101 Celtic Knotwork Designs

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The 101 knotwork designs in this title are all handpainted by the author and printed in colour, with each one being accompanied by a black and white version of the same image on the adjacent page, which is useful for scanning or photocopying for craft projects in art and design.
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 "yummy" 2008-06-30
By T. Peterson (portland, or United States)
if you love celtic art, check out this book. I have only borrowed from the library, but it is beautiful.

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 "Fantastic Resource for artists!" 2004-08-07
By Carms (Australia)
I'm a long time fan of Courtney Davis' celtic art books and this book is even better than I expected it to be.



The designs are from carvings, manuscripts, metalwork and other sources. They are easily adaptable for needlework, painting, fabric painting and numerous other arts and crafts.



The best thing about the book is the duplication of each design, first as a clear black-and-white line drawing and then as a vibrant colour-filled design.



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Skin Shows: The Tattoo Bible

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Skin Shows: The Tattoo Bible is a rich and provocative pictorial survey of an ancient art form that, until recently, remained hidden in our society’s cultural underground. Tracing a global journey through the history and culture of tattoo art, Chris Wroblewski’s new book is a stunning visual document. Above all, it is a book about people and personalities—here skinheads, circus freaks, Buddhist monks, tattoo fetishists, and slightly more ordinary individuals all reveal their obsessions with and dedication to the ritual of ink and pain. Chris Wroblewski is considered to be the foremost photographer of tattoo art. He is the author of more than 15 books on the subject, including Pigments of Imagination.

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 "very disappointing" 2009-04-13
By M. Jones (arleta, ca United States)
this book is for the beginner without any experience, but save your money and buy huck spaulding's how to tattoo book for 1\3 the price. i have been a professional tattoo artist for 15 years, this book cut and pastes tattoo techniques from 10 years before i started,it is a very good attempt at collecting information from preprinted articles and internet postings compiling into a booklet that is being marketed as original instructional techniques. but for anyone with skills at tattooing this book is not for you.

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 "Fell apart the first time we read it" 2007-04-01
By Ms. Megan A. Bob (Wannanup, Western Australia)
The photos are brilliant but the book is so poorly bound that it fell apart the moment we opened it. The book should have been a hard cover. It was cheaply produced. A real let down.

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 "If you are considering for public library purchase" 2006-08-16
By Catherine E. Ingram (Lisle, IL)
This book has full frontal nudity. The binding is terrible. The whole book fell apart after a dozen circs. It does have lots of color photos in it.

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 "* For the illiterate enthusiast *" 2006-01-04
By Megan (Chicago, IL United States)
This book is good for the tattoo enthusiast that knows NOTHING about tattoos.It shows you a glimpse into tattoo art around the world,and also gives you a bit about the history and reasoning behind them. Bottom line,if you want a great tattoo picture boo,this is NOT the book. If you know hardly anything about tattoos and want to learn more,this book is NOT for you. If you want to learn a bit more about the culture behind the art,and know little to nothing about it at this point,this book will as they say be your "bible".


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Breaking Designer's Block: 501 Graphic Design Solutions for Type, Color, and Materials

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Breaking Designer?s Block is a vast collection of some of the most varied work from the world?s leading designers. This book is broken down into three core areas: color, type, and materials.

The color section opens with a historical look at the colors pallets that have dominated each decade from 1900 through to the end of the century and is followed by an extensive collection of graphic work whose use of color has driven the design of that piece. Whether bold or subtle, symbolic or clich?, each piece is inspired and well crafted.

The type section opens in the same manner as the color section but focuses on the various fonts that have been popular over the decades. This feature offers readers the ability to use accurate historical design treatments in their work for appropriate projects. This section is followed by a collection of 12 top designers from around the world who are known for their powerful use of type including: Jonathan Barnbrook, Typerware, Plazm Media, Smay Vision, Fred Woodward / Rolling Stone magazine, and DJ Stout.

The final section of the book takes a look at a wide array of innovative graphic design pieces that have incorporated imaginative materials to convey powerful messages, and connect with audiences on a deeper level. This exceptional collection, from fur-covered books to Christmas cards stitched on men?s briefs, clearly demonstrates the remarkable power that designers have to engender wonder, excitement, and a sense of ownership, in today's consumers.

An invaluable resource for fresh ideas, Breaking Designer?s Block will stimulate and inspire designers to open their minds--and their art--to create work that is memorable, thought provoking and visually driven.
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 "Awful 'type tracker' section" 2005-05-18
By Benjamin Archer (Auckland, New Zealand)
While there are a lot of very nice case studies in this book, and the notes on colour usage are probably worth the cover price, the type tracker section is just plain wrong. True it's only a sixteen page section in a 356 page book, but as any designer will tell you 'it's all in the details...'

