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The Art of Chalk: Techniques and Inspiration for Creating Art with Chalk

Chalk, a ubiquitous and versatile implement made from limestone, is much more than a humble tool for jotting impermanent notes. With a wide range of uses in art and design, chalk is quickly becoming a favorite of artists around the world to create impressive works of art.

In The Art of Chalk, noted street painter Tracy Lee Stum takes an inspiring look at the many exciting creative applications for this easily accessible medium. With a historic overview of chalk’s origins as an art medium, and how its artistic uses have evolved over the centuries, this book is a wealth of knowledge for anyone looking to get creative with this time-honored art medium.

Featuring the impressive work of some of today’s most prominent artists and designers, The Art of Chalk explores helpful and inspiring techniques used in typography and lettering, fine art, and the intricate, elaborate, and mind-bending chalk designs known as street art. In the resources section, you’ll even find a detailed listing of chalk festivals held around the world.

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The Fashion Designer’s Sketchbook: Inspiration, Design Development and Presentation (Required Reading Range)

The Fashion Designer’s Sketchbook is a must-have resource for both fashion students and practicing designers who wish to learn new ways of generating design ideas in order to create successful fashion collections, and who wish to develop their own creative aesthetic. It demonstrates how the fashion design sketchbook serves as a crucial creative tool for professional development, as well as a valuable portfolio presentation companion for potential employers.

This book identifies three distinct types of creative journal, each representing a different phase in the design process: the inspiration diary, the process or working sketchbook, and the presentation sketchbook. It explores how one develops out of the other, each stage moving the process forward organically from discovery, to direction, to design development and delivery.

The Fashion Designer’s Sketchbook shows readers how to turn their sketchbooks into source books; how to generate design ideas from everyday experience; explores multiple ways of presenting and arranging elements within pages; details digital search and storage techniques as well as bulletin board journaling. Exercises are provided to improve readers’ illustration skills through in-store sketching and visual analysis, focusing awareness of design aesthetics, taste levels and design vision. The book also explores the need to address market realities, consumer profiles and trend analysis in building design collections based on target customer demographics and a range of markets.

Beautifully illustrated and filled with a wide variety of inspirational, full-colour design illustrations, The Fashion Designer’s Sketchbook also features interviews with designers and industry experts. With a strong emphasis on exploratory design, this exciting resource provides readers with stimulating exercises designed to enable readers’ sketchbook work and their creative vision to shine.

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You Are a Badass Talking Button: Five Nuggets of In-Your-Face Inspiration

In her refreshingly blunt New York Times bestseller You Are a Badass, Jen Sincero served up hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, and the occasional swear word, all with the goal of helping readers reverse self-sabotaging behaviors and create a life they love. You will love this badass kit, which includes an 88-page mini abridgement of Sincero’s irreverent guide and a Badass Button for your desk, kitchen, or bedroom that spouts inspiring messages in Sincero’s own voice. It’s the perfect anytime reminder that “You are a badass!”

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Inspiration Street: Two City Blocks That Helped Change America

This book describes some of the intriguing people who have lived in the 1300 and 1400 blocks of Pierce Street in Lynchburg, Virginia, but it is also more than that. Through what they accomplished during the days of segregation and beyond, these individuals represent 100 years of African-American history in microcosm.

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Healing Inspiration: A Coloring Book for Patients and Caregivers

Healing Inspiration: A Coloring Book for Patients and Caregivers uniquely offers patients and caregivers a creative and soothing activity to relieve stress during the healing journey. With large designs, natural scenes and opportunity pages for self-expression, this coloring book is the ideal activity tool as patients and caregivers manage their recovery time in a hospital or at home. This beautiful collection of expansive patterns and calming images draws the colorist’s attention to healing. A perfect coloring book designed to inspire wellness for both patients and caregivers.

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Aasha- the Inspiration

“Aasha – the Inspiration is the journey of Jyoti Priya Malvankar, a Marathi girl born and educated in some B grade towns of India whose birth and upbringing hover around a middle class family with lots of dos and don’ts to follow; Like in 90 percent Indian families, she faced negligence and felt unimportant being a girl child. Luck strikes her door when she has the opportunity to travel abroad with her husband, see the world and serve at an NGO. She publishes a book ‘Aasha – the Inspiration’ which is about the struggle and journey of a girl from orthodox society to the ultimate of success and fame. This book was written and published as a fund raising initiative for the NGO she was working for. Her literary work got appreciated all over the world and she gets identified as an iconic symbol who uplifts the stature of common woman. She admits in a felicitation program that that the motivation in life comes from her mother. This was an appeal to the masses of India, a message not to ignore a girl child, but instead to give her equal opportunity and help her bloom like a flower amongst the society.”

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The Art of Inspiration: Lead Your Best Story

Your job is more than CEO, president, executive director, head honcho. You are more than a business strategist, statesperson, brand ambassador. Arguably, your most important role is Chief Inspiration Officer. The Art of Inspiration: Lead Your Best Story is for any leader who wants to inspire employees, customers, and constituents to give the best of themselves to an organization’s mission, strategy, product launch, and campaign kickoff.

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Mindfulness & Calm Postcard Book: Adventures in Ink and Inspiration (Hobbies and Craft)

Dreaming and relaxing, creating gorgeous landscapes of pinks and blues, oranges and reds, this beautiful postcard book will give you many hours of pleasure, and calm. And you can send your wonderful creations by post.With a range of challenging and more restful designs Mindfulness & Calm takes you on an intimate journey where the satisfaction of creating beautiful artworks is mixed with inspirational quotes to be found on every card.You can use a wide variety of pens: from gel and pencil, to pigment and crayons, from ballpoint and rollerball to highlighters, although it’s best to avoid the heavy felt pens. Each page is perforated near the spine of the book, so you can tear out and frame, or simply place your wonderful creation on the walls of your home, perhaps even send them as a gift to your loved ones. You’ll have to make a choice about which design to make, if you want to tear it out, but with 25 to choose from there’s more than enough to help you make your decision.Send, or frame: bring the Ink to life!

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Inspiration in My Shoes

Inspiration in My Shoes shares the monumental experience of a biracial young girl’s journey through abuse, racism, and heartache. It is a riveting read that proves no barrier is too high, no obstacle is too great, and that inspiration comes in many surprising forms. Diana’s story is exemplary of both the struggles young women face and how those struggles can be transformed into triumphs. With her mother’s encouragement, her faith in God, and a resilient spirit, Diana overcomes unthinkable tragedy before molding her experience into an opportunity to connect with others. Though Diana’s childhood was riddled with dysfunction, she’s decided to take her mess and make it her message.