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Interactive advertising and new media have come a long way from simple pop-up ads and banners. Among the winners in this year’s 2005 One Show Interactive Awards, you’ll find work that inspires, entertains, and continually pushes the boundary between the real and virtual realms. One Show Interactive, ...
This is a superb guide to the most exciting and innovative Swedish illustrators today. This volume offers a unique perspective on current trends, innovations, and creative interpretations. With more than 500 illustrations, "Swedish Illustration 2" covers a wide variety of industries - from advertising ...
Modernist aesthetics in architecture, art and product design are familiar to many of the creatively inclined. In soaring glass structures or minimalist canvases we recognize a time of vast technological advance which affirmed the power of human beings to reshape their environment and to break, radically, ...
For The Love of Letters A history of fonts and graphic styles from 1628 to 1938 This comprehensive book offers a thorough overview of typeface design from 1628 to the mid-20th century. Derived from a distinguished Dutch collection, a series of exquisitely designed catalogues trace the evolution of the ...
If you’re familiar with the Pantone® colour guide and can’t imagine working without it, have you ever wondered why there’s no equivalent tool for fonts and typefaces? Well now there is. This clever new guide contains 226 fonts from all the major type libraries in well over 1,000 typefaces. Its utility ...
Future Systems is an architectural and design practice, established in 1979, who have surprised the architectural world with their daring forms and inventive design philosophy that merges modern ideas with natural shapes and technological innovations from other fields. After establishing themselves with ...
An insider''s guide to the world''s largest archive of patterns and textiles, the source of inspiration for the globe''s top designers. Every season, designers from fashion, home furnishings, textiles, graphic arts, and paper-product industries seek inspiration from patterns to bring their collections ...
What makes a magazine into a design classic? How can timeless ideas be incorporated into an ever-changing contemporary context? While many books on editorial design simply illustrate great work, this book, now available in PLC, presents a huge range of examples from an amazing collection of international ...
Great advertising and design can make the world stop and think. It can make people listen, and sometimes it can even change a person\''s life. "The One Show" celebrates all of the qualities that go into making a successful ad campaign or design. Considered by many to be the benchmark in advertising annuals, ...
Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet''s Le Costume historique was in its day the most wide-ranging and incisive study of clothing ever attempted. Covering the world history of costume, dress, and style from antiquity through to the end of the 19th century, the six volume ...
Ktokoľvek navštívi Barcelonu, stretne sa s dielom Antoniho Gaudího – architekta, ktorý do Španielska láka milovníkov umenia z celého sveta. V katalánskej metropole tento slávny majstrovský architekt realizoval takmer všetky svoje diela: vily pre bohatých mešťanov, rozsiahly park Güell (teraz otvorený ...
Bauhaus je právom spájaný s nástupom moderny. Je fenomén, ktorý každá nová generácia znova objavuje. Kniha Magdaleny Drosteovej je prierezom doby a diania v umení v rokoch 1919-1933 v Nemecku. Je uceleným prehľadom najvýznamnejších reformných a avantgardných pohybov, procesov, teórií, ako aj výtvarných ...
This lavishly illustrated book looks at the history of fashion from 1850 to 2010. Taking a decade-by-decade approach, Daniel James Cole and Nancy Deihl explore…
Celebrating the 400th anniversary of traditional Japanese ceramic culture as interpreted by today’s leading designers. The art of Japanese porcelain manufacturing began in Arita in 1616. Now, on its 400th anniversary, Arita / Table of Contents charts the unique collaboration between 16 contemporary designers ...
The finishing touches applied to a garment can take it from the realms of the ordinary to the heights of luxury. Creating Couture Embellishment offers a step-by-step guide to manipulating fabric and making and applying a rich variety of embellishments. Chapters cover fabric-manipulation techniques of ...
Throughout her illustrious career, Tonne Goodman has made the famous stylish and the stylish famous. The Vogue fashion director has not only shaped the way wome….
Founded as a luxury leather goods house in 1913 in Milan, Prada entered the field of fashion when Miuccia Prada took the helm of the family company in 1979. After initially focusing exclusively on accessories, she presented the house’s first fashion.
An elegant exploration of the hugely influential simplicity, beauty, and functionality of Nordic design - timeless, yet on trend From literature to food, lifestyle to fashion, cinema to architecture, Nordic influence is evident throughout contemporary culture. The Red Thread: Nordic Design celebrates ...
Za ostatných sto rokov prešlo ľudstvo významnou premenou: z civilizácie slov sme sa zmenili na civilizáciu obrazov. Hlavnými prvkami medziľudskej komunikácie sa stali znaky, obrazy, symboly. Vizualizáciou sa život výrazne zrýchlil, ale aj zahltil enormným množstvom obrazov, často mizernej kvality. O ...