Today, what we require in our living spaces has led us to rethink the way we use and design the interiors of our homes. We’re more likely to need large areas to create a home office, play area, storage space, or display for the latest home entertainment equipment. While many of us have good ideas, we can’t always see the ways to carry them out. This magnificently illustrated text leads you through the process and supplies clear and understandable examples demonstrating just how easy it can be to transform your home into a space that fits the way you want to live today.

Renovated Home, The

Arts & Photography

Weaving, Andrew

Architecture

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When you go to Home Depot to look at their ready-made cabinetry, you may not think of it as prefab, but in fact that’s just one example of the many amenities today’s manufacturers offer. Customized amenities provide homeowners comforts they couldn’t afford otherwise and often more economical and environmentally smart ways. Think of luxury bathrooms with multilevel showers or oversized whirlpool tubs, skylights, staircases, ceramic tile and much, much more. Prefab Elements discusses this phenomenon, presenting scores of new materials and items that can be used either in a total prefab environment built from scratch or as individual items in a renovation or redesign. Building on the bestselling success of Prefab Modern, this inspiring book also provides a fascinating history of how the prefab movement really got started and how architects like Frank Lloyd Wright became increasingly involved with early prefab development. A source list and glossary are included to help homeowners get up to speed on this all the new exciting opportunities prefabricated elements offer today.

Prefab Elements

McLendon, Sandy

Draws on the professional decorator's experience with utilizing eBay resources to collect needed materials and work within a budget, recounting how she implemented specific design themes within a sample house while overcoming eBay pitfalls, mastering bidding skills, and adapting imperfect items. 30,000 first printing.

Decorating on eBay

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Guggenheim, Barbara

Crafts & Hobbies

For fifty-one years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competitions. Typography 26 is the only annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work in this field for the year 2005. Selected from approximately 2300 international submissions to the fiftieth Type Directors Club competition, the 240 winning designs are models of excellence and innovation in the use of type design, encompassing wide range of categories, including books, magazines, corporate identities, logotypes, stationery, annual reports, video and web graphics, and posters.

Typography 26 (The Annual Of The Type Directors Club)

TYPE DIRECTORS CLUB

History & Criticism

AT LAST! THE SIMPSONS TELL-ALL BOOK YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! 
<li>You'll gasp in amazement at this revealing, no-holds-barred, and (in one minor instance) poignant family album. NOTHING OMITTED! NO PUNCHES PULLED! 
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<li>Assembled and narrated with painstaking, loving care by none other than that First Lady of Tall Hair, Marge Simpson. YOU'LL LAUGH! YOU'LL CRY! YOU'LL TURN THE PAGE! 
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<li>Armchair anthropologists, deviant psychologists and students of Ancient Simpson History will all gape in awe at: BART AS A BABY! MARGE AS A PRE-TEEN! HOMER WITH HAIR! GRAMPA WITH TEETH! 
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<li>and...a potato grown in the shape of Millard Fillmore! DON'T WAIT! TAKE THE BAIT! 
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<li>It's the definitive memoir of an all-American nuclear family.</li>

The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album

Comics & Graphic Novels

Groening, Matt.

Comic Strips

Groundbreaking artist Justin BUA is internationally known for his bestselling collection of fine art posters—The DJ being one of the most popular prints of all time. Staring in the world of commercial art, BUA designed and illustrated myriad projects, from skateboards and CD covers to advertising campaigns. He developed the look and feel of the opening sequence for MTV's Lyrist Lounge Show, EA sports video games NBA Street and NFL Street, and the world of Slum Village's award-winning music video, "Tainted," among others. His line of apparel and his limited edition sneakers sold out completely. His energetic and vocal worldwide fan base ranges from former presidents,, actors, musicians, professional athletes, and dangers to street kids and art connoisseurs. 
In The Beat of Urban Art, BUA lays out his unique vision, melding urban rhythms, graffiti, and classical art training. This visually arresting book is about his life, his work, and the birth of Hip-Hop. As we follow BUA through his turbulent youth, navigating he streets and underground worlds of the urban jungle, we recognize the powerful evolution of BUA's distinct style—"Distorted Urban Realism."
Following in the footsteps of the great masters, BUA represents the lives of the revered and the marginalized, the heroes and the underdogs of his time—New York City during the 1970s and ‘80s. With an autobiographical narrative illustrated with photographs, drawings, sketches, studies, and explanations of how many of his paintings were created, The Beat of Urban Art takes you into the head of the modern-day Toulouse-Lautrec.

Beat of Urban Art, The

Bua, Justin

One Hundred Young Americans

Photography & Video

This thirty-sixth edition in the Creativity series displays the best and brightest in advertising and design work from creative professionals around the world.
Creativity 36, which features more than 1,000 color photographs and illustrations, covers dozens of categories in both the consumer and trade markets, including advertisements, posters, billboards, brochures, catalogs, calendars, promotional items, corporate identity manuals, magazine covers, web sites, and much more.
Creative professionals looking for inspiration, or anyone with an interest in quality graphic design, will find Creativity 36 an invaluable resource.

Creativity 36

Creativity Awards

Packaged in the ultimate wraparound slipcase and weighing in at a hefty 8.8 pounds, SIMPSON WORLD The Ultimate Episode Guide (Seasons 1-20) is meant for reading, not throwing!

Simpsons World: The Ultimate Episode Guide, Seasons 1-20

Graphic Novels

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Book

George-Warren, Holly

Music

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