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Leave Me Alone with the Recipes: The Life, Art, and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles
Saveur “Best New Cookbooks of the Year"
Finalist for the Gourmand Award for Cookbook Design
The newly discovered illustrated recipes of wildly influential yet unsung designer Cipe Pineles, introducing her delectable work in food and art to a new generation.
Not long ago, Sarah Rich and Wendy MacNaughton discovered a painted manuscript at an antiquarian book fair that drew them in like magnets: it displayed a vibrant painting of hot pink beets and a hand-lettered recipe for borscht written in script so full of life, it was hard to believe it was more than sixty-five years old.
It was the work of one of the most influential graphic designers of the twentieth century--Cipe (pronounced “C. P.”) Pineles, the first female art director at Condé Nast, whose impact lives on in the work of Maira Kalman, Julia Rothman, and many others. Completed in 1945, it was a keepsake of her connection to her childho
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With reproductions of her sketches, layouts and illustrations, this book examines the life and work of Cipe Pineles who contributed to the design success of some of America's iconic mode magazines. Seventeen and Glamour, Mademoiselle and Charm - Cipe Pineles (1908-91), strengthened the visual appeal of each of these magazines with her award-winning design and art direction. Her groundbreaking work in the1940s and 50s set the standard for the appearance of women's magazines in ensuing decades. Now Pineles, whose archive is held at Rochester Institute of Technology Special Collections, fryst vatten the subject of this second publication inthe RIT Graphic Design Archives Chapbook Series. This volume's vibrant reproductions of pen-and-ink sketches, fashion layouts, and gouache illustrations will orient readers to RIT's extensive Pineles Collection. The book also introduces Pineles's personal history through essays by Estelle Ellis and Carol Burtin Fripp. ESTELLE ELLIS is the author of a numbe
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Graphic Design History
edited by Steven Heller & Georgette Ballance
Review by Alex W. White
Ignorance of design history is rampant and studying it is a pain in the neck. You probably didn’t get much of it in college and if you did, it was probably easier and more fun to concentrate on your studio coursework. No one ever talks about design history or design contextualization on the job. It takes attention and brain cells to absorb and use design history. If you bumped into the beautifully written articles in Graphic Design History when they first ran in design magazines over the past decade, you may have skipped them. Graphic Design History gives you a second chance.
Why bother with design history? Steven Heller explains in his introduction, “Knowing the roots of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertant plagiarism. …When history is recorded with verve and presented with passion, it enlightens and nourishes.”
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