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Authors:Jo Waterhouse Published on: 2009-08-19 Publisher: Laurence King Publishing Pages: 128 ISBN:1856696316 ISBN13: 9781856696319 Category:Design Books Rating: Total Buying 21 Tattoos and tattoo culture have gone mainstream in the last few years, with popular TV shows such as LA Ink, Miami Ink, and London Ink making celebrities out of tattooists and their clients. Highly skilled artists, many tattooists have moved beyond the artwork they draw on skin to create personal work on canvas. Art by Tattooists is the first book to showcase this art. The book features twenty-six international artists who use a variety of mediums, from ink, watercolor, acrylic paint, and oil to lino printing, painting on wood and board, and even examples of tattoo-style street art and skateboard graphics. Many of the artists are heavily influenced by the imagery they use as tattooists—roses, hearts, skulls, scrolls, birds, pin-ups, etc.—and carry this into their personal work. Other work features colors, theme...

Authors:Victoria Lautman,Vicki Berndt Published on: 1994-01-01 Publisher: Pages: 120 ISBN:0789202336 ISBN13: 9780789202338 Category:Design Books Rating: Total Buying 30 Looks at the latest in high-style skin decorations including tribal; paintings, prints and portraits; imagination and fantasy; neotraditional and others that defy classification.Looks at the latest in high-style skin decorations including tribal; paintings, prints and portraits; imagination and fantasy; neotraditional and others that defy classification. “All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.” -Ernest Hemingway More info about Popular tattoo's

Authors:Liz McQuiston Published on: 2004-07-06 Publisher: Phaidon Press Pages: 240 ISBN: ISBN13: Category:Design Books Rating: Total Buying 37 Graphic Agitation 2 explores graphic protest in the digital age, inarticular over the years since the Gulf War. The book deals with a range ofrotest imagery from hi-tech and low-tech to no-tech and is comprehensivelyllustrated with images ranging from lollipop wrappers to websites. Graphicgitation 2 is a survey of social and political graphics since the early990s. It illustrates and contextualises work produced in relation to keyhemes such as: environmental movements; the rise of corporate power;randing; wars (e.g. in the Balkans and the Gulf War); and human rights - allf which have been prominent items in the news over the last few years. Theraphic design projects discussed in this book are all of 'the digital age'ut they are not all digital-based. The author deals with the impact ofigital innovations on traditional methods of social an...

Authors:Dover Publications Inc,Dover Published on: 2007 Publisher: Courier Corporation Pages: 128 ISBN:0486998479 ISBN13: 9780486998473 Category:Design Books Rating: Total Buying 17 Elaborate strands of flowers, dramatic Art Deco designs, ethereal rings of angels — this affordable volume offers endless inspiration to professional and amateur artists alike with more than 200 color and black-and-white designs. Painstakingly selected from a vast archive of rare artwork, these images are reproduced according to the highest standards.Elaborate strands of flowers, dramatic Art Deco designs, ethereal rings of angels — this affordable volume offers endless inspiration to professional and amateur artists alike with more than 200 color and black-and-white designs. Painstakingly selected from a vast archive of rare artwork, these images are reproduced according to the highest standards. “Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life.’” –Helen Exley More info...

Authors:Victionary Published on: 2016 Publisher: Pages: 247 ISBN:9881320364 ISBN13: 9789881320360 Category:Design Books Rating: Total Buying 35 Designers often look to earlier decades or generations for inspiration, borrowing motifs and palettes that are recognizable through their ability to elicit nostalgia. New Retro focuses specifically on graphic designers that evoke bygone eras with their creative work. The first section showcases logo design and examines the ways in which designers are able to incorporate vintage typefaces and imagery to create innovative identities and logotypes. The second presents graphic output from poster and print design to fashion, product, packaging design and more.Designers often look to earlier decades or generations for inspiration, borrowing motifs and palettes that are recognizable through their ability to elicit nostalgia. New Retro focuses specifically on graphic designers that evoke bygone eras with their creative work. The first section showcases...

Authors:Eric Gottesman Published on: 2003 Publisher: Courier Corporation Pages: 48 ISBN:0486995925 ISBN13: 9780486995922 Category:Design Books Rating: Total Buying 15 Based on actual tattoos of the 1920s to the 1960s, features 230 authentic tattoo designs with each design shown in full color and black and white.Based on actual tattoos of the 1920s to the 1960s, features 230 authentic tattoo designs with each design shown in full color and black and white. “A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” –Chinese Proverb More info about Popular tattoo's

Authors:Steven Heller Published on: 2011-04-20 Publisher: Phaidon Press Pages: 224 ISBN:071486109X ISBN13: 9780714861098 Category:Design Books Rating: Total Buying 21 Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State is the first illustrated survey of the propaganda art, graphics, and artefacts created by the totalitarian governments of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the USSR, and Communist China. The iconography produced by these regimes is universally recognized as their “brands”: the swastika and aggressive typography of Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s streamlined Futurist posters and Black Shirt uniforms, the stolid Social Realism of Stalin’s USSR, and Mao’s Little Red Book and ceramic figurines from the Cultural Revolution. Written by the eminent designer and design historian Steven Heller, who has long collected two- and three-dimensional examples from this period, Iron Fists focuses on graphic materials such as typefaces, logos, posters, advertisements, children’s books, flag...