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Discover captivating design and art books, featuring design textbooks and insights into book cover design.
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StyleA few lucky women have been born with style -- think Diana Vreeland and Jacqueline Onassis -- but for most of us, style is something that comes with time and experience. Above all, style begins with a sense of who you are and your...
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Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the Century (Midnight Blue Edition)A stunning collection of the best living spaces created and commissioned by the most influential people in interior designAuthor: Phaidon PressPublisher: Phaidon PressPublished: 05/22/2019Pages: 448Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 6.65lbsSize: 11.70h x 10.20w x 1.90dISBN: 9780714878218About the AuthorConceived and edited by Phaidon EditorsWilliam Norwich is a...
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Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou YamaguchiThe face has inspired artists around the world for millennia, and Japan's Noh theater has provided a complex domain for exploring human emotion. Inspired by these practices, Traditions Transfigured examines fourteen contemporary works by Noh mask-maker and artist Bidou Yamaguchi. These apply the forms,...
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The Poster: A Visual HistoryEven in the digital age, the printed poster has continued to be one of the most influential and well-loved ways of informing and entertaining audiences. A powerful means of mass communication, posters are an invaluable resource for understanding the time periods in which they...
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Islamic Design WorkbookBuilding on the concept of a traditional coloring book, the Islamic Design Workbook opens up the world of intricate Islamic patterns, allowing designers and doodlers alike to learn about these works of art as they produce their own. With forty-eight Islamic geometric compositions from...
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Masterworks of Art Nouveau Stained GlassArt Nouveau was the dominant art style in both Europe and America at the turn of the 20th century. Its organic, curvilinear designs influenced painting, architecture, and sculpture, but it was in the decorative arts that Art Nouveau made its most lasting impression. One...
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Steampunk SourcebookOriginally coined to describe fantasy and science fiction in steam-powered settings, the term steampunk has come to identify an aesthetic movement. Its campy redefinition of Victorian style blends elements of technology and romance, and its influence extends from literature and art to music and...
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The Poster Art of David Lance Goines: A 40-Year RetrospectiveThis vibrant retrospective celebrates the four-decade career of Berkeley graphic artist David Lance Goines. Its 155 full-color posters promote movies, galleries, restaurants, and concerts, in addition to other events and products. Distinctive and dramatic, the images speak volumes to the viewer's eye, evoking a...
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Fashion Illustration 1920-1950: Techniques and ExamplesComprehensive and user-friendly, this volume combines four vintage instructional manuals by Walter T. Foster, the world-famous art teacher and publisher. In addition to explaining the principles of figure drawing, it provides a handy retrospective of fashions for men, women, and children from the first...
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The Mode in Costume: A Historical Survey with 202 PlatesThe pursuit of style has prompted centuries of dramatic change in fashion--and author R. Turner Wilcox researched and documented it all in this completely comprehensive volume. A lifelong student of history, costume, and design, she observed decades of fashion innovations from major cities all...
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Rackham's Fairies, Elves and Goblins: More Than 80 Full-Color IllustrationsThrough his extraordinarily drawn interpretations of favorite fairy tales and fantastic literature, Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) remains an enduring legend of the Victorian era's Golden Age of Illustration. Rackham took the printing developments of the early twentieth century further than any other artist of his...
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Fantastic Gothic and Renaissance OrnamentDancing beasts of myth and legend, thick foliage that appears to live and breathe, reclining figures engulfed by symbols of fate -- this magnificent compendium of 15th- and 18th-century embellishments offers up a dizzying array of Gothic and Renaissance designs steeped in religion and...
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Traditional Ironwork DesignsFrom an exceptional collection of the finest examples of German ironwork comes this rich source of royalty-free images for artists and craftspeople. More than 270 illustrations depict a broad variety of magnificent ironworks from the city of D sseldorf, with finely rendered examples of...
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Treasury of Floral Designs and Initials for Artists and CraftspeopleYou'll find a thousand different uses for this practical archive of royalty-free designs with a floral theme. It includes over 700 wonderfully graceful and imaginative designs featuring flowers, leaves, and vines in delicate interlacements. Most incorporate elaborately embellished letters, initials, monograms, and names.Needleworkers, fabric...
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Early Advertising Alphabets, Initials and Typographic OrnamentsSelected from archives of rare publications, the letters and ornaments in this volume represent the best of five centuries of typographic art and design. Included are 60 handsome alphabets, many examples of decorative initials, and a dazzling assortment of scrolls, flourishes, ornaments, ribbons, cartouches,...
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Baroque Ornament and DesignsBaroque art and architecture -- extravagant in concept, exuberant in spirit, elaborate in detail -- flourished in seventeenth-century Europe, and through the ages has continued to stir us with its vitality and dynamism and its mood of barely suppressed passion. In the architecture of...
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Arabic Geometrical Pattern and DesignBy forbidding the representation of the human figure, the Mohammedan religion helped push Islamic art along a path much different from that of traditional European art. European abounds with perspective renderings of figures and landscapes, while Islamic translates artistic impulse into elaborate geometric patterns...
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Designs and Patterns from Historic OrnamentThis well-known book was prepared a century ago by two British architects, and its reputation has grown steadily since. The Audsleys' rendering of designs from a wide variety of sources are national traditions, and their excellent sense of space and proportion and their straightforward...
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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish"A tribute to a time when style -- and maybe even life -- felt more straightforward, and however arbitrary, there were definitive answers." -- Sadie Stein, Paris Review As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to...
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Color Index XL: More Than 1,100 New Palettes with Cmyk and Rgb Formulas for Designers and ArtistsThis updated, expanded, and oversized inspirational resource presents 1,100 color palettes, with light, bright, dark, and muted varieties for each one, making it the most expansive palette selection tool available. Color Index XL provides aspiring designers, artists, and creative individuals working with color with...
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