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Discover captivating design and art books, featuring design textbooks and insights into book cover design.
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Art NouveauArt Nouveau was a phenomenon with many faces. Between 1890 and 1910, artists developed a variety of styles from the plant-like forms of the Belgian-French Art Nouveau to the ornamentation of the Viennese Secession. They were all striving to create a new, modern style...
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Hello, Robot.: Design Between Human and MachineRobotics now: from transport drones and intelligent sensors to the debate around Industry 4.0Hello, Robot.: Design between Human and Machine investigates how robotics is becoming part of our everyday lives, demonstrating that design in its traditional function as a mediator is indispensable if robots...
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Petits Espaces - Grand StandingDiminutive rooms, grand possibilities. Petits Espaces - Grand Standing shows how to make use of a limited space and turn a small apartment into a design marvel. Petits Espaces - Grand Standing's assortment of projects and homes pays homage to the iconic innovation within...
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I Don't Have a Favourite ColourA vibrant lesson in the interaction between facades and surfaces Discover the uses and explore the possibilities of a nuanced world of colors and textures. Ten years ago, the designer Hella Jongerius began a research project for the Swiss furniture company, Vitra, to study...
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Hello, I Am Erik: Erik Spiekermann: Typographer, Designer, EntrepreneurErik Spiekermann is the epitome of a typographer. With his typefaces, commercial projects, and enterprises, he has shaped the world of graphic design like no other. This comprehensive book is the first to showcase his body of work and tell the story of hiAuthor:...
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Chunghi Choo and Her Students: Contemporary Art and New Forms in Metal- First comprehensive publication about the American/Korean metalsmith and jewelry artist Chunghi Choo- Works by thirty former students reveal Choo's influence on a subsequent generation- The student's works show how techniques learnt in a metal program may be transferred to other fields of artChunghi...
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The East German HandbookFor 40 years, the Cold War dominated the world stage. East and West Germany stood at the frontlines of the global confrontation, symbolized by the infamous Berlin Wall, which separated lovers, friends, families, coworkers, and compatriots.The Wende Museum in Los Angeles, California, is named...
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1000 Chairs, 1st Ed.More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designers. The particular curve of a backrest or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the color of the entire artifact all...
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Vintage T ShirtsWith the addition of just a few letters or an image the simple T-shirt can become a personal billboard. What started as the standard issue undershirt of the U.S. military, by the mid-1970s had evolved into a means of self-expression and individualism. Musical taste,...
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Type. a Visual History of Typefaces & Graphic Styles, 1901-1938 [With Online Access with Taschen Keycard]A visual history of fonts and graphic styles: volume 2 This book offers a connoisseur's overview of typeface design, exploring the most elegant fonts from the history of publishing. Taken from a distinguished Dutch collection, this exuberant two-volume edition traces the evolution of the...
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Contemporary Muslim FashionsThis lavishly illustrated book presents Muslim fashion as an essential part of contemporary style. This dazzling exploration of contemporary Muslim modest dress, from historic styles to present-day examples, accompanies a major exhibition and reveals the enormous range of self-expression through fashion achieved by Muslim...
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Bauhaus and America: Experiments in Light and MovementConsidering the influence of German art, design and architecture on American art and culture following World War IIOne hundred years after the founding of the Bauhaus in 1919, Bauhaus and America considers the myriad ways in which the German art, design and architecture school...
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Fashion Drive: Extreme Clothing in the Visual ArtsA journey through 500 years of fashion history, as told through painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography and filmHow have artists reacted to such creations as slashed clothing, codpieces, the crinoline or the dinner jacket? Fashion is an economic index as well as a seismograph...
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Typographie: A Manual of DesignThis book is the legacy of Emil Ruder, one of the originator of Swiss Style, famous throughout the world for the use of asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces and flush left, ragged right text. His holistic approach is still recognized as...
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Visual Coexistence: Informationdesign and Typography in the Intercultural FieldIn a globalized world, Asian, Latin and Arabic characters and visual cultures appear side by side and woven together. The coexistence of different visual cultures is now part of our daily lives and a given feature of our communication systems. But how do we...
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Karl Gerstner: Designing Programmes: Programme as Typeface, Typography, Picture, MethodSwiss designer and artist Karl Gerstner (1930-2017) had a significant influence on typography and the history and development of postwar graphic design. Designing Programmes is one of his most important and influential works. It was first published in 1964, and reissued in a new...
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The Magic of Watches - Revised and Updated: A Smart Introduction to Fine WatchmakingWhat is a beautiful watch? How do you make a good choice? "The Magic of Watches" explains how and why these little objects are so precious, fascinating and exciting. The Magic of Watches loves paradoxes: why a one-million-dollar watch might be less precise and...
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Le Roy SoleilPublished in 1904, this book recounts the epic rise and fall of the most majestic king of all: Louis XIV, Le Roy Soleil, from his accession to the throne in 1643. More than forty sumptuous color engravings illustrate the course of France's most famous...
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American Fashion MenswearFrom the outset, America was settled by individualists and adventurers who severed ties with the old world to find their destiny in an unknown land, a separation that opened the way for change in a less stratified society. To survive the challenges of a...
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Geoffrey Beene: An American Fashion Rebel [With CD]Geoffrey Beene was fiercely independent, radical, subversive, and loved by ladies who lunched and underground scenesters alike. As an adventurous artist and an experimental designer, Mr. Beene (as his friends called him) helped define modern American fashion in the latter twentieth century. His designs...
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