Book Description
1,005 architectural graphics on CD-ROM! Now you can create stunning, persuasive architectural presentations that bring your designs to life-faster and easier than ever before, in Ernest Burden's Entourage on CD: A Clip Art Resource For Architects and Designers you get 1,005 images of human figures and groups... trees, plants and environmental elements... and all kinds of vehicles to infuse a sense of life, movement, depth and distance into all your renderings. No matter what type of space you're designing-urban or rural, interior or exterior, commercial or residential-this sure-fire design tool enables you to: Add more power and impact to your presentations; Present your ideas with lifelike realism; Retrieve clip art images and visual elements in seconds; Find the right size, scale, posture, dress, and style at once; and difficult or complicated settings with ease and much more.
Customer Reviews:
A Must Have .......2007-09-18
Entourage is an excellent resource for students and professionals in any design field. The tracing files are organized for quick and easy use. Some of the images are a little dated, but overall it is a must have!
Great source, but getting dated.......2007-06-30
As others have stated here, this book is a great resource for entourage, but most of the imagery is from the 1970s and early 1980s.
Badly in need of a major update.......2007-02-10
This book has pretty much been the standard in its genre since the 1970s, but that doesn't mean designers want to use people, vehicles, and other objects that still belong in that decade. The vast majority of images in this book are utterly useless because they are so terribly out of date.
Entourage.......2007-01-05
I am a 1st year landscape design student and this book has been a great help in my studies.I found this book on amazon for 30 dollars less on amazon than I would of had to pay at the bookstore.
Great Tracing Book!.......2005-04-27
I am an interior design student who LOVES this book. I had been struggling with drawing people in my renderings and this book really saved my drawings. You can be the best interior artist and have perfected drawing rooms, but if you stick an akward looking person in the center of your room....you have just completely ruined it. This book helps artists, interior designers, architects, students, teachers....everyone.
It has pages and pages filled with people of ALL sizes and shapes. It also has people sitting, laying down, kneeling, etc. There are some pictures of cars, boats, planes, & trees/plants.
Conviently, all of the book's pages can be torn out with perforated edges. You can choose which page you want and slip it right underneath your drawing to trace.
I looked and lookd for a tracing guide and this book is the best out there. If you need help with any kind of human rendering, this book will do the trick.
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Both by itself and as part of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac OS X, Entourage 2004 is about more than just email: It's about managing contacts and setting up appointments and creating task lists. But most of all it's about organization--providing a unified view for sharing, creating, and managing the information that threatens to engulf us. Here to help you make the most of it is the first Visual QuickStart Guide devoted entirely to the topic. In these pages you'll find all the task-based, step-by-step instruction you need to master every aspect of Entourage--from managing multiple email accounts to setting up groups, creating customized send and receive schedules, and more. Best of all, you¿ll get the skinny on all of Entourage 2004's new features--most notably, the very cool Project Center, which provides a single location from which you can view and organize all of the email, files, contacts, meetings, and tasks associated with a given project.
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This new collection of poems from Charles Simic demonstrates once again his wit, moral acuity, and brilliant use of imagery. His settings are a farmhouse porch, a used-clothing store, empty station platforms; his subjects love, futility, and the sense of an individual life lived among a crowd of literal and imaginary presences.
Both sharp and sympathetic, the poems of this collection confirm Simic's place as one of the most important and appealing poets of our time.
To Dreams
I'm still living at all the old addresses,
Wearing dark glasses even indoors,
On the hush-hush sharing my bed
With phantoms, visiting in the kitchen
After midnight to check the faucet.
I'm late for school, and when I get there
No one seems to recognize me.
I sit disowned, sequestered and withdrawn.
These small shops open only at night
Where I make my unobtrusive purchases,
These back-door movie houses in seedy neighborhoods
Still showing grainy films of my life,
The hero always full of extravagant hope
Losing it all in the end?-whatever it was-
Then walking out into the cold, disbelieving light
Waiting close-lipped at the exit.
Customer Reviews:
One of my favorites.......2007-03-16
There are some really beautiful and intriguing poems in here; the kind of writing you will want to read out loud and discuss with friends. I would highly recommend it.
Another Superb Work of Genius from a True Master!.......2005-12-24
This collection, like all of Simic's others, is truly a work of superb genius. But unlike Simic's previous work, it is a totality of superb genius. By this I mean that there is not one "filler" poem, not one line or moment that he seems to slip -- it is wholly perfection.
