Green Patriot Posters

Combines 50 tear-out posters representing themes of sustainability by leading and emerging contemporary artists with essays on the historical use of posters to convey powerful messages and how they have influenced the current environmental movement.

Featuring designs by some of the most prominent graphic designers and artists at work in the world today, Green Patriot Posters has grown out of the successful website greenpatriotposters.org, which invites designers and artists to submit posters dealing with environmental issues. Containing 50 detachable, ready-to-hang posters, the book has been printed in the most sustainable way possible: the trim size has been designed to minimize waste, and it has been printed using 100% recycled paper and 100% wind power.

A biography of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Army and first president of the United States.

New Math offers a unique and humorous take on life as told by old-school arithmetic equations. For instance, does a cat plus loyalty equal a dog? What's the equation for a backyard? And if you're angry, are you ticked off to the second or third power? The answers to these questions and many more are cleverly revealed in New Math. A book for those who want to know how to delineate or define emotions, activities, or just everyday stuff in an amusing and new way, New Math is a little bit of acumen and a lot of hilarity that adds up to a must-read. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL = JAIL + PUBERTY SANITY = EVERYONE ELSE'S CRAZINESS / MINE BULLY = A JERK - 1 GOOD ASS-KICKINGCalculators not required.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn. and four other institutions between Oct. 22. 2011 and Dec. 2013.

This newest title in the design briefs series is a compact, hands-on guide for graphic design professionals who want to start helping communities and effectuating social change in the world. Author Andrew Shea presents ten strategies for successful community engagement, grounding each one in two real world case studies. The twenty projects featured in the book are by both design professionals and students and range from creating a map of services for the homeless community in Santa Monica, helping Chicago's Humboldt Park community by designing a website where donors can buy essential items for community members, to encouraging LA's Latina community to go for an annual PAP exam in an attempt to prevent cervical cancer through carefully designed posters, murals, and other material. Designing for Social Change is both an inspiration and a how-to book that encourages graphic designers everywhere to go out and do good with their work, providing them with the tools to complete successful projects in their communities.

For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.

EGO ECO is a collection of essays, artist descriptions and photographs documenting the Fall 2013 art exhibition, EGO ECO: Environmental Art for Collective Consciousness at the California State University Fullerton Begovich Art Gallery. Curators Allison Town and Emily Tyler invited viewers to engage in a global conversation about human relationships with the earth-encouraging individual reflection and collective environmental mindfulness. Patrons were asked to remain aware of how they viewed each artist's work and how their own interaction influenced their understanding of the artist's message. The curators proposed that by remaining aware of the act of perceiving-thinking about thinking-individuals become more actively engaged and open to critical digestion of ideas. Included in the exhibition catalog is a Director's Forward by Mike McGee, essay by Patricia L. Watts (Founder/Curator of ecoartspace), Curatorial Statement by Allison Town and Emily Tyler, essays by both curators, descriptions of featured artwork including artist biographies, photographic documentation of the exhibit, art and opening reception, artist-in-residency projects by artist Nicole Dextras and associated educational programming. Featured artists and collectives include: Vaughn Bell, Terry Berlier, Nicole Dextras (Artist-in-Residence), Fallen Fruit (David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young), Green Patriot Posters (Dmitri Siegel and Edward Morris), Newton and Helen Harrison, Jacci Den Hartog, Chris Jordan, Alison Moritsugu, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, Esther Traugot and Andre Woodward.

Prayed in the Pentagon, to convents, and many patriotic events, a rosary of consecration for our nation