Graphic Design Cookbook: Mix & Match Recipes for Faster, Better Layouts

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must have for graphic design students

Great Reference Book

Great for ideas to customize to your own needs

it's got some great ideas

Graphic Design Cookbook: Mix & Match Recipes for Faster, Better Layouts
Leonard Koren , and R. Wippo Meckler
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0811831809

Book Description

With 100,000 copies sold, Graphic Design Cookbook is one of the most useful all-purpose resources for designers and anyone who wants to create a dynamic layout for magazines, newsletters, books, posters, and other media. Now released with a fresh new cover, its more than a thousand line drawings illustrate effective design devices, type treatments, spatial solutions, and pictorial presentations, allowing examination and comparison of various options in no time. The Graphic Design Cookbook can be opened to virtually any page for instant access to great ideas. As a catalyst for cooking up endless new design recipes, this classic goes on inspiring one generation of designers to the next.

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HUGE Disappointment.......2007-09-12

This book is filled with nothing more than frivolous and useless fluff (I simply will not refer to them as "ideas"). For example, putting a detective hat atop an "R" and turning its serif into a pipe is downright childish. Seriously, any good designer or anyone with common sense would steer clear of this visually-horrifying garbage. If you are at all serious about design, pick up any/all of the Jim Krause books. This one's going to the next library book sale.

must have for graphic design students.......2007-09-10

I bought this book for my daughter, a graphic design student. She had borrowed it from a local library and said it was a "must have" that contained a wealth of knowledge and ideas. The service from Amazon was simply outstanding and my daughter was thrilled with her surprise!

Great Reference Book.......2007-06-08

This is a book that I will use over and over again!

Great for ideas to customize to your own needs.......2007-02-18

As an 8-year veteran newspaper and magazine editor, I thought this book was great for jump starting creativity without having to read all the psychobabble or starving artist type talk that some other graphic design books I've browsed at bookstores. This book was instrumental in my redesign of a magazine that recently got me an award.
If you're a veteran looking for some basic concepts to play with and customize, this book is great. If your looking for a book that tells you why 8-point fonts work great on red backgrounds with purple elephants, then this is not the book you're looking for.

it's got some great ideas.......2006-11-10

visually structured (good), very little editorial content (not-so good). it's a fair reference guide and not too expensive.

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Collectible porcelain Christmas plates have been made in Denmark by Bing & Grondahl since 1895 and by Royal Copenhagen since 1908. These and their many other popular commemorative series, including Mothers' Day, Jubilee, and Childrens' Day plates, have been cherished by generations of people all over the world. This is the first book to bring all the plates together in one beautiful, organized reference. Over 1000 color photographs showcase every series created. Descriptions of every plate made include their English and Danish titles, date, designer, reference code numbers, and current value range. Collectors, dealers, and historians alike will find the book easy to use and fun to consult because it is concise, attractive, and complete. 8-1/2" x 11" 1023 color Price Guide

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mancato ricevimento.......2007-03-05

é il 03/03/2007 e non ho ancora ricevuto il libro, la posta italiana dice che si è perso forse in dogana. Potete fare qualche cosa?
grazie

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Beautiful patterns, beautiful book........2005-05-31

This hardcover book is remarkably well put-together, looking almost like a coffee-table book and not a pattern omnibus at all. Inside there are lush patterns with flavor text about how the author thought up the project and historical notes about why she chose this or that positioning or border.

The patterns are simple and easy to make, though it does make me crazy that the author doesn't include patterns for all pieces depicted -- I wonder if these were included as teasers to make readers seek and purchase additional patterns. Many of these neglected patterns were ones I'd dearly love to make, but there's lots of other stuff here for embroiderers. The lion tapestry, in particular, is graceful and looks genuine for its period, and I adore her unicorn even if what she came out with as a pattern bears next to no relation to the "inspiration" she says she used. Her fleur-de-lys pattern, as well, is magnificent and would make a splendid seat cushion (a project which she actually recommends), floor mat, or hanging -- definitely suggest to readers.

Overall I'm very happy I got this book and would recommend it, especially as a gift, for any embroiderer, especially for those who enjoy fantasy or medieval-style patterns.

My Favorite Book of Needlepoint Patterns.......2004-03-12

If you love to do needlepoint, this is a wonderful book to have. I've done several projects using DMC wool, and they all turned out beautifully. I always work on 10 point penelope (double thread) brown canvas, just because I find it turns out so nicely.

