Pentagram Book Five

Pentagram Book Five
Author: Pentagram Design
Publisher:
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Fifty case histories of Pentagram Design projects.

Library Book, The: Design Collaborations in the Public Schools

Library Book, The: Design Collaborations in the Public Schools
Author: Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2010-04-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781568988320

It's often said a child's lifelong love of reading begins at home. But declining literacy rates among the nation's public elementary school students suggests this maxim needs revision. For reading to become an everyday habit, it needs to be nurtured in a home of its own. Fortunately, there is space available inside most elementary schools. At just 5 percent of a school's total real estate, the school library is the most powerful and efficient way to reach 100 percent of the student body. But far too many of the nation's public school libraries lack even the most basic resources to support learning and encourage achievement. The nonprofit L!brary Initiative, created by the Robin Hood Foundation, has been working since 2001 to enhance student literacy and overall academic achievement by collaborating with school districts to design, build, equip, and staff new elementary school libraries. The L!brary Book takes readers behind the scenes of fifty groundbreaking library projects to show how widely varied fields and communities—corporate underwriters, children's book publishers, architects, graphic designers, product manufacturers, library associations, teachers, and students—can join forces to make a difference in the lives of children. Based on the premise that good library design can actually inspire learning, the L!brary Initiative brings together some of the world's leading architects to reimagine the elementary school libraries in New York City—the nation's largest public school system. Working on a pro bono basis, architecture firms—including 1100 Architects, Weiss/Manfredi Architects, Della Valle Bernheimer, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, and Dean/Wolf Architects—have in just eight years built or transformed more than fifty libraries into vital resources for the whole school community. These libraries—both beautiful learning spaces and innovative architecture—feature a wide range of design solutions, including creative uses of space, color, lighting, and furniture. Author and former L!brary Initiative director Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi documents every project with beautiful photos as well as renderings and measured drawings. The L!brary Book concludes with the chapter How to Make a Library which shows how community organizers and architects can pursue similar initiatives in their own communities.

Paula Scher

Paula Scher
Author: Paula Scher
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1616899344

A larger-than-life figure in the design community with a client list to match, Paula Scher turned her first major project as a partner at Pentagram into a formative twenty-five-year relationship with the Public Theater in New York. This behind-the-scenes account of the relationship between Scher and "the Public," as it's affectionately known, chronicles over two decades of brand and identity development and an evolving creative process in a unique "autobiography of graphic design."

The Five-Card Pentagram Tarot

The Five-Card Pentagram Tarot
Author: Marv Machura
Publisher: Bookbaby
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2021-07-30
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781098386146

Divine your future with the help of this guide to the five-card pentagram and Tarot. Find timely advice on your path forward for your spirit, energy, emotions, mind and wealth.

Pentagram Papers

Pentagram Papers
Author: Pentagram Design
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2006-12-28
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780811855631

Celebrated global design firm Pentagram has produced a series of signature annual documents, known as Pentagram Papers, exclusively for clients and colleagues since 1975. On the occasion of the firm's 35-year anniversary, these quirky and influential Papers are collected here together for the first time. Each Paper explores a unique and curious topic of interest to the Pentagram designersMao buttons, the Savoy ballroom, rural Australian mailboxes, and the pop architecture of Wildwood, New Jersey, have all been featured subjects. Included here are not only in-depth reproductions and detailed discussion of the Papers' origins, but also an exclusive new Paper created especially for the book and set into a tray inside its back cover.

Profile

Profile
Author: Susan Yelavich
Publisher: Phaidon
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Design
ISBN:

The first book on the legendary design firm, Pentagram.

The Night of the Scorpion

The Night of the Scorpion
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: James Clarke & Co.
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1985
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780744400533

An English journalist, his thirteen-year-old ward, and an Incan boy battle the supernatural evil of the Old Ones, who plan to enter our world through a secret gate somewhere in Peru.

Watch this Space

Watch this Space
Author: Francesca Gavin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Mass media and technology
ISBN: 9781527236127

Variations on a Rectangle

Variations on a Rectangle
Author: DJ Stout
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-11-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781477303627

