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The Label Made Me Buy It: The Best-Dressed Boxes, Bottles and Cans From Aunt Jemima to Zonkers

The Label Made Me Buy It: The Best-Dressed Boxes, Bottles and Cans From Aunt Jemima to Zonkers

by Ralph Kovel, Terry Kovel

Smoking chimneys, Aunt Jemima, streamlined trains, and Trojans have all decorated labels to help sell everything from soup to cigars. More than 300 striking labels feature these images and more--from bathing beauties and cherubic babies to Abraham Lincoln and Peter Pan. When Ralph and Terry Kovel started collecting labels, they learned that every label is an ad and a mystery. A label is designed to catch your eye,... (more)

Posters American Style

by Therese Thau Heyman

"A handsome survey of a century of vivid images that rallied support for such mainstays of civilization as war, peace, movies, psychedelic rock bands, and Levy's rye bread."-Los Angeles Times A successful poster has an unmistakable and immediate impact. Featured here are 120 posters by some of the most popular American artists and graphic designers of the period. Will Bradley, Ben Shahn, Robert Rauschenberg,... (more)

American Art Deco: American Art (American Art Series)

American Art Deco: American Art (American Art Series)

by Eva Weber

High School Musical Poster Book

by tk

Whether you're a jock who secretly loves to sing or a brainiac who dances while nobody's watching, or if you just can't get enough of Disney Channel's High School Musical , this poster book is for you! Decorate your room and your locker with removable full-color posters of all your favorite stars-Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Ryan, and more! Also included are 8 postcards that you can send to your friends!

The Graphic Art of Michael Schwab

by Michael Schwab

8 1/2 x 11 3/8 200 color illustrations US and Canada Distribution graphic design Bold images married to equally bold colors characterize the signature style of Michael Schwab, a dynamic designer whose museum-quality work is assembled in one volume for the first time. The breadth of Schwab's quarter-century career is captured in these compelling pages. Shown are his pen-and-ink designs coupled with large, flat... (more)

James Bond Movie Posters (Postcard Book)

James Bond Movie Posters (Postcard Book)

For the first time as a postcard book, the classic James Bond poster collection The James Bond series is the most successful film franchise of all time and interest in 007 film memorabilia continues to remain high. Release of the 20th film in the series, Die Another Day, and the celebration of 40 years of Bond films in 2002, has only seen that interest increase. James Bond Movie Posters - The Official Postcard... (more)

Evil Doesn't Live Here: Posters of the Bosnian War

Evil Doesn't Live Here: Posters of the Bosnian War

by Daoud Sarhandi

For most Americans and Europeans, the Bosnian War was played out in the brief, flickering images of television news. But another set of images, more permanent and more profound, played an active role in this war, molding public sentiment and calling attention to the plight of the Bosnian people. For three hellish years, Bosnians plastered the walls of their towns with messages of anger, frustration, desperation,... (more)

Just Another Poster?/Solo UN Cartel Mas?: Chicano Graphic Arts in California/Artes Graficas Chicanas En California

Just Another Poster?/Solo UN Cartel Mas?: Chicano Graphic Arts in California/Artes Graficas Chicanas En California

Just Another Poster? investigates the critical role posters and other graphic materials played in the Chicano struggle for self-determination in California, from the borderland of San Diego to the urban metropolis of San Francisco. This volume of essays by an interdisciplinary group of scholars and curators represents the first comprehensive study of the ways the poster, as a medium of expression largely relegated... (more)

World War I Posters (Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide)

World War I Posters (Schiffer Book for Collectors with Price Guide)

by Gary A. Borkan

World War I was the first war in which the pictorial full color poster played a major propaganda role. The eras greatest illustrators and fine artists contributed their energies to produce hundreds of great and classic posters. A surprising number of these posters have survived and many are still found in attics and barns today. This book illustrates over 450 World War I posters that were produced in the United... (more)

Lost: Lost and Found Pet Posters from Around the World

Lost: Lost and Found Pet Posters from Around the World

by Ian Phillips

One of the first impulses of an owner who's lost a pet is to canvas the neighborhood with quickly made posters. And even if we haven't seen the wanderer in question, many of us stop to read these notices, which are often charming combinations of heartfelt pleas, humor, and handmade art. For the last decade, Ian Phillips has collected lost pet posters from around world. In Lost, Phillips selects from his vast... (more)

2 Poster Book (High School Musical)

Kids can make summer last forever with the High School Musical 2 Poster Book. They can decorate their walls and lockers with their favorite scenes from High School Musical 2 -Troy practicing his golf swing, Chad playing softball, Sharpay singing her heart out, and much more! Plus, the postcards inside will help kids keep in touch with all the friends they made on summer break!

