Michael Bierut is a graphic designer, design critic and educator. He designed the logo for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
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Act One
With this new edition, the classic best-selling autobiography by the late playwright Moss Hart returns to print in the thirtieth anniversary of its original publication. Issued in tandem with ,, the revealing autobiography of his wife, Kitty Carlisle Hart,,, is a landmark memoir that influenced a generation of theatergoers, dramatists, and general book readers everywhere. The book eloquently chronicles Moss Hart’s impoverished childhood in the Bronx and Brooklyn and his long, determined struggle to his first theatrical Broadway success, ,. One of the most celebrated American theater books of the twentieth century and a glorious memorial to a bygone age, , if filled with all the wonder, drama, and heartbreak that surrounded Broadway in the 1920s and the years before World War II.
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Adventures in the Screen Trade
No one knows the writer’s Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of ,, ,, ,, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood’s inner sanctums…on and behind the scenes for ,, ,, and other films…into the plush offices of Hollywood producers…into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman…and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, “You’ll be fascinated.
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Aim for a Job in Graphic Design/Art
Defines graphic design and its applications, suggestions for training, how to look for a job, and biographies of some important people in the field.
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Ball Four
Ball Four is a baseball classic, a number one bestseller when it was published; it still is in demand throughout the U.S. Now in a new updated hardcover edition, Ball Four will reach a whole new generation of avid baseball fans. In fact, Ball Four has been selected by the NY Public Library as one of the Books of the Century. And David Halberstam writes: a book deep in the American Vein, so deep in fact that is by no means a sports book. Bouton has written a baseball book about the reality of the game. Thirty years after its publication, it remains as wonderful to read as ever.
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From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor
From the back cover: “I refuse to apologize for telling the truth about advertising, and if it offended some people, that’s just too bad. If I had wanted to be loved by those people I would have joined the Peace Corps.” Jerry Della Femina said that. He also said: “Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.” And the critics agree!
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George, Be Careful
George, Be Careful: A Greek Florist’s Kid in the Roughhouse World of Advertising.
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Graphic Design
Available again, the enduring, iconic volume showcasing the key early-career work and process of the godfather of modern graphic design,, perhaps the most famous book of its kind, explores the early decades of America???s pre-eminent graphic artist. Glaser???s work ranges from the psychedelic Bob Dylan poster to book and record covers; from store and restaurant design to toy creations; and magazine formats including , magazine and logotypes, all of which define the look of our time. Here Glaser undertakes not only a remarkably wide-ranging representation of his oeuvre from the incredibly fertile early years, but, in a new introduction, speaks of the influences on his work, the responsibilities of the artist, the hierarchies of the traditional art world, and the role of graphic design in the area of his creative growth. First published in 1973, , is an extraordinary achievement and indisputably a classic in the field.
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Graphic Design Manual
rmin Hofmann???s richly varied work is recognized for its reliance on the fundamental elements of graphic form ??? point, line, and shape ??? and the economic use of color and fonts. The thoroughly revised edition of the 1965 design ma-nual classic is still setting standards. Especially in times of the re-turn to clear and minimalistic geomet-ric forms and patterns, his rich body of work serves as a perfect starting point for contemporary design practices. Elements of image and form are ana-lyzed and examined with regard to their inherent laws. To correspond to the contemporary design techniques, this new edition is divided into computer-system-friendly sections. Thus adapting Hofmann???s methods to the requirement of modern design practices and serv-ing as a valuable handbook for a new generation of designers.
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Learning from Las Vegas
Editorial Reviews – Learning from Las Vegas From the Publisher Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of “common” people and less immodest in their erections of “heroic,” self-aggrandizing monuments. This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, “Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed,” a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the first edition, on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, is not included in the revision.)
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Love Trouble Is My Business
In this collection of satirical pieces and short humorous fiction, Veronica Geng turns up hilarities large and small in government-speak, gender relations, academia, the mass media, love lives, restaurants, airplanes, and baseball fans. “Often,” Ian Frazier writes in his introduction, “her writing was the purest satire, in the sense that its preferred outcome would be for its object to fall down dead.” Always attuned to the way things sound, Geng was a wicked parodist, a mimic of voices from Henry James to Chandler’s private eyes, from LBJ to Pat Robertson. Love Trouble confirms Veronica Geng’s place as one of our greatest humorists, who helped to carry the tradition of S.J. Perelman, James Thurber, and Robert Benchley to its illogical conclusion.
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Pale Fire
The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, ‘Pale Fire’, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade’s editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the ‘Great Beaver’, Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad – and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be.,Nabokov’s darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.,Part of a major new series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of , and ,in Penguin Classics.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, , has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs’s monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.
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The Elements of Style
You know the authors’ names. You recognize the title. You’ve probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered.,This book’s unique tone, wit and charm have conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. Use the fourth edition of “the little book” to make a big impact with writing.
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The Fountainhead
The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand’s groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim. This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite…of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy…and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand???s provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction???that man???s ego is the fountainhead of human progress…,???A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly…This is the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall.??????The New York Times
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The Gift
Starting with the premise that the work of art is a gift and not a commodity, this revolutionary book ranges across anthropology, literature, economics, and psychology to show how the ‘commerce of the creative spirit’ functions in the lives of artists and in culture as a whole.
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The Great Gatsby
A true classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition has been updated by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III to include the author???s final revisions and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald???s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan???and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald???s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted ???gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,??? it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Wolfe’s brilliant first book — a collection of essays that introduced us to the Sixties, to extravagant new styles of life that had nothing to do with the “elite” culture of the past.
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The Making of Kubrick???s 2001
The critics loved it.,The critics hated it., takes you behind the sets and scenes of the most controversial film of the decade. Here is the inside story of a monumental achievement conceded even by its enemies to mark a turning point in the art of cinema.
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The Mezzanine
Although most of the action of The Mezzanine occurs on the escalator of an office building, where its narrator is returning to work after buying shoelaces, this startlingly inventive and witty novel takes us farther than most fiction written today. It lends to milk cartons the associative richness of Marcel Proust’s madeleines. It names the eight most significant advances in a human life — beginning with shoe-tying. It asks whether the hot air blowers in bathrooms really are more sanitary than towels. And it casts a dazzling light on our relations with the objects and people we usually take for granted.
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Thoughts on Design
One of the seminal texts of graphic design, Paul Rand’s , is now back in print for the first time since the 1970s. Writing at the height of his career, Rand articulated in his slender volume the pioneering vision that all design should seamlessly integrate form and function. This facsimile edition preserves Rand’s original 1947 essay with the adjustments he made to its text and imagery for a revised printing in 1970, and adds only an informative and inspiring new foreword by design luminary Michael Bierut. As relevant today as it was when first published, this classic treatise is an indispensable addition to the library of every designer.