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Renowned professor on the subject examines the practice of drawing for illustration through case studies and sketchbooks.This beautiful, in-depth reference book by illustration professor Martin Salisbury explores drawing for illustration. Salisbury places a special emphasis on drawing, treating it as a fundamental skill that every illustrator should engage with. Assisting students through exercises and case studies, this guide explores the often-unseen world of draftsmanship that underpins finished illustration work.From book illustration to graphic novels and caricatures to commercial design, this attractive volume draws on sketchbooks, projects, and historical examples to show how they started as drawings from observation and drawings from imagination.Salisbury starts out by explaining the fundamentals of this exciting discipline before outlining the basic principles of line, tone, composition, and color through inspired examples. Different approaches to drawing, including anecdotal, sequential, and reportage, are examined to help students acquire their own personal visual language. Interviews with illustrators also provide valuable insights into the creative process, as they discuss the challenges, rewards, and what drawing personally means for them.Visually appealing, Drawing for Illustration features detailed analysis of works by key illustrators from the past and present, including George Cruikshank, Ronald Searle, Sheila Robinson, Laura Carlin, Alexis Deacon, and Isabelle Arsenault, looking at the differing roles drawing plays in their particular illustrative languages and how styles have changed over time. 170 illustrations

“Books and reality and art are the same kind of thing for me.”One of the most famous artists in history, Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) was also a man with another powerful passion—for books. An insatiable reader, Van Gogh spent his life hungrily consuming as many books as he could. He read, reread, and copied out books in Dutch, English, and French. He knew many passages by heart from works by Dickens, Zola, Shakespeare, and Maupassant, among many others. As he wrote to his brother, Theo, in one of their hundreds of letters: “I have a more or less irresistible passion for books.”In Vincent’s Books, Mariella Guzzoni explores Van Gogh’s life as a voracious bookworm, noting what he read, what he wrote about, and how his love of reading influenced his art. She walks us through his life, chapter by chapter: from the religious aspirations of his early adulthood, to his decision to be a painter, to the end of his tragically short life. He moved from Holland to Paris to Provence; at each moment, ideas he encountered in books defined and guided his thoughts and his worldview. Van Gogh wrote with eloquence and insight about what he was reading in his letters to Theo, referring to at least two hundred authors. Books and readers are frequent subjects of his paintings, and Guzzoni highlights over one hundred of these works, such as Still Life with Bible in the Van Gogh Museum and his vivid paintings of l’Arlesienne.A gorgeously illustrated biography that will appeal to any booklover, Vincent’s Books takes us on a fresh, fascinating journey through the pages of a beloved artist’s life.Explore Van Gogh’s musings on his favorite writers, includingThomas à Kempis, Charles Blanc, Honoré de Balzac, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Erckmann-Chatrian, Homer, Victor Hugo, Pierre Loti, Jules Michelet, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Émile Zola

A self-portrait of this major artist, told through a wide-ranging series of interviews and conversations with Martin Gayford. David Hockney’s exuberant work is widely loved and widely praised, but he is also an incisive and original thinker on art. Based on a series of conversations between Hockney and the art critic Martin Gayford, this book distills the essence of the artist’s lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface.How does drawing make one “see things clearer and clearer and clearer still”? What significance do differing media, from a Lascaux cave wall to an iPad, have for the images we see? What is the relationship between the images we make and the reality around us? And how can we fully enjoy the pleasures of just looking―at trees, or faces, or sunrises?These conversations are punctuated by wise and witty observations by both artist and interviewer on many other artists―Vermeer, Tiepolo, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, and Monet among them―and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of California, where Hockney spent so many years, and East Yorkshire, his birthplace, to which he has now returned. 100+ full-color illustrations

The map reimagined: this stunning volume gathers the most beautiful, inspirational, and creatively designed maps from around the world.Showcasing hand-drawn, painted, digital, 3D-sculpted, and folded maps, this unique collection celebrates the modern map, in all imaginable forms. The Art of Cartography invites readers on a journey across the globe—and beyond—through geographical maps, fictional maps, and innovative cultural, economic, and political maps. Charting themes that range from power, gentrification, and literature to animals, plants and food, they offer a slice of social history that is as striking as it is fascinating.

This gorgeous, fully illustrated handbook tells the story of sketchnotes--why and how you can use them to capture your thinking visually, remember key information more clearly, and share what you've captured with others. Author Mike Rohde shows you how to incorporate sketchnoting techniques into your note-taking process--regardless of your artistic abilities--to help you better process the information that you are hearing and seeing through drawing, and to actually have fun taking notes.The Sketchnote Handbook explains and illustrates practical sketchnote techniques for taking visual notes at your own pace as well as in real time during meetings and events. Rohde also addresses most people's fear of drawing by showing, step-by-step, how to quickly draw people, faces, type, and simple objects for effective and fast sketchnoting. The book looks like a peek into the author's private sketchnote journal, but it functions like a beginner's guide to sketchnoting with easy-to-follow instructions for drawing out your notes that will leave you itching to attend a meeting just so you can draw about it.

Two gifted photographers have documented every aspect of this extraordinary urban subculture, complete with 239 full-color photographs.

