With pages filled with emoji-inspired designs and doodles, Emoji Art is packed with fun pictures to finish! Children can use the designs to guide them as they fill the pages with their own fun doodles. This gorgeously designed book comes with an adorable emoji-shaped stacking pen! EMOJI ART: A FUN NEW ADDITION TO MAKE BELIEVE IDEAS' INNOVATIVE ART-BOOK RANGE

This is the first book to explain the genesis and cultural significance of emoji, the world's cutest and most popular form of shorthand. If you have a Twitter account or regularly send text messages, it's highly likely that you've used or received emoji. These characters include symbols and pictograms that represent a host of everyday objects and activities plus, crucially, a selection of faces that denote a range of emotions from happy to sad, angry, confused, surprised, or tired. The word "emoji" literally translates from Japanese as "picture" (e) and "character" (moji). The Story of Emoji traces emoji from their origin as a symbol typeface created specifically for on-screen use by a Japanese mobile phone provider in the late 1990s to an international communication phenomenon. As well as a history of emoji and an interview with their creator, Shigetaka Kurita, the book includes an exploration of non-text typefaces, from the decorative fleurons of the early days of the printing press to the innumerable digital typefaces available today, to the use of emoticons, ASCII art, and kaomoji in typed messages. It also looks at an array of artworks, fashion lines, special character sets, advertisements, and projects that convey emoji's widespread impact on contemporary culture. Finally, the book concludes with a section for which a group of illustrators, artists, and graphic designers have created original emoji characters they wish existed, including bacon, a vinyl record, and even a "stabbed-in-the-back" emoji.

“It never occurred to me while growing up that art is an industry involving countless jobs, so if this book helps shed light to just one kid that it is a viable career option, then it has done its job, as art is indescribably important!” —Oliver Jeffers, Artist and Illustrator “This book so beautifully explains to kids what goes into making an art exhibition. It’s not just about an artist hanging something on a wall for people to see: it’s so much more lively, layered, and community-driven. Even I learned a ton about what truly goes into a fantastic art show!” —Joy Cho, Author and Founder of Oh Joy! “I wish I’d had this book when I was a kid! I always wanted my art to be in a big museum one day but, growing up in a small town, that just seemed impossible. Making a Great Exhibition is a beautifully illustrated behind-the-scenes peek at exactly how art makes its way from an artist’s mind to the big white walls of a fancy gallery. Turns out, there are a lot of people, with some very cool jobs, who make the magic happen—and any book that shows kids (and parents!) they can grow up to have a career in the arts is okay by me!” —Danielle Krysa, The Jealous Curator An exciting insight into the workings of artists and museums, Making a Great Exhibition is a colorful and playful introduction geared to children ages 3-7 How does an artist make a sculpture or a painting? What tools do they use? What happens to the artwork next? This fun, inside look at the life of an artwork shows the journey of two artists’ work from studio to exhibition. Stopping along the way we meet colorful characters—curators, photographers, shippers, museum visitors, and more! Both illustrator and author were raised in the art world, spending their time in studios, doing homework in museum offices, and going to special openings. They have teamed up to share their experiences and love for this often mysterious world to a young audience. London-based illustrator Rose Blake is best known for her work in A History of Pictures for Children, by David Hockney and Martin Gayford, which has been a worldwide success. Author Doro Globus brings her love for the arts and kids together with this fun journey.

Vacant lots. Abandoned houses. Trash--lots of trash. Heidelberg Street was in trouble! Tyree Guyton loved his childhood home--that's where his grandpa Sam taught him to "paint the world." So he wanted to wake people up... to make them see Detroit's crumbling communities. Paintbrush in hand, Tyree cast his artistic spell, transforming everyday junk into magic trash. Soon local kids and families joined Tyree in rebuilding their neighborhood, discovering the healing power of art along the way. This picture book biography of Tyree Guyton, an urban environmental artist, shows how he transformed his decaying, crime-ridden neighborhood into the Heidelberg Project, an interactive sculpture park. The story spans from Tyree's childhood in 1950s Detroit to his early efforts to heal his community through art in the 1980s. Tyree's awards include Michigan Artist of the Year and International Artist. MAGIC TRASH offers strong themes of working together, the power of art, and the importance of inspiring community--especially kids--to affect action. The Heidelberg Project is internationally recognized for providing arts education to children and adults and for the ongoing development of several houses on Heidelberg Street. Not only does the Heidelberg Project prove that when a community works together it can rebuild itself, but it also addresses the issues of recycling, environmentalism, and community on a global level.

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart has written a poignant and instructive guide for all aspiring graphic memoirists detailing the tenets of artistry and story-telling inherent in the medium. Hart examines what makes a graphic memoir great, and shows you how to do it. With two dozen professional examples and a deep-dive into his own story, Hart encourages readers to hone their signature style in the best way to represent their journeys on the page. With clear examples and visual aids, The Art of the Graphic Memoir is emotive, creative, and accessible. Whether you're a comics fan, comic book creator, memoirist, biographer or autobiographer, there’s something inside for everyone.

