Mitchell Beazley: Wineries with Style (Mitchell Beazley Drink)

Book Description

How have wineries become so much more than mere production facilities, bringing wine to life in some of the world’s most striking architecture? Award-winning wine writer Peter Richards has traveled and researched extensively to uncover the intriguing story of iconic wineries around the world and how they came to be as they are. He takes readers on a visual tour of 80 of the world’s most striking, fascinating, and impressive wineries, from seventeen wine countries and regions. In addition to discussing both wine and architecture, he includes producer fact boxes with contact details, wine tips, and visitor information, plus a world map that makes locating the wineries easy. With more than 200 inspiring color photographs, this is an illuminating book for wine lovers, armchair tourists, and travelers.

Winner of the Gourmand Best Wine Tourism/Atlas 2004

Customer Reviews:

Just okay.......2005-12-01

There are a few books popping up on this subject and I found this one disappointing. The best photograph appears on the cover but the wineries included inside lean to the more traditional. If you are looking for a coffee-table book, I would suggest Wine By Design which has more extensive photographs, site plans, and drawings.

Stunning!.......2005-01-04

I initially purchased a copy of this book as a Christmas present for a family member with interests in both wine and architecture. These are two subjects I know little about but, despite this, I was so taken with Wineries with Style that I went back and ordered a copy for myself! It's a fascinating book with stunning pictures, well written and beautifully produced. It certainly boosts the culture rating of my coffee table and I would recommend it as welcome and unusual addition to any home's bookshelves. Well done, Mr. Richards!

Book Description

Digital Prepress for Comic Books is the ultimate reference used by professionals throughout the industry. With over 200 pages, 300 color illustrations, and detailed instructions, this manual will provide the answers and solutions you will need to successfully print a magazine. Whether you are planning to publish your own comics, or want to provide the best reproducible art possible, this item is a must-have for your professional library.

Customer Reviews:

Rough.......2006-11-04

I was quite disappointed by this book, I was expecting something with more professional level content. It's all very amateur however, the artwork used in the examples is sub-professional at best.
I was hoping that the book would deal with some of the specific Pre-Press issues relating to comics artwork, but the chapter there was frustratingly slight. You would be much better to buy a a more general pre-press book.
The quality of the packaging and printing were also quite poor for a book that cost this much.

Digital walk-through.......2006-07-16

This is a very informative and well presented, step-by-step guide to self-publishing. It covers all the complicated printing process and colouring stuff in a clear manner. Highly reccomended.

A Specialty Use of Photoshop.......2005-09-01

This book is on how to get your comic book ideas from out of your head onto a disk that you can take to a printer and get him to produce the comic book for you. The advent of powerful personal computers has meant that the hand drawn, hand lettered, hand colored prints from the past no longer are what the printer wants. Instead the book now goes to the printer on a disk.

Doing the work on a computer means software, and the author uses Photoshop. Most of the books on Photoshop are on manipulating photographs. Here the emphasis is on producing the art work for comic books. Photoshop obviously can do both, but the techniques and the particular tools used are different. For one thing there is a lot more information here on the printing process, including inks and paper.

While the author uses Photoshop, which is the professional software used throughout the industry most of the techniques could be used with less expensive software packages, or you might try buying an older version of Photoshop through eBay.

"Quark Xpress and Photoshop Four Comic Books".......2005-02-02

This book is more a specialized "how to" manual for specific software than a "definitive guide" for computer owners who want to make comics.

It is assumed by the author that the reader has three programs: Photoshop, Illustrator, and Quark Xpress. No other programs are ever mentioned, if you use anything else, this book was not written for you.

The author provides excellent information about how printing in color works, his hints on getting your colored artwork to look good on paper (as opposed to on your monitor) make "Digital Prepress for Comic Books" a worthwhile investment.

The book is, however, plagued with childish spelling errors--"there" instead of "thier," "use to" instead of "used to" etc. Considering the cost of the book, it could have benefitted from a proofreading.

If you read something read this!!!.......2003-08-12

Ok I'll be brief because my written English is not so good. If want to actually print your comics and you own or have access to Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop then this book is very useful to you. The book explains pre-press procedures so that you can understand how to get the juice out of your work. Now, the information is very technical so I wouldn't recomend this book to people that are not really interested in taking comics seriously. There is a fair amount of lettering tips in Illustrator and a huge amount of information about improving your scans and "retouch" your work in digital format. It also contains a chapter on Quark Xpress to achieve a good composition (having worked in comics myself I know this chapter is important).

Bottom line: If you are an independent comic book artist with a small staff and you want to do the pre-press yourself then this book is a must. If you are only interested in the area of color and lettering then "maybe" you should get this book, it will definitely help you, thats for sure. Please also note that this book will not teach you how to pait using Photoshop but it will show you how to balance and work with color FOR PREPRESS.

He could have used another penciller for the examples but thats just my opinion. :)

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Peter has the eye!

Nudes (Illustrators Reference Manuals)

Manufacturer: Book Sales
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Virtual Pose Duo: The Ultimate Visual Reference Series for Drawing the Human Figure

ASIN: 1555215076

Customer Reviews:

Peter has the eye!.......2003-10-24

I just started drawing and painting figures after years of landscape and bought this book. It has guys, girls, prone, sitting, standing and the contrast is managed at all times so you do not have to deal with shadows or glare. One of the drawings I did using a pose in the book was just accepted in a juried show, what more can you say?

