Dana Levy Design (7 results)

1983. Japan, Asia, Art. The Japan Society and The Americam Federation of Arts, Peabody Museum of Salem. Very good paperback 167p. Color and b/w illustrations. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator).

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Very Good/Good +. First Edition. New York, NY: Weatherhill, Inc. Very Good/Good +. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. 4to., 167 pp., dust jacket light shelf wear, light creasing and rubbing to edges, otherwise quite good; cover light shelf wear to edges and corners, otherwise very good; pages clean and unmarked. . Color, B&W Photographs (illustrator). …

Condition: Good. Paperback, (full page) illustrations in colour and b/w, 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition blue boards, blue spine, and white spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Prologue; Epilogue: The 2017 NBA Finals; Notes and Acknowledgments. "Erik Malinowski displays a keen eye for the important moments where sport and technology have merged in Silicon Valley to create basketball nirvana." - Jonathan Abrams, columnist at Bleacher Report and New York Times, bestselling author of Boys Among Men. "When Joe Lacob and Peter Guber bought the Golden State Warriors in 2010, they implemented an organizational philosophy similar to how a tech company builds a successful product in the "beta" stage. So far, the results have been extraordinary. Two NBA championships over a three-year span; Five straight playoff appearances (after one in the previous 19 years); An unprecedented 73-win regular season; Back-to-back most valuable player (Stephen Curry); Defensive player of the year (Draymond Green); NBA coach of the year (Steve Kerr); Two-time NBA executive of the year (Bob Myers)." - from the rear outer cover. "Moneyball meets The City Game in this compelling look at how the world champion Golden State Warriors embraced savvy business practices, next-generation science, and Silicon Valley's technocentric culture to not only produce the most talented basketball team ever assembled but to revolutionize the modern NBA. Betaball is the definitive inside account of how the Warriors - under the leadership of venture capitalist Joe Lacob and Hollywood producer Peter Guber - quickly became one of the most remarkable success stories ever witnessed in sports or business. In just five years, the duo turned a declining franchise with no immediate hope into the NBA's dominant force, facilitated the rise of All-Star point guard Stephen Curry, produced the best single-season record in league history, and won two championships over a three-year span. Lacob and Guber (along with their executives, coaches, and players) did so by urging employees to speak out; encouraging cross-collaboration; investing in bold new technologies; and never resisting the urge to innovate, no matter how successful they became. In the tech industry, the term for this development stage - when your product isn't quite fully baked, so you're always in flux and open to change yet focused on the end-goal - is "beta." By operating in "beta," the Warriors morphed into a model organization for American professional sports, instituting the best workplace principles found inside the world's most successful corporations and instilling a top-down organizational ethos that allowed all of their employees - from the front office to the free-throw line - to thrive. With in-depth access and meticulous reporting on and off the court, acclaimed journalist Erk Malinowski recounts a gripping tale of worlds colliding, a team's reinvention, ordinary people being pushed to extraordinary heights, and the Golden State Warriors' unending quest to remain the best." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "The Warriors deserved a great book written about them. Now they have one." - Will Leitch, senior writer, Sports On Earth, and founder of Deadspin; author of Are We Winning? and God Save the Fan. Sloan, Dana (interior design); Mollica, Greg (jacket design); Levy, Brian (jacket art) (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1995, Stated 1st edition, with #1 INTACT Number Line, FINE/FINE 10 by 10.5 inch ,glossy dust jacket has no folds or tears,214 pgs + INDEX, now protected in a new Mylar cover, black boards with Red cloth spine cvr, Titled in Gold gilt on Spine cvr. DISNEY ILLUSTRATORS (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (clothbound with dust jacket).; 22 x 30.8 cm.; 1.1 kg.; 168 pages with black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jacket is worn, shows edge wear, scuffs and scratches. Tiny tear at the bottom of the front cover. Interior with signs of wear. The first page has an old bookseller sticker glued to the bottom and pencil writing at the top, there is also some pencil writing removed with a rubber that left a white mark on the green paper. Remaining interior with minor signs of wear.; The flashing neon signs that dazzle and enchant the nighttime visitor to the Ginza are the modern incarnations of khanban, the shop signs of old Japan. Traditional kanban from Japan's feudal and early modern periods, constructed of wood and metal, brightly painted, and always ingeniously and strikingly decorated, graced the shopfronts of Japan, proclaiming the merits of a kaleidoscopic variety of products and services: tea and tobacco, swords and Buddhist rosaries, patent medicines and the latest Kabuki melodrama. Kanban took a wide range of forms: large-scale models of the products they advertised-giant teacups, spools of thread, shoes, and medicine bottles; traditional folk figures such as Fukusuke, the god of good fortune; and the ubiquitous maneki-neko, or "beckoning cat." Some of the most imposing kanban were architecturally independent units, with walls and protective roofs. The Meiji-era signs are of particular interest, revealing the first contacts with the West in their incorporation of foreign words and the Roman alphabet. This volume, the first work in English on the subject, will appeal to anyone with an eye for design and style, as well as the craftsperson and the collector. It introduces an excellent collection of over one hundred of the most remarkable and attractive Japanese shop signs, carefully chosen from several extensive museum and private collections in the United States and Japan. The twenty-four color plates and eighty-two monochrome photographs in the catalogue are accompanied by commentaries which identify the product each sign advertises, as well as where and how the kanban was hung. Crucial background material and historical notes are also included, making the text as informative as it is delightful to look at. The bold and witty designs of the kanban owe much to the vigor of the merchant class that created them. While the samurai spirit and the Zen aesthetic have received wide exposure in the West, the chonin, or merchants, also contributed greatly to the building of modern Japan. The introductory essay to this volume, illustrated with coluor prints and line drawings from the period, shows how the spirit of customer service, devotion to the firm, and the pride in one's product which are so characteristic of Japanese business were all definitive chonin values. The often arbitrary government restrictions under which these industrious merchants laboured extended even to proscribed shapes and designs for their shop signs. But, typically, these limitations only resulted in stimulating the inventiveness and originality in kanban design that are evident in this collection. The lasting decorative value of these kanban, so successfully wedded to their practical function, sets a standard to which modern advertising art could well aspire.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Cloth/dust jacket Quarto. yello cloth, blue lettering to spine, dust jacket, 223 pp.