Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation Amid Amidi
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC

Due to rising production costs and changing tastes, animators were forced to cut more and more corners in their work and gradually adjust to the newer styles coming out at the time. Between the classic films of Walt Disney and the televised animation revolution of the 1960s was a critical decade in animation design. On the rebound, the '50s fine art graphic design style of these cartoons knocked me out. Cartoon Modern; Style and Design in Fifties Animation Amid Amidi 195pgs HC Chronicle Books ISBN-10 0-8118-4731-4. Modern animation is back and Im sure you want to be well ahead of the curve of its return. From the book " Cartoon Modern - Style And Design In Fifties Animation " by Amid Amidi : " The new look of cartoons during the 1950's stemmed largely from the desire of animation artists to move be. Artists, animators, cartoon lovers and afficionados of midcentury modern design have to have this. We were so pleased to hear recently that Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation won the prestigious Theatre Library Association Award for the best book about film, television and radio in 2006. According to Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation By Amid Amidi, “To best appreciate 1950's animation design, one needs to first examine the state of the industry in the decades leading up to the 1950's” 1. He is the youngest recipient of the prestigious Theatre Library Association Award which he received for his book Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation (2006, Chronicle Books).