This book is an extensive account of the numerous ways in which letterforms affect our everyday lives. Exploring the many different types of letterform, such as handwriting, packaging and advertising design, logo and book design, typography and engraved letterforms.
During the First World War, millions of soldiers saw the poppies in Flanders fields on the Western Front. Some even sent pressed poppies home in letters. Over 100 years later, the poppy is still a world-recognised symbol of remembrance of the First World War, and many of us choose to wear a red poppy in November. The poppy continues to capture our ......
ISBN-13: 9781912423958
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
The book depicts the abandoned and crumbling Prime Minister's mansion in Beirut and the lives connected to it and interwoven into its fabric for over a century. The photographs of the rich and famous at the house in its heyday at its opulent best, contrast with those showing it as it is now. Accompanying essays unravel the intriguing stories ......
The Art, Science & Temperament of Successful Value Investing
In The Perceptive Investor, financial guru and global fund manager Ardal Gronager shows how by learning the lessons of hundreds of present and historical figures anyone can understand the full investment landscape and so be able to confidently participate in it. As he himself says, 'I have done it myself and I am no smarter than anyone else who ......
Memorla Exhibition of Jozef Nemes Lamperth (1891-1924)
Jozsef Nemes Lamperth (1891-1924) was a key figure in the avantgarde art movements that emerged in the early twentieth century. The fact that no comprehensive exhibition of modern Hungarian art could open today without featuring at least one of his works is a clear indication of the calibre and far-reaching impact of his artistic output. Although ......
The Ornamental Wilderness in the English Garden reinterprets the English formal garden of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries through the perspective of a typical feature of those gardens, the ornamental grove, called a wilderness. The wilderness became a prominent, indeed defining, feature of the formal gardens of this period. In ......
The Ocean Map presents our planet through an ocean-centred map. It introduces the principles behind different ways of representing the world, helping readers understand how maps shape the way we see our planet. Designed for children aged 7-11, the book explores natural features, human-made structures and ocean habitats, with detailed spreads that ......
A collection of Rudyard Kipling's articles based describing Lord Kitchener's volunteer army, written just a couple of months after the death of his son at the Battle of Loos.
