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American trademark designs

a survey with 732 marks, logos, and corporate-identity symbols
1976
A collection of 732 American trademarks and symbols that offers a representative overview of major past and current trends in American trademark design.

Handbook of pictorial symbols

3,250 examples from international sources
1976
Contains more than three thousand pictorial and public symbols from around the world, arranged in such categories as money, entertainment, information, and first aid, as well as particular systems, such as the British Airports Authority and the 1974 Department of Transportation.

Ornamental ironwork

690 illustrations
1998
Contains over six hundred seventy-five detailed illustrations of antique ornamental ironwork designs for balconies, gates, window grilles, staircases, doorways, and other architectural features.

Mola designs

45 authentic Indian designs from Panama
1985
Contains forty-five Mola designs, a reverse-applique needlework pattern unique to the Cuna, an isolated tribe that lives on the San Blas Islands off the Atlantic coast of Panama, and includes both ancient and modern themes, such as mermaids, animals, flowers, and mazes.

Original art deco designs

72 plates
1973
Contains seventy-two reproducible, black-and-white designs in the modern Art Deco style.

Triad optical illusions and how to design them

1978
Presents over ninety diagrams showing how to draw various kinds of optical illusions using the triad.

Besler's book of flowers & plants

73 full-color plates from Hortus Eystettensis, 1613
2007
Contains over seventy full-color plates of plants, flowers, and trees that thrived in the legendary German garden founded at Eichst?tt in the early seventeenth century.

Heraldic design

its origins, ancient forms, and modern usage
2003
Contains over five hundred drawings that describe and trace the history and heraldry of shields, crests, helmets, blazonry, and symbols in addition to the coats of arms for American, British, French, Russian and other nations.

Treasury of Japanese designs and motifs for artists and craftsmen

1983
A collection of 360 copyright-free Japanese designs and motifs, presented in black-and-white.

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