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The PreHistory of The Far Side ®:: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit (Far Side Series)
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Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage
Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions. She talks about how objects--and people--are made to "perform" their meaning for us by the very fact of being collected and exhibited, and about how specific techniques of display, not just the things shown, convey powerful messages. Her engaging analysis shows how museums compete with tourism in the production of "heritage." To make themselves profitable, museums are marketing themselves as tourist attractions. To make locations into destinations, tourism is staging the world as a museum of itself. Both promise to deliver heritage. Although heritage is marketed as something old, she argues that heritage is actually a new mode of cultural production that gives a second life to dying ways of life, economies, and places. The book concludes with a lively commentary on the "good taste/bad taste" debate in the ephemeral "museum of the life world," where everyone is a curator of sorts and the process of converting life into heritage begins..
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Exhibit Design: High Impact Solutions
EXHIBIT DESIGN presents over numerous full–color examples of the work of the best in exhibit display from trade shows throughout the United States. Featuring examples from industries as varied as clothing, automobiles, electronics, and insurance, this comprehensive volume shows how these designers use color, light, animation, and decorative props to create exhibits that are truly unique, innovative, and memorable. .
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Exhibition Design
Exhibition design has become a significant architectural way to present an idea or a product; to communicate its meaning; to show its beauty; and, ideally, to increase sales. This book shows how trade fair and exhibition design projects have evolved into a perfect demonstration of architectural art: an art that combines the forming of space with the use of materials and lighting to achieve a convincing narrative and setting. Whether we find them in trade fairs or in museums, this book gathers the best recent installations, featured through full-color pictures, drawing plans, and sketches; and supplemented with descriptive text with practical information on manufacturers, furniture, and materials. .
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Handspun Treasures from Rare Wools: Collected Works from the Save the Sheep Exhibit
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Designing the World's Best Exhibits
Commercial and trade show exhibits are more than merchandise showcases. A trade show exhibit must do more than provide an environment for the product's presentation The total design has to sell the brand name and brand image of the firm exhibiting. This book features over 80 different exhibits and 250+ color photos — the work of top exhibit designers. Many are prize-winning exhibits selected from trade show venues across the U.S. The book is divided into sections predicated on the square footage starting at 300 sq. ft. and going up to 45,000 sq. ft. The exhibits are representative of industries as varied as clothing, sports gear, automobiles, computers/electronics, home and building supplies, entertainment, insurance, banking, and many others. When possible, exteriors and interiors are pictured so the viewer can appreciate the design and space utilization — and see how the specialized designers have used signage, color, lights, animation, and decorative props to make their exhibits "shopper-stoppers" in the world of Show and Sell. 176 pages 8 1/2" x 11" 250 color photos hardbound 1-58471-038-1.
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