“Editorial design is the art of storytelling, and DJ’s brand of it is uniquely American. Western American. It starts out slow and builds. It wins you with a bit of humility (almost ‘shucks-gee-whiz’) and then comes back at you with a surprise punch. The pacing and analogies feel like a Will Rogers narrative. . . . When he first began presenting his work to his London Pentagram partners, they thought he could have just as easily been from the moon. But the storytelling was so strong, so funny, so completely designed but guileless at the same time that the Londoners, and the rest of us, found ourselves confronted with something real, authoritative, and probably definable only as pure American Graphic Design.” —Paula Scher, from the introduction An internationally renowned graphic designer and partner in Pentagram, the world’s most famous graphic design firm, DJ Stout is a fifth-generation Texan whose strong sense of place has inspired his design work for over thirty-five years. His contributions to Texas Monthly, where he was art director for thirteen years, helped the magazine win three National Magazine Awards. American Photo magazine named Stout one of its “100 Most Important People in Photography,” and I.D. (International Design) magazine selected him for “The I.D. Fifty,” its annual listing of design innovators. The Society of Illustrators honored Stout with the national Richard Gangel Art Director Award, and he was made a Fellow of the Austin chapter of the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) for his lifetime achievements. Variations on a Rectangle presents both a career retrospective of DJ Stout’s work and his inimitable, often humorous perspectives on publication design. Using nearly eight hundred images to illustrate more than two hundred fifty major design projects, Stout describes the inspiration and creative process behind his highly innovative designs for magazines, books, brochures, posters, and even a fiberglass “batcow.” He tells fascinating, behind-the-scenes stories of Texas personalities such as Tommy Lee Jones, Sissy Spacek, and Ann Richards, who figured prominently in Texas Monthly’s pages, while also discussing how his Texas heritage has influenced his more recent design work US and international clients. An essential primer for younger graphic designers and a revelation for everyone who values exceptional design, Variations on a Rectangle proves Stout’s maxim, “A publication without style is just a document, and documents don’t do well on the newsstand. And that’s why you need editorial art directors. Amen.”

Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man Hides a Pentagram and a Serpent God. Basic Model Copied From Mars?

Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man Hides a Pentagram and a Serpent God. Basic Model Copied From Mars?
Author: Arthur R. Beaubien
Publisher: Epiphi Productions
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2021-07-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9780994032140

This book provides the most important and illuminating analysis of Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man drawing that has ever been made in the more than 500 years that have elapsed since its production. Everyone in the past has focused on how the drawing illustrates the fit of the human body to both a square and a circle. However, this was not the real intent of the drawing, but served mainly as a distraction to divert attention from the anomalies that hide a truly dark revelation. It has been discovered that Da Vinci followed a mathematically precise geometric model for the construction not only of the square, the circle and the equilateral triangle (which fits the spread-apart pair of legs), but also of a pentagram which Da Vinci chose to hide. With this model, all 4 of the geometric shapes are pure functions of the radius of the circle. Although Da Vinci hid the pentagram, most likely because he was using it as a Freemasonic occult symbol, he pointed to its hidden presence by creating a device which makes use of a slight reduction in the radius of the model circle and a minor change in one corner of the square. Even more intriguing are several distortions in the body shape of the human figure in the drawing. These were deliberately constructed to have the man's body fit the image of the ancient dual serpent god Ningishzida. This god is known as a fertility god and a healer, but since the image of Ningishzida is likely a predecessor of the caduceus (the staff of Hermes or Mercury), there seems to be a more sinister aspect to Da Vinci's use of this deity. The Greek god Hermes, who was called Mercury by the Romans, was considered to be the god of thieves as well as a god of deception and trickery. In fitting the human shape to Ningishzida, Da Vinci appears to be proclaiming the rulership of this serpent god over humanity. In the process, he also appears to have found a clever way to indicate that he was gay. It also seems that Da Vinci was showing that Ningishzida creates a satanic chakra system which is superimposed on our yogic chakra system to repress it and connect us to a satanic consciousness. Despite the heavy indoctrination that NASA has promoted for over 50 years saying that Mars is a lifeless planet, the topography of the planet overwhelmingly reveals through scientific measurements that the huge mountains, many craters and other landforms did not arise from natural forces but instead have been artificially constructed. It has been found that the 4 giant mountains of Olympus Mons, Ascraeus Mons, Pavonis Mons and Arsia Mons have been artificially arranged to provide a template for a virtual Vitruvian Martian which can be constructed using the exact same model used by Da Vinci. There is a pyramid nearby which is approximately 30 km in diameter and has the shape of a perfect pentagram. The Martian architects used the 2 northern star points of the pyramid to delineate the radius and the centre (naval position) of the circle which fits the Vitruvian Martian. Da Vinci, as a Freemason, probably had access to privileged information about Mars. It is likely that he used the model of the Vitruvian Martian as the basis for his drawing of the Vitruvian Man. He distorted the model and the human figure in order to secretly send occult messages to elite members of Freemasonry. The distortions are also very likely to have been intended to serve as subliminal messages to the masses in order to exert a satanic influence on an unsuspecting public.