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1,000 Graphic Elements: Details for Distinctive Designs
Often, the small, delightful details make a piece shine, similar to the way unique buttons on a white shirt can give it an entirely new look. This book explores 1,000 of these embellishments available to graphic designers across all kinds of projects, from books to brochures, invitations to menus, CDs to annual reports. Exacting photography, which is accompanied by credits outlining the vendors and materials used, focuses on these details. This book invites designers to literally shop for ideas. Content is organized by type; if youÆre in the market for an unusual binding, turn to the bindings section to see a wide collection of fresh ideas. Other topics covered include fasteners, graphics, unique materials, embossing, debossing, specialty inks, type treatments, interesting color usage, add-ons, die cuts, and much more. .
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1,000 Bags, Tags, & Labels: Distinctive Designs for Every Industry (1000 Series)
When attempting to create a bag, tag, or label design that is strong in every respect, you are contending with some of the world's best designers To compete in this league, you have to know your competition Finally, here is a book in which you can find 1,000 examples of brilliant bags, tags, and labels. Fresh ideas from a variety of industries are offered in a format that is as easy to read as any catalog. This book gives you the information you need to know in a quick-hit format, allowing the visuals to speak for themselves. Jam-packed with exciting samples from around the world, this consummate style resource provides you with an abundance of inspired ideas that will help your clients get noticed-and remembered. .
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The Songwriters Idea Book: 40 Strategies to Excite Your Imagination, Help You Design Distinctive Songs, and Keep Your Creative Flow
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What Would Jackie Do?: An Inspired Guide to Distinctive Living
We can’t help but want to be like her: Exuding unmatched poise and style, Jackie O continues to fascinate women and men of all ages. But how would Jackie have handled the twenty-first century? What would she have thought of a society defined by casual rules of conduct? Gathering intriguing research, commentary from today’s experts, and fond reminiscences about the first lady of perfection’s day-to-day decisions, journalists Shelly Branch and Sue Callaway offer a sparkling answer to the question: What Would Jackie Do? Applying Jackie’s philosophies to every aspect of contemporary life, including relationships, office politics, family matters, household bills, and entertaining, What Would Jackie Do? is a trove of advice, featuring:
• Noblesse oblige for beginners
• How not to be an interchangeable woman
• Mastering the effortless rich look
• The art of attachment: lessons on sex, marriage, and men of consequence
• Career whirls: pearls for getting ahead
What Would Jackie Do? portrays the practical wisdom behind an icon. The next best thing to having Jackie O as a personal adviser, What Would Jackie Do? gives readers a piece of the Jackie mystique..
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By Design: God's Distinctive Calling for Women
By Design is not about answering feminist arguments or exegeting biblical passages on traditional roles, submission, or headship Instead, it is an uplifting and practical introduction to God's wonderful design for women. It is also a challenge to women everywhere to explore the significance of your distinctives and return to your biblical calling. And it is a plea for the church to equip and mobilize you to help a hurting world and capture a culture for Christ through ministries of mercy and compassion.
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124 Distinctive House Designs and Floor Plans, 1929
An annual publication intended as a reference work for contractors, suppliers, architects, and homeowners, the 1929 Home Builders Catalog offered a beautifully illustrated look at a variety of homes. Painstakingly reproduced from a rare edition, this volume offers old-house restorers, preservationists, and lovers of 1920s architecture an authentic view of American homes of the era. .
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Fine Waters: A Connoisseur's Guide to the World's Most Distinctive Bottled Waters
Water is indeed everywhere especially bottled water. High-end restaurants now have water lists in addition to wine lists, water bars are opening up around the globe, and gourmet markets are selling dozens of different varieties of domestic and imported bottled waters. Consumers are beginning to recognize that bottled water, like wine, has a unique identity that is defined by its origin. Fine Waters introduces readers to the epicurean delights of water, sharing the ins and outs of the characteristics that provide various waters with their unique flavors, as well as recommended food pairings, stemware suggestions, and optimum serving temperatures for enjoying both still and sparkling waters. The book also provides tasting notes for more than 100 of the world's best bottled waters. Produced in full color, with photographs throughout, Fine Waters is the first guide to this up-and-coming food trend..
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Making a Difference Colleges: Distinctive Colleges to Make a Better World (Making a Difference)
At no time since its initial publication in 1992 has Making A Difference College Guide ever been more timely and relevant. Today’s students increasingly seek ways to influence world events and to shape the world anew. Making A Difference enables prospective college and graduate students to easily find the best colleges and programs to help them make a better world. The author researched hard-to-find, unique as well as prestigious colleges where peace, the environment, social responsibility and service are integral concerns. As an added bonus, many of these colleges are also among the nation’s most innovative, interesting and holistic. There is no other guide that is a source of this information. From environmental colleges located on coastal islands to top Ivy League schools, from a work college in the South to a Buddhist influenced college, from a traveling college on a school bus to innovative state colleges, students find a wide spectrum of inspired choices. Criteria for inclusion include interdisciplinary education, service learning programs, emphasis upon community service, relevant "making a difference" majors, field studies and more. Each edition is updated and revised. This new edition features the use of logos for easy identification of offerings including peace colleges, environmental colleges, organic gardens, eco-dorms, outdoorsy activities and more. For students who want to make a positive impact in our rapidly changing world, this book has no parallel. A career-based practical guide for idealists. Hundreds of study correlated careers listed. A great guide for young college-bound activists. -- Julia Butterfly Hill I highly recommend this guide for students who care about the Earth. -- David Brower, Former President of the Sierra Club This book can make a difference for us all. -- NACAC Journal of College Admission.
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The Distinctive Home: A Vision of Timeless Design (American Institute Architects)
Jeremiah Eck believes that a distinctive home is the result of a balance between site, floor plan, exterior elements, and interior details. In The Distinctive Home, he describes the significance of each of the four elements and provides numerous examples of good design for each. Included are images and descriptions of 50 houses (ten of them the author's own designs) that cover a wide range of styles, regions, and budgets. A final chapter unifies the four elements in detailed profiles of several of these houses, examining how their components work together to attain the status of "distinctive.".
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