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Another wave of euphoric greetings has arrived! A sequel to Nice To Meet You, the first book of the series on visual greeting designs, Nice To Meet You Too encapsulates the new perspectives and values that young designers have brought forward to present identity in today's business card and visual identity designs.

What makes figurative formats speak better than words? How simple artefacts explain what you do? How well could you market yourself while being eco-friendly? What does it take to live up to new expectations? With more than 100 creative talents contributing their self-promotional items and commissioned projects for clients in different professions, this new title gathers a great number of striking 'hellos' that continue to make good impressions in this competitive world.

The Wiener Werkstätte or Vienna Workshops were founded in 1903 by architect Josef Hoffmann and artist Koloman Moser. Beginning in 1907, the Wiener Werkstätte began publishing a numbered series of postcards, which would ultimately exceed 1,000. There were numerous cards designed to celebrate holidays, such as Easter, Christmas, New Year’s, and others. When the fashion department was founded in 1910, costume and accessories became another popular subject depicted in the postcards, along with illustrations of places in Vienna and elsewhere in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Europe. All of the major designers who worked for the firm were contributors in this medium including Josef Hoffmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, and Dagobert Peche. Other noteworthy artists who were active in this area include Moriz Jung, Rudolf Kalvach, Mela Koehler, and Maria Likarz, among others. This publication is the first fully illustrated catalogue raisonné on Wiener Werkstätte postcards to appear in English.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Chéret, and Alphonse Mucha are among the artists whose works appear in these 12 color postcards. Late 19th- and early 20th-century ads from the great age of poster art promote nightclubs, chocolate, soap, and other products and services. Styles range from post-Impressionism to Art Nouveau and early Expressionism.

Each notecard is a Polaroid at its prettiest: dreamy, delicate, instantaneous yet timeless, and best when shared with friends and loved ones.

Indispensable artifacts of our material and virtual culture, calendars help us to organize our increasingly complicated lives within the framework of the passage of time. Save the Date showcases groundbreaking designs for calendars and planners, where aesthetic concerns compete with the temporal to create new and often startling combinations. No longer largely invisible or disposable, the calendars of today demand pride of placement in our homes or workplaces to be followed by a graceful retirement as collectible or covetable objects d art.

A colorful postcard gallery presents a dozen immortal scenes from the works of the English language's greatest playwright. Vignettes include Juliet on the balcony, mad Ophelia wreathed in flowers, and images inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, and other plays.

Table of Contents for Shakespeare Illustrations Postcards
Charles Robinson, The Songs and Sonnets of William Shakespeare
William Hatherell, Romeo and Juliet
John Simmons, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Charles Folkard, As You Like It
John William Waterhouse, Hamlet
Hugh Thomson, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Norman M. Price, Much Ado About Nothing
Arthur Rackham, King Lear
John Singer Sargent, Macbeth
Frank Schoonover, Macbeth
John William Waterhouse, The Tempest
Edmund Dulac, The Tempest

'Tempus Fugit' offers a visual feast for studios and designers exploring the concept of time. In this book - exquisitely designed by Bildi Grafiks and including an introductory essay on realtime design and sound by Robert Appleton - you will find more than 60 calendars and 50 reflections by designers, showcasing 12 exemplary cases by world design celebrities, including George Tscherny, Paula Scher, John Maeda, Kit Hinrichs, Massimo Vignelli, Ahn Sang Soo and more.

In a time defined by digital interaction, receiving a physical invitation can often feel like receiving a gift - especially when the invitation is as elaborate as those in U R Invited. Far from plain form letters on cardstock, these invitations are embossed, engraved and laser-cut, wrapped around bars of chocolate or records, and contain everything from seeds and masks to rice to be thrown at weddings.

U R Invited beckons readers to join in celebrations all over the world with invitations for fashion events and award ceremonies on show.

Nostalgic poster images evoke a world of romance, glamour, and adventure. Twelve colorful postcards in a variety of early-20th-century styles offer appealing invitations to vacation at the New York World's Fair of 1939, Atlantic City, the beaches of California and the Mediterranean, Italy, France, and other exciting locales.

Our first thoughts, as we set about making our selection of Invitations for the book was that this was an area of design with little relevance. Despite the fact that almost all designers create invitations of one kind or another, for clients, events, or for personal use…. finding specifically relevant examples within global projects, was easier said than done. We sought therefore to make a collection of highly creative and communicative pieces, some for conceptual expression and others for simple or powerful graphics. Our collection of invitations includes exquisite concepts transformed into graphic realities. These small but stunning examples are both a source of inspiration and a magnet for any event.