Progressive German Graphics explores the aesthetic, historical, and social influences of the period between the two world wars as manifested in the German, as well as Austrian, graphic design of the day. Highly conceptual and geometric, this style has had a significant impact on modern design. This volume includes an array of posters, packaging, trademarks, letterheads, and advertising ephemera that exemplify this distinctive genre. At first glance, the most striking qualities of German graphics are their weight and severity. But behind the stern geometry are layers of complexity that belie a larger context: the Bauhaus and Constructivist movements, the Gothic Style, and Art Deco, as well as such historical influences as World War I, the Weimar Republic, and the 1936 Olympics. Progressive German Graphics highlights numerous designs, many of which have never been published before in the United States. These artifacts reveal the development of German and Austrian graphic arts through the years of relatively free, creative expression, while the rest of the world still looked on in admiration.

Progressive German Graphics: 1900-1937

Arts & Photography

Leslie Cabarga

History & Criticism

Chronicle Books LLC.

The Lettering and Graphic Design of F.G. Cooper is a chronicle of the life and art of Fred Cooper (1883-1961), one of America's great cartoonists and designers who was also a founding member of the Society of Illustrators. In fact, Fred designed the lettering on the plaque at the Society's Manhattan headquarters. Lavishly illustrated with many pages in 2-color, the book displays a wide variety of Cooper's versatile work. 
 Fred Cooper s 'big-head' cartoon characters were seen constantly throughout the 1910s, 20s and 30s in many of the most popular magazines of the day such as Life, Colliers, and Liberty. His copious advertising cartoons and posters, running an amazing gamut of styles, for the New York Edison Company (now Con Edison) first brought him to fame. His posters for the first World War effort won high praise for their use of all lower-case hand lettering whose warmth and character obviated the need for additional illustration. F.G. Cooper was not the designer of the typeface Cooper Bold but his work inspired Oz Cooper (who designed the Cooper fonts) as well as a whole generation of cartoonists, letterers and poster designers. 
This book is very attractive and profusely illustrated with tons of 'spot'cartoons, full-page comics, illustrations, 'serious' posters, lettering examples and monograms. The book also contains family photos and some personal work of the artist's. 
 Cooper was the original clip art cartoonist whose style influenced all the others in the field. He also designed dozens of clever monograms for people like Rube Goldberg, Milton Caniff and Dwight D. Eisenhower which are shown in the book along with his preliminary sketches. 
 As the author describes the book's creation, "Work on this book began in 1980 when my publisher handed me a copy of an unpublished manuscript for a book on monograms and lettering that he had received for possible publication. He asked me, 'Say, have you ever heard of a guy named F. G. Cooper?' Well, I almost flipped! I'd been a huge fan of Cooper's work for years. I ended up adapting Fred Cooper's book proposal into a new book that included all his other work in addition to the lettering. When it was finally published, sixteen years later, I had no idea that the response from illustrators, letterers, sign men, and designers would be so overwhelmingly positive. There is a quote I use in the book from Oswald (Oz) Cooper, responding to some lettering samples Fred had sent him. 'That is some juicy lettering,' Oz wrote. I guess I'd have to say that this book, with its myriad examples of F. G. Cooper's work is also most 'juicy' in its way"

The Lettering and Graphic Design of F.G. Cooper

Cabarga, Leslie

Art Direction Book Company

First edition. Presents 300 trademarks with many shown in two colors. Not paginated. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

