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Discover captivating design and art books, featuring design textbooks and insights into book cover design.
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Maya DesignsOver 40 beautiful renderings of Maya designs found on building facades, painted vases, designs drawn from architectural sculpture and other monumental carvings, murals, illustrated books (codexes), and miscellaneous artifacts. Brief introduction to Maya design, captions, identification of gods and legends. The ancient Maya civilization...
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Fashion Drawings and Illustrations from Harper's BazarThe Russian-born, Paris-based artist Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) is best known for his incomparably styled fashion and theater designs of the 1910s and 1920s. From 1915 to 1936 Erté was associated with Harper's Bazar, furnishing readers with fashion designs, cover art, and word-pictures of...
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Handbook of Pictorial SymbolsPictorial symbols furnish travelers and motorists with important information at airports and on highways and are frequently used on packages, clothing, and appliances from around the world. The international use of these symbols is steadily increasing, and this handbook brings together 3,250 examples from...
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Chinese Lattice DesignsChinese craft design excelled in the manipulation of geometric space and reached its highest point in the design of window lattices on Chinese houses. Long recognized as an important folk art, window lattices have been generally neglected as an art form and this book...
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Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols"A ready reference aid and an inspiration to designers . All in all the best book now available on symbols." --Library Journal This unparalleled reference represents a major achievement in the field of graphic design. Famed industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss recognized the importance of...
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The Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design [With CDROM]"The Measure of Man and Woman" ist eine aktualisierte und erweiterte Ausgabe des 1959 erschienenen Klassikers "Human Factors. Diese Neuauflage vereint eine Fülle wichtiger Informationen, die Designern bei der Gestaltung von Produkten und Umgebungen helfen, die Bedürfnisse der Benutzer besser zu berücksichtigen. Um einen...
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Fashion DesignShows how the design process can be successfully applied to satisfy market needs and trends Fashion design seems to be a glamorous mystery for which only the fortunate few have sufficient talent to succeed. In reality, commercially successful results can be achieved if the...
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Mixed Messages JournalMix it up with this delightful take on the classic cassette tape Mixed Messages Journal evokes the nostalgic spirit of everyone who ever spent painstaking hours devising the perfect mixtape. This gorgeously-designed blank journal mimics the look and feel of a classic cassette tape:...
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The Semantic Turn: A New Foundation for DesignResponding to cultural demands for meaning, user-friendliness, and fun as well as the opportunities of the emerging information society, The Semantic Turn boldly outlines a new science for design that gives designers previously unavailable grounds on which to state their claims and validate their...
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Advertising: Concept and CopyA classic text now in a new edition, George Felton's Advertising: Concept and Copy is an innovative approach to advertising creativity. It covers the entire conceptual process, from developing smart strategy to executing it with strong ads--from what to say to how to say...
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The Role of the Scroll: An Illustrated Introduction to Scrolls in the Middle AgesScrolls have always been shrouded by a kind of aura, a quality of somehow standing outside of time. They hold our attention with their age, beauty, and perplexing format. Beginning in the fourth century, the codex--or book--became the preferred medium for long texts. Why,...
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Edward Steichen: In High Fashion: The Condé Nast Years, 1923-1937Edward Steichen was already a famous painter and photographer in America and abroad when, in early 1923, he was offered the most prestigious position in photography's commercial domain: that of chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair.Over the next fifteen years, Steichen would produce...
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365 StyleFrom red carpets and runways to front row at Fashion Week, designer and muse Nicky Hilton has earned her reputation as a style icon. Exposed to the top tier of the fashion industry from childhood, in this style guide Hilton reveals tips and tricks...
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How Things Are Made: From Automobiles to ZippersFor anyone curious about the nuts and bolts of human ingenuity, How Things Are Made is a fascinating exploration of the process behind the manufacture of everyday items. What are bulletproof vests made of? How do manufacturers get lipstick into the tube? How many...
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In Fashion: From Runway to Retail, Everything You Need to Know to Break Into the Fashion IndustryIf you've ever dreamed of working at Vogue, photographing supermodels, or outfitting celebrities, In Fashion will equip you with everything you need to know to get an "in" into fashion. Former beauty and fashion news director of Harper's Bazaar and editor in chief of...
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Radical: Italian Design 1965-1985, the Dennis Freedman CollectionAn essential new look at the design philosophy that interrogated modern living against the turbulent political landscape of 1960s Italy In the mid-1960s, reacting to contemporary social and political upheaval, young Italian architects and designers began developing a new style that openly challenged Modernism....
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Jean Schlumberger: The Rachel Lambert Mellon Collection from the Virginia Museum of Fine ArtsA dazzling look at a superb collection of magnificent jewelry and objets d'art by one of the 20th century's most inventive and influential designers Famous for his inventive interpretations of animal and botanical subjects, artist-jeweler Jean Schlumberger (1907-1987) played a key role in 20th-century...
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Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and KingsVessels shaped as bulls, lions, birds, donkeys, and other animals were routinely used to pour and drink liquids at feasts throughout the ancient world. Bringing together animal-shaped vessels from the Mediterranean, the Near and Far East, and the Americas, this fascinating cross-cultural study is...
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Design, Form, and Chaos"To have the preeminent graphic designer in America--the leading proponent of the Modern--intelligently and forcefully speak out makes this a document for today and the ages. Rand's book is a classic." --Stephen Heller (1993) Paul Rand (1914-1996) was a pioneer in the field of...
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Type Tells TalesA fresh look at typographic design as an art and as a storytelling device that expresses narratives, emotions, and voice Stretching the boundaries of typographic expression, Type Tells Tales is a sensational showcase of type that is integral to the message it conveys, with...
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