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300% Cotton: More T-Shirt Graphics

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        300% Cotton: More T-Shirt GraphicsMore than a cheap article of clothing, the T-shirt is a portable personal ad, its wearing declaring their political/musical/social affiliations for all the world to see. Since the 1960s the T-shirt has provided a forum for expression, where anti-war slogans mixed with early counter-culture classics such as “Keep on Truckin’,” and tie-dye mingled with the debut of that hardy perennial, the tour T-shirt: album cover graphic on the front, venue details listed on the back. This book reflects the diverse and rich graphic culture that has arisen from the medium, considering its use in areas such as music, politics and fashion. Featuring photographs of T-shirts worn on the street, specially commissioned T-shirt graphics, T-shirt collections, and the best and coolest graphics from around the world, 300% Cotton will appeal to designers, illustrators and art directors, as well as a general market of T-shirt enthusiasts and collectors.

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outstanding book on contemporary t-shirt design by Daniel L. Rollman
As a big t-shirt lover, I picked up this book a couple weeks ago. The content features an impressive range of international shirt design and shirt designers. Nice mix of high-end graphic work, conceptual/arty stuff, etc.

Book is very well designed, also. I’d recommend it to anyone who loves t-shirts or just contemporary design in general. (The first two in this series, 100% Cotton and 200% Cotton, are worthy pick-ups, also.)


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        Facebook: The Missing Manual

Facebook’s popularity is skyrocketing, drawing more than 50 million people to this combination online village green, personal Web site creator, and souped-up address book. But one thing you won’t get when signing up is a printed manual. Enter Facebook: The Missing Manual–your witty, authoritative, full-color guide to unlocking everything Facebook can do.

Facebook: The Missing Manual Sneak Preview: Five Tips and Tricks

1. Never check the “Remember me” box when logging onto the site. (Doing so puts your account at unnecessary risk and saves you very little time or effort.)

2. When you register for the site, use your actual birthday so that your friends will get an automatic heads-up a few days before the Big Day (all the better to fete you with).

3. Never add compromising photos or info to your Facebook profile; bosses, teachers, hiring managers, and others can use legitimate means to see your profile *even if* you think you’ve adjusted your privacy settings to prevent them.

4. If you’re on Facebook to find a gig (or a date), be sure to sprinkle keywords liberally in your profile descriptions. Doing so ups the odds of your appearing in other members’ searches.

5. Before you fill out your profile, first head to the main menu and click the “privacy” link (little-p) and follow the steps in Chapter 12 of the book to customize who gets to see how much of your personal information.

About the Author

E. A. Vander Veer has authored or edited more than a dozen books to date, including PowerPoint 2007: The Missing Manual and PowerPoint 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual. Her work has appeared in dozens of on and offline publications, including Byte, The Writer, Salon.com, and CNN.com.

        Facebook: The Missing Manual

Facebook’s popularity is skyrocketing, drawing more than 50 million people to this combination online village green, personal Web site creator, and souped-up address book. But one thing you won’t get when signing up is a printed manual. Enter Facebook: The Missing Manual–your witty, authoritative, full-color guide to unlocking everything Facebook can do.

Facebook: The Missing Manual Sneak Preview: Five Tips and Tricks

1. Never check the “Remember me” box when logging onto the site. (Doing so puts your account at unnecessary risk and saves you very little time or effort.)

2. When you register for the site, use your actual birthday so that your friends will get an automatic heads-up a few days before the Big Day (all the better to fete you with).

3. Never add compromising photos or info to your Facebook profile; bosses, teachers, hiring managers, and others can use legitimate means to see your profile *even if* you think you’ve adjusted your privacy settings to prevent them.

4. If you’re on Facebook to find a gig (or a date), be sure to sprinkle keywords liberally in your profile descriptions. Doing so ups the odds of your appearing in other members’ searches.

5. Before you fill out your profile, first head to the main menu and click the “privacy” link (little-p) and follow the steps in Chapter 12 of the book to customize who gets to see how much of your personal information.

About the Author

E. A. Vander Veer has authored or edited more than a dozen books to date, including PowerPoint 2007: The Missing Manual and PowerPoint 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual. Her work has appeared in dozens of on and offline publications, including Byte, The Writer, Salon.com, and CNN.com.

Facebook is the wildly popular, free social networking site that combines the best of blogs, online forums, photo sharing, clever applications, and interaction among friends. The one thing it doesn’t have is a user’s guide to help you truly take advantage of it. Until now. Facebook: The Missing Manual gives you a crystal clear and entertaining look at everything this fascinating Facebook phenomenon has to offer. Teeming with high-quality color graphics, each page in this Missing Manual is uniquely designed to help you with specific Facebook tasks, such as signing up, networking, shopping, joining groups, finding or filling a job, and a whole lot more. You’ll discover how to create your page and make connections with other members in no time everybody who went to your school, for example, or those who work at your company or play on your soccer team. Then, bingo! Instant access to the personal and professional details of all the folks you’re connected with, the people they’re connected with, and so on, and so on. With Facebook: The Missing Manual, you learn to: Join a network, whether it’s where you went to school, work-related, or based on other interests Look up old friends, find new ones, and decide who you’d like to keep track of Contact members by virtually poking them, or leaving notes on their message boards Get automatic updates from Facebook friends and send updates of your own Participate in groups of particular interest and meet up with members face-to-face Buy and sell using Facebook’s marketplace and classified ads Find a job or hire employees by combing through the member pool Use Facebook as a collaboration tool to keep team members, co-workers, clients, and projects upto date Play it safe by using a multi-pronged approach to ensuring your privacy Think of Facebook as a 30-million-plus-entry searchable Rolodex on steroids! With help from this guide, you’ll quickly get into the Facebook experience without getting in over your head.

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3. Never add compromising photos or info to your Facebook profile; bosses, teachers, hiring managers, and others can use legitimate means to see your profile *even if* you think you’ve adjusted your privacy settings to prevent them.
4. If you’re on Facebook to find a gig (or a date), be sure to sprinkle keywords liberally in your profile descriptions. Doing so ups the odds of your appearing in other members’ searches.
5. Before you fill out your profile, first head to the main menu and click the “privacy” link (little-p) and follow the steps in Chapter 12 of the book to customize who gets to see how much of your personal information.

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Good book as an Intro or for reference by Clay S. Fernald
Facebook: The Missing Manual by E. A. Vander Veer

O’Reilly is on point again with this latest addition to The Missing Manual series.

Facebook was started as a collegiate networking site that opened its doors to everyone in September 2006. My experience with social networking
platforms dates back to Friendster.com and the more popular Myspace.com, and I was excited to join Facebook, and did so quickly.
I’m a ‘once-a-day’ visitor of Myspace.com, and have become quite familiar with how that network grows, and how to hack profile settings to
customize my experience there. On joining Facebook, I was in less familiar territory, and I was looking to understand the way in which this new site works.
Facebook: The Missing Manual does a nice job explaining to new and experienced users how the site is structured and how to get the most out of Facebook’s functionality.

The first four chapters of the book illustrate what I view as basic information about joining the site, finding your online friends, sending messages and joining networks.
This is very useful for the first-time user, but if you are already on the site, I would recommend skimming this section for some of the important safety tips inline with the text.

The next sections of this Missing Manual is where it starts to get interesting to me as a user and as someone interested in promotion and sharing information online.
Step by step, you are shown how to join groups that you are personally interested in, create groups and also how to create individual events that you may choose to invite your friends too. Whether it is a party, a concert, or a pick-up softball game, Facebook makes it easy to invite your friends to the event. Your friends will then be able to R.S.V.P. with ease, and you will easily be able to count out the right number of spoons and bowls for your annual roof deck ice-cream social.

Also explained in these chapters is the Facebook Marketplace’ application. This is a way to use Facebook as an alternative to sites such as craigslist.org. I have mixed feelings about the use of this feature, as I personally don’t find myself placing ads here, but on the other hand, offering your friends first dibs on a free couch might feel better than giving the couch to a stranger. Again, use of the application is up to you, but if you had any questions about the steps you may need to take, this book is a handy reference. You might also consider placing an ad of looking for employment on the Marketplace application. Facebook makes it easy to put your work experience right on your profile.

On a side-note related to job seekers and job posters out there in the cloud, the book warns that you may wish to be careful what information is on your profile and what pictures you or your friends have posted. We are in a world where your Facebook page is very likely to be under scrutiny by employers after you apply for a job, or by a potential employee. Facebook: The Missing Manual warns that you might want to review your content to ensure it is PG-rated.

When I first joined the site, I found one feature very confusing, and I was so skeptical of it that it took me a while to trust it. Now, after some time, I understand this feature and have gone so far as to delve right in to developing for it. The feature I am referring to is ‘Applications.’ Facebook made another smart move by opening its doors to programmers and developers, whom were able to create small programs to the site. Facebook developers are making custom applications to promote brands and services, but also, most of the applications are for fun! Scrabulous is a popular application for playing Scrabble online against your friends, there are countless other games to choose from, and the community of developers are only constrained by their imagination to come up with new uses of Facebook daily. Facebook allows the user to decide what information the application makers have access too, so I would caution users of the site to carefully read the warnings that you are prompted with when agreeing to add the application.
Facebook: The Missing Manual has, throughout the book, warnings about privacy and protecting your information. This topic is directly related to the application feature, and is covered much in the chapter related to the feature.

This well-written book is a must-have for parents curious about the safety features of Facebook, for beginning to intermediate users of the site, and also for people who may wish to use the site as the representative of a business or group. Facebook has many unique features, such as ‘poking’, and you will find terms and good practices illustrated in this book with clear screen-shots and clever, oft-times funny text to use as a reference to getting the most out of this popular social networking website that has caught on rather quickly and is developing more features each day.

Realistically, I can imagine that the next print edition of the book may need to be updated, as this is the nature of writing on the social networking online experience.

Facebook The Missing Manual by Joni
I was a bit disappointed. Yes, this book sped up my learning curve of the basics (which I would have eventually figured out on my own), but I was looking for more information on specific applications, etc. What I am supposed to do when someone sends me a plant and the rest of the stuff they send me, and ask me to send something back? How do I do that - why would I do that? What does it all mean? That’s what I’m looking for.

Great Book for Facebook Newbies, However Those Familiar With Facebook Won’t Find Much of Use Within the Pages by James N Simpson
This is a great book for computer beginners and even those yet to or even who have just joined Facebook. It is certainly laid out in a lot more user friendly format than Facebook For Dummies, is easier to read, more colourful (Dummies is black and white on the inside), has better images, has more information (although a lesser word count) and is just a nicer looking book to read or flick through than Dummies.

What this book isn’t though, is much use to those who have been on a Facebook for much time at all. There’s really nothing new here that you wouldn’t have discovered by clicking around on the site, answering requests from your Facebook friends or following the Facebook prompts for things like adding friends. If you don’t know what I’m talking about don’t worry, it’s all explained in this book.

I am no expert on Facebook, I use it now pretty much to replace e-mail and upload photos but I haven’t found one thing in this or Dummies I didn’t really know. I didn’t find it too daunting to do these tasks without a book such as this and encourage those wanting to use Facebook to just create an account and try it without one of these books. But for those that don’t want to do that the Facebook the Missing Manual would be very useful.

This book also gives a bit of history on Facebook, the terminology such as Poke (I had no idea what this was until I read it in the Dummies book a week or so ago). Like Dummies I didn’t find this book of much use to me but of the two I think is the better.

Like Dummies though Facebook has upgraded its look since this book was published so the images in here are a bit out of date. You can change your settings on Facebook back to the old look used in this book by clicking on the link up where all your profile/friends etc tabs are. New look has many more features though such as pictures on the normal wall so you’ll update soon enough but if you need the tutorial of this book, that’s a way to go.

I don’t think most people with basic computer use knowledge will need this book but I think it’s a great book for those who do.

Good, lacking some information by Matthew Seitz
I bought both this and Facebook For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)). This book did include some tips not present in Facebook For Dummies, but didn’t have many of the tips found in Facebook For Dummies. I also felt like Facebook For Dummies did a better job of explaining why Facebook does things a certain way, and how the whole system works together. That’s probably a result of Facebook For Dummies being written by Facebook insiders, while The Missing Manual was written by outsiders.

Ideally, buy both and get the benefits of both books. But if I had to just have one, I would probably go with Facebook For Dummies.

Useful information about Facebook for newbies and the longtimers alike by Manny Hernandez
I have been a Facebook user since 2005, when the social network was limited only to college kids (I worked in a college: I was not a college student at the time). Seeing it evolve as it has in recent months has been a pleasant thing as it has allowed me to reconnect with old friends that I had effectively lost touch with.

As a longtime user, I thought I knew most of what Facebook had to offer, but this Missing Manual proved that there was lots more that I had no clue about. I was unaware of the ability to sell things through Facebook, for instance and, also, I was not as clear about the multiple options available for advertisers (though I found the chapter dedicated to this topic a bit limited).

I liked that the book was not all praise about the platform: there is clear recognition about the areas that are still confusing and the use of certain names (such as “Pages”) for things that could have been named more intuitively.

Last, there were an excellent couple of chapters devoted to Privacy and Facebook Mobile (for sure a dimension of the social network that we will see grow in the coming months and years). Overall, the book was a pleasantly useful resource that I highly recommend to anyone who is starting out with Facebook and longtime users alike.


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Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal

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        Turn Eye Appeal into Buy AppealTurn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal: How to easily transform your marketing pieces into dazzling, persuasive sales tools! is an award winning ebook by Karen Saunders. It provides easy-to-read instructions that will help anyone design eye-catching informational/marketing pieces with great graphics and compelling content.You want your marketing pieces to have just the right mix of “eye appeal” and “buy appeal” to make your sales soar. But how can you increase the “buy appeal” without having to hire a designer? Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal gives you a design consultant on your desktop . . . without paying design fees. Specifically, it provides:* 128 pages of easy-to-read instructions that help you produce logos, brochures, flyers, presentations, and book covers that inspire people to buy!

* Nearly 200 full-color illustrations

* Nearly 200 hyperlinks that help you find subjects fast

* Details appreciated by people with tight deadlines

* Hundreds of techniques to reinforce your strategies

* Tips for writing persuasive copy that “hooks” customers

* An easy-to-use resource you can refer to again and again

Grab a lot of wisdom from a design pro 24/7 and reduce your production time by 50%. Make Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal your own and get the great results you want.

Written and illustrated by Karen Saunders

Karen Saunders founded MacGraphics Services in 1990 to help business owners present themselves and their services professionally through well-branded graphics. She designs ads, logos, one-sheets, book covers and interiors, corporate identity pieces, audio and video packaging, and much more. Karen has designed the covers of 21 books that have become best-sellers or won awards, including the 2005 Writer’s Digest “Grand Prize” winner for the best self-published book in America.

Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal is a book so useful that anyone who creates informational materials will find it invaluable:

* Small Businesses;

* Entrepreneurs;

* Schools;

* Libraries;

* Cities/Counties;

* Social Service Agencies;

* Non-profits;

* Virtual Assistants;

* Students; and

* Anyone who wants to make their informational, educational, or sales material graphically compelling!

Sample topics covered in the ebook . . .

* 10 Questions to Answer Before Designing Your Next Project

* Branding: An Umbrella Concept You Can’t Ignore

* What Makes a Good Logo Design?

* Building a Better Business Card

* Think in the Prospect’s Perspective

* Capturing Customers with Persuasive Words

* Marketing Writing That Gets Read

* Choosing Fonts

* 9 Typesetting Tricks That Design Pros Use

* 6 Elements that Make Your Design Effective

* Working with Images to Enhance Your Layout

* Jazz Up Your Layouts with Pull Quotes

* Tips for Designing Book Covers and Inside Pages

* How to Scan Photos at the Correct Resolution

* How Color Can Add “Zing” to Your Design

* Easy Ways to Select Harmonious Colors

* Unlocking the Symbolic Meaning of Color

* RGB and CMYK — Colorful but Different

* Proper File Formats for Internet and Print

* Checklist for Making Your Files Print-Ready

* What Paper Works Best?

* What are Your Options for Binding?

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First Impressions Count by Barbara J. Butler
Karen’s years of experience is brilliantly conveyed in her book “Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal.” Saunders, the designer of many award winning books, gives credibility to the easy to read and implement information. It’s a great resource book for anyone wishing to create any type of written material - whatever form it may take.

Barbara J. Butler - Aurora, CO
Destination Wedding Minister - Author - Speaker

A Must-have for Small Business Owners by Goldbugs
As partners of clients who help make their businesses more successful, virtual assistants often have to oversee the creation of marketing material. While one option is to hire a graphics firm to do it all while the business owner remains hands-off, most small business owners can’t afford this luxury.

Enter Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal: How to easily transform your marketing pieces into dazzling, persuasive sales tools! by Karen Saunders. Filled with beautiful images, information-packed articles, and helpful tools, Turn Eye Appeal Into Buy Appeal is a must-have for any business owner who even thinks of creating (or getting someone else to create for her) logos, business cards, newsletters, brochures, and websites.

Turn Eye Appeal Into Buy Appeal overcomes all manner of design and print roadblocks with answers to such questions as

“What colors should I use to add ‘zing’ to my design?”
“Where should I start in designing my logo?”
“What will make people read my marketing piece?”
“What paper should I use for my printed marketing piece?”
“What should I say about my company?”

One of a business owner’s goals is to increase his revenue. One of the best ways to increase revenue is to attract consumers through powerful flyers, business cards, brochures, and logos. Turn Eye Appeal Into Buy Appeal will help business owners be able to produce appealing marketing material that really sells.

Dawn Goldberg, CMVA, COO of AssistU. Since 1997, AssistU has been training, certifying, and referring the best virtual assistants in the world.

This book showed me how to do my own marketing graphics! by Thomas A. McEwen
I purchased Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal by Karen Saunders last year and have found it to be an invaluable resource for designing marketing materials including counter displays, book description sheets, our own website, etc. My book is now our distributors best selling book on recreational boating, and I believe the marketing materials derived from Karen’s book contributed significantly to this success.

My copy has all kinds of Post-It notes marking pages of particular interest, and lots of Hi-Liter marks, so you can tell I use it a lot. It’s not just about graphics-it covers such things as writing good marketing copy, typography, digital imagery, and printing, and that’s not all. Even if you hire out your graphics and marketing materials work, this will help you understand and evaluate the contractor’s work. I can absolutely recommend this book to anyone who needs to develop marketing programs and materials.

Tom McEwen, author of Boater’s Pocket Reference

The Real Deal by Walter Taylor, Jr.
I wished I had purchased this book before publishing my first book, but there will definitely be a revision after reviewing this material.

Being exposed to many business people, authors and graphic designers over the last year, I find that Karen Saunders is the “real deal” when it comes to giving relevant information that you can use.

Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal has helped and is helping me to develop my brand. Let us face it-everyone desires to turn his or her product into a sale at every glance.

Everyone wants their idea or product to speak without speaking and that is precisely what you will get when you put the principles of this book to work.

There are many out there promising to help you when it comes to developing a plan and putting it to action, but Karen Saunders delivers in Turning Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal.

My name is Walter Taylor, Jr., Minister and Author of Touchdown Love and I approve this review.

Great information from a true professional by B. Munson
In my business as a book editor and consultant, I am always looking for good resources for clients. I have been able to find some good books on book marketing–and others on writing a good sales letter or press release. But until I read Karen’s Turn Eye Appeal into Buy Appeal, I knew of no book that gave in-depth help on design and writing. I am very impressed with the quantity and quality of Karen’s information. I especially like the easy to use format. Her book is a great example of the quality of work Karen produces in her business as a graphics professional.

Barbara Munson
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        All-American Ads 40s (Icons Series)Like a pop-cultural walk through time, All-American Ads of the 40s covers the breadth of print ads from the World War II era. As one might expect, the ads look very different from ads today. Most are illustrated, and even the selling of innocuous products like candy bars taps into public interest number one, the war. The book is divided into chapters by product including alcohol, fashion, entertainment, travel, and automobiles. Saving the best for last, the conclusion of each chapter reveals the editor’s pick for most peculiar ad. Most enticing are the movie posters. Classic pictures like Citizen Kane and It’s a Wonderful Life appear in their original print incarnations as fantastic visions of old Hollywood. Hawking beauty products are famous stars such as Lucille Ball, Lana Turner, Marlene Dietrich, and Veronica Lake. Not surprisingly, gender roles are sharply divided, and race issues stick out sorely. Included is an essay by Willy R. Wilkerson III, “From Rationing to Prosperity, American Life in the 1940s,” tracing the history of wartime consumerism. –J.P. Cohen

        All-American Ads 40s (Icons Series)Like a pop-cultural walk through time, All-American Ads of the 40s covers the breadth of print ads from the World War II era. As one might expect, the ads look very different from ads today. Most are illustrated, and even the selling of innocuous products like candy bars taps into public interest number one, the war. The book is divided into chapters by product including alcohol, fashion, entertainment, travel, and automobiles. Saving the best for last, the conclusion of each chapter reveals the editor’s pick for most peculiar ad. Most enticing are the movie posters. Classic pictures like Citizen Kane and It’s a Wonderful Life appear in their original print incarnations as fantastic visions of old Hollywood. Hawking beauty products are famous stars such as Lucille Ball, Lana Turner, Marlene Dietrich, and Veronica Lake. Not surprisingly, gender roles are sharply divided, and race issues stick out sorely. Included is an essay by Willy R. Wilkerson III, “From Rationing to Prosperity, American Life in the 1940s,” tracing the history of wartime consumerism. –J.P. CohenTHE BEST ADS FROM THE DECADE THAT FIRST SAW AMERICA EMERGE AS A SUPERPOWER. IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THE COMPANY WHO MADE YOUR ULTRA-COMPACT MOBILE PHONE WAS ONCE ADVERTISING PORTABLE RADIOS WITH MOTOROLA: MORE RADIO PLEASURE FOR LESS MONEY, OR THAT ONCE UPON A TIME, ELECTROLUX DIDN’T HAVE ANY QUALMS ABOUT USING MANDY, THE PORTLY BLACK MAID, TO PROMOTE THEIR NEW SILENT REFRIGERATORS: “LOR-DY, IT SURE IS QUIET!” AMONG THESE SURPRISING AND CONTROVERSIAL 40s ADS, YOU’LL ALSO FIND SOME FAMILIAR PRODUCTS THAT, AMAZINGLY, HAVEN’T CHANGED AT ALL OVER THE YEARS, SUCH AS JUICY DOLE PINEAPPLES AND WHOLESOME CAMPBELL’S SOUP. YUMM.

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All this and World War 2! by Old movie fan
Baby boomers take note of this wonderful book! As one born in the late 1940’s I can’t recommend this book highly enough. Here are ads from the magazines when we were born. The ads are printed somewhat smaller for the full page ads and a lot smaller for quarter page ones. However the printing quality is good enough that you can read ads in their entirety even if you occasionally have to use a magnifying glass to read the smaller ones. (Yes, our eyes are beginning to show our age!)You people with good eyes won’t have that problem. The ads will awaken a nostalgia for things you don’t remember. The Zenith TV with the Giant CIRCLE screen! (It’s probably 10 inches!) How about an ad for Rice Krispies with Snap, Crackle and Pop riding American fighter planes! The Greyhound Bus ad asking people to “Help a fighting man enjoy his precious leave or furlough” by giving up travel. It all ‘ads’ up to a wonderful trip back in time!

Capitalism at work…forties style. by Robin Benson
Another massive collection of colorful magazine advertisements from Taschen. This is the same format as the first book in this series,’All-American Ads 50s’, hundresd and hundreds of whole page consumer magazine ads (there are a few pages with two or four) beautifull printed.

As this edition covers the war years, 111 pages carry ads by American companies explaining how they are doing their bit for victory. On page 618 there is a 1941 Greyhound bus ad that features a map of the US showing all the main military camps and the copy tells how Greyhound runs a bus past most of them. In the chapter on ‘Industry’ I found sixteen 1945 ads from a metal producing company called Bohn, they show futuristic designs for various forms of transport and a wonderful streamline combine harvester.

Most of the ads in the book use illustration rather than photography, so much easier to stretch reality.

This is an ideal gift book for anyone who lived through the forties and if you are just curious about middle-class life back then these thousand ads will give you plenty to think about. A book bargain at the price.

The book I was Waiting for in it class by Eduardo Agrela Cortés
Off course I was born in the 40’s so this adds is part of the world I lived, so I enjoyed it very very much. I used to collect old Reader’s Digests specialy for the adds, it reflect the world of those days and most of it are true art works.
The selection is very wise and complete, the section I liked the most is the car section and the pictures quality is terrific I d’ont undestand how they got so good picture quality if it suppossed they take it material from old magazines.
I’m sure any body will enjoy it a lot.
I’d rate it 6 stars or more if posible.

Coffee table books worth collecting by C. F. Hankins
This is one of a series of amazing books published by Taschen.
I have been purchasing them through Amazon (as some are difficult to locate through stores). The series so far covers the 1910s through to the 1980s, a volume per decade. Over 500 pages of quality reproductions of ads from consumer goods to movies of those decades. You could spend hours looking through these books - and still find something you missed last time around. Congratulations to the editor/s.


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Marketing Basics for Designers: A Sourcebook of Strategies and Ideas

Marketing Basics for Designers: A Sourcebook of Strategies and Ideas

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How to Slice the Pie? Optimal Share Structure Design in Internet Advertising…

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Google Tech TalksJune, 9 2008ABSTRACTPresented byAndrew B.
WhinstonCenter for Research in Electronic CommerceMccombs School of BusinessThe University of Texas at AustinBased on a joint research with Jianqing Chen and De LiuAbstract:Internet-based advertising continues to increase in importance.
Internet advertising providers such as Google and Yahoo! allocate their advertising resources using a novel form of share auctions in which the highest advertiser gets the largest share, the second highest advertiser gets the second largest share, and so on.
A share structure problem arises in such a setting regarding how much resources to set aside for the highest advertiser, for the second highest advertiser, etc.
We address this problem under a general specification and derive implications on how the optimal share structure should change with advertisers’ price elasticity of demand for exposure, their valuation distribution, total resources, and minimum bids.Full Synopsis here: http://docs.google.com/a/google.com/Doc?id=cdvbh2g5_1621cg97gcctSpeaker: Dr.
Andrew B.
Whinstonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_B._WhinstonAndrew B.
Whinston is an American economist and computer scientist.
He is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, Professor of Information Systems, Computer Science and Economics, and Director of the Center for Research in E-Commerce (CREC) in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
Prof.
Whinston is also a fellow of the IC2 Institute, Austin.At the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in December 2005, Prof.
Whinston was awarded “The LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems” by the Association for Information Systems (AIS).Andrew Whinston has been a major contributor to the field since information systems began as an academic discipline.
His research record is exemplary, his publications are many, his doctoral graduates are found throughout the field in all parts of the world, and his innovative research has enlightened critical developments in the field.


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