My Colorful World Travels tells the extraordinary journey of the 11 year old Dutch author who, as a child of parents in service of the United Nations, dedicates his international experiences to children worldwide in a spirit of international solidarity, celebrating cultural diversity and friendship. While the invigorating stories and awesome all-original illustrations describe how much nations, rich or poor, can learn from one another, this very colorful booklet is indeed a successful stride of a child in bringing cultures and nations closer together. Moreover, it is the expressed wish of the author that the proceeds of the booklet will fully serve charitable projects in promoting awareness on the preservation of the Amazon rainforest, serving the well-being of all life for present and future generations.
This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir. Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a company there. Each day he would set forth with a pouch full of color pencils and a sketchpad, and visit different neighborhoods. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures. It isn't the Tokyo of packaged tours and glossy guidebooks, but a grittier, vibrant place, full of ordinary people going about their daily lives and the scenes and activities that unfold on the streets of a bustling metropolis. Here you find businessmen and women, hipsters, students, grandmothers, shopkeepers, policemen, and other urban types and tribes in all manner of dress and hairstyles. A temple nestles among skyscrapers; the corner grocery anchors a diverse assortment of dwellings, cafes, and shops--often tangled in electric lines. The artist mixes styles and tags his pictures with wry comments and observations. Realistically rendered advertisements or posters of pop stars contrast with cartoon sketches of iconic objects or droll vignettes, like a housewife walking her pet pig, a Godzilla statue in a local park, and an urban fishing pond that charges 400 yen per half hour. This very personal guide to Tokyo is organized by neighborhood with hand-drawn maps that provide an overview of each neighborhood, but what really defines them is what caught the artist's eye and attracted his formidable drawing talent. Florent Chavouet begins his introduction by observing that, "Tokyo is said to be the most beautiful of ugly cities." With wit, a playful sense of humor, and the multicolor pencils of his kit, he sets aside the question of urban ugliness or beauty and captures the Japanese essence of a great city in this truly vital portrait.
My Colorful Travels IRELAND is the second book in the My Colorful Travels series of adult coloring books. It contains thirty-five drawings of different places to visit in Ireland such as Belfast Castle, Muckross House in County Kerry, Temple Bar in Dublin and many other interesting places to color. The name of each place is included at the bottom of each page. A short description of each drawing is listed alphabetically in the back of the book, along with several different types of coloring techniques in order to help make your drawing 'come to life.' Due to the often, grey skies, it is common to see many houses and buildings painted in bright colors, therefore be bold in your choice of color. This book is meant to provide many hours of relaxation and enjoyment for all ages! Other books in the My Colorful Travels series; Irish Flowers - A Greyscale Coloring Book of Irish Flowers. Please visit www.facebook.com/mycolorfultravels/ for more sample drawings!
Technological marvels such as railroads, ocean liners, and airplanes helped create an explosion in pleasure travel during the early 20th century. At the same time, poster art — with its dynamic images and bold letters — inspired travelers to see the world. Loaded with first-class fun, this coloring book is on the travel itinerary with thirty full-page images of glamorous and luxurious vacation spots. Based on authentic posters and labels of the period, the dramatically rendered signs advertise the sunny beaches of France and Italy, the excitement of Grand Prix racing in Monaco, winter sports in the French Alps, the marvelous sights of European capitals, and other scenic areas.
In Data Sketches, Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu document the deeply creative process behind 24 unique data visualization projects, and they combine this with powerful technical insights which reveal the mindset behind coding creatively. Exploring 12 different themes – from the Olympics to Presidents & Royals and from Movies to Myths & Legends – each pair of visualizations explores different technologies and forms, blurring the boundary between visualization as an exploratory tool and an artform in its own right. This beautiful book provides an intimate, behind-the-scenes account of all 24 projects and shares the authors’ personal notes and drafts every step of the way. The book features: Detailed information on data gathering, sketching, and coding data visualizations for the web, with screenshots of works-in-progress and reproductions from the authors’ notebooks Never-before-published technical write-ups, with beginner-friendly explanations of core data visualization concepts Practical lessons based on the data and design challenges overcome during each project Full-color pages, showcasing all 24 final data visualizations This book is perfect for anyone interested or working in data visualization and information design, and especially those who want to take their work to the next level and are inspired by unique and compelling data-driven storytelling.
In the era of legal segregation, a “little colored” girl lives in three worlds: the restrictive Jim Crow world, her loving family and community world and the wide world of books she discovers, thanks to the integrated library her town built in the early nineteen sixties and the leadership of librarian Mrs. Margaret Reid Isbill. In 1961 an amendment to the American Library Association Bill of Rights essentially opened public library doors to everyone regardless of race, creed or national origin. “Colored girl” takes the reader to her worlds through historical references, poetry and colorful illustrations.
Head on down the road and take this fun state-by-state coloring book along for the journey. Log your travels (real or imagined) with these 55 original stamps created by Debra Gabel. With stamps for all 50 states plus 5 national parks, you'll have more than enough to color--even for the longest trip. The intricate illustrations, printed on high-quality, heavyweight paper, are perfectly suited to coloring with colored pencils, fine-tip markers, and even watercolors.
The Irish Flowers Greyscale Coloring Book is the first volume in the My Colorful Travels adult coloring book series. It contains forty-two photographic grayscale images of flowers commonly found in Ireland such as Clover, Common Foxglove, Irish Eyes, Sunflowers and many more. Each image is printed on one side only and the name of each flower is included at the bottom of each page. Also included are instructions on how to color your greyscale image in order to bring it to life! Other books in the My Colorful Travels series; IRELAND - A Coloring Book Adventure. Please visit www.facebook.com/mycolorfultravels/ for more sample images!
In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artist’s palette, Victoria Finlay takes us on an enthralling adventure around the world and through the ages, illuminating how the colors we choose to value have determined the history of culture itself. How did the most precious color blue travel all the way from remote lapis mines in Afghanistan to Michelangelo’s brush? What is the connection between brown paint and ancient Egyptian mummies? Why did Robin Hood wear Lincoln green? In Color, Finlay explores the physical materials that color our world, such as precious minerals and insect blood, as well as the social and political meanings that color has carried through time. Roman emperors used to wear togas dyed with a purple color that was made from an odorous Lebanese shellfish–which probably meant their scent preceded them. In the eighteenth century, black dye was called logwood and grew along the Spanish Main. Some of the first indigo plantations were started in America, amazingly enough, by a seventeen-year-old girl named Eliza. And the popular van Gogh painting White Roses at Washington’s National Gallery had to be renamed after a researcher discovered that the flowers were originally done in a pink paint that had faded nearly a century ago. Color is full of extraordinary people, events, and anecdotes–painted all the more dazzling by Finlay’s engaging style. Embark upon a thrilling adventure with this intrepid journalist as she travels on a donkey along ancient silk trade routes; with the Phoenicians sailing the Mediterranean in search of a special purple shell that garners wealth, sustenance, and prestige; with modern Chilean farmers breeding and bleeding insects for their viscous red blood. The colors that craft our world have never looked so bright.