Okay, this is a strong opinion, but true to me. This is a work of searching that is so fresh and unique in its undertakings and thoughts that it seems as if he has stumbled upon a new way of searching via poetry. But he hasn't. The eternal search (and whatever form that may take)is not new to any poet, but he has managed to keep the human search for him/herself, the universe, and so forth so very fresh one cannot help but admire and revel in the genius of each poem, each word, tone, sound, line. This collection of Simic will sit comfortably with your other Simic books ... and if this is your first foray into Simic, you will be truly captivated!
This collection seems to be a Charles realizing the answers (or at least the beginning of answers) to questions he has had forever, and thankfully his genius in the art of poetry gives him a way to deliver nuggets of knowledge and answers to all of us. But only nuggets; most of the beauty in these poems (and in a any great poetry) is the holding back.
Read these poems aloud ... and silently ... you'll see what I mean!
Keep 'em coming, Mr. Simic.
Simic's Homage to Things that Go Unnoticed.......2005-09-04
Charles Simic is a poet, yes, but he is more than that highest compliment in literary circles. Simic is a visionary because he is in tune with the atoms and microns that float through our atmosphere, either discarded or simply ignored, or worse, never noticed by us, the usual beings. He manages is so few terse words to nudge us into awareness.
'Extraordinary efforts are being made
To hide things from us, my friend.
Some stay up into the wee hours
To search their souls.
Others undress each other in darkened rooms.'
Pause on every page of this physically slim but potent collection of his latest poems and see if you can turn away unchanged. Brilliant poetry from a consistently brilliant poet. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, September 05
Stunning........2005-07-26
Charles Simic, My Noiseless Entourage (Harcourt, 2005)
Simic continues to astound readers with thin, gorgeous books of poetry every few years. It's been a while, though (this is his first book of completely new work since 1999's Jackstraws), and one has to wonder-- why the six-year gap? Is The man losing a step? Not at all, cholly. My Noiseless Entourage, from its opening words, transports the reader to that same weird and wonderful place that all of Simic's books do. (And, with him having recently garnered a quick mention in a Lemony Snicket book, perhaps his star will be rising to where it rightfully belongs in the near future.)
I had originally started off thinking I was going to quote specific passages from the book in testament to how great it is, but I ended up with so many I just opened the book and random and came across:
"America, I shouted at the radio,
Even at 2AM you are a loony bin!
No, I take it back!
You are a stone angel in the cemetery
Listening to blind geese in the sky
Your eyes blinded by snow."
(--"Talk Radio")
As always, there's not a word out of place, no fat to be trimmed from these wonderful, dadaesque ramblings. It's, perhaps, not quite as powerful as Simic's finest moments (The World Doesn't End or Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk, for example), but you're talking about the difference between a 20 megaton bomb and a 19 megaton bomb; you're still going to come out of the experience having been blown away.
A "Midnight Feast".......2005-04-03
Simic's brilliant poetry is provocative, visual, casting thoughts like scattered jewels, begging to be picked up, examined, remembered. The title, My Noiseless Entourage, suggests the nature of this collection, shadowy thoughts that intrude to jostle the memory, like the ghosts of friends and neighbors walking one step behind on a long, winding country road with evening pushing in. These are the subterranean sounds no one acknowledges, but everyone hears, man and beast, the low-timbered groan of voices, shape-shifters seen from the corner of the eye.
In "The Role of Insomnia in History", the personal coexists with the impersonal:
"The mind is a palace
Walled with mirrors.
The mind is a country church,
Overrun with mice."
Thoughts scurry around at will, ever busy, judging, weighing. At the same time, others carry responsibility, those who dwell in the security of power:
"When dawn breaks,
The saints kneel,
The tyrants feed their hounds
Chunks of bloody meat."
Addressing both the mundane and the metaphysical, everything is on the table for consideration: "In the graveyard where he collects the rent/ Or in the night sky/ Where we address our complaints to him." (The Absentee Landlord)
Self-examination is fertile ground when viewing the world, making sense of the ghosts that follow us through the years, the simple pleasures, the missed opportunities:
"All I've ever done
It seems- is go poking
in the ruins with a stick
Until I was covered
With soot and ashes..." (December 21)
The depth of Simic's creativity is inexhaustible, characters plucked from the bustling city, the rural farm, the past, words opening and reconfiguring themselves, settling on the page anew to prick the broken strings of memory: "The sun doesn't care for ambiguities,/ But I do. I open my door and let them in." (Shading Exercise)
Luan Gaines/2005.
