Retro Graphics makes it easy for DIY designers to mimic the most prominent styles of the past hundred years. A plethora of authentic design modelsfrom Art Deco and Gothic Revival to Pop Art and Post Modernismare presented and broken down into their component parts in this handy sourcebook. These entries include step-by-step techniques, color palettes, typefaces, illustration styles, and ornamentation to help anyone create the look of such diverse materials as Victorian advertisements and pulp fiction book jackets. History can't be revived, but it can be simulated with this richly illustrated and meticulously researched visual encyclopedia.

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This reference teaches photographers how to submit their work to over 2,000 potential paying markets, from stock photo agencies to galleries, magazines, books, newspapers, and specialty markets.

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Indicates names, addresses, people to contact, types of pictures to submit, and pay rates for magazine, book, greeting card, and calendar publishers, advertising and public-relations agencies, and audio-visual firms, and discusses business and technical matters.