You can be a winner too! In honor of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver that kick off on the 12th, we’re offering readers 25% off* + free ground shipping on our Canada-centric titles. Great news, eh?

So You Want to be a Canadian

The US of Eh?

City Walks Vancouver

Cheers,
Hannah
Entertainment Marketing Manager

*Enter promo code VANCOUVER at check-out. Promo code good now until the end of February.

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One of our favorite picture books is now available as an iPhone App from PicPocket Books!

Just in time for Lunar New Year—the year of the Tiger begins on February 14th—explore an urban Chinatown and discover hidden shapes: round rice bowls and pebbles, square dim sum and boxes, and rectangular Chinese lace.

Special features
• High fidelity, full-color illustrations that are true to the original print book.
• Interactive audio “hot spots”—touch the dog, kittens, and more to hear their sounds!
• High quality audio recording.
• Highlighted text corresponds with audio—each word highlights as it is read to help new readers understand the connection between words and sounds—excellent for beginning readers or curious pre-readers.
• Play-pause to start and stop the story at any time.
• Fast-forward and fast-back to replay images and audio.
• Glossary adds cultural significance to the objects featured in the book.
• Buy it once, play it as many times as you want.
Visit our friends at PicPocket Books to check out all of their fabulous kids book Apps for the iPhone.

WIN a redemption code that you can use to download the Round is a Mooncake App free from iTunes. Just leave a comment below with your favorite Chinese food—we’ll choose three winners on February 13th at 3:00pm Pacific Time.

Lara Starr
Marketing Manager, Children’s

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If you remember mixed tapes, you probably have a memory or two about giving or receiving a special compilation of music recorded on a cassette tape as a Valentine’s Day gift.

Valentine’s Day is less than a week away and I wanted to make a special mixed tape (well, a disk in this digital age) for our beloved Design Desk readers. Sadly, though, I quickly realized that I have no talent for doing this. So instead, I created two special Valentine’s Day color-ways of one of the label designs from Candy Orchard CD Packaging Kit. But wait, there’s more: I’ve also designed matching gift tags!!

You can download these special disk labels and gift tags from this link. Print them out, cut out carefully, paste on a disk with some spray mount, and voilà! Making a sweet and thoughtful mixed disk is this easy! You can apply these labels to movie DVDs, too. A private screening for two at your cozy home? I’m hearing a cork popping and smelling a chocolate cake from the oven…

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Hope you enjoy our little downloadable gift!

Ayako Akazawa
Senior Designer

P.S. I’d love to hear your lovely and creative Valentine’s Day ideas. Leave a comment below with your playlist suggestion…or anything that you might be putting on your gift disk!

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Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and while some of us love sharing the love, others, including Chronicle Books author Alissa Walker, approach it with some trepidation. She explores redesigning the holiday in this recent post on Fast Company. Either way, we have plenty to offer if you want to show your affection and still maintain your style.

Hearts for Madalene

This is for You

The Little Box of I Love You

Love Listography

Love Lotto: 100 Romantic Scratch-and-Win Lottery Tickets

And if you are feeling sexy:

I Dare You: 30 Sealed Seductions

Sex Scratchers: 100 Lottery Tickets to Scratch and Win

And my personal favorite for those of you on the more subversive side of things:

How to Tell If Your Boyfriend Is the Antichrist (And If He Is, Should You Break Up with Him?)

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Chronicle Books is offering you a 25% discount, plus free ground shipping (in the US). Just use promo code BEMINE at checkout. Offer ends Feb. 14, 2010.

Patti Quill
Marketing & Publicity Manager

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Here at Art+Design headquarters we’re hard at work on our forthcoming book Pocket Cash, an amazingly awesome collection of photos of Johnny Cash by legendary rock and roll photographer Jim Marshall, featuring text by John Carter Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and Billy Bob Thornton. We’re looking at various image options for the book’s cover right now, and would love to get your thoughts! Take a gander at the two covers below and let us know in the comments which of the two photos most says “Johnny Cash” to you—which best conveys the spirit of the Man in Black, which would most make you want to own this book!

Option 1:

Option 2:

Bridget Watson Payne
Art+Design Editorial

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