הוצאת Laurence King Publishers
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There is a dearth of books covering drawing and product design. Drawing for Designers fills this gap, offering a comprehensive guide to drawing for product/ industrial designers and students. As well as industrial product design, the book encompasses automotive design and the design of other ...
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Bibliographic: 100 Classic Graphic Design Books is a unique compilation of the best design books of the last 100 years. It covers a huge range of material—historic titles from pioneering type foundries to the best of recent monographs from today s leading studios—and provides an essenti...
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The first book to focus on new gothic art Hell Bound highlights a new generation of contemporary artists who are increasingly obsessed with the darker things in life. Illustrators street artists sculptors photographers filmmakers installation artists and painters are all reflecting this renew...
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A new series of high-quality blank sketchbooks for graffiti fans and artists. Each sketchbook has a screen printed board cover depicting an exclusive artwork by internationally acclaimed artists: Dalek (USA) Darbotz (Indonesia) Jimi Crayon (UK) and ESOW (Japan)....
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An interactive coloring book for fashionistas of all ages, My Wonderful World of Fashion is packed with beautiful and sophisticated illustrations specially created by the leading fashion-illustrator Nina Chakrabarti. The book encourages creativity, with illustrations to color in and design...
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There is an enormous wealth of materials and of print and manufacturing processes currently available to designers. These opportunities are rarely fully explored, whether from lack of knowledge, or from a belief that they will be too costly, too complicated, or too time-consuming. Materials, Proc...
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This book offers students, novice designers, and battle-toughened professionals alike an insider's guide to the complexities of current graphic design practice and thinking. It contains all you need to know to survive and prosper in the complex, ever-shifting world of graphic design. Set out in A-Z...
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Fixed-gear cycling has today become the coolest form of urban transport, giving rise to a global fixed-gear culture. Fixed is the first book to document fixed-gear cycling. The authors have traveled to cities around the world to examine at first hand the intersections between the fixed-gear...
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Menswear is the most creative and dynamic area in fashion today. Changing attitudes, a relaxation of dress codes, and larger disposable incomes have all led to men spending more money on looking good than ever before. Modern menswear is defying conventions and transforming the fashion landscape. Cre...
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This book examines over 30 bathroom designs from around the world, each one designed by a notable architect and created especially for a specific residence. For each bathroom there is an image of the whole house (placing it in context and providing a flavor of the general design style), images of t...
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It's a rare graphic designer who hasn't contemplated setting up his or her own studio. It's part of a designer's DNA to want to own and run a studio. Many do, while others spend a lifetime wondering if they should. But where does the ambitious designer go for advice and guidance? Who better than th...
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A major change has taken place at dance clubs worldwide: the advent of the VJ. Once the term referred to the video jockey who introduced music videos on MTV, but now it defines an artist who creates and mixes video, live and synced to music, in clubs or at concerts. This book is an in-depth look at ...
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This book focuses on the letterforms and typography in public places from road signs to building names that help us to navigate cities and countryside and contribute to a sense of place. Featuring examples from around the world the book discusses the function and execution of signage. Visually ...
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This volume covers all stages of visual presentation in interior design, from early concept sketches and more evolved technical drawings to complex computer renderings, models for client presentation, and production drawings for contractors. Step-by-step sequences and special tips show students how...
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Sketchbooks provides a revealing glimpse into the inner workings and private inspiration of creatives from the world of advertising, design, graphic design, fashion design, art, street art, and illustration. Intimate and often unseen, sketchbooks document the sources of inspiration as well ...
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The eighteenth century was a period of great inventiveness and originality in French decorative arts and interior decoration. This book discusses in detail the creation and contents of the interiors of French aristocrats and financiers, including some that have never been photographed before. Using...
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Here at last is the bible of T-shirt design today. 82 studios from around the world Brazil, Australia, Japan, Switzerland, America, Argentina, and more contribute their best designs to create a global and contemporary view of the thriving state of T-shirt land. Tees is packed with illustrat...
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Architectural detailing makes a building unique and an architect outstanding. This book provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in the development of contemporary domestic architecture from 2000 to 2005. Featuring many of the world's most highly acclaimed arch...
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Urban land is an increasingly precious commodity, particularly in the centers of major cities. Every spare corner of land is in demand, however small, inaccessible, or awkwardly shaped. For architects the challenge is to optimize these sites while simultaneously negotiating the web of planning regul...
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Indie artists, designers and illustrators are doing it for themselves! Tough times often lead to greater creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. Where once designers might have produced a set of postcards to promote themselves or simply for fun, demand for individual design has led to an explosion of...
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Once dismissed as a cozy world of teddy bears and fairies, the arrival on the scene of numerous highly original, contemporary, and 'cool' graphic artists in recent years has transformed perceptions of children's book illustration. Children now grow up with a more informed and sophisticated visual di...
