| #2500050 in Books | Running Press | 2003-11-26 | 2003-11-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .41 x8.54 x8.48l, | File type: PDF | 144 pages | ||0 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Lou Brooks Is On A Roll!|By A Customer|Lou Brooks is one of America's foremost designer-illustrators and his work has appeared in nearly every publication in America at one time or another. SKATE CRAZY doesn't contain many of Lou's masterful illustrations, but it does have his wacky, inventive mark on every page. Illustrators and designers across the globe are going to be drool|About the Author|
Lou Brooks has designed and illustrated covers for Time and Newsweek, and was a contributing artist for Playboy. His logo design for the game Monopoly™ is familiar to everyone who ever played the game.
By 1942, there were more than 3,000 roller rinks in America, and more than 10 million people skating. That era is captured in this glorious graphic portrait of the country's Golden Age of roller skating (1939-1959), which also illuminates America's rapidly changing society from the end of the Depression through the wartime '40s to the '50s. This provocative look at a pop-culture phenomenon is lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs of skate rink memorabilia...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Skate Crazy: Amazing Graphics from the Golden Age of Roller Skating | Lou Brooks. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