Hannah Montana Photo Poster Book (Hannah Montana)

Hannah Montana Photo Poster Book (Hannah Montana)

by Modern Publishing, Disney

Join Hannah and her friends in completing photo inspired activities with this photo album book. Book includes full-color poster inside!

Children of The Night - A Comprehensive Guide To Horror Posters

Children of The Night - A Comprehensive Guide To Horror Posters

by James A Gresham

DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, THE MUMMY and THE WOLF MAN are probably the most recognizable monsters in cinema history. These monsters are the icons of Horror. Children of the Night is the most complete and comprehensive collection of posters for these and many other great films of the golden age of horror. This book is comprised of over 1,000 poster pictures on almost 300 full color pages. These are the very best images... (more)

Istvan Orosz: Vision of DesignIndex Book

Istvan Orosz: Vision of Design

by Index Book

Burlesque Poster Design: The Art of Tease

Burlesque Poster Design: The Art of Tease

Some are subtle as a fan dance, while others are saucy as twirling tassels, and they're all collected here—the finest, raunchiest, most teasing burlesque poster art, from the Follies Bergère of 1880 to the London Burlesque of 2008. More than 150 poster designs illustrate the history -of bumping and grinding, flirting and subverting. All graphic designers eager to study the evolution of this specific art form will... (more)

Fly now! : a colorful story of flight from hot air balloon to the 777 "Worldliner" : the poster collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Fly now! : a colorful story of flight from hot air balloon to the 777 "Worldliner" : the poster collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

by Joanne M. Gernstein London

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum draws more visitors than any other museum in the world—90,000 a day in the summertime—and the highlight of summer 2007 at the NASM will be "Fly Now," the exhibit of air travel posters featured in this unique companion volume which combines arresting, colorful art, rare archival material, and a unique approach to aeronautical history. The posters—most of them never... (more)

Design for Victory: World War II Poster on the American Home Front

Design for Victory: World War II Poster on the American Home Front

by William L. Bird

Inciting Americans at home to do their part in producing for the war effort, the poster--inexpensive, accessible, and ever-present--was an ideal agent for making war aims the personal mission of every citizen. From 1941 to 1945, government agencies, businesses, and private organizations issued an array of poster images linking the military front with the home front, calling upon all Americans to boost... (more)

Exploitation Poster Art

This collection presents the crème de la crème of schlocky movie posters—from Sexploitation to Blaxploitation, High School Hellcats to Fritz the Cat. The movies may be tacky, but the posters are masterpieces of innuendo—vivid, often comic reminders of the taboos of yesteryear. Sex, drugs, delinquency, Black Power, rock ‘n’ roll: these are just a few of the themes that have inspired B-movie makers over the past 80... (more)

Film Posters of the 70s : The Essential Movies of the Decade - From the Reel Poster Gallery Collection

Film Posters of the 70s : The Essential Movies of the Decade - From the Reel Poster Gallery Collection

by Graham Marsh

The editors have compiled a stunning selecti on of the best film posters from around the world - a select ion that encapsulates the spirit of the 70s and reminds us o f the vast and variegated contribution that the decade made to the history of the cinema. '

Film Posters of the 30s

The 1930s was the cinema’s age of innocence, a time when the emphasis was on escapism and entertainment. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn were Bringing Up Baby, Busby Berkely’s precision-drilled chorus girls were Flying Down to Rio, Fred Astaire was donning his Top Hat, and John Wayne was climbing on the Stagecoach to stardom. As this stunning collection of poster art reveals, it was also the decade of the... (more)

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