The publishers blurb states 'The type section... focuses on the various fonts that have been popular over the decades. This feature offers readers the ability to use accurate historical design treatments in their work for appropriate projects.'

I disagree with this statement, I disagree with Cheryl Dangel Cullens' analyses of the 'period' fonts reproduced on these pages and above all I would urge readers to find better historical type reference elsewhere.


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Design Secrets: Advertising: 50 Real-Life Projects Uncovered

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In this fourth title in the Design Secrets series, each design project selected is shown in detail from concept to completion including all the steps in-between. This book presents 50 real-life design projects: original plans, sketches, interim drawings, and presentations each accompanied by informative captions that show how designers present their ideas, and solve problems.

Each campaign in this book will have one distinctive and creative element that sets it apart and makes it worthwhile to look at closely. For example, one campaign will go into detail about how the creative team came up with the idea; another will go into more detail on the use of a song in the campaign, and how that came to be; and another will address a television campaign that relied heavily on special effects.
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 "An EXCELLENT analysis on 50 top-notch campaigns..." 2003-05-30
By The Critic (Dominican Republic)
I'm in my senior year of advertising and this book helps me understand and analyze deeply some incredibly smart ad campaigns. From Absolut Vodka to Volkswagen, these campaigns (some quite know, others should be for their witty strategy) will help anyone who wants to understand different concepts of different products. A definite two thumbs up! About the structure, its layout is very organized, the images and the content is great (I love the original sketches for the print ads and the storyboards) and the fact that it's hardcovered makes it even better.


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Chick Ink: 40 Stories of Tattoos--and the Women Who Wear Them

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Life. Beauty. Womanhood.

That's what tattoos today are all about. Join the women of Chick Ink in this celebration of the tattoos that grace our bodies, tell our stories, and mark forever the significant moments of our lives. Because if you're a woman with a tattoo, you're woman enough for anything.
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 "Finally a Book That Tells Our Story" 2008-10-14
By K. Winter
This book is a wonderful collection of stories from real, everyday women who have ink and are not freaks for it. It gives voice to those who proudly carry ink, even if we sometimes have to cover it to maintain propriety in an office setting. It even helps those who are not inked and have preconceived notions about inked women understand where we are comming from.

I have been inked for several years, to the great distress and/or confusion of family and friends. I was the only one in my family to have ink until two months ago, and very few friends of mine have any. I have actually given this book as a gift to family to help them see that it isn't so radical after all.

I have always been interested in tattoos in an anthropological way as well, and this book gives great insight into the "why" so many different women get inked, and why they have no shame in their art. It shows how very false the taboos surrounding women and tattoos are.

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 "Chicks aren't what they used to be" 2008-06-26
By Slipping Beauty (Ohio, USA)
Chick Ink: 40 Stories of Tattoos--and the Women Who Wear Them



My illusions are ruined by this book. Forever.





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 "i was also slightly disapointed" 2008-05-27
By Leslie Adkins (maine)
i was hoping to see some pics of ink to go with the stories. the stories are great, but with pics? would have been perfect. i'm in generous mood today, so i gave it 4 stars, when it should only get 3.

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 "Silly, Overanalyzed Nonsense" 2008-03-20
By Darryl Eschete (Houma, LA United States)
I picked this up at the library and was unimpressed. The boring, overemotional and vapid stories in this book about why these women chose their tattoos were embarrassing to read. As I read, I thought that the sort of cloying, juvenile pseudo-significance these "chicks" attached to the ink they chose to have injected into their skin is why men often have a hard time taking women seriously and why Generation X appears to older folks as a bunch of idiots with too much disposable income.



There is one story in the book about one of these women--no doubt a caucasian--getting the Japanese letters for "transience" tattooed into her skin essentially because she had a degree in Japanese Studies and because she had some rudimentary grasp on the "cosmic" concept of impermanence. The ironic humor of the story is multi-layered and, I'm sure, completely lost on the writer.



Is anyone else tired of all these books where someone calls for "submissions" and then compiles them? This one is one of the worst I've read.

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 "Hey patriarch does god tell you to judge?" 2008-02-06
By lb (sunny sw fla)
Patriarch you did not read the book so stop preaching to people. God does not judge by appearance and that does not give you the right to either. Look into your own miserable life to see why you are such a miserable rotton person.


