Better Brochures, Catalogs and Mailing Pieces


Book Description

Everything you need to know to create Better Brochures, Catalogs and Mailing Pieces -The most important decision: positioning and strategy -The fifteen magic rules for better brochures -The layman's guide to better layouts -Ten ways to save money on production -Hotel brochures-fifteen secrets that fill rooms -How to attract more tourists -Promoting theme parks and attractions -What works best in college literature -Brochures to gain members, to advocate, to persuade, to sell -How to do more effective fund-raising literature -Catalogs that sell more-and cost less -How to make mailings more profitable




Look at This


Book Description

This book features the best of contemporary printed literature. It offers a critical survey of current graphic design, showing work by leading practitioners from the USA, Europe and Japan. Arranged in a designer-bydesigner format and accompanied by interviews with some of the designers responsible for the featured work, this book offers a complete and informative picture of this popular subject.




Print and Production Finishes for Brochures and Catalogs


Book Description

Print and Production Finishes for Brochures and Catalogs demystifies the production process for graphic designers, enabling them to achieve the best possible work. At some point, every graphic designer is commissioned to design a brochure or catalogue. While other books offer inspiration for design, this book focuses on the materials and finishing techniques needed to create the desired effect for those jobs, exploring their creation from a production and manufacturing point of view. Roger Fawcett-Tang has selected world-class work across all areas, from high fashion to mail order, and reveals the skills and techniques needed to meet any requirement. There’s also an illustrated glossary of materials (both standard and innovative) and processes. From producing the latest aspirational publication to making the mundane look desirable, Print and Production Finishes for Brochures and Catalogs is both an indispensable practical guide and a sourcebook for ideas.




Early Modern Catalogues of Imaginary Books


Book Description

This bilingual (English-French) anthology of early modern fictitious catalogues presents a multitude of texts, from the genre’s beginnings (Rabelais’s satirical catalogue of the Library of St.-Victor (1532)) to its French and Dutch specimens from around 1700.




Troy and the Trojan War


Book Description

Proceedings of a symposium held at Bryn Mawr College in 1986. Includes 'Priam's Castle Blazing': A Thousand Years of Trojan Memories' (Emily Vermeule) and 'The Physical Identity of the Trojans' (Lawrence Angel).










French Vernacular Books / Livres vernaculaires français (FB) (2 vols.)


Book Description

This work offers for the first time a complete list of all books published wholly or partially in the French language before 1601. Based on twelve years of investigations in libraries in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere, it provides an analytical short-title catalogue of over 52,000 bibliographically distinct items, with reference to surviving copies in over 1,600 libraries worldwide. Many of the items described are editions and even complete texts fully unknown and re-discovered by the project. French Vernacular Books is an invaluable research tool for all students and scholars interested in the history, culture and literature of France, as well as historians of the early modern book world. For vols. III & IV please go to French Books III & IV.