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Discover captivating design and art books, featuring design textbooks and insights into book cover design.
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The Experience of ArchitectureHow does the experience of turning a door handle, opening a door from one space into another, affect us? It is no wonder that the door, one of the most elemental architectural forms, has such metaphorical richness. But even on a purely physical human...
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Swedish Modern: Estrid Ericson, Josef Frank, and Svenskt Tenn: A Coloring Book of Magical InteriorsLight-filled, minimalist, contemporary Scandinavian design has long been a source of inspiration for designers and design-lovers alike. Inspired by the legendary Swedish interior design and furniture company Svenskt Tenn--founded in 1924 by the pioneering design entrepreneur Estrid Ericson and joined ten years later by...
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The Fashion Resource Book: MenToday's menswear designers must understand the history of fashion to come up with new and innovative ideas. Filled with inspiration for designers and students alike, The Fashion Resource Book: Men is a collection of research essential to the study of men's fashion. The book...
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Chinese Graphic Design in the Twentieth CenturyFrom posters and advertisements to book covers and magazines, this book presents a dazzling panoply of modern graphic design in China. Beginning with the basic traditions of Chinese graphics, the authors show how the writer and artist Lu Xun became the center of cultural...
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Icons of Graphic DesignThis unique history of design, documenting over a century of creative brilliance, has now been brought into the twenty-first century. Showcasing the most influential designs and designers from 1900 to the present, this outstanding collection illustrates how the best ideas perpetuate themselves over time,...
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Costume and Fashion: A Concise HistoryFrom the momentous invention of the needle some 40,000 years ago to the development of blue denim, from Neolithic weavers to the biggest names in the fashion industry today, this classic guide covers the landmarks of costume history. Costume and Fashion explores the forms...
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Maison Lesage: Haute Couture EmbroideryThe most prestigious Parisian Haute Couture artisans, Maison Lesage has collaborated with the biggest names in fashion, from Chanel, Schiaparelli, and Yves Saint Laurent, to Cristobal Balenciaga, Valentino, and Alexander McQueen. Founded in 1924, when the Lesage family bought the eminent firm of Michonet...
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Artists' HomesIn this beautifully illustrated book, writer and photographer Tom Harford-Thompson presents individual, eccentric homes and workspaces, from a music producer's studio to an ecowarrior's treehouse. His evocative photographs show how our life/work spaces, whether a tumbledown cottage, a country farmhouse, or a reclaimed factory,...
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Op Art and Visual Illusions [With CDROM]A multitude of intriguing designs -- 293 all-original visual delights in all -- feature circles, squares, lines, and angles arranged in stunning displays of balance and asymmetry, exactitude and illusion. Each eye-opening presentation appears to recede, advance, shimmer, and vibrate in fascinating Op Art...
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Seguy's Art Deco Designs [With CDROM]From the Parisian studio of E. A. Seguy comes this dazzling portfolio of authentic Art Deco designs of the 1920s. This essential set gathers 152 full-color examples of the French artist's best and most beautiful work, featuring vivid floral patterns, exquisite butterflies, and colorful...
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Gibson Girl Illustrations [With CDROM]200 charming, royalty-free illustrations of bathing beauties, feminine golfing enthusiasts, parlor maids, romantic ingenues, and more -- in a variety of poses, brilliantly captured by great turn-of-the-century illustrator.Author: Charles Dana GibsonPublisher: Dover PublicationsPublished: 09/15/2006Pages: 64Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 10.74h x 8.26w x 0.20dISBN: 9780486997636This...
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Full-Color Nautical Vignettes CD-ROM and Book [With CDROM]Add a maritime touch to a host of art and craft projects with images of sailors, ships, and other nautical motifs. More than 300 nostalgic graphics -- reproduced from rare 19th- and early-20th-century sources -- will add a seagoing flavor to your next design...
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120 Great Fashion Designs, 1900-1950, CD-ROM and Book [With CDROM]Lanvin, Poiret, Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, Balmain, and more -- 120 creations from the most famous names in fashion Well researched and splendidly detailed, this CD-ROM and book set features elegant ball gowns from the turn of the 20th century, dramatic cocktail dresses from the 1940s,...
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Dover Digital Design Source #8: Neo-Classical Design and OrnamentBased on popular motifs of ancient Greece and Rome, Neo-Classical design dominated European architecture and decorative styles from the late 1700s onward. This collection of elegant clip art features scenes from mythological, historical, and biblical sources as well as vines and leaves, floral elements,...
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Full-Color Frames and Borders [With CDROM]This collection of lovely, old-fashioned illustrations, drawn from rare Victorian-era sources, includes a brilliant variety of full-color frames and borders. Twelve full-page and twenty-four half-page designs incorporate a rich profusion of flowers, butterflies, fans, and other images beloved by the Victorians. Each border is...
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Haeckel's Art Forms from the Ocean CD-ROM and BookThe tiny single-celled organisms known as radiolarians (or radiolaria) develop beautiful, intricate mineral skeletons that cover ocean floors throughout the world. Drawings of these microscopic life forms offer a rare and distinctive variety of artwork. Based on German biologist/artist Ernst Haeckel's hard-to-find 1862 atlas...
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The Art of Perfume [With CDROM]Images of vintage perfume labels, trade cards, posters, and actual bottles evoke the romance of bygone eras. This collection of 196 full-color illustrations features art dating from 1880 to 1940. Rendered in Victorian, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco styles, the graphics also include a...
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Asian Tattoo Flash [With CDROM]This collection of 116 Asian images features some of today's most popular body art designs. It includes two versions of each tattoo, one in full colour and one in black-and-white stencil.Author: Alan WellerPublisher: Dover PublicationsPublished: 03/26/2009Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 10.70h x 8.00w x...
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Creating Celtic Animal Designs: A Fresh Approach to Traditional DesignMany instruction books just teach how to duplicate designs without providing any clues for the next step -- making your own This unique guide features the highly effective Aon method, a technique for creating your own original designs rather than copying examples. It's easy...
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Decorations for Walls and Panels: Early Twentieth-Century Design and PatternThis 128-page oversized catalog was produced circa 1900 in Germany and contains hundreds of stunning examples of screen-printed patterns and design elements originally conceived for wall and ceiling decoration. Created at the crossroads of Victorian and Art Nouveau styles, the catalog reflects the best...
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