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Kian Shamskhou

Graphic DesignPortFolio

Los Gatos High School2015

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II. Clasifications and common uses associated with typefacea. Roman (More Formal)b. Serif (Use For Headlines)c. Sans (Perfect for Body Copy)d. Script (Use it to be Formal/ Serious/ Personal)e. Decorative (Good for titles or accent phrases)f. Old English (Very Formal)

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Zine Explanation My zine is about the history of famous gui-tars and so on. I explain the details behind 3 historic guitars and the reason for their fame. My target audiance is anyone who is interested in any sort of guitar music or rock from any-time period. The guitars are so impacting that most music we hear today have been influenced in someway from the guitars.

Table of contents Page 2-4 The Godfathers of Guitars

Page 7-8 Gibson LesPaul Spread

Page 9 The New Comer: Nick Valensi Epiphone

Page 10 Acoustic Facts

Editor:Kian ShamskhouDesigner:Kian Shamskhou

Blue Print Publishing Company

The Godfathers of GuitarsThe Gibson Les Paul Standard

It addresses the

aspects of the Les Paul’s design most commonly regarded as

drawbacks—weight, a lack of thinner, single-coil-like tones, and the

neck shape and radius, which traditionally remained constant from the nut on through to the

higher registers. Wisely though, Gibson made sure that, outwardly at least, it remains unmistakably a Les Paul Standard.

As far back late ’50s, Gibson walked the line between staying at the leading edge of electric-guitar design and pleasing traditional-ists—way back in 1958, the Flying V was the company’s first attempt at a space-age guitar. It’s been a tough balancing act ever since. For every authentic ’50s-style reissue, it seems there’s a Gibson designed to be more versatile, lighter, or more aesthetically and creatively up to date.As the new Les Paul Standard reviewed here demonstrates, Gibson’s creative impulses can still extend to even the company’s most iconic models. But with this guitar—the model’s first significant redesign since 2008—Gibson may have struck a near-perfect balance between tradition and progress.

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The Godfathers of GuitarsThe Micawber Fender Telecaster

The Fender Telecaster was developed by Leo Fender in Fullerton, California in 1950. In the period roughly between 1932 and 1949, several craftsmen and companies experimented with solid-body electric guitars, but none had made a significant impact on the market. Leo Fender's Telecaster was the design that finally put the solid-body guitar on the map.Fender had an electronics repair shop called Fender's Radio Service where he first repaired, then designed, amplifiers and electro-magnetic pickups for musicians—chiefly players of electric semi-acoustic guitars, electric Hawaiian (lap steel) guitars, and mandolins.

Players had been 'wiring up' their instruments in search of

greater volume and projec-tion since the late 1920s, and electric semi-acoustics (such as the Gibson ES-150) had

long been widely available. Tone had never, until then,

been the primary reason for a guitarist to go electric, but in 1943, when Fender and

his partner, Clayton Orr "Doc" Kauffman, built a crude wooden guitar as a

pickup test rig, local country players started asking to borrow it for gigs. Later

in 1950, this single-pickup model

was discontinued, and a two-pickup model was

renamed the Broadcast-er. From this point onwards all Fender necks incorporated

truss rods.3

The Godfathers of GuitarsMonterey Fender Stratocaster

Jimi played on the third and final day of that historic festival. The actual guitar that he painted and subsequently burned that evening was a 65 Strat in Fiesta Red. Prior to the concert Jimi hand painted the body with white spray paint and fingernail polish. The actual guitar paint work was actually very crudely done with overs pray from the white paint on the hardware and no finish work after he hand painted the intricate, and now famous design.No color photographs of the complete guitar were ever taken. The only recorded history of the guitar is from the video footage of Jimi playing the guitar and subsequently burning the guitar.

Fender released a

tribute version of the Monterey

Strat. That design differs slightly from the

original Hendrix artwork and Fender added the back-

stage pass sticker to the body, which was not found

on the original. The pass features a photo of Hendrix

burning the guitar by Ed Caraeff. Fender announced the guitar in July of

1996 but was finally made available in 1997. It originally had a MSRP of

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The New ComerNick Valensi P-94 Epiphone

When you’re the lead guitarist in New York’s coolest rock band, you need a cool guitar. Just as Epiphone started out in Manhattan, so did The Strokes. In 1999, Nick Valensi chose to play his incendiary guitar riffs on a customized Epiphone Riviera, one of our classic guitars from the Kalamazoo era. From the fuzzy stomp of “Last Nite” to the brittle groove of

“Juicebox,” the Riviera is at the heart of all the band’s greatest moments.

The Riviera was first intro-duced in 1962 and featured “New

York” pickups, which resembled humbuckers but were actually single coil pickups

with polepieces offset from the center. At first glance, Nick’s design doesn’t stray too far from the original. However once you plug in the P94, it’s clear that this is a totally unique and modern guitar that will make vintage Riviera owners think twice about owning an expensive vintage model they’re too afraid to take out of the house.The P94 is Nick’s main guitar on stage and he’s rarely seen without it at festivals or on television. Like all Epiphones, the P94 comes with our Limited Lifetime Warranty and is covered by the Gibson’s famous 24/7/365 customer service.9

Acoustic FactsA member of the family of musical instruments

called chordophones, the guitar is a stringed instrument with which sound is produced by "plucking" a series of strings running along

the instrument's body. While the strings are plucked with one hand, they are simulta-

neously fingered with the other hand against frets, which are metal strips

located on the instrument's neck. The subsequent sound is amplified through

a resonating body. There are four general categories of acoustic

(non-electric) guitars: flat-top steel-stringed,

arched top, classic, and flamenco.

The guitar industry is in virtual agreement

on the woods used for the various parts

of the instrument. The back and sides of the

guitar's body are usually built with East Indian or

Brazilian rosewood. Histori-cally, Brazilian rosewood has

been the choice of connoisseurs. However, in an attempt to

preserve the wood's dwindling supply, the Brazilian government

has placed restrictions on its export, thus raising the price and making East Indian rosewood the current wood

of choice. Less expensive brands use mahogany or

maple, but the sound quality suffers in guitars constructed with those types of wood.

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