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Pitti People - Portraits of the Italian Dandy

BNN Inc. 2015 ISBN 9784861009709 Acqn 24772
Pb 15x21cm 112pp 300col ills 16
This title introduces you to the fashionable world of the dandy Italian Style, as witnessed and
drawn by the illustrator Yoko Tanimoto. Pitti People includes tips for your daily style, whether in
business or casual, on how to wear jackets or use coloured scarves etc. It also includes
interviews with legendary tailors from Florence, as well as introducing long-established select
shops.

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Black Dolls
Radius Books 2015 ISBN 9781934435892 Acqn 24580
Hb 32x25cm 192pp 120ills 80col 35
This book presents over 100 unique handmade African American dolls made between 1850 and
1930 from the collection of Deborah Neff, a Connecticut-based collector and champion of
vernacular art. It is believed that African Americans created these dolls for the children in their
lives, including members of their own families and respective communities as well as white
children in their charge. Acquired over the last 25 years, this renowned collection is considered to
be one of the finest of its kind ever to be assembled. The dolls portray faithful yet stylised
representations of young and old African Americansplayful boys and girls, well-dressed
gentlemen, elegant young ladies, and distinguished older men and women. Made with scraps of
cloth, ribbon and lace, or old socks, and stuffed with wool or cotton, these unusual dolls are
charming and full of emotional spirit. Their faces are embroidered, stitched and painted to
express a variety of emotions, each representing a fascinating story of culture and identity in
American history. The book also features an assortment of rare vintage photographs from the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing both black and white children holding, posing or
playing with their dolls. After five years of combing the archives of museums, historical societies
and private collections, the research done for this volume uncovered fascinating vernacular
photographs of African American children holding white dolls and Caucasian children holding
black dollsbut there was not a single image of an African American person holding a black doll.
This complex combination of text and imagery has helped transform this book into a commentary
about social mobility and racial identity conveyed through the untold story of these dolls. In an
essay, renowned artist Faith Ringgold addresses the inherent prejudices of this work as well as
her personal connection with the medium. Also included are essays by Pulitzer Prizewinning
critic Margo Jefferson and writer Lyle Rexer.

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nendo - In The Box

ADP 2014 ISBN 9784903348414 Acqn 24041
Hb 13x16cm 560pp 500ills 200col 30
Canadian-born Oki Sato received his MA in Architecture from Waseda University in Tokyo in
2002 and established his design office, nendo, the same year. He prides himself on the ability to
give form to a clients desires, those unspoken wishes, and making them realise that the result is
what they truly wanted all along. This present, as he calls it, is offered to them in a white box a
model of an interior. From shops and offices to cafs and installations, Satos mastery of
miniature creation is collected in 500 pages of photos from 38 projects and designs, accompanied
by detailed information about each. Although the books dimensions are small, within its thickness
lies wonder.

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Sekai No Moyo Cho. A Book Of World Textile Designs

Seigensha Art Publishing 2014 ISBN 9784861524653 Acqn 24552
Pb 11x15cm 312pp 275col ills 15
Susumu Ema (1910-1973), a Japanese artists who lived in Kyoto, also produced designs for
Nishijin silk fabrics. Feeling the need to infuse abundant diversity into the world of dyeing and
weaving design, he collected samples of textile fabrics from around the world and reproduced the
designs in the form of woodblock prints that he presented in a book, 'Tozai Senshokumon' (EastWest dyeing and weaving). This volume contains a full-colour collection of approximately 320
dyeing and weaving designs from Europe, Africa, the Middle and Near East and America that
were introduced in Ema's book.

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Graphic Design For Weddings

BNN Inc. 2015 ISBN 9784861009747 Acqn 24890
Pb 18x24cm 160pp 300col ills 21

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American Illustration 33
Amilus Inc 2015 ISBN 9781886212411 Acqn 24605
Hb 24x29cm 384pp 383col ills 58.50
In its 33rd annual volume honoring the year's best editorial, book, advertising, poster and fine art
illustration in hardcover, American Illustration comes extravagantly wrapped in all-black, organic,
uncoated paper stocks and cloth. The simple black-on-black elegance of this, the latest in a
series of celebrated annual books, is continued inside with a "little black book" that offers the
names of the artists, captions and creative credits for each of the images in the collection, along
with existential musings presented in verse anonymously, one for each of the 212 featured artists.
The beauty of the packaging culminates with an original coveran expressionless, genderless
face borrowed from old Buddhist paintingsby South Korean artist Daehyun Kim on a doublesided jacket. Co-designed by Len Small and Esther Wu, this edition of American Illustration
includes 383 winning images selected by a jury of top art and design professionals from among
9,720 images submitted by illustrators, magazines, publishers, agencies and schools. This year's
distinguished jury included Chris Dixon, Design Director, Vanity Fair; Marti Golon, Art Director,
Reader's Digest; Amy Hausmann, Deputy Director, MTA Arts for Transit & Urban Design and
Peter Morance, Art Director, The New York Times, among others. As always, each illustration is
generously presented one image per page in large format, standing on its own as a work of art.
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Design For Local Paper Media In Japan

BNN Inc. 2015 ISBN 9784861009549 Acqn 24771
Pb 23x29cm 192pp 300col ills 28.50
This book introduces various paper media designed to cover locals attractions in Japan such as
public relation magazines by local governments, free newspapers, zines, sightseeing information
magazines, flyers, maps, etc. This book focuses on local paper media, collecting apx.60 effective
graphic designs projects, as well as telling the stories behind the projects and designs

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Chimaski - Lovely Accessories Hand-made Of Shrink Plastic

BNN Inc. 2015 ISBN 9784861009761 Acqn 24891
Pb 18x24cm 88pp 260ills 250col 11.50
Text in Japanese
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