If you've never done needlepoint before, I think it's one of the easiest of the needle crafts, it just takes a bit of practice to master. I find working from a book like this one much better than a kit, because you can choose your fabric and wool, and you don't have to worry about a slightly off set pattern printed on the canvas. Though if you're a beginner, you may want to start with a simple kit to get the hang of it. This book does have a how-to section that discusses technique, materials and how to finish each project.

Most of the patterns in this book are based on medieval tapestries. I did the lion and the unicorn, making both into pillows that look beautiful together on my couch. They work wonders on adding a touch of elegance to any room. One issue I had about this book is that it shows a lot of projects that it doesn't have patterns for, and I haven't yet found those patterns, though I've seen kits. For instance, there are really neat little Zodiac patterns, but only four signs of the Zodiac signs are included.

My only other complaint is the mottled colors used in the patterns made it hard to distinguish between two of the colors on one pattern, but the projects are beautiful, and this wasn't a general problem throughout the book.

Getting supplies for needlepoint can also be difficult. There is a conversion chart in the back, however, that works well. I used DMC wool rather than the Appleton that was suggested, since it was all I could get. Though there were a few instances of colors no longer existing or being too close a match to another color in the pattern, it was easy enough to substitute.

I have several books of needlepoint patterns, and this one is by far my favorite. Some other good needlepoint books with patterns are "Graham Rust's Needlepoint Designs," "The Ehrman Needlepoint Book" and "Beth Russell's William Morris Needlepoint."

Excellent source of medieval designs; knowledgeable designer.......1999-06-09

Bahouth's sense of color and composition are outstanding, and her knowledge of the period make the designs not only beautiful but true. Charts are clear, and color numbers are given for both Appleton and Paternayan wool, depending upon what a stitcher has available.

My one criticism of the book, and the only reason why I didn't give it 5 stars, is that Bahouth includes pictures of finished projects for which she does not provide the charts. This is maddening, because it seems that the one which really grabs you is the one you can't stitch. This is not the only book with this characteristic; reviews of her other books have indicated the same problem.

Other than that, anyone who enjoy medieval design and would like to create rich, beautiful pieces should consider adding this book to the library.

Beautiful and fun designs.......1998-12-22

The designs in this book are wonderful and not difficult to follow, even for a beginner. My only disappointment was that several of the designs in photographs are not charted in the book. I wish she would do another book with some of them. I have made several pieces from this book as gifts.

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After his father's death, Dennis Covington plunges into a Florida shootout to claim his only inheritance, two and a half worthless acres of land that his father bought in a real estate scam-but the more determined he becomes to share his father's dream with his own children, the more it seems that his true legacy is bad judgment in real estate. In a tale filled with characters drawn from a Florida like Flannery O'Connor's Georgia, Covington finds his life threatened, his truck torched, and his small cabin shot up and vandalized, but he clings to his inheritance with heartbreaking tenacity. Redneck Riviera is at once a comic and tender celebration of family, a brilliant look at the clash of values tearing much of rural America apart, and a bittersweet comment on our age-old passion to possess and transform the land.

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Excellent small book!.......2004-11-17

Despite its relative lack of heft, this book makes for rich reading. You will learn a lot and think about what Mr. Covington has to say on the subjects of family, land, and place.

Fascinating, in fits and starts.......2004-03-05

The core of the book, which is the author's wrongheaded and doomed attempt to reclaim his father's land -- now dominated by local hunters, outlaws and vaguely corrupt law enforcement officials -- is fascinating. Covington's attempt to transfer his dream of recapturing his inheritance to the wilds of Idaho is somewhat less interesting. Most dissapointing, though, is the attempt to string together a narrative over what must be about a decade's chronology. All told, a few key days on his father's land makes up the core of the story, and you don't get a sense of how long or how hard Covington's efforts were.

Interestingly, this area in Florida where the book takes place seems to dovetail with the swamps covered in Susan Orlean's "The Orchid Thief," which also gives a brief history of the land scam that sets this book's plot in motion.