“Many of the images are today iconic masterpieces. . . . One of the most influential art books of its time.” —The Big Issue In 1984 the groundbreaking Subway Art brought graffiti to the world, presenting stunning photographic documentation of the burgeoning movement in New York. Thirty years later, this bible of street art has been updated with over seventy photographs not included in the original edition and new insights on an incredibly rich period for urban art and its legacy. In new introductions, authors Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant recall how they gained entry into the New York City graffiti community in the 1970s and 1980s. New afterwords continue the story, tracing the decline of the subway and graffiti scene in the late 1980s to its unexpected rebirth as a global art movement. The authors reveal how the lives of the original subway artists have unfolded and mourn the loss of several to the darker forces of the street.

10 CuratorsShahidul Alam is a photographer and the Director of Drik agency in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Marcelo Brodsky is a photographer and the President of Latin Stock in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Joan Fontcuberta is a photographer and the Editor of Photovision in Utrera, Spain. Alasdair Foster is the Director of the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, Australia.Dennis Freedman is the Creative Director of W and Details magazines in New York.Christine Frisinghelli is the Editor of Camera Austria in Graz, Austria.Shino Kuraishi is the Curator of Photography at the Yokohama Museum of Art in Yokohama, Japan. Simon Njami is the Editor of Revue Noire and Artistic Director of the Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine, Bamako, Mali. Wendy Watriss is a photographer and Co-Founder and Artistic Director of FotoFest in Houston, Texas. Paul Wombell is the Director of the Photographers' Gallery in London. 100 Artists - Abir Abdullah, Gosbert Adler, Akinbodé Akinbiyi, Alexander Apóstol, Marc Asnin, Mert Atlas & Marcus Piggott, Alejandro Bachrach, Tina Barney, Yto Barrada, Uta Barth, Pat Brassington, Adriana Calatayud, Daniel Canogar, Albert Chong, Omar D, Thomas Demand, Tracey Derrick, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra, Rose Farrell & George Parkin, Samuel Fosso, Seiichi Furuya, Jenny Gage & Tom Betterton, Pablo Garber, Tierney Gearon, Maya Goded, Julio Grinblatt, Jitka Hanzlová, Naoya Hatakeyama, Fran Herbello, Gavin Hipkins, Takashi Homma, Dieter Huber, Sameera Huque, Tomoko Isoda, Sanja Ivekovic, Wu Jialin, Gerald van der Kaap, Osamu Kanemura, Jean-Pierre Khazem, KIDing®, Atta Kim, Steven Klein, Boo Moon Kwon, Rosemary Laing, Luisa Lambri, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Jungjin Lee, Eva Leitolf, Laura Letinsky, Marcos López, Paula Luttringer, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Chema Madoz, Bertien van Manen, Taiji Matsue, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Craig McDean, Hellen van Meene, Boris Mikhailov, Santu Mofokeng, Santos Montes, Abelardo Morell, Mala Mukerjee, Vik Muniz, Yurie Nagashima, Lamia Naji, Eustáquio Neves, Otobong Nkanga, Katsumi Omori, Yuki Onodera, Tatiana Parcero, Swapan Parekh, Eileen Perrier, Patricia Piccinini, Plonk & Replonk, res, Xavier Ribas, Hans-Christian Schink, Joachim Schmid, Zineb Sedira, Shirana Shahbazi, Paul M Smith, Manit Sriwanichpoom, Beat Streuli, Gerardo Suter, Michel Szulc-Krzyzanowski, Michael Thompson, Diana Thorneycroft, Milagros de la Torre, Iké Udé, Juan Urrios, Gabriel Valansi, Cássio Vasconcellos, Massimo Vitali, Hywell Waters, Carrie Mae Weems, Manfred Willmann, Ma Xiao Hu, Takashi Yasumura. 10 Writers - Frits Gierstberg, Christian Höller, Vinay Lal, Angel Mollá, Jean Loup Pivin, Arundhati Roy, Charles Stainback & Vik Muniz, Hripsimé Visser, Peter Watson, Akihito Yasumi & Osamu Kanemura.

Making-of art book: Beautiful artwork and renders reveal the dawning of Altair. Interviews: Revealing interviews with Jade Raymond and key members of every team. Lithograph: A high-quality lithograph of a stunning rendered scene. High-quality Packaging: Hadcover package with stunning artwork from the team on the cover. Clean box art: Prima's one-sheet will fall away when the shrinkwrap is removed, leaving pristine art, unmarred by logos, barcodes, or taglines.

“An excellent introduction to graphic design through [the author’s] own excellent work. Anyone interested in the subject, including most practitioners, will find it delightful.”—Milton Glaser Kids love to express themselves, and are designers by nature—whether making posters for school, deciding what to hang in their rooms, or creating personalized notebook covers. Go, by the award-winning graphic designer Chip Kidd, is a stunning introduction to the ways in which a designer communicates his or her ideas to the world. It’s written and designed just for those curious kids, not to mention their savvy parents, who want to learn the secret of how to make things dynamic and interesting. Chip Kidd is “the closest thing to a rock star” in the design world (USA Today), and in Go he explains not just the elements of design, including form, line, color, scale, typography, and more, but most important, how to use those elements in creative ways. Like putting the word “go” on a stop sign, Go is all about shaking things up—and kids will love its playful spirit and belief that the world looks better when you look at it differently. He writes about scale: When a picture looks good small, don’t stop there—see how it looks when it’s really small. Or really big. He explains the difference between vertical lines and horizontal lines. The effect of cropping a picture to make it beautiful—or, cropping it even more to make it mysterious and compelling. How different colors signify different moods. The art of typography, including serifs and sans serifs, kerning and leading. The book ends with ten projects, including an invitation to share your designs at GoTheBook.com.