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The Look of the Book

Author : Peter Mendelsund
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 0399581030
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Look of the Book written by Peter Mendelsund and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some book covers instantly grab your attention, while others never get a second glance? Fusing word and image, as well as design thinking and literary criticism, this captivating investigation goes behind the scenes of the cover design process to answer this question and more. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW As the outward face of the text, the book cover makes an all-important first impression. The Look of the Book examines art at the edges of literature through notable covers and the stories behind them, galleries of the many different jackets of bestselling books, an overview of book cover trends throughout history, and insights from dozens of literary and design luminaries. Co-authored by celebrated designer and creative director Peter Mendelsund and scholar David Alworth, this fascinating collaboration, featuring hundreds of covers, challenges our notions of what a book cover can and should be.

The Look of the Book

Author : Elaine Julia Wright
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295991917
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book The Look of the Book written by Elaine Julia Wright and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of the author's doctoral thesis, submitted to the Oriental Institute of Oxford University in 1997.

What We See When We Read

Author : Peter Mendelsund
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804171645
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book What We See When We Read written by Peter Mendelsund and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. “A playful, illustrated treatise on how words give rise to mental images.” —The New York Times What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a page—a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat positioned just so—and other clues and signifiers helps us to create an image of a character. But in fact our sense that we know a character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our beloved—or reviled—literary figures. In this remarkable work of nonfiction, Knopf's Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winning designer; his first career, as a classically trained pianist; and his first love, literature—he considers himself first and foremost as a reader—into what is sure to be one of the most provocative and unusual investigations into how we understand the act of reading.

The Look of Love

Author : Jennifer McKnight-Trontz
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568983127
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book The Look of Love written by Jennifer McKnight-Trontz and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swashbuckling sailors, dashing dukes, naughty nurses, and sexy steward-esses caught in webs of love, passion, betrayal, and intrigue: these are the raw materials of the romance novel--and the lusty covers that advertise them. In The Look of Love, Jennifer McKnight-Trontz provides a rollicking history of the covers and stories that have captivated millions of readers worldwide. More than 150 of the most sensational covers from this venerable if venal literary form are shown in glorious color, focusing on the period from 1940 to 1970, romance design's most fertile era. The Look of Love features artwork and excerpts from titles such as Passion Flower, Kept Woman, Rendezvous in Lisbon, and Jungle Nurse. Along the way, it brings attention to the pioneers of the romance novel: cover artists such as Barye Phillips and Robert Maguire, who helped define the look of paperbacks in general, and Harlequin, the grand dame of romance publishers, with more than 100 million novels sold each year. McKnight-Trontz reveals the themes that typify both the story lines and the covers--hospital romance, the rich and raunchy, royalty, tropical paradises, Westerns, "taboo" relationships, pirates and warriors, and love triangles--resulting in this definitive compendium of camp. A book for romance lovers everywhere.

The Look of a King

Author : Tom Dumbrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Look of a King written by Tom Dumbrell and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two young men. One with a dark past, the other with a bright future. Cyrus is a storyteller frustrated by the mundane trappings of village life, while Prince Augustus struggles to meet high expectations after an upbringing of royal privilege in the bustling capital. As both try to forge their own paths, a royal assassination unexpectedly closes the gap between them. The nation of Easthaven is thrown into war with their oppressive neighbours, and so begins a conflict from which neither can walk away. Will a young prince finally measure up to his destiny? Will a storyteller create a legend of his own? Cyrus and Augustus's lives may seem worlds apart, but perhaps they aren't so different after all...

Cover

Author : Peter Mendelsund
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 1576876675
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Cover written by Peter Mendelsund and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Mendelsund has enjoyed years as a much-sought-after book cover designer and art director. Among the many recognizable jackets he has created are those for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; collections of the works of Joyce, Kafka, Dostoevsky, de Beauvoir, and Foucault; the contemporary works of Martin Amis, Tom McCarthy, Ben Marcus, Jo Nesbø, and James Gleick; and many more. All have greatly benefitted from the care and touch Mendelsund gave them. Cover abounds with Mendelsund's completed book jackets along with ephemera from his previously unseen creative method, including jacket sketches, interior art and editorial illustrations, and scores of rejected drafts. These images are punctuated by Mendelsund's reflections on his work and his process, as well as by texts from writers with whom he has worked and designed for. Cover is a compendium of beautiful design and a beautiful design object itself; a profile and celebration of one of the publishing world's most talented and prolific contemporary creators, and a brilliant showcase of his deft touch for balanced and innovative design.

Look Book

Author : Tana Hoban
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0688149715
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Look Book written by Tana Hoban and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-08-19 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tana Hoban never ceases to mesmerize and stimulate her young admirers. Using her unmistakable full-color photographs and an intriguing die-cut format, she has created a striking concept book that will have young viewers scrutinizing and thinking about what they see -- and don't see. In the tradition of Just Look and Take Another Look, here is yet another window of discovery to our everyday world.

