Designage: The Art of the Decorative Sign

Arts & Photography

Schwartzman, Arnold

Decorative Arts & Design

Diane Pub Co.

Phono-Graphics

Photography & Video

Chronicle Books+

Storefront signs have long been a charming and respected commercial art form. The first book to look at sign design in a popular format, Designage presents over 300 examples of vintage and contemporary signs from around the world. Graphically ingenious and imaginative, they proclaim a variety of services and products, often using a visual pun or wordplay. Designage covers a wide range of styles -- Roman, Victorian, Gothic, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco, to name a few -- and an even wider range of materials, including tile, wood, iron-work, neon, brass, and enamel. This is a valuable reference for graphic designers and architects, as well as a delightful visual trip down international lanes.

Chronicle Books LLC.

Before it was famous for its midcentury commercial design, Los Angeles was already a treasure trove of elegant architecture in the Art Deco style. Products of the streamlined design aesthetic of the 1920s and New Deal building during the 1930s, many of these buildings fell into disrepair or were marred by ill-fitting façades in later years. But recently they have become the focus of intense preservation efforts, appreciated once again for their timeless charm. This glorious survey features hundreds of color photographs from across the L.A. Basin—with dazzling details from the majestic to the whimsical—that define Art Deco style. With a foreword by Bevis Hillier, the critic who coined the term Art Deco, here's a gem for Deco buffs and Los Angeles aficionados alike.

Deco LAndmarks: Art Deco Gems of Los Angeles

Architecture

The title sounds daft because (or in spite of the fact that) it's a quote from Richard Nixon upon seeing China's Great Wall. Walls from all over the globe are arranged in the following sections: symbolism, protection, materials, ornament. Hundreds of walls are represented in small, color photographs, while the text fluctuates between the general meditation or historical statement, and specific descriptions of particular walls. Walls span the Wailing and the Great to Grandma Prisbee's Bottle House and Les Grimes' "Hog Heaven," a pig paradise painted on the wall of a former L.A. meat packing plant. Some of the more incredible walls pictured and described are those once found near the Berlin Wall and those walls taken over by nature. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

It's A Great Wall

Webb, Michael

Watson/Guptill

Arnold Schwartzman's stunning photographs of the finest examples of Art Deco from all over the world are collected here as a celebration of one of the world's most popular decorative styles. Art deco is the 20th century's most glamorous architectural style, and the one that shaped popular ideas of modern luxury. With over 200 photographs, this is a visual celebration of this very popular style. Unlike most other books on the subject that tend to be regionally specific, this book highlights Art Deco buildings from all over the world, from Australia to South America, with an emphasis on London, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Miami, and Paris. Art Deco features much careful and exacting detail, and of special interest in this book are photos that zoom in on murals, mosaics, flooring, ironwork, and other ornamental flourishes. Art Deco began in 1925 and quickly swept the globe becoming the style epitomizing Jazz Age glamor and sophistication. It drew from a variety of influences including ancient Egyptian, Moorish, and Mayan motifs but also modernist movements like Cubism, Fauvism, and De Stijl. Its influence was felt everywhere, from the skylines of New York to Shanghai, and it gained prominence not only with architects and designers but enjoyed a passionate following among the public as well.

Art Deco: The Twentieth Century's Iconic Decorative Style from Paris, London, and Brussels to New York, Sydney, and Santa Monica

History & Criticism

Rizzoli

This is the first step-by-step guide to using Coda's Finale, the world's number one software program for creating simple or complex music notation. This easy-to-use, practical book flattens Finale's robust learning curve and helps musicians and composers understand and maximize the program's invaluable capabilities in editing, reformatting, and reorganizing musical material. Finale is a powerful "electronic scribe" that helps you with all music preparation -- whether copying and replicating an existing piece of music or creating an original work. Written by a pioneer in interactive CD-ROM, MIDI files, hard disk recording and music score publication, the book is designed to help you use the Finale manuals more efficiently, especially when tackling particularly difficult challenges in the exacting art of music notation. Providing hundreds of easy-to-read screen shots and illustrations, The Finale Primer outlines navigational basics and reinforces notational concepts with drills and projects at the end of each lesson. These quickly build skills that lay the essential groundwork for score notation and prepare you for further mastery of the program. Topics range from exploring the Finale toolbox to creating a lead sheet, printing the final score, and special guitar notation. Covers Finale for both Macintosh and Windows.

The Finale Primer: Mastering the Art of Music Notation with Finale

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Code Name: The Long Sobbing - The Allies, the Axis, and the Victims: An Anthology from D-Day to V-E Day (AUTHOR INSCRIBED)

Los Angeles: Simon Wiesenthal Center

Stunning photographs offer a visual journey through London’s Art Deco style—from factories and underground stations to theaters and private residences This richly illustrated book offers a fascinating and detailed look at the Art Deco style, from building design to decorative detail. The Art Deco style gained prominence at the 1925 Paris Exposition, after which each nation seemed to adapt its own distinct architectural style. Less florid than the French or that of the United States, Great Britain's buildings reflected the country's imperial status. From the imposing style of the Savoy Hotel, through the ornate detail of the West End theaters, to Art Deco factories like the Hoover Building, they also demonstrated Britain's love of detail. Remarkably, many of London's Art Deco buildings still survive—their once grime-covered indigenous Portland stone now mostly scrubbed clean, beautifully displaying their many sculptural details. 

London Art Deco

Palazzo Editions

Now in an updated small format gift edition, stunning photographs offer a visual journey through London's Art Deco style—from factories and underground stations to theaters and private residences This richly illustrated book offers a fascinating and detailed look at the Art Deco style, from building design to decorative detail. The Art Deco style gained prominence at the 1925 Paris Exposition, after which each nation seemed to adapt its own distinct architectural style. Less florid than the French or that of the United States, Great Britain's buildings reflected the country's imperial status. From the imposing style of the Savoy Hotel, through the ornate detail of the West End theaters, to Art Deco factories like the Hoover Building, they also demonstrated Britain's love of detail. Remarkably, many of London's Art Deco buildings still survive—their once grime-covered indigenous Portland stone now mostly scrubbed clean, beautifully displaying their many sculptural details.

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Designage: The Art of the Decorative Sign

Phono-Graphics

Designage: The Art of the Decorative Sign

Deco LAndmarks: Art Deco Gems of Los Angeles

It's A Great Wall

Art Deco: The Twentieth Century's Iconic Decorative Style from Paris, London, and Brussels to New York, Sydney, and Santa Monica

The Finale Primer: Mastering the Art of Music Notation with Finale

Code Name: The Long Sobbing - The Allies, the Axis, and the Victims: An Anthology from D-Day to V-E Day (AUTHOR INSCRIBED)

London Art Deco

London Art Deco