Leave Me Alone with the Recipes: The Life, Art, and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles, Live Alone and Like It A Guide for the Extra Woman. Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 1999. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Melanie Richards is a designer at Fuzzco in Charleston, SC. Someone who has a better understanding and facility toward design could have given insight into Pineles' philosophies and approaches. Cipe Pineles was someone I had heard much about but knew very little of her work or history. Check out our current classes:�Beyond the Logo: Crafting a Brand Identity and�By The Book: Create a Style Guide for Your Brand. In all, not worth the steep price and not, I fear, the definitive insight and appreciation of Cipe Pineles. I'm so upset with the people who produced this book because they set it in a font that has too much contrast between that thick and thin lines of the font, making it very difficult to read! Find all the books, read about the author, and more. For further reading, check out Cipe Pineles: a Life of Design�(which, according to the reviews, might be more useful for its text than its imagery). Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2019. Pineles led an illustrious career for nearly sixty years running�all the way until her death in 1991. After a brief stint in Paris at servicewomen’s magazine, Pineles lent her direction to Seventeen magazine. Please try your request again later. Unfortunate. Cipe Pineles also served as the Director of Publication Design at Parsons, and had the difficult task of creating an identity which would help tie in Parsons’ new LA location. An entire book about a woman designer of signifigance. I've come away from reading this book feeling that Cipe must have been charming and idiosyncratic, but I still don't feel I know much about her or her design philosophy. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Scotford's account is rich with sensitivity and detail, and is well-organized and well-written. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Don't forget your magnifying glass; the examples of her design work are presented not much larger than thumbnails! An unsung hero. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Golden went on to direct the corporate identity for CBS and to become a standard bearer for high quality and ethical corporate design. […], […] Cipe Pineles muri� en 1991, quiz�s el aspecto m�s impresionante de su carrera haya sido que trabaj� constantemente hasta qsus 83 a�os. According to Pineles, most of the recipes in the book were passed down by her mother, Bertha Pineles, who appears as a gray-haired woman in several illustrations. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. After graduation, and what she called an “adventurous” year in the still-life painting business, she became assistant in 1932 to M.F. Cipe Pineles lived from 1908-1991. As a personal project, Pineles wrote and illustrated a sketchbook of Easter European Jewish recipes, completing a manuscript in 1945. If Paul Rand was the grandfather of American graphic design, then Cipe Pineles is the grandmother! Ships from and sold by DaimondInTheRough. Pineles flourished under his leadership; she learned the ins and outs of creative direction, and demonstrated an eye for new talent in illustration and photography. That alone is a great reason to make sure you have a copy of this book in your reference library if you are an art director or just love great editorial design. After struggling to start her career in the face of sexism, she found a job with�Contempora, Ltd. Cond� Nast’s wife noticed Pineles’ work at Contempora, and soon enough, Cipe was working under Mehemed Agha on Vanity Fair and Vogue.�Agha sounds like the best of bosses: hard to please, generous with creative freedom, insistent that his employees try new things. There was fashion, but the direction centered around the woman-as-professional. Please try again. It contains some useful supplemental information in what someone will hopefully one day cover in a legitimately scholarly manner as opposed to an idealogical bias. Cipe Pineles was an established designer at Condé Nast when she met William Golden in the late 1930s and helped him get a job with Agha. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Agha, then art director of Condé Nast publications. Cipe Pineles led the graphics department for the Lincoln Center, supervising the creation of branding and marketing materials for this institution of the arts. Following high school, she attended Pratt Institute and spent a year after graduation�supported by a scholarship�painting still lifes and trying to break into the design world. Cipe Pineles: A Life of Design (Norton Book for Architects and Designers (Hardcover)) Hardcover – January 17, 1999. Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 1999. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. But until more books are done on Cipe (pronounced See-Pea), this book is a must have. As a designer and design educator, I especially appreciated having her professional and personal life put into the context of the time in which she and her husbands worked. Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2016. Also a valuable reference. I wish this biography would have been approached by a more competent author and researcher. Something went wrong. © 2008 – 2020 En Route Workshop, LLC. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. She attended high school in Brooklyn, and went to Pratt Institute, where she won a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Scholarship.