >>

Making Miniature Dolls With Polymer Clay: How to Create and Dress Period Dolls in 1/12 Scale

Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts

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"The dual task here is to listen through history to sound and through sound to history." This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it--to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries. Focusing on Europe in the first h... More >>

Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts