Page 12 RAIN December 1976 The Methods of Construction of Celtic Art, George Bain, Dover Art Series, $4.00 Beautiful interlacing Celtic ornaments, spirals, initials, human and animal designs. Examples, illustrations and how to construct. Geometric Design and Ornament, Edmund Gillon, Jr., Dover Pictorial Archives, $2.50 374 unusual designs of Russian originstriking geometric interplays, interlocking circles-mostly about 3" in size. The Underground Sketchbook of ]an Faust, Dover Pictorial Archives, $1.50 101 bizarre half-page sketches (we love them!) of fireplugs with built-in urinals, ecologists with trees for hair, coke bottles sucking people down soda straws and other figments of modern civilization. GRAP ICS One of the fun things in putting together a magazine or a poster is finding good graphics to go with the information and then putting them together in a way that looks.and feels good. CHOOSING GRAPHICS depends on several factors-your budget, the amount of time you have to mess with finding graphics, what sources you have easily available, and what you want to use the graphics for. Graphics can be used to draw people's attention to the poster; article or magazine, to separate different things on a page, give relief from words, help you remember where you are reading, convey the spirit of an article, illustrate an idea, show something that exists, or carry a major part of the message you are trying to convey. If you're trying to convince people that something is possible, a photograph of the real thing is a hundred times as convincing as a sketch of the same thing. Yet often a sketch or cartoon can more dramatically and clearly convey ideas, feelings, or conceptual images. And frequently it's not worth the time necessary to find and process the "perfect" image. Japanese Design Motifs, Matsuya Co. Co., Dover Pictorial Archives, $4~95. Over 4000 beautiful 1-1/2" square stylized designs- animals, flowers, swords, fans, geometries. Picture Sourcebook for Collage and Decoupage, Edmond Gillon, Jr., Dover Pictorial Archives, $3.95 Chinese Cut-Paper Designs, Theodore Menten, Dover Pictorial Archives, $3.00 269 illustrations of mixed qualitysome cloying, some delightful-mostly fairly large, but fine papercuts of horses, warriors, tigers, children and pandas. ·If you need odd, weird things, go here. 317 often crude but curious scenes, figures, images. · ~ ,. I I
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