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 "Finally a Book That Tells Our Story" 2008-10-14
By K. Winter
This book is a wonderful collection of stories from real, everyday women who have ink and are not freaks for it. It gives voice to those who proudly carry ink, even if we sometimes have to cover it to maintain propriety in an office setting. It even helps those who are not inked and have preconceived notions about inked women understand where we are comming from.

I have been inked for several years, to the great distress and/or confusion of family and friends. I was the only one in my family to have ink until two months ago, and very few friends of mine have any. I have actually given this book as a gift to family to help them see that it isn't so radical after all.

I have always been interested in tattoos in an anthropological way as well, and this book gives great insight into the "why" so many different women get inked, and why they have no shame in their art. It shows how very false the taboos surrounding women and tattoos are.

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 "Chicks aren't what they used to be" 2008-06-26
By Slipping Beauty (Ohio, USA)
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My illusions are ruined by this book. Forever.





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 "i was also slightly disapointed" 2008-05-27
By Leslie Adkins (maine)
i was hoping to see some pics of ink to go with the stories. the stories are great, but with pics? would have been perfect. i'm in generous mood today, so i gave it 4 stars, when it should only get 3.

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 "Silly, Overanalyzed Nonsense" 2008-03-20
By Darryl Eschete (Houma, LA United States)
I picked this up at the library and was unimpressed. The boring, overemotional and vapid stories in this book about why these women chose their tattoos were embarrassing to read. As I read, I thought that the sort of cloying, juvenile pseudo-significance these "chicks" attached to the ink they chose to have injected into their skin is why men often have a hard time taking women seriously and why Generation X appears to older folks as a bunch of idiots with too much disposable income.



There is one story in the book about one of these women--no doubt a caucasian--getting the Japanese letters for "transience" tattooed into her skin essentially because she had a degree in Japanese Studies and because she had some rudimentary grasp on the "cosmic" concept of impermanence. The ironic humor of the story is multi-layered and, I'm sure, completely lost on the writer.



Is anyone else tired of all these books where someone calls for "submissions" and then compiles them? This one is one of the worst I've read.

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 "Hey patriarch does god tell you to judge?" 2008-02-06
By lb (sunny sw fla)
Patriarch you did not read the book so stop preaching to people. God does not judge by appearance and that does not give you the right to either. Look into your own miserable life to see why you are such a miserable rotton person.


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Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors and Street-Corner Punks, 1950-1965 (Haworth Series in Gay & Lesbian Studies)

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Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos!

In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English--a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder--abandoned his job to become a tattoo artist (and incidentally a researcher for Alfred Kinsey). Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos tells the story of his years working in a squalid arcade on Chicago’s tough State Street. During that time he left his mark on a hundred thousand people, from youthful sailors who flaunted their tattoos as a rite of manhood to executives who had to hide their passion for well-ornamented flesh.

Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos is anything but politically correct. The gritty, film-noir details of Skid Row life are rendered with unflinching honesty and furtive tenderness. His lascivious relish for the young sailors swaggering or staggering in for a new tattoo does not blind him to the sordidness of the world they inhabited. From studly nineteen-year-olds who traded blow jobs for tattoos to hard-bitten dykes who scared the sailors out of the shop, the clientele was seedy at best: sailors, con men, drunks, hustlers, and Hells Angels.

These days, when tattoo art is sported by millionaires and the middle class as well as by gang members and punk rockers, the sheer squalor of Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos is a revelation. However much tattoo culture has changed, the advice and information is still sound:

  • how to select a good tattoo artist
  • what to expect during a tattooing session
  • how to ensure the artist uses sterile needles and other safety precautions
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  • why people get tattoos--25 sexual motivations for body art

    More than a history of the art or a roster of famous--and infamous--tattoo customers and artists, Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos is a raunchy, provocative look at a forgotten subculture.


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 "Sam Steward - the man." 2007-02-09
By M. Foster (Southern California)
I met Sam Steward around 1983 when he was quite elderly and I wonder what his friends would have to say about these reviews. I think most of the reviews are kind to him and the only real negativity I see are those in which the authors came to the book expecting a strictly scholarly work. Sam Steward wasn't a researcher in the classic social science sense. He was an energetic scholar, but his greatest interest was in the creation of literature, not in sifting through haystacks of facts to find new scientific insights.



I read this book shortly after I met Sam. I was actually more familiar with him as a writer of gay erotica, but this book tells you more about the kind of man Sam was. He had deep curiosities about the underlying psychological motivations of people and that's really the area in which he spent most of his time. That curiosity it typical of people who enjoy writing and his look into this subculture, one could speculate, is like one the instances any writer takes in which they journey into an objective investigation, knowing they are mining information and insights that will later inform their true love, writing fiction.