Drawing Mammals: An Artist's Reference Guide to North American Mammals

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Drawing Mammals: An Artist's Reference Guide to North American Mammals
Doug Lindstrand
Manufacturer: Fox Chapel Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1565232062

Book Description

Offering tips for drawing more than 20 mammals indigenous to North America, this revised reference exhibits each species in several photographs as well as in field sketches. Animals featured range from the gray wolf of the Yukon Territory to the tiny Key deer of Florida and include black bears, grizzly bears, polar bears, coyotes, mountain lions, pronghorns, and bison. Included is information on habitat and range, as well as advice on starting a wildlife sketchbook.

Black and White - A Manual of Illustration - Wash and Line Drawing

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Black and White - A Manual of Illustration - Wash and Line Drawing
Steven Spurrier
Manufacturer: Home Farm Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1406799793

Book Description

Originally published in the early 1900s. Contents Include : Wash Drawing - Introductory - History of Wash Drawing - Materials For Wash Drawing - Process of Reproduction - Methods - Line Drawing - History of Line Drawing - Materials for Line Drawing - Method of Making a Line Drawing - Conclusion. Well illustrated with explanatory artwork. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Approaches to Archaeological Illustration: A Handbook (Practical Handbooks) (Practical Handbooks in Archaeology)

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Approaches to Archaeological Illustration: A Handbook (Practical Handbooks) (Practical Handbooks in Archaeology)
Melanie Steiner , and Lindsay Allason-Jones
Manufacturer: Council for British Archaeology
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

This handbook is primarily designed to raise standards and is intended for students and for those working in archaeological illustration. It is a showpiece of some fine illustrators, working in quite different ways.

Drawings of objects, made from different materials are shown at their original drawn size as well as at their subsequent, reduced, published scale, so that the techniques used by the draftsman can be clearly seen and appreciated. Objects are described, sometimes by specialists and each drawing method has been written by the illustrators themselves, who share their methods here; giving step-by-step guides to how the illustrations were put together.

Customer Reviews:

Review of Archaelogogical Illustrastion Book.......2006-11-06

Very helpful. Actually shows examples of artifacts, how they were drawn, computer programs used (when applicable), what medium they used. The book also makes a point of showing artifacts made of different components ie: glass, wood, metal, bone, etc. Very well written, excellent! Also comes with a list of Arch. Ill. Soc., clubs, etc.

Illustration Guide for Architects, Designers and Students

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Illustration Guide for Architects, Designers and Students
Larry Evans
Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Architecture | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books

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Foam wing anthology: A step by step instruction manual and reference handbook with over 80 illustrations and photographs of techniques and procedures (RCM anthology library series)

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Hand Made Jewelry, A Manual of Techniques

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Hand Made Jewelry, A Manual of Techniques
Louis, Illustrated by Illustrations By th Wiener
Manufacturer: New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. 1948
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NVDF7Q

Illustration for Profit: A Manual for Success in Commercial Art

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Illustration for Profit: A Manual for Success in Commercial Art
Bryan Foster
Manufacturer: Blandford Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0713716134

Book Description

Schooled in serious art he may be, but Nick Wadley also has a full-bodied whimsical side, as proven here in Drunk with Pleasure. With pun in cheek and a deft, minimalist style of drawing, he gives readers a skewed but comprehensive overview of favorite vintages. Showing none of the arrogance so often associated with the wine crowd, Wadley pays homage to both the lowly and the exalted, like Chateau LaFeet. The intoxicating glossary at the back of this little gem is a handy reference for experts and neophytes alike.

Nick Wadley headed the Department of Art History at the Chelsea School of Art in London for fifteen years. As an art historian, he has written chiefly about late-nineteenth-century painting and drawing. Wadley also writes about modern and contemporary art and has curated exhibitions and lectured in Europe, the United States, and Japan. Since the mid-nineties his drawings and cartoons have been appearing in catalogs, journals, and newspapers.

Customer Reviews:

Sketchy yet wickedly humorous cartoons and visual puns.......2004-08-09

Drunk With Pleasure is a collection of simple, sketchy yet wickedly humorous cartoons and visual puns, all involving wine or alcohol. Drawn in a minimalist style with splashes of color, these chuckle-inducing single-panel scenes include a play on the phrase "Life is unfair!" as "Life is un verre!", i.e. a delicious drink. A glossary of wine terms to better contribute to understanding the cartoons rounds out this amusing collection especially recommended for giving wine connoisseurs a chuckle.

Very punny wine book.......2003-12-27

Nick Wadley, an artist who has written scholarly works about 19th century French art, turns to a tongue-in-cheek book celebrating wine. Through simple line drawings and a wonderful set of inventive wine name puns, the author captures the essence of wines through creative word play. He paints wine varieties such as "leap frog milk" to denote "liebfraumilch" and "Santa million" for a St. Emilion bordeaux. He uses fanciful drawings to depict word play like "Mary had a little lambrusco" and "Vin Gogh." There is a glossary "for those who like their puns explained." This little book will delight the oenophile with a sense of humor.

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You Get to Meet Such Interesting People: The Adventures of an American Journalist
S. P. Maersch
Manufacturer: Vantage Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0533143918

Customer Reviews:

A must read.......2004-05-09

An outstanding spun tale of an American journalist who travels across the world encountering people off all kinds, shapes and sizes, and who tops it off with an award-winning career at the Milwaukee Journal, including details from an insider on the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel merger. A must read for any journalist and anyone interested in people.

You Meet Such Interesting People (The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, No 33)

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You Meet Such Interesting People (The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, No 33)
Bess Whitehead Scott
Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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