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The book begins with a discussion of vernacular housing and American culture and makes the case that dwellings reflect the people of different regions, materials, techniques, and design traditions of an earlier time. The history of American housing is reviewed with biographies and bibliographies, setting the stage for the environmental and social science perspective of housing. Residential environments are then considered in the broad sense of home and housing. Neighborhood and community are examined with a special focus on people, behavior, and the physical setting. The arts and popular media chapter presents American popular housing as image and icon, focusing on the arts and popular media as "channels" of visual and symbolic information or communication. These channels include painting, prints, pattern books, photography, music, film, television and video, literature, "how-to" manuals, and newspapers and magazines. Taking a macro-level perspective, direct and indirect programs of public administration and policy for housing are discussed. Then, the complex systems of financing, and the prevalance and mechanisms for matching buyers with sellers is considered in the chapter that considers housing finance, marketing, economics and management. The chapter on environmental design, construction process, and technology reviews the professional disciplines and their perspectives on housing, special populations and accessibility needs, descriptions of building trades, terms, materials, construction processes and past industrial housing experiments, as well as issues of energy management, computer technology, futuristic housing, air quality and household hazards. Using current technology to conduct research, the final chapter breaks from the conventional ways of locating hard-copy, copyrighted references to a seemingly endless potential of electronic communication systems such as data tapes; on-line databases; other electronic databases; electronic mail; listserves, chat, and on-line communities; libraries; on-line electronic texts; software; and news and journals including electronic journals.

America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy

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Food For Thought
On 2004 Planetizon Top 10 list for Urban Planning Books
****right-wing alert*****
Sowell recommends

America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy
Howard Husock
Manufacturer: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
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Binding: Hardcover

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Low-income housing programs and lesser-known initiatives have harmed those they were meant to help while causing grave collateral damage, Mr. Husock argues. He emphasizes the deep but unappreciated importance to American society of economically diverse urban neighborhoods, and he demonstrates the historic and continuing importance of privately built affordable housing.

Customer Reviews:

Food For Thought.......2006-08-10

Don't be swayed by ideologues who likely haven't read the book.

Husock does a fantastic job of deconstructing the various policies and programs that have contributed to our current state of affairs with housing issues in the United States. Not content to just stay within the realm of government/taxpayer sponsored housing initiatives: the author proceeds to analyze programs like Habitat for Humanity. He views Habitat as a wonderful catalyst to get aspiring homeowners to invest in their home and their community with a sense of ownership, versus a handout that leaves no sense of place. But, this is just one example, the book gives you many more.

If one did actually read this with an open-mind, not likely for some, you would take away different perspectives on what is good/bad about various programs, and how resources could be shifted to meet housing needs in the most economic and managebale manner.

On 2004 Planetizon Top 10 list for Urban Planning Books .......2005-03-19

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2004 PLANetizen Top 10 Book List
The following list of top 10 books published in 2003 was compiled by the PLANetizen editorial staff based on a number of criteria, including editorial reviews, sales rankings, popularity, PLANetizen reader nominations, number of references, recommendations from experts and the book's potential impact on the urban planning, development and design professions.

Below are summaries for each selected title, in alphabetical order. Books published after December 2003 were not considered for this list.

America's Trillion Dollar Housing Mistake
The Birth of City Planning in the United States: 1840-1917
Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth 1820-2000
City: Urbanism and Its End
Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston
Global City Blues
Halfway to Everywhere: A Portrait of America's First-Tier Suburbs
House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods
Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment
Modern Architecture and Other Essays

America's Trillion Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy
by Howard Husock (Ivan R. Dee, Inc., November 2003)

Housing policy in the U.S. is an issue within the urban planning, development and design professions (and beyond) that is as tough, as it is sensitive, as it is variegated, as it is unresolved. And arguably many of us, united in acknowledging some of its past mistakes, are divided by its future course. America's Trillion Dollar Housing Mistake is a collection of essays written from 1995-2003 on everything that Howard Husock, director of public policy case studies at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, thinks is wrong with U.S. housing policy. It is an unforgiving look at the history of 'failed' housing programs in the U.S., with such provocative chapter titles as "Don't Let CDC's Fool You" and "We Don't Need Subsidized Housing." Husock dedicates nearly all of his book to trying to discredit policies such as the Community Reinvestment Act, the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, Section 8, public housing in its many forms, and subsidized non-profit housing development. He also offers some solutions, including a "compassionate conservative housing policy," which would gradually dismantle public housing and subsidy programs. He also highlights what he thinks are successful models, such as time-limited public housing in Charlotte, NC, and Habitat for Humanity.

The experience of reading Howard Husock's essays is interactive. Along the way, you may find yourself yelling out counter-arguments, or giving Husock a mental high-five. And depending on which chapter it is and what your position is on solving the seemingly insurmountable housing problems in this country, you may even find that you do both. Whether you agree with Howard Husock or not, America's Trillion Dollar Housing Mistake keeps you on your toes and holds you accountable for your opinions, whatever they may be, on housing policy in the U.S.

