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Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This book is the most comprehensive showcase of three-dimensional letterforms ever written, featuring over 1,300 images of more than 300 projects by more than 160 emerging talents and established individuals and studios including Sagmeister Inc, Vaughan Oliver, Milton Glaser, Alvin Lustig, Louis Danziger, Roger Excoffon, Paul Elliman, Marian Bantjes, Geoff Kaplan, Clotilde Olyff, Italo Lupi,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The practice of handmade craft has undergone a huge resurgence in recent times. This book captures the new mood a return to the unique and the artisanal.The first part of the book profiles over seventy international artisans who represent an astonishing array of crafts. The profiles include information on what inspires each artisan and how they create their products, often in innovative or…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Naked Architecture Valerio Paolo Mosco: An account of one of the most interesting phenomena of contemporary architecture: the return to the structure and methods with which contemporary constructions are realized. Over the last ten years architecture would seem to have rediscovered engineering. Now that the Postmodern period, in which the structure of buildings was camouflaged by coverings of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «The most personal account of the life and work of legendary designer Coco Chanel ever told. Coco Chanel's life and work have been recounted often in print and film-everything except the details of her most private self: her fondness for symbolism and poetry, the men she loved, her family, and in particular her nephew Andre Palasse, whom she raised like a son. His daughter Gabrielle…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: This example-packed overview of contemporary Japanese illustration showcases the works of 100 of Japan's most successful and exciting artists and designers. The images embrace a huge range of styles, from traditional to futuristic, from classic ukiyo-e prints to the worlds of manga and anime. Some look towards urban street culture or build their own surreal dreamscapes, while others revisit a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Fashion guru Catherine Schwaab packs the history of style, fashion, and its key designers into a practical and engaging guide. In Talk About Fashion, Catherine Schwaab uses her lengthy experience as a fashion journalist to break the subject down into lively and concise sections. This book offers a chronology of the major trends of the twentieth century, introduces thirty designers and their…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 456) Аннотация: World English, except France, Belgium, Switzerland and Austria For over thirty years, The New York Times Magazine has presented the myriad possibilities and applications of photography. Aperture is pleased to present the upcoming publication and exhibition. The New York Times Magazine Photographs, which reflects upon and interrogates the very nature of both photography and print magazines at this…

Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: The graphic art of Maurits Cornelis Escher is like that of no other artist. Instantly recognizable to millions around the world, his works represent an endlessly fascinating marriage of art and mathematics. Exploring themes of infinity and paradox, impossible geometry and warped perspective, Escher's world is one of playful imagination and the unexpected, executed with precision and exquisite…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The Fashion Design Directory is the ultimate guide to who's who in the world of fashion design, presenting an enticing panorama of 150 of the key players from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day — the people and companies who have shaped the world of fashion as we know it and defined the modern perception of style. Featuring both established design masters, such as Valentino, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Fashion Drawing is a comprehensive, practical guide to fashion drawing for students. The author covers men, women and children, starting with how to draw the fashion figure and continuing with garments and garment details, before teaching the reader how to render various types of fabric. Contemporary in its approach and offering step-by-step guidance, the book emphasizes drawing as an integral…

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Beckett is the result of a little-known encounter that took place over 30 years ago in Tangiers, between the then-burgeoning photographer Francois-Marie Banier and the great Irish-born writer Samuel Beckett. Banier kept spotting Beckett's iconically gaunt and tapering frame — a marsh-bird vanished in the middle of the crowd of Moroccans in djellabahs and indifferent tourists — and was so…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This book is a revised and enlarged version of the original maquette for Josef Koudelkas book Cikani (Czech for Gypsies), prepared by Koudelka and graphic designer Milan Kopriva in 1968, and intended for publication in Prague in 1970. However, Koudelka left Czechoslovakia in 1970, and the book was never published in that original form. Koudelkas stark images depict the poverty and clannishness of…

Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Peripatetic Chanel head designer, book publisher, photographer — and now, film director — Karl Lagerfeld founded Metiers d'Arts in 2002 to showcase the talents of Chanel's seven specialist ateliers (that provide the couture house with costume jewelry, embroidery and millinery). This volume focuses on Chanel's 2008-2009 Metiers d'Arts collection Paris-Moscow. If Paris-Moscow indulges Lagerfeld's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Whether they are of Abu Dhabi, California, Egypt or Emilia, all of the images he produces are lit with a constant physical light and sentiment; elements that this photographer seems to always have with him the way he does with his camera bag, and through which all he wants to do is observe the world. I find such an aesthetic to be more that of a painter than a photographer somehow. Better yet,…

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Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: David Bailey flew to Afghanistan earlier this year to take photographs for auction to raise money for Help for Heroes, a charity that aims to help wounded servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan. The result is his latest book of photographs, a fitting celebration of Britains fighting heroes, showing life inside both inside Camp Bastion and also outside the perimeter, where real danger is…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The design of coffee shops is increasingly on the move. Where cafes have traditionally been viewed as places principally to enjoy a coffee, they have evolved to show a broad range of multifunctional purposes and amenities: They can, for instance, exist as cozy lunch-time meeting spots before abruptly transforming into vibrant late-night bars after sundown. Cafe! Best of Coffee Shop Design shows…

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Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: In this collaboration between a psychoanalyst and a costume curator, Adam Phillips re-describes dress in terms of anxiety, wish and desire. His definitions for words we associate with fashion and appearance are paired with installations by Judith Clark secreted amongst the Victoria & Alberts vast reserve collections at Blythe House in west London. In this deeply idiosyncratic book, says Phillips,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Is there a signature Rochon style? At first, it is difficult to tell because the designer always adapts his work to the environment in which it unfolds, bringing out the locations unique spirit. A great traveler, he blends international styles, borrowing from both modern and classical influences. Hailed as a visionary designer and master of grand luxe by the Financial Times How To Spend It,…