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New York Times Bestseller Living in New York City for five years as a transplant from Ohio, illustrator and T-shirt designer Nathan Pyle was fascinated by the unique habits and unspoken customs New Yorkers follow to make life bearable in a city with 8 million people (and seemingly twice the number of tourists). In NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette, Pyle reveals the secrets and unwritten rules for living in and visiting New York including the answers to such burning questions as, how do I hail a cab? What is a bodega? Which way is Uptown? Why are there so many doors in the sidewalk? How do I walk on an escalator? Do we need be touching right now? Where should I inhale or exhale while passing sidewalk garbage? How long should I honk my horn? If New York were a game show, how would I win? What happens when I stand in the bike lane? Who should get the empty subway seats? How do I stay safe during a trash tornado? Each tip is a little story illustrated in simple black and white drawings.
Raymond Lemstra is a Dutch artist and illustrator based in Amsterdam. He has exhibited his art across the world and been commissioned on projects by international companies such as Mercedes-Benz and Nokia. Lemstra often fuses traditional motifs with bold, abstract images. His works are both playful and imaginative, and his intricate pencil work and detailed layers of shading reveal an exceptional level of skill, making him a true master of his craft. 'Big Mother 4' celebrates the finest of Lemstra's work by collecting and condensing his pieces into a large format, limited edition monograph.
An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that “philosophy should be written like poetry.” But philosophy has often been presented more prosaically as a long trudge through canonical authors and great works. But what, Jonathan Rée asks, if we instead saw the history of philosophy as a haphazard series of unmapped forest paths, a mass of individual stories showing endurance, inventiveness, bewilderment, anxiety, impatience, and good humor? Here, Jonathan Rée brilliantly retells this history, covering such figures as Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, James, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Sartre. But he also includes authors not usually associated with philosophy, such as William Hazlitt, George Eliot, Darwin, and W. H. Auden. Above all, he uncovers dozens of unremembered figures—puritans, revolutionaries, pantheists, feminists, nihilists, socialists, and scientists—who were passionate and active readers of philosophy, and often authors themselves. Breaking away from high-altitude narratives, he shows how philosophy finds its way into ordinary lives, enriching and transforming them in unexpected ways.
This illustrated encyclopedia showcases and describes the mysterious cryptid creatures from around the world. Conceived as a blend of science and fantasy, vintage and modern, it is a visual guide to the world that lurks beyond our current knowledge of nature. It's a collection of colorful and fascinating menagerie of mysterious creatures that were witnessed and reported by people from around the world - from the remote deserts of Australia to the high mountains of North America and beyond.
Simple, high-quality design work: not just crisply elegant and eye-catching, but uncluttered and distinctive, colorful and refined, making subtly effective use of fonts and logos. In short, sophisticated designs seduce all who see them. This book presents a collection of just such work for those who appreciate genuine quality in graphic design, featuring a selection of the finest in simple and superlative design from the U.K., Italy, France, Spain, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, the USA and more, presented in a stylish, understated volume. Simplicity is an ultimate element in design, but it is not so easy for a graphic designer to reach a level where he/she can choose only essential elements and discard the others. Works presented in this book are all successful in this point of view. Items which appear in the book range from posters, packages, labels, catalogs, pamphlets, leaflets, flyers, direct mails, and business cards. The contents are categorized by tone of the works--"cool," "natural," "sweet," "colorful," and "modern."
The worlds of art and design have consistently depended on some elements of mathematics to provide a structure and base for their creative work. In particular, geometry is an element that has proven to be popular throughout the years, and has experienced a definite surge in popularity in recent years. Geometry Makes Me Happy celebrates the use of geometric design and art, shown in a variety of different applications. The colourful and inspiring book is divided into distinct sections, including art, photography, graphic design, illustration, industrial design, fashion, street art and interior design.
Includes works commissioned by The New York Times, Esquire UK, The Guardian and Time Out London, as well as never-before-seen illustrations, Noma Bar plays with negative space, focusing on subject matter ranging from sex, global warming and nuclear warfare to religion.
A put-upon coding monkey teams up with a seething, lovelorn super-villain to fight robots, office worker zombies, and maybe even each other as they struggle to impress the amazing women for whom they fruitlessly long. Based on the songs of internet superstar musician Jonathan Coulton.
