CSI meets Who Do You Think You Are? meets Time Team meets The Antiques Roadshow. Two-dimensional works of art become three-dimensional thrillers. Philip Mould is an international art dealer who has lived the high stakes game of art sleuthing for twenty years. In Sleuth, we encounter the fascinating dealers, experts, auctioneers and restorers who risk fortunes and reputations to turn overlooked artworks into coveted treasures. Sleuth is laced with dramas: / Gainsborough's earliest picture emerges in a Los Angeles saleroom - the author has three days to find the missing facts and decide what to pay. / The most powerful man in the art establishment, with the influence to elevate a copy into a priceless original, is asked to look at a 'fake' Rembrandt self portrait: if he says yes a GBP5,000 picture turns into GBP5 million masterpiece. / A Vermont professor unlocks the door of a defunct Catholic church to reveal a hidden cache of 300 portraits. / An auctioneer notices from the upper story of a bus that Damien Hirst's restaurant is being dismantled. He swoops in and sells the fixtures and fittings for GBP13 million. Sleuth is a series of stories which not only reveals the extraordinary culture of detection but the people behind it. Paintings and their discovery become a way into the minds, preoccupations and professions of a raft of influential figures beyond the commercial and museum facade - men and women who have shaped their lives in pursuit of truth and profit through art.

Sleuth: The Amazing Quest for Lost Art Treasures

Arts & Photography

Philip Mould

History & Criticism

Harpercollins

How to survive and prosper as an artist

Just because you’re an artist doesn’t mean you have to be broke. Caroll Michels offers a wealth of insider’s advice on getting your work exhibited, preparing resumes and presentations, public relations and advertising, applying for grants and awards, legal issues, and more. Includes a fully updated resource guide.

Michels, Caroll

Business of Art

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Tells the story of Dossena, a forger of antique and Renaissance sculpture, and explains how he was eventually exposed

Unmasking the Forger

Sax, David

Universe Books

A full color annual that presents the best work of the nation's leading design firms.These ground-breaking designs are organized into seven categories: logos, complete identity programs, corporate identity manuals, letterhead designs, package designs, signage &amp; environmental graphics, and corporate brochures. Over the years many trendsetting styles have first appeared in this series. An essential resource, this reference should be close at hand on every corporate identity designer's bookshelf.

American Corporate Identity 2005

Carter, David E.

Harper Design

Brochure design is critical in the world of marketing and graphic design, yet can be challenging to execute successfully. The Big Book of Brochures is an extraordinary visual collection featuring work from top designers around the globe. It offers hundreds of ideas, pages of inspiration, and loads of advice for professional graphic designers and students alike. This book provides ideas on corporate and product literature, annual reports and direct marketing, and new media, providing a wellspring of ideas for designers creating client brochures. It offers recommendations for choosing type, layout, photo treatments, and much more. Covering a variety of styles, from classic to modern, sophisticated to conceptual, The Big Book of Brochures is an indispensable brainstorming resource for any designer looking to create innovative, high-quality brochures.

The Big Book of Brochures

Funf Freunde (Five Friends)

Over the years, shopping has grown from the traditional need to supply and provide subsistence into an everyday habit associated with leisure, social activity, and pleasure. Consequently, designing store windows has become an art form in itself. These settings, whose final objective is always to seduce the possible consumer, are laid out according to different concepts of color, light, materials and disposition. This book shows how successful store windows have become an important mediator between goods and the consumer. The volume includes windows designed for legendary, world–famous brands the likes of Versace, Burberry, Chanel, Dolce &amp; Gabbana, Gucci, Prada, as well as the designs from top professionals such as Simon Doonan for Barneys.

Windows of the World: Store Windows that Dazzle

Bou, Louis

Graphic Design

HarperCollins, Publishers-

Global Corporate Identity 3 is the third edition in a series offering some of the best international corporate identity in current use today.
Designing for clients who conduct business on an international level isn't nearly the rare event it once was. Due in large part to the ease of internet communication, even small firms and freelance designers have this opportunity more than they ever have, so being exposed to ideas, themes, and design executions that cross cultural lines is invaluable.
Global Corporate Identity 3 showcases hundreds of superlative examples of design used on a multinational level. Work from 30 different countries and five continents is represented in this book making it a welcome addition to any graphics reference library.

Global Corporate Identity 3

Imaginative and inspirational, Point of Purchase is an essential resource for creating striking and innovative exhibition and store displays.
This book showcases a variety successful point of purchase displays that look great, use retail space efficiently, and drive sales. It presents a wide range of formats, dimensions, styles, and a whole visual language that is used to entice the customer into the purchase. Colors, textures, lighting, and graphic arts fuse to create expressive, captivating, and functional systems, capable of capturing the attention of potential buyers. With full-color photographs throughout, Point of Purchase is a must for anyone involved in retail, interior, and exhibition, stand, and event design.

Point of Purchase

Serrats, Marta

The Big Book of Color is a hard book to top––one of the all time best selling titles in its field––but this companion edition does just that! The New Big Book of Color features a huge new crop of recent designs, creating a deluxe, full–color volume packed with numerous superior designs. 
 This reliable, one–stop resource shows the best work of top graphics designers from more than five hundred firms across the United States. A treasure trove of inspiring ideas and ongoing reference for anyone concerned with logo design for corporations, retail establishments, restaurants, entertainment venues, and organizations of all kinds, this book also definitely belongs near the drawing board of any student who is seriously preparing for a graphics design career.
 The New Big Book of Color examines projects in even greater detail than The Big Book of Color with commentary from David E. Carter oh why each piece works well, as well as color formulas for print and web. Some projects also include commentary from the designers on what their ideas when creating the piece. 
 The sections are based on descriptions of the color combinations used on a given piece. 
 Complimentary
 Contrasting
 Feminine
 Masculine
 Childlike
 Lively
 Peaceful
 Hip
 Cool
 Warm
 Natural
 Retro
 Fun
 Classic
 Monochromatic

The New Big Book of Color

Every green-lighted screenplay travels a long and harrowing road from idea to script to celluloid. In this fascinating survey of contemporary film craft, David Cohen of Script and Variety magazines interviews screenwriters from across the board—Oscar winners and novices alike—to explore what sets blockbuster successes apart from downright disasters. Tracing the fortunes of twenty-five films, including Troy, Erin Brockovich, Lost in Translation, and The Aviator, Cohen offers valuable insider access to the back lots and boardrooms, to the studio heads and directors, and to the overcaffeinated screenwriters themselves. Full of critical clues on how to sell a script—and avoid seeing it destroyed before the director calls "Action!"—Screen Plays is a book that both the aspiring screenwriter and curious cinephile will find irresistible.

Screen Plays: How 25 Screenplays Made It to a Theater Near You--for Better or Worse

Cohen, David S.

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