Buy this book

****right-wing alert*****.......2004-12-30

I went into this book with a completely open mind hoping to be enlightened. I certainly agree with the assertion that the title makes, and so I was looking forward to hearing Husock's analysis. What a waste of time. I didn't find a lot of original ideas here, or clear thoughts, just your basic John Birch Society argument against "big government."

Sowell recommends.......2004-02-07

Haven't read it yet, but on Thomas Sowell's recommendation, I will.

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Fascinating Novel
New Writer
Did I read the same book??
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Memorable Epic

Those Who Favor Fire: A Novel
Lauren Wolk
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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People feel at home in Belle Haven, and in many ways it is like any other small town, with a café where regulars come for the fresh cinnamon rolls and to talk about the weather, or one another, often staying all day.  It's a town with the usual collection of quirky characters--the people everyone knows who, by staying in one place long enough, have become part of its landscape. But what sets Belle Haven apart is its especially strong sense of community, which is both strengthened and tested by the uncontrollable mine fire that burns below the town.  Sometimes it breaks through the earth's surface to swallow somebody's garden or a garbage can, even a beloved pet, or to threaten a house.

Those Who Favor Fire is the love story of Rachel Hearn, who has lived in Belle Haven all her life, and the man everyone calls Just Joe, who has arrived only recently--and the story of their love for the town that has brought them together. But as the fire intensi-
fies, endangering Belle Haven and its people, it also threatens what Joe and Rachel have found together. Though some reluctantly consider relocating, Rachel refuses to leave the only place she's ever called home, the place that holds her richest memories. But Joe knows the danger of becoming too firmly rooted in a place. Ultimately, Rachel and Joe must decide whether to abandon their beloved town.

In her wonderful debut novel, Lauren Wolk has created a town every bit as real as the Mitford of Jan Karon's novels and populated it with characters as quirky, lively, and endearing as Fannie Flagg's.

Customer Reviews:

Fascinating Novel.......2004-07-25

Lauren Wolk has shown off her imaginative and numerous writing skills with her first novel. Her characters are well drawn and realistic. I am eagerly looking forward to her second.

New Writer.......2002-06-30

Contrary to an earlier reader's opinion, this book is in no way sexist or unbalanced. It is superbly written and is filled with three dimensional people (with one or two minor exceptions). Although romantic in theme this is far more than a romance written by gifted author. It will make a very interesting chick flick should it hit the big screen.

Did I read the same book??.......2001-12-11

As someone who lives rather close to the real town which was fictionalized in this book, I forced myself to get through the whole thing... and I found it to be ponderous at best, sexist at worse...

Every bad thing that happens in the book is the fault of some man (I won't reveal the plot, but you won't believe how true this is), and every good thing a woman accomplishes is because she overcame the bad things some man did to her.

Every stupid thing in the book is done by a man. Every clever thing said is said by a woman.

Marketing this book to feminists could make it a best-seller.

Don't hesitate to get this book!.......2000-08-31

I received this book as a birthday present, and what a gift it was! Those Who Favor Fire grabs the reader's attention and holds it until the very end, which comes all too soon! This expertly-woven tale is about a small Pennsylvannia town, the coal fire that rages beneath it, and how its inhabitants deal with their fears. Interesting and well-developed characters, short chapters, and great imagery make it a very fast read. I hope we'll again meet Rachel, Joe and those memorable inhabitants of Belle Haven whom we've come to know so well. Thank you, Lauren, for such a wonderful first novel. I'm looking forward to your next.

Memorable Epic.......2000-05-17

Wolk's beautifully evoked fiery town stays in my mind even now, a good six months after the reading. The tale weaves disparate lives into a beautiful, grabbing patchwork. It was a surprise that I slipped right into. The images of those who favor fire still stick with me, and their voices are still in my ears. The characters were real, palpable.

Anticipating the colonias: popular housing in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, 1890-1923.: An article from: Journal of the Southwest

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Anticipating the colonias: popular housing in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, 1890-1923.: An article from: Journal of the Southwest
Andrew G. Wood
Manufacturer: University of Arizona
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of the Southwest, published by University of Arizona on December 22, 2001. The length of the article is 3841 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Anticipating the colonias: popular housing in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, 1890-1923.
Author: Andrew G. Wood
Publication: Journal of the Southwest (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2001
Publisher: University of Arizona
Volume: 43 Issue: 4 Page: 493(12)

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