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.

 "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.



What an inspirational book!


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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.

 "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.

 "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.

 "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.

 "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.

 "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.

 "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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Life. Beauty. Womanhood.

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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.

 "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.

 "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.

 "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.

 "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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TATTOO MAGAZINE WINTER 1989 OUTRAGEOUS HARLEY DESIGNS GREGG ALLMAN'S TATS AND MORE!

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WINTER 1989 ISSUE OF TATTOO MAGAZINE. LOADED WITH COLOR PHOTOS OF NEW TATTS, PLUS OUTRAGEIOUS HARLEY DESIGNS, GREGG ALLMAN'S TATS, INSIDE THE ARLINGTON CONVENTION AND MORE.
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