The Look of Architecture

Author : Witold Rybczynski
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195156331
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book The Look of Architecture written by Witold Rybczynski and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling author offers a highly entertaining and insightful look at the meaning and importance of style to architecture. This is a book brimming with sharp observations as it shows the connection between architecture, interior decoration, and fashion. 10 line illustrations.

The Look of Love

Author : Sarah Jio
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110162888X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Look of Love written by Sarah Jio and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the classic song, this magical story from the New York Times bestselling author of Always and Blackberry Winter tells the tale of a woman with the unusual gift to see true love—but will she be able to find it for herself before it’s too late? Born during a Christmas blizzard, Jane Williams receives a rare gift: the ability to see true love. In spite of her unique talent, Jane has emerged from an ailing childhood a lonely, hopeless romantic without love on her life. On her twenty-ninth birthday, a mysterious greeting card arrives. The card specifies that Jane must identify the six types of love before the full moon following her thirtieth birthday—or face grave consequences. But when Jane at last falls for a science writer who doesn’t believe in love, she fears that she may never accomplish her task—and that her loveless fate may be sealed... “Jio has become one of the most-read women in America.”—Woman’s World

The Look of Love

Author : Dragonblade Publishing
Publisher : Book of Love
ISBN 13 : 9781091668300
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The Look of Love written by Dragonblade Publishing and published by Book of Love. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Book One in the fabulous new Book of Love series. A dingy old book tucked away in an old Regency London bookshop holds magic and love for those who use the 'recipes'!When Lady Olivia Gosling finds The Book of Love in a musty bookshop, she is most eager to try out its love "recipes" on someone safe. Did she say safe?Well, Beast isn't really safe, but with her odious guardian about to marry her off to one of his unsavory friends, Olivia needs her childhood friend to fall in love with her... fast. If Beast can love her, then any man she chooses will surely do the same.Alexander Beastling, Duke of Hartford, is known as Beast among the ton. He is big and muscled, and there is a dark aura of mystery about him that he makes no effort to dispel. Now that he's returned from battle, he's appalled to learn of the marriage plans Lady Olivia's loathsome guardian has for her. Beast has decided that he will help her find a proper husband, even if it means putting up with her ridiculous experiments taken out of a book she refers to as The Book of Love. Olivia calls them magical recipes for love. Is it possible they actually work? Because suddenly, Beast can't seem to get Olivia out of his mind... or his heart. Read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited!

The Look of Russian Literature

Author : Gerald Janecek
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400852854
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Look of Russian Literature written by Gerald Janecek and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Janecek describes the experiments in visual, literature conducted from 1900 to 1930, the heyday of the Russian Avant Garde. Focusing on an aspect of Russian literary history that has previously been almost ignored, he shows how Russian writers of this period tried unusual methods to make their texts visually interesting or expressive. The book includes 183 illustrations, most from rare publications and many reproduced for the first time. The author discusses such figures as the Symbolist Andrey Bely, the Futurists Aleksey Kruchonykh, Vasili Kamensky, and Vladimir Mayakovsky, and the post-Futurist Ilya Zdanevich, and their use of devices ranging from unorthodox layouts and florid typography to roughly done lithographed or handmade books. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Look-It-Up Book of First Ladies

Author : Sydelle A. Kramer
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780679893479
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Look-It-Up Book of First Ladies written by Sydelle A. Kramer and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides profiles of the women who influenced the history of the United States as wives of its presidents.

Paul Dobleman. My Traditional Vision. Ediz. Illustrata

Author : Paul Dobleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788897845270
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Paul Dobleman. My Traditional Vision. Ediz. Illustrata written by Paul Dobleman and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Look Book: Home

Author : Claire Rollet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783702695
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Look Book: Home written by Claire Rollet and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers love to look at the world around them. Each page of this book is packed with quirky, delightful illustrations of familiar objects, which toddlers can point to and name and pre-schoolers can use as an enchanting first step to reading. An enjoyable way of turning looking into learning with Claire Rollet's eye-catching ink drawings.

The Look of Reading

Author : Garrett Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Look of Reading written by Garrett Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

The Barefoot Book of Children

Author : Tessa Strickland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782852964
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Barefoot Book of Children written by Tessa Strickland and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Barefoot Book of children takes its readers on a visual trek across the globe, where they discover that--despite our different clothes and homes and languages--we are more alike than different.

The Look of the Book

Author : Peter Mendelsund
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 0399581022
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Look of the Book written by Peter Mendelsund and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some book covers instantly grab your attention, while others never get a second glance? Fusing word and image, as well as design thinking and literary criticism, this captivating investigation goes behind the scenes of the cover design process to answer this question and more. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW As the outward face of the text, the book cover makes an all-important first impression. The Look of the Book examines art at the edges of literature through notable covers and the stories behind them, galleries of the many different jackets of bestselling books, an overview of book cover trends throughout history, and insights from dozens of literary and design luminaries. Co-authored by celebrated designer and creative director Peter Mendelsund and scholar David Alworth, this fascinating collaboration, featuring hundreds of covers, challenges our notions of what a book cover can and should be.