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The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers (World of Art)

Arts & Photography

Livingston, Alan

Livingston, Isabella

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

This is a comprehensive guide to international developments in graphic design. From pre-industrial printing presses and medieval typography to computer graphics and avant-garde stylistic advances, a wealth of entries elucidate technical terms and detail movements, media, advertising, corporate identity, posters, packaging, and magazine and book design—placing graphic design in the wider context of the history of fine art and illustration. The personalities, motivations, and achievements of the most innovative figures in the field are fully outlined. 
The 485 illustrations give a stunning visual record, while the text incorporates cross-referencing, a full bibliography, and a chronological chart outlining the relationship between movements, technology, and designers. This revised edition features over forty new entries on today's most influential designers, organizations, and publications in the graphic-design world. Extensive updates ensure that the latest information and developments are included for all entries. 
Here is an indispensable reference work for students and designers that will fascinate anyone interested in the interaction of word and image and the communication of ideas. 485 illustrations, 59 in color.

The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers (World of Art)

“Covers everything from airbrush to Hermann Zapf.” ―Communication Arts The interaction of words and images and the visual communication of ideas are an essential part of daily life, and these concepts are at the heart of graphic design. With over 200 new and updated entries, this indispensable book provides information about typographers, journals, movements and styles, organizations and schools, printers and private presses, art directors, technological advances, design studios, graphic illustrators, and poster artists from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. More than 550 illustrations, extensive cross-references, and a chronological chart outlining the relationship between movements, technology, and individual designers make this an invaluable reference for students and professionals alike. 545 illustrations, 78 in color

Reference

Gabriel's Creek Golf Course couldn't be found when Chris Collins looked for a course where he could play a special round. Still, there was no reason he should expect anything other than a normal and relaxing day of golf when he stumbled into this easy-to-forget place. He meets the course mascot, a Border collie named Ralphie, a dog they say just showed up one day out of nowhere. Then, a special breakfast ends with the Pro's caution, "This place is magical...You'll see what I mean." Collins has chosen to spend one of the last days of his life doing something he loves: walking 18 holes of golf. With Ralphie as guide and companion, Gabriel's Creek itself brings out his reflections on life in a tale about family, friends, and commitment, about dogs and destinations. As his round winds along, the course brings a variety of characters from his past to meet him. These players show much about who Collins is and how he treasured his life's relationships. Along with them, he is popped into and out of golf holes across two continents. Some are places he has played before, while some he had simply dreamed of before. Is it time travel, or is it just the enchantment of Gabriel's Creek? The 18th hole is more than the end of Chris' round. On that final green, Collins finds that Gabriel's Creek Golf Course exists in neither the earthly nor the next world, but perhaps somewhere in between.

Gabriel's Creek

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Alan Livingston

From the author of the novel “Gabriel’s Creek” comes “Intersection With History”, a personal look back at the experience of his Fort Worth, Texas family on a historic day that shocked the world.After charismatic U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy spent the last night of his life in downtown Fort Worth’s landmark Hotel Texas, the morning broke with a dreary, drizzling overcast. The president made his last speeches and had his last meal while being entertained by an acclaimed local youth choir. The singers fascinated the president so much he stopped on his way out of the banquet hall to thrill the adolescents, shaking their hands and chatting over the roar of the crowd’s applause. Afterwards, bright sunshine had broken, bathing the motorcade driving the president and his entourage through enthusiastic neighborhoods to Air Force One for his final flight to Dallas, only minutes away.The sound of that presidential jet taking off just above the roof of the author’s classroom was still burning into the memories of the children when their Principal told them of the assassination. Minutes later, he learned from his mother that Kennedy’s killer had been her fourth-grade student; she had been a teacher years before in that very same grade school. Of course she remembered him – she always had a soft spot for challenged children. Young Lee Harvey Oswald had grown from the schoolboy she mentored to become the alleged assassin of the President of the United States.Soon, his older brother arrived home from his performance for the president with the Texas Boys Choir. The excitement of his brief encounter with President Kennedy was shattered by news of the man’s murder within an hour of their handshake. The dramatic contrast of those two events haunted the brother the rest of his life.For their mother, the days and weeks that followed included the unwanted notoriety of her picture in Life Magazine, television interviews, and a deposition for the Warren Commission. Oswald would become the subject of conspiracy theories regarding the assassination until long after her death.The author was a second-grader when he witnessed history and felt it touch his family. A novelist in his senior years, he offers a narrative that is both intimate memoir and essential reference. “Intersection With History” is a time capsule that sheds another fresh light on the events of November 22nd, 1963.“Intersection With History” contains bonus material: the opening chapters of “Gabriel’s Creek”, the author’s novel of a man’s inspirational round of golf on a magical course with an unusual dog.

Intersection with History: How My Family Crossed Paths with JFK and Oswald

History

Americas

Three Nineteens Publishing

Kurt Jackson Sketchbooks

The exhibited works of Kurt Jackson (b.1961) do not necessarily reveal his day-to-day working practice. Behind his finished canvases are hundreds of sketchbooks borne out of his continual routine of making drawings, marks, notes, poems and scribbles. This book, newly available in paperback, examines the importance of the sketchbook to Jackson. For Jackson, sketchbooks are vital to the development and completion of his paintings. Often sketching while a painting evolves, the artist values each medium equally—the pages of his sketchbooks reveal how the hastily executed images can help him to work out what he wants to achieve on canvas, or simply capture a spontaneous image when there is not enough time to paint or draw properly. Illustrating mundane daily events and happenings as well as key moments, journeys and the overlapping ongoing project work, Jackson's sketchbooks are key to understanding his inspirations as an artist. Drawing on a selection of 20 sketchbooks, of differing sizes and a variety of media, this fascinating publication provides a rare insight in to the mind of a highly creative and original artist.

Jackson, Kurt

Lund Humphries

Dictionnaire du graphisme (Univers de l'art) (French Edition)

Photography & Video

THAMES

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