Recollectibles delight popular culture collectors and graphic designers with their interesting design and intriguing subjects. Each book has a unique and engaging cover that is sure to charm people everywhere.
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"...Your Red Scarf Matches Your Eyes...",
By The Devil's Fabric (New York, New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Close Cover Before Striking: The Golden Age of Matchcover Art (Recollectibles) (Hardcover)
"Your Red Scarf Matches Your Eyes, You Close Your Cover Before Striking, and Loving You Has Made Me Bananas...." For the graphic artist or just fans of the visually arresting, there are some supurb images in this publication. Chronicle Books put out a book two or three years later called MATCHBOOK ART by Yosh Kashiwabara which is a nice compliment to this Abbeville Book. The Steel/Heimann book was published at a time when Abbeville was putting out a fun, funky series on American Pop culture - John Margolies MINATURE GOLF book, and the Dyer/Spark book FIT TO BE TIED: VINTAGE TIES OF THE FORTIES & EARLY FIFTIES, all of which are useful references for those in the (or into) arts/applied arts field/popular culture/or mid-century americana. The breakdown of categories in CLOSE COVER BEFORE STRIKING works well, the text (which is sparse) is very readable, and the page layout is attractive. I'd say that it would be a fine addtion to any bookshelf.
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Striking,
This review is from: Close Cover Before Striking: The Golden Age of Matchcover Art (Recollectibles) (Hardcover)
A fun collection of covers from past decades before cheap liquid lighters took over and smoking became a non-you habit. Originally published in 1987 and in the same format as Kashiwabara's 1989 Matchbook Art. Both books have chapters devoted to covers for hotels, advertising, diners, travel and more. Both perhaps suffer from the same visual problem in just showing the front rather than the whole book open and flat so the front and back can be seen.
Chronicle, who published Kashiwabara's book, had a second bite with the 2006 Striking Images: Vintage Matchbook Cover Art with five hundred covers which I think was ruined because the covers were too large (it really showed up the crude printing) and butted together on each page. 'Close cover' fortunately doesn't have this problem and the pages look fresh and interesting thanks to designer Rod Dyer and Jim Heiman. If you enjoy looking at cheap printed ephemera from the past the book is fascinating. I could well see the look of some of these covers popping up in today's retro graphics. Incidentally, 'Matchbook art', though not quite so snappily designed does have a more flamboyant selection of covers. ***LOOK INSIDE THE BOOK by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
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