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Tamara Shopsin: What Is This?
Published by The Ice Plant.
It is never too early to learn about abstraction--especially if celebrated illustrator Tamara Shopsin is doing the teaching. What Is This? is Shopsin's wordless children's book that will encourage imaginative thinking in readers both young and old. The miniature book, made for small hands, is filled with simple line drawings, executed with characteristic charm by Shopsin. Each drawing playfully adds to and alters the same basic squiggle, which is transformed across different contexts on each successive page: first the squiggle appears as the petals of a flower, next as a bird's nest, then a cowboy's lasso, then a plume of smoke from a factory chimney. Each time, only a few extra lines are required to suggest the conversion. By the end of the book, faced with an innocent squiggle, the question is not "what is this?" but rather, "what isn't this?"
Tamara Shopsin (born 1979) is a graphic designer and illustrator whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Good, Time, Wired and Newsweek. She is the author of the memoir Mumbai New York Scranton, designer of the 5 Year Diary and coauthor, with Jason Fulford, of the children's book This Equals That. She is also a cook at her family's restaurant, Shopsin's, in New York.
PUBLISHER
The Ice Plant
BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 3.5 x 4 in. / 40 pgs / 20 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/28/2015
Out of stock indefinitely
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Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 51
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We Learn at Home
Published by Dung Beetle Ltd.
By Miriam Elia.
Book 2 of the Dung Beetle Learning series: Mummy takes John and Susan out of their local school to be re-educated at home, and introduce to their young minds a new, alternative world view
PUBLISHER
Dung Beetle Ltd
BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 4.75 x 7 in. / 48 pgs / 20 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/28/2017
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Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 48
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X-rated: Adult Movie Posters of the 60s and 70s
Published by Reel Art Press.
Edited by Tony Nourmand, Graham Marsh. Introduction by Peter Doggett. Designed by Graham Marsh.
The bestselling cult compilation of adult-movie posters, now expanded
PUBLISHER
Reel Art Press
BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6.5 x 9 in. / 368 pgs / 350 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/26/2017
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Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 26
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ISBN 9780956648792 TRADE
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How Posters Work
Published by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
By Ellen Lupton. Text by Caitlin Condell, Gail Davidson, Ellen Lupton.
An illustrated guide to the language of poster design by Ellen Lupton, one of America’s most popular design authors and curators
PUBLISHER
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 300 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/26/2015
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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 13
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ISBN 9780910503822 TRADE
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