Visual
Visual

Author: Michael Salter

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-02

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 0615188788

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a collection of my digital drawings, icons, photos and exhibition images that I believe communicate some insight into my vision and motivations.

Art of the State
Art of the State

Author: Liza Roberts

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2022-09-29

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 146967176X

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This beautiful and informative volume illustrates the vitality and importance of North Carolina's contemporary art scene, showcasing the creation, collection, and celebration of art in all its richness and diversity. Featuring profiles of individual artists, compelling interviews, and beautiful full-color photography, this book tells the story of the state's evolution through the lens of its art world and some of its most compelling figures. Liza Roberts introduces readers to painters, photographers, sculptors, and other artists who live and work in North Carolina and who contribute to its growing reputation in the visual arts. Roberts also provides fascinating historical context, such as the influence of Black Mountain College, the birth and growth of Penland School of Crafts, and short histories of North Carolina's art museums, including Charlotte's Mint Museum, Raleigh's North Carolina Museum of Art, Winston-Salem's Reynolda House, and those flourishing at universities. Artists featured include Stephen Hayes, Mel Chin, Cristina Cordova, Beverly McIver, and Scott Avett. The result is the most comprehensive, informative, and visually rich story of contemporary art in North Carolina.

Buying In
Buying In

Author: Rob Walker

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2010-01-05

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0812974093

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Brands are dead. Advertising no longer works. Consumers are in control. Or so we're told. In Buying In, Rob Walker argues that this accepted wisdom misses a much more important cultural shift, including a practice he calls murketing, in which people create brands of their own and participate, in unprecedented ways, in marketing campaigns for their favorites. Yes, rather than becoming immune to them, we are rapidly embracing brands. Profiling Timberland, American Apparel, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Red Bull, iPod, and Livestrong, among others, Walker demonstrates the ways in which buyers adopt products not just as consumer choices but as conscious expressions of their identities. Part marketing primer, part work of cultural anthropology, Buying In reveals why now, more than ever, we are what we buy—and vice versa.

Handmade
Handmade

Author: Andrea Lugli

Publisher: Gingko Press Editions

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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In an age of uninspired corporate design and ominous "viral marketing," this book takes a fresh look at the world's current production of "analogue design". It is an international survey of the best examples created in recent times and draws on many influences from punk rock and cartoons to hand-painted street signs and graffiti. Handmade takes a refreshingly new, organic approach to this subject and exposes the appeal of its aesthetic power. Contributors range from young emerging artists to seasoned practitioners and include Matthias Gephart, Insect, Yuko Shimizu, Fawn Gehweiler, Fafi, Skwak, Sfaustina, Tokidoki, Melina Rodrigo, Yomar Augusto, Rinzen, Marok, Mike Giant, John John Jesse, WK Interact, Jasper Goodall, Charles Wilkin, Dave Kinsey, Shepard Fairey, and Chris Ashworth. Designers include Ed Fella, Plazm, Why Not Associates and Stefan Sagmeister.

Black Market
Black Market

Author: Sereena Nightshade

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-08-31

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 148367231X

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Black Market Black Market, with written material primarily created 2000 to mid-2003, is the forth book in a series by writer Sereena Nightshade (photographed on the cover of Black Market on June 2013). The three previous books in this particular series include the following: The Visage, House of Sorrows and Sweetie Baby. Black Market is the work of this series that describes the meat market/judged or deemed worthy of consideration due to physical appearance feel created by the primary co-character in Sweetie-Baby. In this reality no one could escape unscathed and no one did indeed. Readers are advised to read both Sweetie-Baby and Black Market for full clarity. It is advisable to review The Visage as well. Names of individuals in all of this authors books are fictitious names. Real names are not revealed. Review by Dominic.

Art and the Global Economy
Art and the Global Economy

Author: John Zarobell

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0520291522

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Introduction : measuring the economy of the arts -- Museums in flux -- The exhibitionary complex -- Art and the global marketplace -- Conclusion : non-profits and artist collectives as market alternatives

Berlin’s Black Market
Berlin’s Black Market

Author: Malte Zierenberg

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1137017759

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This book puts the illegal economy of the German capital during and after World War II into context and provides a new interpretation of Germany's postwar history. The black market, it argues, served as a reference point for the beginnings of the two new German states.

Skateboarding and the City
Skateboarding and the City

Author: Iain Borden

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-02-21

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1472583477

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Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of contradictions – a billion-dollar global industry which still retains its vibrant, counter-cultural heart. Skateboarding and the City presents the only complete history of the sport, exploring the story of skate culture from the surf-beaches of '60s California to the latest developments in street-skating today. Written by a life-long skater who also happens to be an architectural historian, and packed through with full-colour images – of skaters, boards, moves, graphics, and film-stills – this passionate, readable and rigorously-researched book explores the history of skateboarding and reveals a vivid understanding of how skateboarders, through their actions, experience the city and its architecture in a unique way.