SO YOU WANT TO BE A JEWELRY DESIGNER You make jewelry. That is what you do. But when you think jewelry and speak jewelry and work jewelry, this is what you have become. This is your purpose. Becoming a Jewelry Designer is exciting. With each piece, you are challenged with this profound question: Why does some jewelry draw people's attention, and others do not? When designers turn to how-to books or art theory texts, however, these do not...

Great writing begins -- and ends -- with the sentence. Whether two words ("Jesus wept.") or 1,287 words (a sentence in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!), sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Understanding the variety of ways to construct sentences, from the smallest clause to the longest sentence, is important to enhancing your appreciation of great writing and potentially improving...

Intended for architects, this guide walks through the process of buying a digital SLR camera, taking photographs both inside and outside, selecting angles, lighting interiors, finding Photoshop Plug-ins for architectural photography, editing images, reproducing drawings and models, and submitting materials to magazines. Numerous color photographs are provided as examples. Annotation 2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

"With beautiful and detailed visuals in the form of info-graphics, 3D illustrations, cutaways and renderings, How the Universe Works offers a tiny glimpse of the massive stretch of the universe. Each page delves more into the composition of the stars and shows the information in such a way that makes even the most complex phenomenons easy to understand. Learn how different cosmic bodies interact with one another, why, and how humanity has worked...

Astonishing creations by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo; amazing visual trickery; and an illuminating foreword by the Pulitzer Prize--winning author Douglas R. Hofstadter make this 320-page, breathtaking collection the definitive book of optical illusions. Rings of seahorses that seem to rotate on the page. Butterflies that transform right before your eyes into two warriors with their horses. A mosaic portrait of oceanographer...

A candid portrait of the famed photographer, co-written by his longtime business partner and confidante, traces Avedon's life from his humble New York childhood to his death during a shoot in 2004. "Richard Avedon was arguably the world's most famous photographer -- as artistically influential as he was commercially successful. Over six richly productive decades, he created landmark advertising campaigns, iconic fashion photographs (as the star photographer...