A Treasury of German Trademarks: Volume One, 1850-1925

Art Direction+book Co

Topless Summer Love Girls has been called The MAD Magazine of relationship books. It contains a collection of seriously humorous articles, photo features, sidebar essays, and cartoons, including an hilarious satire of Playboy magazine called Danglers that parodies the salacious inanity of men s mags and porn. 
The book s unusual title refers to a 30-page photo feature of topless women on the beaches of Cannes, Ibiza, and Barcelona, with funny captions exploring voyeurism.
 Mainly, TSLG is about how to identify quality, loving women and avoid those whose reproduction fixation can become man s ruination. TSLG includes an interview with Dr. Herb Goldberg, author of The Hazards of Being Male, about emotionally healthy men and women and what makes good relationships. 
 The author quotes extensively from men s authors such as Warren Farrell, Robert Glover, and Herb Goldberg; and from relationship books, and even feminist books, to answer Freud s timeless question, "What the !#@$! do women want?" This along with 300 funny cartoons and illustrations, and 200 sexy photos is the OTHER side of TSLG: a book that helps men sidestep the pitfalls of mating to develop wonderful, honest relationships with great women. 
 Who needs this book:
 Young men entering the dating scene
 * Men wanting to become married with children
 * Men who are stuck being married with children
 * Women who truly want to understand men
 * Men who truly want to understand themselves
 In Topless Summer Love Girls you will learn:
 * Dating techniques according to "The Louse, the Lover and the Loser. 3 men discuss honest, dishonest, effective and ineffective approaches to meeting women. 
 * What motivates women sexually and how to get them into bed.
 * What men MUST know about marriage and divorce
 * How some women trick men into commitment through pregnancy
 * Why marriage is the leading cause of no-sex (and what to do about it!).
 * What types of women are most likely to remain sexual for life.
 * How feminism (despite many positive results) betrayed women by demonizing men
 * How addiction to porn may defeat the primal mating urge
 * Everything you always wanted to know about boobies.
 Male and females readers alike say: It s funny as hell! 
 "My wife and I are going through your book page by page and loving it. She laughs out loud again and again and says, 'This is f--king great, I love this.'" - Charles
 "I found my husband s copy of Topless Summer Love Girls and I was like, 'What the hell---?' and then I started laughing. Then I was reading parts of it to him aloud. Then I was looking at the charts of breast shapes and wondering which was mine. The book shouldn t be subtitled A Gentleman's Guide... it should be called 'Everybody's Guide...'" - Sandra
 "It s a book that s hard to pin down: funny as hell on the one hand, but seriously full of essential info for men. It's like all the world's secrets in a candy wrapper." - Charlotte
 "All-American fun without being sleazy. Tons of graphics, and a great sense of humor." - Geri
 "Very clever and funny, I really cracked up. Celebrated male anger instead of having to squash it." - Lisa
 This book has been many years in the making, the author says. "It began when a doctor told my mother to stop breastfeeding me, and it continued when I was going through divorce and trying to make sense of what had happened to my relationship." The result is a thoroughly well-researched treatise on what motivates men--and women--to mate! TSLG provides real answers and serious solutions in a zany, madcap, entertaining format.

Topless Summer Love Girls; A Gentleman's Guide to Women, Relationships, and Breasts

Iconoclassics

Move over Uncle Scrooge! The richest character in comic book history is about to get his due. Harvey Comics' original creation Richie Rich, the Poor Little Rich Boy, represented the fantasies of every comic book-loving kid growing up in the 1960s and 70s. Now, Dark Horse is delighted to present the ultimate tribute to the boy who has everything - and we mean everything! This mega compilation of the essential Richie collects his earliest and most substantial stories for the first time ever. Created by Sid Jacbson and Warren Kremer as a back-up feature in Little Dot comics in 1953, Richie Rich went on to become Harvey's biggest money maker, appearing in over fifty different spin-off titles over the next 40 years. In addition to the magnificent comic art of Warren Kremer, Richie was also drawn by animation great Steve Muffatti and comics legend Ernie Colon.

Richie Rich: The Poor Little Rich Boy (Harvey Comics Classics, Vol. 2 )

Comics & Graphic Novels

Jerry Beck

Comic Strips

Dark Horse

Who's the hot-headed little devil with a tail as pointed as his personality? It's Hot Stuff! This adorably mischievous imp has delighted comics fans since the 1950s, and now Dark Horse is proud to present a new collection of over 100 of the funniest (and hottest!) classic Harvey Comics cartoons featuring Hot Stuff and his pals. Harvey Comics Classics Volume 3: Hot Stuff brings back the beautifully imaginative artwork, inspired humor, and long-out-of-print stories featuring the adventures of the sprightly little demon, his pals the Devil Kids, Stumbo the Giant, and other timeless favorites.

Harvey Comics Classics Volume 3: Hot Stuff (Harvey Comics Classics Library)

In his Superior Person's Book of Words and its two sequels, the incorrigible Peter Bowler did his best to spread confusion throughout the English-speaking world by encouraging his trusting readers to use obscure, sometimes preposterous, words for no other purpose than to impress (or conveniently befuddle) their peers. But he recently experienced a "Road to Damascus" conversion. Confronted by the damage being inflicted on his beloved Mother Tongue by the pretentious, euphemistic, obfuscatory, and self-aggrandizing cant now running amok in our military, corporate, and academic arenas, he is mounting a one-man campaign to return us to sanity.The Superior Person's Field Guide is a call for the return to simple, straightforward words that say what they mean and mean what they say. Most of us know that "downsizing" means that you're about to be fired, but have you ever heard its business-speak cousins "offshoreable" or "cash-flow episode"?With his customary wit and clear-sightedness, Bowler cuts a swath through the thickets of popular jargon, casting daylight on such linguistic deformities as "interrogate with prejudice" (that is, torture) and "unforeseen geological event" (a mining disaster). Impatient with euphemism, he examines ugly specimens forced into bloom in the interests of political correctness "waitperson," "developmentally challenged" designed to help the squeamish avoid direct confrontation with the simple facts of sex and disability. Here are circumlocutions that make the disagreeable seem agreeable, the unacceptable acceptable, and here is Peter Bowler, as always, trying to set the record, and the English language, straight.

The Superior Person's Field Guide to Deceitful, Deceptive & Downright Dangerous Language

Peter Bowler

University of New South Wales Press

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