Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: This compelling book chronicles 75 of the most influential artists from the dawn of the 20th century to the present, and from around the world. Each entry provides a fascinating insight into the artist and his or her vision of what they were trying to do, while also acknowledging the lasting effect or impression of their work. Arranged in a broadly chronological order, the book gives a sense of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: Featuring 75 of the world's most influential architects, this book presents the story of 20th-century architecture through the fascinating personal stories and significant works that have shaped the field. Arranged in a broadly chronological order, the book gives the reader a sense of the impact that inventive individuals have had on the development of architecture and our built environment. Key…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: Featuring 75 of the world's most influential designers, this book presents the story of graphic design through the fascinating personal stories and significant works that have shaped the field. Arranged in chronological order, the book shows the development of design, from early innovators such as Edward McKnight Kauffer and Alexey Brodovitch to key figures of mid-century Swiss Design and…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs Of People is an inspiring book of conceptual starting points and invaluable technical tips for anyone, novice or professional, who wants to take top-notch pictures of people. The book distills portrait photography into seven subject areas, including Composition, The Gaze, and The Street, and features beautiful, startling, and inspirational…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Intellectual, emotional, restless, dogged, loyal, selfish; Kandinsky was an artist — and a man — of contradictions. This genre-defying painter didn't pick up a brush until he was thirty years old. He was an academic with a promising career that he threw away to explore the arts. He was a Russian, yet he spent more than half of his life on the road, and died in self-imposed exile in France. As an…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A Brush with the Real: Figurative Painting Today presents a dynamic new approach to figurative painting. By examining the work of a carefully curated collection of 51 contemporary artists, this book celebrates the unprecedented revival of figurative painting in its many new forms. Arranged in three thematic parts, this book reveals the background, tools, reference materials and media that inspire…
Скачать книгу (размер 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 108) Аннотация: Stickerbomb Skulls is the latest themed book in the Stickerbomb series, featuring many forms of design and illustrations of skulls by an eclectic mix of artists from around the world. Skulls are a very strong visual icon used extensively in the worlds of fashion, jewellery, graphic design, music, street art and tattoos. The book will appeal to existing Stickerbomb fans as well as new fans who…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The real world is full of cameras; the virtual world is full of images. Where does all this photographic activity leave the artist-photographer? Post-Photography tries to answer that question by investigating the exciting new language of photographic image-making that is emerging in the digital age of anything-ispossible and everything-has-been-done-before. Found imagery has become increasingly…
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: With reliable information (not readily or accurately available on the internet) these sketchbooks address the needs of contemporary practitioners, carefully treading that fine line between providing practical tools and information while not interfering with their creative freedom. They are also made entirely out of ecofriendly materials. It includes 136 blank pages, two different paper stocks…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 2) Аннотация: You can spirit yourself into the future without losing track of the present using this unique desktop calendar, specially illustrated by Julie Morstad. One side functions as a daily calendar, while on the other side a clever mechanism allows you to predict dates more than 50 years ahead. Fly through time to your next birthday or summer holiday the fun is neverending! This book is for day dreamers…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: 100 Ideas that Changed Street Style is a look-by-look dissection of the key ideas that changed the way we dress — from the middle of the 20th century to the present day — explaining the most iconic items of clothing and how they were worn, what the look was born of, its cultural background, how it was received and how it still resonates in fashion today. The modern wardrobe owes its development…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: In 1956 Time magazine referred to Pollock as 'Jack the Dripper'. His iconic paintings stretch out with the generosity and scale of the landscape of America's West where the artist grew up. Pollock said that he painted 'out of his consciousness': the cathartic dribbled paint reflected his troubled mind. This book traces Pollock's career and discusses how his loose, individual style was used as a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Aimed at prospective and new students, this book gives a comprehensive introduction to the nature and practice of landscape architecture, the professional skills required and the latest developments. After discussing the history of the profession, the book explains the design process through principles such as hierarchy, human scale, unity, harmony, asymmetry, colour, form and texture. It looks…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Containing 20 detachable postcards of Johanna Basford's beautiful drawings from the inky world of her Secret Garden. Decorate the cards to bring the flowers and tiny creatures to life, then share the magic with all your friends. For artists and gardeners of all ages.
Скачать книгу (размер 804 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 159) Аннотация: This collection of heart imagery highlights how a universal symbol can be creatively interpreted and constantly reinvented. It captures the breadth of art and design imagery exploring the meaning and representation of hearts. Although the focus is on the contemporary, it also touches on the history of the symbol from the Sacred Heart cult to the invention of the Valentine, from heart tattoos to…
Скачать книгу (размер 218 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 44) Аннотация: From the hand of MEGAMUNDEN, here are 20 detachable postcards waiting to be inked by you. Two flash sheets of full-colour stickers are also included so you can customise the drawings of sailors, samurai and skulls or send your own message in a bottle to friends and family.
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Includes 20 prints by: French, Patrick Thomas, Carissa Rose, Drew Millward, Dan Stirling, James Joyce, Dominick Rapone, Boo Davies/Quiltsryche, Noah Scalin, Noma Bar, Paul Alexander Thornton, Pure Evil, Rich Fairhead, Zeke Clough, Zoe Dorelli, Craig Robson, Megamunden, Sarah King, Sergei Sviatchenko and Andres Guerrero.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The Super Book for Super Heroes is a compendium of ideas, drawing, colouring and activities that allows you to create your own crusaders for justice who do battle with super villains, unravelling their crazed schemes for taking over the world. You will learn to draw villains such as the Mad Scientist, Bog Creature and Evil Robot, while also creating superheroes, their sidekicks, secret hideouts,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Drawing has always been a fundamental skill and good drawing skills allowed artists to grasp the reality around them. At the turn of the millennium, however, the general impression was that with the wide availability of computers, scanners, digital cameras and image software, drawing would dwindle into a marginal activity. In fact, the opposite happened: the enthusiasm for digital imagery died…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Digital Textile Design, Second Edition covers everything students and practitioners of textile design will need to learn about designing and printing digitally. Written specifically for textile designers, Digital Textile Design, Second Edition provides the know-how for students and professionals who wish to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator as design tools. A series of inspirational tutorials,…