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The Best of Newspaper Design: 29th Edition, the latest edition in Rockport’s highly respected series, presents the winning entries from the Society for News Des…
New York is known as the city that never sleeps and it’s a non-stop source of design innovation. This volume covers state-of-the-art New York design from fields such as architecture, interiors and fashion. Lively illustrations show what’s happening in New York’s commercial and cultural spaces, as well ...
This fascinating photo book allows an intimate look at the homes of creative workers, artists, and style icons all over the world. The visual short stories by style experts offer wonderful inspiration for your own home furnishings.The strange piece of art that hangs over the bed. The well-organized sneaker ...
První monografie jedné z nejvýznamnějších českých designérek Libuše Niklové (1934–1981) mapuje prostřednictvím téměř pěti set barevných fotografií a archivních reprodukcí pestrý svět jejích inovativních plastových hraček, jež originálním výtvarným řešením – jdoucím ruku v ruce s důvtipnými vynálezy – ...
Die Gestalten Verlag: Today s graphic designers, illustrators, and typographers are rediscovering old printing techniques...
Capturing the highlights of the major Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition, Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, this stunning souvenir celebrates the House of Dior from its foundation in 1947 to the present day. Haute-couture gowns by Christian Dior and the illustrious creative directors who followed ...
Fashion designer Loris Azzaro embodied an era. His fashion house, founded in Paris in 1967, was known for visionary silhouettes, slinky silk jerseys, daring cut-outs, and ornate beading and embroidery. Starting with his wife and muse Michelle, Azzaro (b. Tunisia, 1933; d. Paris, 2003) created clothes ...
Papercraft is an extensive survey on the insatiable trend of innovative art and design work crafted from paper. It explores the astounding possibilities of paper and gathers the most extraordinary creations – from small objects and figures to large-scale art installations and urban interventions as well ...
Radical. Visionary. Poetic. Inside Utopia shows the future of living that architects and designers have envisioned. Spectacular and reflective, unpretentious and efficient: the breathtaking Elrod House by John Lautner; the Lagerfeld Apartment near Cannes that seems like a set from a science fiction film; ...
Songwriters and musicians convey complex emotions through their music, and graphic designers and artists are then faced with the challenge to create complimentary graphics to go with them. The vibe of the content, record and CD covers, tour posters, stickers and fan club accessories can transcend mere ...
As promotional materials have evolved to conform to recent advances in technology and new media, styles have expanded to incorporate sophisticated design that reaches far beyond simple, text filled information. These tools and materials have become an integral part of successful marketing strategies ...
A successful home is the perfect synthesis of personality and zeitgeist; it is a living work of art, a cultural artifact, and the object of ceaseless curiosity. Highly sensitive to this phenomenon, our Interiors Now series tracks the constantly evolving and multifaceted fabric of contemporary interior ...
TASCHEN has teamed with D&,amp,AD to make its previously exclusive and highly-coveted Annual – featuring the year’s best creative work – available to the public. The awards panel judges over 20,000 works from design studios, advertising agencies, branding consultancies, film production and photographic ...
Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet's "Le Costume historique" was the most wide-ranging and incisive study of clothing ever attempted. This title contains all plates from Racinet's work. It also collects the texts accompanying the images, giving descriptions and explanations.
An exclusive homage to – and retrospective of – the iconic fashion designer''s couture accessories. ''One can never overstate the importance of accessories. They are what turns a dress into something else. I like dresses to be sober and accessories to be wild'', Yves Saint Laurent, 1977. Yves Saint Laurent ...
A vivid company biography of leading furniture manufacturer Walter Knoll based on its formative figures Wilhelm, Hans, and Walter Knoll and, for more than 25 years to date, Markus Benz. Walter Knoll, the book, charts the more than one-and-a-half-century-old history of this remarkable furniture dynasty, ...
A selection of the most outstanding editorial design projects performed in Great Britain, together with their secrets and the personality behind each studio. No doubt this book offers a representative sample of the current British design panorama in the field of editorial design.
Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts - from letterpress to slab serifs and beyond - play in contemporary graphic design. Written and compiled by the world\''s leading graphic-design historian, the book provides hundreds of examples, as well as informed ...
Designers are conceptual pack rats. They pack as much raw material in their brains as possible and then use that to build their own unique designs. The Anatomy of Design is what, in the butcher business, they call a "side of beef." The authors selected fifty examples of graphic design that will be dissected, ...
When you step into the headquarters of the Republic of Fritz Hansen in Allerod, northwest of Copenhagen, you are breathing in the spirit of a company that has made design history. The showroom, which is a mecca for design and architecture students, displays pieces that have become icons: the Series 7 ...
