Jim Heimann

À La Carte Over one hundred years of menu graphics Until restaurants became commonplace in the late 1800s, printed menus for meals were rare commodities reserved for special occasions. As restaurants proliferated, the menu became more than just a culinary listing: it was an integral part of eating out, a clever marketing tool, and a popular keepsake. Menu Design is an omnibus showcasing the best examples of this graphic art. Illustrated in vibrant color, this compact volume not only gathers an extraordinary collection of paper ephemera but serves as a history of restaurants and dining out in America. Featuring both covers and interiors, the menus offer an epicurean tour and insight to more than a hundred years of dining out. An introduction on the history of menu design by graphic design writer Steven Heller and extended captions by culinary historian John Mariani accompany each piece throughout the book. Various photographs of restaurants round out this compendium that will appeal to anyone who enjoys dining out and its graphic and gastronomic history. Text in English, French, and German

Menu Design in America

Surfing

This volume showcases ads for cars, travel, liquor, cigarettes, movies, and much more that appeared during the 1950s and 1960s--from the height of pro-American McCarthyism to the carefree booze-and-cigarettes "Mad Men" era.

Advertising from the Mad Men Era

Mid-Century Ads

From hippie to disco to punk, this look book relives 1970s fashion via clothing advertisements from the decade. In between its covers youll find bell-bottoms and feathered hair mingling with platform shoes, Diane Von Furstenberg wrap dresses and endless amounts of polyester (what were they thinking?).

Vintage Fashion and Beauty Ads

Fashion of the 70s

Steven Heller

Fotografia del ventesimo secolo. Ediz. illustrata

LeRoy Grannis

Steve Barilotti

Developed by Hawaiian islanders over five centuries ago, surfing began to peak on the mainland in the 1950s. One of the key image-makers from that period, LeRoy Grannis, a surfer since 1931, began photographing the scene in California and Hawaii in the longboard era of the early 1960s. This edition showcases Grannis' most vibrant work.

Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s

Leroy Grannis

Documenting and celebrating America's lasting love affair with eating out, May I Take Your Order? presents 250 color reproductions of classic menus from the 1920s through the 1960s. In addition to their unique graphic appeal, restaurant menus reflect the styles and attitudes - not to mention eating habits and prices - of their times.

American Menu Design, 1920-1960

May I Take Your Order?

Vintage Holiday Graphics (Icons)

Halloween

Hula Vintage Hawaiian Graphics

Welcome the most comprehensive visual history on all things surfing. With hundreds of images and essays by today's leading surf journalists, this publication spans photography, fashion, film, art, and music to chart the evolution of surfing culture from its first mention in 1778 to today's global and multi-platform phenomenon.

Collection of vintage travel illustrations from around the world.

See the World

All-American Ads (Midi S.)

All American Ads of the 80's

Rise and sprawl. A pictorial history of the City of Angels From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city's cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history. L.A. is shown in its emergence from a desert wasteland to a vast palm-studded urban metropolis, beginning with the 1880s' real estate boom, through the early days of Hollywood, the urban sprawl of the late 20th century, and right up to the present day. About the series: Each compact and dynamic volume in TASCHEN'sPortrait of a City Piccolo series distills the vitality and history of each city into a billet doux packed with 150 photos accompanied by informative captions and inspiring quotations.

Los Angeles

Phil Patton

Este livro oferece ao leitor uma história visual do automóvel, organizada por décadas e com base em mais de 500 anúncios retirados da coleção de Jim Heimann. A introdução e texto por Phil Patton, um jornalista especializado no New York Times, descreve as inovações tecnológicas, as maiores fábricas e marcas, os principais acontecimentos históricos que têm afetado a produção e a influência da cultura popular sobre o design de automóveis.

100 ANOS DE PUBLICIDADE AUTOMOVEL - ITA/ESP/PORT

20TH CENTURY CLASSICS CARS

New in town, huh? Look around, kidpalm trees, movie stars, glittering promises of fame and fortune....Now look closer, and you'll see the real action in the City of Angels: goons and thugs, backroom dice clubs, motel room cheesecake shots, crusading cops, and a few unlucky saps who didn't make it out alive. Sins of the City is a daring photographic compendium of vintage vice in Los Angeles from the '20s to the '50s, the true-life pictures of a milieu immortalized in the hard-bitten novels of Raymond Chandler, Walter Mosley, and James Ellroy, and such films as Criss Cross, Double Indemnity, Chinatown, and LA Confidential. Pore over 200 shots of the people, places, and events that only tabloids such as Hush-Hush, Confidential, and Whisper dared publish. Witness the LAPD bust a floating casino, see a dapper Bugsy Siegel "before" (living) and "after" (deeply deceased), and marvel at the criminal excess of marijuana-stuffed suitcases. Author Jim Heimann has scoured archives and newspaper morgues for prime examples of Southland's inglorious past, presenting a compelling history of its notorious corruption. Sure, it's a tough city, but thankfully someone was there to record it all.

The Real Los Angeles Noir

Sins of the City

From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city's cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history. L.A. is shown in its emergence from a desert wasteland to a vast palm-studded urban metropolis, beginning with the 1880s' real estate boom, through the early days of Hollywood, the urban sprawl of the late 20th century, and right up to the present day.

Portrait of a City

H. Thomas Steele

Rod Dyer

Briefly describes the history of matchbooks, shows examples of covers featuring advertising, patriotism, movie stars, animals, hotels, restaurants, and sports, and discusses collecting

Close Cover Before Striking

Alison A. Nieder

Featuring more than 500 ads from the Jim Heimann Collection, this collection of fashion advertisements spanning 1900 to 1999 gives readers a stylish retrospective on the century that defined, redefined, and reinterpreted fashion.

100 Ans de Pubs de Mode

Collected for this book, the designs viewed in retrospect reveal the mindset of a period in history. In addition to an extensive selection of drawings are historical black and white photographs of actual shops built in a similar style. 'Shop America' offe

Shop America. Midcentury storefront design 1938-1950. Ediz. italiana, spagnola e portoghese

In the years following World War I, Los Angeles was a city awakening to its darker side, transforming itself from a backwater town to a gleaming metropolis and city of the future. But along the way a tarnished patina began to coat its ever-more glamorous façade. As thousands flocked to the city with their dreams and desires, so too came get-rich-quick schemes, phony religions, organized crime, and corruption. A visual history like no other, Dark City brings together images from archives, museums, newspaper photo morgues, private collections, and the author's extensive image library to reveal the true grit, grime, and sheer horror stories of Los Angeles from the 1920s to 1950s. In large format, we roam through the back alleys, gin joints, tattoo parlors, gambling dens, nightclubs, and the most brutal crime scenes, to uncover a city crawling with murder and mayhem. From Sunset Boulevard to a jazz-saturated Central Avenue, tabloid headlines chronicle the most famous celebrities and infamous crimes in a hopped-up city that provided inspiration for journalists, pulp fiction scribes, and filmland script writers in their creation of the noir genre. With rare vintage magazine reprints from the crime tabloids of the time, this is a uniquely evocative visual history through which the crime, crooks, crazies, and mean streets of the City of Angels are transformed from myth to reality.

Jim Heimann

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