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Hatch showcases 114 architects who will define the physical fabric of our cities for the next 30 years as well as the theoretical and interpretive background of architectural practice worldwide. These are practitioners for whom the old categories do not hold and for whom modernism is no longer t...
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The limitations of a tiny space, rather than inhibiting designers, often result in some of the most innovative and exciting retail design. While small shops offer the chance for famous designers to experiment and showcase their skills for the retailers who can afford them, other independent retailer...
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What kind of architecture emerges in an extreme environment? Responding to some of the ultimate challenges in architecture, the buildings featured in this book provide valuable insight into the extremes of architectural thinking. In an increasingly unstable world, some of the lessons that they teach...
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This book is a highly informative, highly entertaining introduction to what art direction is and what art directors do. Written by two of the world's leading experts on the subject, it covers the role of art director in numerous environments, including magazines and newspapers, advertising, corporat...
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Creating effective copywriting is of vital importance in today's design and communication industries. Well-targeted copy and a strong brand voice are essential if you want to stand out from the competition. Copywriting shows how to write for all formats and contexts from catalogs and products to a...
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Tattoos and tattoo culture have gone mainstream in the last few years, with popular TV shows such as LA Ink, Miami Ink, and London Ink making celebrities out of tattooists and their clients. Highly skilled artists, many tattooists have moved beyond the artwork they draw on...
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Textiles Now celebrates international contemporary textile design focusing on fabric and fiber designs from the past five years that have been created for use in decorative art fashion and interior design. Lavishly illustrated with photographs showing the textiles and where appropriate their ...
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This stunning picture book chronicles one hundred years of classic patterns, featuring designs in a wide variety of styles, art movements, and countries of origin to give an overview of surface design from the beginning of the last century to the present day. The book is full of original patterns f...
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The mission of this book is to illustrate Africa's immensely fertile artistic landscape. Africa has emerged from its colonial past and is asserting its own identity. African art is not only confined to the continent itself but has spread world-wide through the work of those descended from the enfor...
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Semiotics is the theory of signs. Signs are amazingly diverse: from simple road signs that point to a destination, to smoke that warns us of fire, to the culturally-conditioned symbols buried within art and literature. Our reading of signs is very much a part of everyday life. Yet semiotics is often...
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One of the most ubiquitous pieces of printed matter, the business card presents a unique design conundrum. Constrained by budgetary and size restrictions, how do you present a person s or a business's identity and contact details, all in a very small space...and still have some fun? In an age domin...
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Aimed at fashion and textile students, Fashion A to Z fills a gap in the market for an affordable, accessible, and up-to-date guide to fashion terminology. Bringing together all the key words commonly used in colleges and in industry, this fashion reference book is beautifully illustrated w...
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Very small buildings have a special appeal, and the constraints of space and cost can actually liberate the imagination. Most of the projects in this book consist of no more than a few key spaces, in many cases just a single space. They are united only by their compact nature, the pleasure that the...
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As we become only too aware of the damage man has caused to the planet, more of us want to furnish and decorate our homes with products that do not harm the environment. But being sensitive to the environment does not mean you have to sacrifice good design. More and more designers are creating produ...
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Look around and uniforms are everywhere. They're a way of belonging and of making people belong. Armies, police forces, and militias led the way, but today they're used by a new generation of service industries, from security guards to delivery firms. Subconsciously, uniforms oil the wheels of the w...
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Art historical theory is a forum of intense, often passionate debate. This book provides the art history student with an introduction to the range of theoretical perspectives used in looking at and analyzing art. It covers a broad range of approaches, presenting individual arguments, controversies, ...
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Badges, buttons, and pins have been around for more than a century. Today they're everywhere: on lapels and bags all over the world and in the sketchbooks and on the screens of some of the hottest graphic designers, artists, and illustrators. A button can be a way to display political or cultural af...
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A sketchbook notebook and reference book in one Sizes May Vary is a unique working tool for graphic designers and students. The sketchbook area provides a space for sketching and visualizing containing more than 200 pages of thumbnails and scale line drawings of commonly reproduced formats incl...
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In the huge and ever growing accessories market, handbags have evolved into unique design pieces—status symbols that many aspire to own. In the last ten years the trend for 'it' bags, first initiated by Hermès in the 1950s with the Kelly bag, has taken off, making the luxury goods market extremel...
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This is a practical book on creating packaging prototypes that reflect sustainable and ecologically sound principles. It challenges the next generation of graphic designers to re-envision packaging design as a less environmentally destructive practice than it presently is, and examines an array of ...
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In recent years postcards have become so much more than a tacky holiday greeting. Graphic designers illustrators and advertisers are seizing the postcard and repurposing it with quirky new designs that give a new twist to a classic format. Postcard is a showcase of the most exciting postcard des...
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The advertising industry is in a state of flux. In an age where we can choose what media we consume, the traditional channels of TV, press and poster are no longer always the most effective methods for a brand to reach its target audience. As a result, global brands are opting to implement ever more...
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