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100 Hearts is 100 illustrations that explores one of the most widely used and beloved symbols of all time - the heart. Using the heart symbol as a creative launch pad, the illustrations are playful responses to 100 different human emotions and ways of being in the world. They attempt to express each feeling, each way of being, no matter how complex, in the simplest visual language possible, inspired by the heart symbol itself. The creative process...
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Merrell and the Natural History Museum, London
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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The revolutionary drawings of Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937) are considered some of the finest botanical illustrations of the twentieth century. His mastery of microtechnique lends a startling clarity and razor-sharp edge to the many cross-sections and diagrams of flowers that he produced to accompany his elegant studies. Immured in the Botanical Gardens at Oxford, he was, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the most knowledgeable...
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Allworth
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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The market for illustration is changing. How can illustrators survive and thrive? Illustration students, educators, and working artists will find illuminating commentary on editorial, graphic novels, comics, animations, Web, games, toys, fashion, textiles, and more, along with an exploration of how old platforms have changed and new ones emerged. Fifty working illustrators, including such top names as Christoph Niemann, Alex Murawski, Jashar...
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English
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How to Be a Moonflower, the new book from bestselling author Katie Daisy, celebrates the magic and mystery of the world at night.
Discover the world that awakens after everyone else has gone to sleep. In this lavishly illustrated book, New York Times—bestselling artist Katie Daisy explores the mystery and magic of the nighttime. Join her on a journey from dawn to dusk, complete with quotes, poems, meditations, field guides to different nocturnal...
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This graphic novel by an Expressionist master offers a stunning depiction of urban Europe between the world wars. First published in Germany in 1925, it presents unforgettable images from the tense and dynamic Weimar period, rendered in 100 woodcuts of remarkable force and beauty. A pacifist during World War I, Belgian-born Frans Masereel (1889-1972) sympathized with the struggles of the working classes and strived to make his art accessible to ordinary...
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English
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Learn how to combine delicate watercolor illustrations with expressive hand lettering to create beautiful art and gifts. Self-taught artist Tanja Pöltl shares the tips, tricks and know-how she's learned on her creative journey so that you can fast-track your skills.
Discover the materials you'll need in terms of watercolor paints, brushes, paper and pens, then get started with Tanja's exercises to learn the basic techniques of hand lettering and...
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English
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A completely original and funny new take on cats. Doogie Horner, a writer and illustrator, knows just what it is about cats that so obsesses and delights us, their impenetrable personalities, their self-contained quirkiness, the aura of mystery that makes it seem as if they're always up to something that they don't want us to know about. So, he imagines their secret lives for us, in a way that takes the most surprising and whimsical turns.
With full-color...
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English
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A spectacular range of wildlife appears in this fine collection of painstakingly accurate 19th-century drawings. Both artists and animal lovers will treasure these splendid illustrations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects. A priceless archive of royalty-free art. Captions.
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Painstakingly reproduced from a rare volume of German engravings, this splendid work comprises all of the Bible's best-loved, most-quoted stories. Imaginative illustrations depict 105 episodes from the Old Testament and 74 scenes from the New Testament, accompanied by a citation of chapter and verse and the King James Version of the text.
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A full-color illustrated compendium chronicling the magical twenty-year journey of acclaimed art and design studio, MinaLima, the creative genius behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film series.
"It all started with a letter . . ."
Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima began their extraordinary partnership in 2001 when Warner Bros. invited them to realize the imaginative visual universe of the Harry Potter film series. The two artists would never...
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English
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This rare collection, originally published in Germany during the 1860s, presents a wealth of designs from temples and other buildings of ancient Greece and Rome. The seventy-one black-and-white plates include mythological creatures, floral borders, engraved columns and capitals, and many other decorative motifs, all rendered with the delicacy and precision characteristic of classical ornament. A valuable source of royalty-free illustrations, this...
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The Experiment, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"The goal of this book is to inspire you to explore the complex world of the economy. We want to provide understandable and entertaining access to it through the medium of the infographic. The Global Economy as You've Never Seen It is for everyone who finds it impossible to work their way through the business section of The New York Times each morning and who missed--or slept through--their Business and Econ 101 classes. Our expedition through the...
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Watson-Guptill
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"From expert illustrator and instructor Wendy Hollender comes this gorgeously illustrated, easy-to-follow, and inspiring guide to traditional and stunningly realistic botanical drawing that covers everything you need to draw our natural world"--
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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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""Brilliantly conceived and executed, Botticelli's Secret is a riveting search for buried treasure." -Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve. Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence's art world, he was commissioned by a member of the city's powerful Medici family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all one hundred cantos of The Divine Comedy...
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Are you looking for the most beautiful vintage rose illustrations?⍾⍾Do you need a perfectly curated collection for your next project? Few flowers are as romantic or evocative as roses. Prized for their beauty and fragrance, roses have been cultivated for thousands of years. There are hundreds of different species of rose, and they come in a wide variety of colors. While they are often associated with romantic love, roses also symbolize other things...
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English
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This step-by-step guide provides an insight into how to illustrate fashion designs and get your ideas down on paper. It is of interest to any designer, from the complete beginner or someone hoping to improve their skills and establish a career as a fashion illustrator, to professionals wanting to strengthen their visual impact. Using inspiration from past artists and illustrators, readers will learn how to adopt new and different ways of drawing.
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From LAIKA, the studio behind the hit film Coraline, comes another marvel of stop-motion animation and creative storytelling. For ParaNorman, LAIKA's team of artists and animators built and brought to life a miniature town, a horde of zombies, and a quirky cast of characters to tell a tale of a boy with spooky talents who must save his hometown from a centuries-old curse. Featuring the amazing and detailed artwork that went into the film's creation-from...
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