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The Art of Impossible: The Bang & Olufsen Design StoryFounded in 1925 by Danish innovators Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, Bang & Olufsen is one of the world's foremost consumer electronics companies. For nearly a century, their audio products, television sets, and telephones have broken the established rules and conventions of product design,...
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The Tile Book: History, Pattern, DesignThis striking book gathers together an extensive collection of ceramic tiles from around the world and explores their rich history, purpose, and decorative qualities. For centuries, tiles have been used for both functional and aesthetic purposes on the fac, ades and interiors of buildings....
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Textiles of the Islamic WorldThis book surveys the wide array of textiles made, worn, used, and displayed throughout the Islamic world, from the glorious fabrics of the past to those produced today. Hundreds of illustrations feature examples from around the globe, including embroidered Persian prayer clothes, Anatolian ikat...
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Decorative Ironwork Designs [With CD_Rom]From simple, unadorned geometrics and florals to extraordinarily ornate and intricate images, this collection features a rich and versatile selection of patterns. Many of these 257 black-and-white illustrations feature Art Nouveau influences, and all are derived from rare periodicals of the late nineteenth and...
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Vintage Typography and Signage: For Designers, by DesignersThis versatile reference contains classic typographic images that will inspire the creation of ads with nostalgic flair. The collection consists of commercial signs, images, and fonts from two rare, early 20th-century sources that were used as a reference for sign painters and lithographers.More than...
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Creative Haven Floral Inspirations Coloring BookAdult colorists will adore these 31 magnificently detailed floral illustrations from a rare 19th-century collection of decorative motifs. The black-and-white gardens of delightful blossoms and plants are just waiting for splashes of color to bring them to life Pages are perforated and printed on...
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Creative Haven Kaleidoscope Designs Coloring BookThese delicately rendered illustrations have been handpicked from the archives of an extremely talented artist. Each of the 31 pulsating designs begins with a single dot that blossoms out into psychedelic symbols. Most pages feature one large image -- others include multiple mandala-like creations....
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Creative Haven Mexican Folk Art Coloring BookThirty-one striking adaptations of authentic native art depict, among other subjects, a Mixtec circular design from an incised gourd rattle, religious figures from a Metepec candlestick, and images of jaguars taken from a Guerrero lacquered chest. Pages are perforated and printed on one side...
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An Illustrator's Sketchbook: Master Drawings from the ModelThe studies are not a stolid assimilation of facts, however, but rather a poetic exploration of the forms, freely and directly made from the model for his own use in the finished illustrations. -- Walt Reed, Illustrator in America 1860-2000In 1920, a well-known illustrator...
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A Mirror of Japanese Ornament: 600 Traditional DesignsRendered from a rare 1915 five-volume set, this all-encompassing design treasury captures the graceful beauty of traditional Japanese motifs. These 100 full-color plates -- many with multiple images -- range from ornate florals and elegant cranes to dragons and Buddhas, and from Silk Road...
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Dresser's Victorian OrnamentationBorders in the style of medieval manuscripts, patterns based on Greek and Persian pottery, designs adapted from Venetian lace -- this unique sourcebook abounds in splendid original ornaments. Its gorgeous black-and-white drawings include such diverse influences as German Gothic, Japanese, Arabic, Indian, Celtic, and...
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European Folk Art DesignsThis handsome collection contains scores of unique images based on folk art designs created by artists of Austria, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Switzerland, and other European countries.Adapted from authentic sources, 265 original renderings depict scores of charming motifs incorporating florals, wildlife, riders on horseback, mythical...
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1,337 Spot Illustrations of the Twenties and ThirtiesMore than 1,300 distinctive, well-designed royalty-free cuts in a wide variety of categories: men, women, animals, transportation, many more. Add period flavor to any graphic project.Author: Leslie E. CabargaPublisher: Dover PublicationsPublished: 08/18/1992Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 11.03h x 8.43w x 0.27dISBN: 9780486272320This title is...
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Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists, Needleworkers and CraftspeopleFlowers are among nature's most beautiful creations, infinitely varied in form and texture, strikingly vivid in color. Now you can bring the freshness of a whole garden of exquisite flowers to your needlework and art projects with this versatile collection of original floral designs....
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Traditional Japanese Design MotifsThe subtlety and vitality of traditional Japanese design are admired (and imitated) the world over. Here is a treasury of hundreds of authentic Japanese design motifs -- all royalty-free and easy to reproduce -- sure to appeal to artists and craftsmen striving for distinctive...
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House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile RowThe strange, illuminative true story of Tommy Nutter, the Savile Row tailor who changed the silhouette of men's fashion--and his rock photographer brother, David, who captured it all on film. From an early age, there was something different about Tommy and David Nutter. Growing...
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The Art of Silliness: A Creativity Book for EveryoneReady to play? Whether you think of yourself as an artist, a doodler, a dreamer, or none of the above, this book will jump-start your creativity. Popular art instructor Carla Sonheim offers fun, engaging ideas on every page, from drawing upside down to imagining...
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Vintage Journal Cascade Falls, Unalaska IslandThe Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Cascade Falls, Unalaska Island, features a hand-tinted photograph of Cascade Falls, Unalaska Island near Cape Cheerful, Alaska. A man in a canoe is in front of the falls. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on...
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Searching for Beauty: The Life of Millicent Rogers, the American Heiress Who Taught the World about StyleBurns makes it abundantly clear . . . they just don't make heiresses like Millicent Rogers anymore. --Hampton Sides Nobody knew how to live the high life like Standard Oil heiress Millicent Rogers. Born to luxury, she lived in a whirl of European vacations,...
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Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World, Volume 2: Ecologies of ChangeTools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world.Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century, in what the authors characterize as a white water world--rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent. These are the...
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