Ghetto Gastro, a Bronx-based creative and culinary collective, delivers a highly visual manifesto for living and eating to stimulate the mind, body, and heart, in a book that promotes Black excellence through recipes, art, and thought-provoking text.
This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good typographic design. Broken into sections covering the fundamentals of typography, the book features inspiring works by acclaimed typographic designers from across the world. Each section illustrates technical points and encourages readers to try out new ideas of their own. The subjects covered include typographic rebus, abstract form, overlapping, using grids, metaphoric construction and illumination. The result is an instantly accessible, jargon-free guide to typographic design using professional techniques
This book is an essential one-stop reference for learning how to take beauty and glamour photos. Beauty and glamour photographs require the same technical skills as any other area of photography--strong compositions, competent use of lighting, and an awareness of how to pose one's model to get the best effects. The best shots also demonstrate a creative flair on the part of the photographer. In this beautifully illustrated guide, Jon Gray explores both the techniques and the aesthetics of his subject, creating a book that is both informative and a joy to look through. Covering everything from easy-to-replicate studio poses and lighting set-ups to exotic locations, this book is guaranteed to give anyone's photography a creative edge.