Bold, colourful tiles from the early 20th century still decorate homes and public buildings throughout Cuba. Havana Tile Designs contains many stunning examples of these tiles, carefully digitised and included on the enclosed CD-Rom for use as a graphic resource or for inspiration.
| ||||||||||||
Browse our Bookshelf Favorites store for big savings on popular fiction, nonfiction, children's books, and more. |
Book Description
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images? |
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By LuvKimono
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This 6" x 6" book is a treasure trove of moulded tile designs manufactured in Cuba in the early to middle 20th century. Cuba was the second country (after Mexico) to adopt the revolutionary hydraulic tile production methods invented in the late 19th century. Multiple companies sprang up and many different styles of tiles were manufactured that had a distinct Cuban design focus that was more ornamental than the Barcelona tiles that originally inspired them. Because of Cuba's policy of preserving many of the old buildings, many of the tiles can be viewed in Cuba in the environments they were produced for.
The book includes both very high quality photos of individual tiles and tiles combined into overall patterns that could be used by interior designers, quilters, polymer clay artists and others. Both 72 dpi JPEG and 300 dpi TIFF files are included, so you will be able to work with them in either Photoshop/GIMP applications or Illustrator/Inkscape drawing applications. The images are quite substantial in size and are presented in their correct orientations, so no complicated correcting needs to be done to them. If larger images are needed they can be ordered from Pepin Press; license is granted for personal use and the company says its terms for commercial licenses are very reasonable. The Pepin Press books set a high standard of quality that that should influence the production of design books in the future
The book includes both very high quality photos of individual tiles and tiles combined into overall patterns that could be used by interior designers, quilters, polymer clay artists and others. Both 72 dpi JPEG and 300 dpi TIFF files are included, so you will be able to work with them in either Photoshop/GIMP applications or Illustrator/Inkscape drawing applications. The images are quite substantial in size and are presented in their correct orientations, so no complicated correcting needs to be done to them. If larger images are needed they can be ordered from Pepin Press; license is granted for personal use and the company says its terms for commercial licenses are very reasonable. The Pepin Press books set a high standard of quality that that should influence the production of design books in the future
By Leslie
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I love the Amazon Prime membership, I see something I would like and in two days I have it. I was excited about this book, I am trying a new form/style of art/paint/mixed media and I am collecting my tools. This is a great tool and inspirational!
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Listmania!
|
|