Book Description
Now you can capitalize on a whole new generation of copyright-free materials for interior designers, architects, landscape architects, and illustrators. This user friendly book is the first to explain how to use entourage elements properly, from human figures to vegetation to accessories and objets d'art. Categorized neatly in many settings, such as exterior spaces, offices, eating facilities, hotels, retail stores, healthcare facilities, and residences. Packed with over 1,500 illustrations, the work also gives you a modern and future-oriented portfolio of entourage, including scaled indications for elevation views. These drawings represent a broad range of cultures, nationalities, races, and ages, and can be scanned and downloaded into your CAD drawings or transferred on your manual drawings.
Customer Reviews:
Better off with one of the older Entourage books.......2004-03-24
Though advertised as a "modern" people are drawn very roughly and facial features are especially strange looking (no character at all). The general range of poses, styles, kinds of people, etc are just as generic and out-of-date as the older Entourage and clip-art books that came out decades ago. Will some one please make a comprehensive, easy to use, clip-art book for contemporary designers?!! This one just doesn't cut it.
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This 6 page, tri-fold, full-color, guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who uses Entourage 2004 for Mac! In a clear, user-friendly format, it provides step-by-step instructions, short cuts and tips on how to execute the basic commands of the software, as well as pointing out the NEW features of this version. Topics include: Using the Navigation Buttons, Preview Pane, Project Center, Scrapbook, Dictionary, and Office Assistant; Assigning a Category to an Item; Creating a Folder, Project, Signature, Rule, Note, Task, and Group; Adding and Removing an Item from a Project; Creating, Sending, Receiving, Reading, Forwarding, Flagging, Printing, Saving, Deleting, and Replying to a Message; Checking Spelling; Formatting Message Text; Inserting a Picture, Movie, and Sound; Changing Junk E-mail Options; Creating and Editing a Contact; Scheduling a Calendar Event, a Recurring Event, and a Meeting; and much more! An excellent instructional tool for the user new to Entourage 2004 for Mac, it also serves as a handy reference for the more experienced user.
Average customer rating:
- Jam-packed with useful drawings of every type!
- errors in trace!
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Trace: 3,000 Drawings from the Al Lorenz Entourage File for Architects, Designers, and Illustrators
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Jam-packed with useful drawings of every type!.......1998-10-03
I rate this book 5 Stars because it is so comprehensive in its variety of people and objects. The sheer volume of choices of style, poses, type of items -- this is like an artist's candy store.
I used this book first as a student, and now as an interior designer. It is a helpful tool to be used to augment visual presentations. The addition of these items adds "life" to otherwise static room renderings.
While it is true that a VERY FEW drawings are not actually to scale, the vast majority of this book is extremely accurate. Some sections state scale specifically, others indicate "random scale." It's up to designers to have the ability to tell whether something fits the scale of the drawing they are working on.
I don't hesitate to recommend this book for anyone who wishes to add a little life to their drawings.
errors in trace!.......1997-10-12
Althought the drawings are very good in TRACE, they are NOT to scale! Look closely at the 1/2 inch scale, and you will see that the reclining woman is 8 feet tall! The page header indicates that the drawings are to scale, and as designers, we need them to scale, the fact is this is a misrepresentation. I am surprised that this error, which occurs frequently in this book, escaped the editing process!
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Amazon.com
The latest addition to Microsoft Office for Mac OS is Entourage, a personal information manager that integrates electronic mail and Usenet news with your address book and calendar. Entourage 2001 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide shows how Entourage works, in a way that appeals to adherents of at least two styles of learning.
The approach used in this book is unusual. Rather than presenting an entire sequenced procedure next to a single, large illustration, author Steve Schwartz intermingles steps with small illustrations that clarify what to do. For instance, when explaining how to open linked items, the procedure appears next to two separate screen shots. One shows which menu command to choose; the other shows the window you get as a result. Both illustrations are small, but large enough to add meaning to the text.
Most users will probably choose to use this book as a reference by locating relevant coverage in the table of contents (which looks a lot like a list of tasks) or the index. Once you've located the page you want, it's easy to accomplish the immediate task and then flip back and forth for a few pages to find out about capabilities you might not have known about. --David Wall
Topics covered: All of Entourage's user-level capabilities--including contact management, calendaring, electronic mail, newsgroups, notes, and linking.
Customer Reviews:
Entourage For MacIntosh.......2001-06-07
This is a comprehensive book that outlines the capabilities of Microsoft Entourage (an MS Office subcomponent) in an easy to understand and highly illustrated guide. Special emphisis has been placed on teaching the student how to master all of the power of Entourage from the email and newsgroup options, to linking and PDA interface. This book is a must for the beginner seeking to understand Entourage's increased capabilities over the old MS Outlook email program, as well as the expert seeking to maximize the power of Entourage and Office.
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