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	The Boris Vallejo Portfolio Boris Vallejo’s exotic, sensual imagination has long placed him in the first rank of “heroic fantasy” illustrators. Here are 28 of his most dramatic paintings, each so intensely powerful it seems like a dream—or nightmare—come to life. Among the included works: Egyptian Warrior, a vision in bronze; Tattoo, where the dragon etched into a power-fully strong and veined arm morphs into the real thing; and Discus Thrower, which shows a silvery, robotic man in outer space....
	Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century Merz to EmigrÈ and Beyond is a historical survey of avant-garde cultural and political magazines and newspapers from the early twentieth century to the present day. The book features a unique selection of international publications from Europe and the USA - including Merz (1920s), View (1940s), East Village Other (1960s), Punk (1970s), Raw (1980s) and EmigrÈ (1990s). The design of these magazines, often raucous and undisciplined, was as ground-breaking as the ideas they disseminated. Many were...
	Mastering Materials, Bindings, and Finishes: The Art of Creative Production (Design Field Guide) A how-to guide for the finishing touch to a successful designDesigners love to incorporate bells and whistles and special features into their designs to make them stand out. Often these special treatments are the element that makes the audience really connect with the design. The challenge is that these special embellishments are usually expensive and getting them right can be extremely difficult. Mastering Materials, Bindings & Finishes provides a complete reference to hundreds of special treat...
	Pen & Ink Good penning and inking comes with knowledge and practice, and this book enlists famous pros to share their wisdom. Includes step-by-step instructions by these industry giants to help budding artists master their craft....
	Experimental Formats & Packaging New Mini Format!Experimental Formats & Packaging examines exciting design problems, such as how to make a book that does not look like a book, and how to create packaging that can be taken into new design dimensions while still fulfilling its essential, functional role.While both formats and packaging are notoriously difficult areas in which to be innovative and revolutionary, the authors have brought together examples that combine awareness of process and materials and creativity without compro...
	Roy Lichtenstein's ABC The Amercian master Roy Lichtenstein appropriated his classic modern high-art style from the pop art of comics. His distinctive look-filled with brillant color, dots, and stripes-is one of the most identifiable in all contemporary art. Here, Lichtenstein's unique style celebrates our beloved ABCs, with results that are surprising, delightful, and amusing. D is for a comically vicious growling Dog. H is a Horse that races by in dizzying dots and stripes. And A is for Art, Lichtenstein's first pop...
	Living Colors: A Designers Guide to 80 Essential Palettes from Ancient to Modern Times A consummate guide to color, this indispensable, spiralbound volume displays 80 color schemes -- drawn from a variety of different mediums, from architecture and apparel to paintings and pottery, across a range of historical periods -- each individually presented, described, and illustrated in a handy, gatefold format, with representative four-color images and actual printed chips for matching against the project at hand. From the dominant reds of ancient Egyptian ochers to the psychedelic palet...
	AutoCAD 2009 Tutor for Engineering Graphics (Autodesk) This classic reference work features self-paced tutorials that lead readers from simple one-view engineering drawings to geometric constructions, multiview projections, section and auxiliary views, 3D solid modeling, and photorealistic rendering. Tutorials utilize a step-by-step approach, following traditional engineering drawing techniques and methods while teaching users how to take full advantage of AutoCAD 2009 to achieve professional results....
	Welcome To The Dahl House: Alienation, Incarceration, and Inebriation In The New American Rome The collected 1997-2007 comics of Ken Dahl in this graphic novel anthology! Includes all of his minis, short stories, anthology works, and unpublished work including such titles as "Taken For a Ride" , "Gordon Smalls Goes to Jail", "No!", and "Blind Fart"! 2006 Ignatz Winner!...