This book will show you want to be able to draw more then just stick figures. Step by step instructions and ons of helpful tips, you'll be drawing exciting comic characters in no time.

A book without words, recounting a day in the life of an office worker, told completely in the symbols, icons, and logos of modern life. Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground, a book that anyone can read. —Xu Bing Following his classic work Book from the Sky, the Chinese artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel—one composed entirely of symbols and icons that are universally understood. Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct the narrative of Book from the Ground. The result is a readable story without words, an account of twenty-four hours in the life of “Mr. Black,” a typical urban white-collar worker. Our protagonist's day begins with wake-up calls from a nearby bird and his bedside alarm clock; it continues through tooth-brushing, coffee-making, TV-watching, and cat-feeding. He commutes to his job on the subway, works in his office, ponders various fast-food options for lunch, waits in line for the bathroom, daydreams, sends flowers, socializes after work, goes home, kills a mosquito, goes to bed, sleeps, and gets up the next morning to do it all over again. His day is recounted with meticulous and intimate detail, and reads like a postmodern, post-textual riff on James Joyce's account of Bloom's peregrinations in Ulysses. But Xu Bing's narrative, using an exclusively visual language, could be published anywhere, without translation or explication; anyone with experience in contemporary life—anyone who has internalized the icons and logos of modernity, from smiley faces to transit maps to menus—can understand it.

This Emoji Best Friends coloring book is designed for you to color with your best friend! TWO COPIES of each page! This coloring book is all about emojis and best friends. From inspirational words and quotes to emojis of best friends, donuts, pizza, and more, each page is designed for you to color with or for your best friend. Featuring 18 unique and creative designs with two copies of each for a total of 36 pages, this coloring book is great for children of all ages, tweens, teens, and adults who love their BFF. The designs range in complexity from simple to advanced, this coloring book will provide hours and hours of stress relief, mindful calm, and fun, creative expression. 3 FUN WAYS TO USE THIS BOOK: -COLOR 2 COPIES OF ONE PICTURE (KEEP ONE FOR YOURSELF AND GIVE ONE TO YOUR BFF AS A GIFT) -YOU AND YOUR BFF EACH COLOR A COPY OF THE SAME PAGE. SEE HOW SIMILAR OR DIFFERENT YOU CHOSE TO COLOR THEM. (OR HAVE A COLORING CONTEST) -SOMETIMES WE MAKE MISTAKES WHEN WE'RE COLORING AND WISH THAT WE COULD RE-DO IT. NOW YOU CAN SINCE THERE ARE TWO COPIES OF EVERY PICTURE.

New board books in the best-selling Mini Masters series feature beautiful paintings from Cassatt and Picasso and rhyming text introducing budding artists to these famous masters.

Text Book: Tamy Ben-Tor & Miki Carmi intersects art historical analyses, artists' interpretations, the reaction of a playwright, and a work of experimental fiction in order to upend the usual ways painting and performance art are described. Highly regarded experimental graphic designer Joshua Gamma interprets their practice liberally-never simply reproducing images of works, but instead distilling Ben-Tor & Carmi's visual language into core elements that operate as a language alongside the work of the commissioned authors' texts.The book attends to the realities of this collaboration. The contributors include celebrated film maker Martin Brest's mapping of his experience of Ben Tor and Carmi's work. Internationally acclaimed artist, author, and theorist, Coco Fusco contributes an analysis of Carmi's innovations in painting, bringing attention to histories of eugenics and the grotesque as pertain to his contemporary art practice. Our intention is to expand the platforms and ways art writing and art criticism appear in publishing. C.Z amplifies the drives that fuel Ben-Tor and Carmi's collaboration through his poetic fictional narrative that taps the relationships underpinning the subjects tackled by these artists. An exhibiting artist himself, C.Z. draws on their shared studies of psychology, mythologies, and Jewish histories. Playwright Adara Meyers studio visit notes. Kosuke Kawahara experimental rendering of the artists further expresses Ben-Tor and Carmi as teachers and friends creating an artist community, Alpesh Kantilal Patel's art historical scholarship, curating, and criticism reflect his queer, anti-racist, and transnational approach to contemporary art. He brings an analysis of how Ben-Tor and Carmi's practices re-work the body as never singular or heteronormative, but disembodied, contained, and easily racialized. The writing of Kate Gaudy, an exhibiting artist and curator working in Buffalo, New York, challenges us to stare, to look at Carmi's paintings, to watch and listen again to Ben-Tor's videos. Psychoanalytic, raw, explicit, Gaudy activates the forces that steer and feed their work, as artists and caregivers.