There's no doubt Sam took this investigation seriously, but it was never his intention to apply the level or scientific rigor one would expect of someone of the status of Alfred Kinsey. What he did at Kinsey's request was to describe a world, a microcosm, that would give Kinsey enough information to determine if a larger and more serious study was warranted. There weren't focus groups walking into Sam's tattoo parlor responding to a call for papers. They were rough and alienated men, drunks with their defenses down, kids in rebellions, frustrated people acting out. It takes an entertaining personality to get these people to say what they say and Sam Steward, if anything, was a decidely entertaining man; a storyteller who could keep a roomful of people enthralled with his vivid, if not naughty, descriptions of the extremes in society that are right under our very noses; extremes most people cannot see.



I've thought about this book a many, many times; practically every time I see a tattoo. Getting inked has never appealed to me but Sam's understanding of it most certainly does appeal to me. Even two decades after reading it, some things I remember from it make me smile and laugh out loud. There's a kind of deep-seated validation of humanness here that I think will serve many who read this. This isn't a book for everyone, but one thing that can be said is that there's more to it than the average person knows. It's art that goes deeper than the skin.

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 "Curiosity Piece" 2006-11-01
By Lew Troop (Kansas)
This interesting book comes from an era that is now far gone. As a child, just after WWII, I saw men with, primarily, service tattoos and wanted one. It was carefully explained to me that "nice men" did not get tattooed and that the service tattoos weren't truly tattoos but the equivalent of service stripes. As a six year old child I found this confusing.



What Dr. Steward has done is gathered impressions of what it was like to be a tattooist circa 1950 on to about 1970. His portraits of sleazy interior malls and the persons who frequented them are chillingly real as are the sad impressions of his clientele.



For me, still un-inked, the larger story here is the conversion from the groves of Academe to the existence of a journeyman tattoo artist. We have his intellectual observations, as well his intimate relationship with the Kinsey Institute,to provide not only a look at the deductive logic behind getting a tattoo, at least at a certain socio-economic level then, are revelatory but perhaps only to then.



The wide spread acceptance of tattooing today (the last statistic I read said over 35% of men today have one)make this interesting reading if not germane to lifestyles today. Yet it has substance and to those with a taste for not only tattooing but the sexual implications, this will confirm much of what may have been thought. Dr. Steward's open acknowledgment of his sexual preferences de-fuses any leering speculation as to what might really have been his motives.



Still, for those who want an atmospheric, well constructed picture of an era, this book will fill in your urge to return to the "greaser" age. And for those of us who wanted one, but were denied, perhaps liberate our minds to, now, go get what we wanted then. If I had the hair, give me a flat top with a D.A. And that knife piercing the bicep just below the pack of Camels rolled in the sleeve of my black T-shirt.

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 "first serious attempt to document tattoo culture 1950-1965" 2004-09-10
By TammyJo Eckhart (Bloomington, Indiana United States)
Academics get tired too but most don't do a 180 turn and join subcultures that seem completely opposed to their previous community. Samuel Steward became a tattoo artist but kept his scholarly mind working as he did so upon the urging of Kinsey, yes, that Alfred Kinsey. The result many years later is this book. Part history, part personal recollection, and part social sciences, this is an interesting and easy to read book. If you don't except detailed interviews with people or rigorous research protocols you won't be disappointed. I think the first half of the book which focuses on what he observed is much better than the second more "historical" half. It could use photos and a better spine to hold the book together.

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 "Steer clear: an amateur work" 2002-08-22
By Quickhappy (Big city, big country)
As a scholar of what might be called outsiders, I was eager to read this work on tatooing. But the scholarship here is hackneyed and unprofessional. His sources are scattered and incomplete and his discussion is of similar quality. Given the excellent quality of research being done on this topic, this book falls into a dont-bother-with category.

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 "What a Read" 2002-06-21
By steve blair (santa ana, ca USA)
Having 4 tattoo's applied last year at the ripe young age of 50, I was fascinated by this book. Tattoo's in the 50's & 60's apparently were taboo except for the underbelly of life. Looking at how they are accepted today as opposed to then is astounding. The syndicate was even involved in the 50's. The book actually had me laughing out loud at some of the situations this highly educated man faced when he gave up teaching English at a major university and took up tattooing. If you have any interest in tattoo's be sure to purchas this one.


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