This book frames typography as a system of interrelatedconcerns as much as it summarizes the traditional craft that is theusual content of books on typography. Rather than reiterate analready documented set of rules that yield formulaicappropriateness, it describes the constantly shifting terrain oftypography and provides ways of thinking about typographicrelationships that adapt to content, contexts, and audiences.
Anne Leurquin, art historian, graduated from the UniversitéLibre in Brussels, and is now a professor of art history andethnology. Her various publications and contributions toexhibitions chiefly concern Africa.
The first book of photography that portrays Angola as it exists today. For a place that few can pin-point on a map or in their minds, Angola is quickly emerging as the most important economic leader in Africa. After almost three decades of civil war, the Angola of today is an anomaly the country is not only aggressively rebuilding, but economically blooming in the midst of a global financial crisis. Having become the number one producer of oil and the third in the diamond sector in all of the Sub-Sahara, Angola is the first African country that China has invested in heavily. As a result, in 2008 alone the economy rose 27.5%.
Textiles explores the cultural meaning and exquisiteworkmanship found in the Museum of International Folk Art's vastcollection that spans centuries and includes pieces from seventycountries around the world. Handcrafted work in beautiful, vividcolors typifies the clothing, hats, robes, bedding, and shoes thatrepresent the lives and passions of the people who created and usedthem.
Pech shares her techniques for capturing the beauty of flowersin watercolour. The guide contains demonstrations for paintingirises, magnolias, roses, peonies, apple blossoms and tulips on tovarying materials including china and lacework. Includes tips onhow to find inspiration, develop a composition, create a theme andpaint backgrounds.
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David Smick keeps a low profile, but experts consider him oneof the most insightful financial market strategists in the world.For more than two decades, he has conferred with central bankersand advised top Wall Street executives and investors. The World Is Curved picks up where Thomas Friedman’s The World IsFlat left off, taking listeners on an insider’s tour through theprivate offices of central bankers, finance ministers, even primeministers. Smick reveals how today’s risky environment came tobe—and why the mortgage mess is a symptom of potentially far moredevastating trouble. He wrestles with the two questions oneveryone’s mind: How bad could things really get in today’svolatile economy? And what can we do about it? The World Is Curved is the rare work that speaks simultaneouslyto the Wall Street, Washington, and London elite, yet its aptstorytelling shows Main Street readers how to survive in theseturbulent times. “The World Is Curved is...essential...for those who w
Jean Despres (1889-1980) was an Art Deco designer who capturedthe streamlined, modern aesthetic of the age of the machine andtransformed it into objects of great beauty. As a young man,Despres became acquainted with avant-garde artists in Paris,including Modigliani, de Chirico, and Braque, and, after theoutbreak of war in 1914, he worked on the industrial design ofairplanes. He later transferred this experience and inspiration tohis family's jewelry business, where he became known for hisinnovative geometric patterns. He also created a wide range oftableware and decorative objects in gold, silver, and pewter, whosebold, industrial looks were uncompromisingly modern, yet alwaysgraceful and refined. Many drawings and designs are reproduced herefor the first time, and original photographs are complemented by anumber of new photographs taken especially for the book. Despreshas always been the jeweler of choice for informed collectors andinsiders: Josephine Baker was an early admirer, and Andy Warhol'spersonal co
The moral of this book is that behind every great engineeringsuccess is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular)engineering failures. Petroski covers many of the best knownexamples of well-intentioned but ultimately failed design in action-- the galloping Tacoma Narrows Bridge (which you've probably seentossing cars willy-nilly in the famous black-and-white footage),the collapse of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel walkways -- andmany lesser known but equally informative examples. The line ofreasoning Petroski develops in this book were later formalized intohis quasi-Darwinian model of technological evolution in TheEvolution of Useful Things , but this book is arguably the moreilluminating -- and defintely the more enjoyable -- of these twotitles. Highly recommended.
Unlike other packaging titles, which simply providetemplates to copy, this book enables designers of all packagingtypes to create 3-D packaging forms that are specific to theirneeds rather than based on an existing design. It teaches a simplenet construction system a one-piece 2-D configuration of card seenwhen a 3-D package is opened out and flattened which enables thedesigner to create a huge number of very strong 3-D packaging formsthat are both practical and imaginative. Each chapter concludeswith photographs and net drawings of 610 creative examples ofpackaging designs made using the principles outlined in thepreceding chapter. "Structural Packaging" gives the reader anunderstanding of the underlying principles of packagingconstruction and the technical knowledge and confidence to developa greater number of their own unusual and innovative designs thanany comparable book.
This lavishly illustrated book chronicles the remarkablehistory of anatomical illustration from the Renaissance to thedigital Visible Human project of today. Its survey of five and ahalf centuries of meticulous visual de*ion by anatomists andartists will be a welcome addition to the libraries of artists, artstudents, doctors and anyone interested in the history ofscience.
What do you getwhen you cross a snail with the Indianapolis 500? If you’reDreamWorks, then the result is Turbo, an uplifting—andgear-shifting—story about the ultimate underdog, delivered with thedigital mastery, storytelling skill, and spellbinding imagery we’vecome to expect from the studio behind the Shrek and Madagascar.
If the opera world is full of " intrigue, double meanings, anddevious dramatics, " then no place exemplifies this more than theworld-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, andoversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along withsome of the world' s richest music. Drawing on her fifteen years asits press representative, Johanna Fiedler explodes the traditionalsecrecy that surrounds the Met in this wonderfully entertainingaccount of its tumuluous history. Fiedler chronicles the Met' searly days as a home for legends like Toscanini, Mahler, andCaruso, and gives a fascinating account of the middle years whenhaughty blue-bloods battled stubborn adminstrators for control of acompany that would emerge as America' s premiere opera house. Shetakes us behind the grand gold-curtain stage in more recent yearsas well, showing how musical superstars like Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, and Kathleen Battle have electrified performances andscandalized the public. But most revelatory are Fiedler'
Music defines us. To return the favor, we’ll stick up withzealous passion for the performers and bands that we love . . . andheap aspersions and ridicule upon people who dare to place theirallegiances above our own. In Rock and Roll Cage Match, today’sleading cultural critics, humorists, music journalists, andmusicians themselves take sides in thirty of the all-time juiciest“who’s better” musical disputes. Marc Spitz on the Smiths vs. the Cure: “If the Smiths are its JamesDean, the Cure are the Marlon Brando of modern rock.” Gideon Yago on Nirvana vs. Metallica: “Here is why Nirvana willalways be a better band than Metallica. It’s not because they hitharder (they do). It’s not because they are tighter (they’redefinitely not). . . . It’s because Metallica is fundamentallyabout respecting rules—of metal, of production, of technicality—andNirvana is about breaking those rules down in the pursuit ofinnovation. Metallica was metal. Nirvana was something else.” Touré on Michael Ja
The heart of Painters Wild Workshop is the presentation oftwelve gifted artists who take an unusual approach to their art.Readers are invited to workshop demonstrations, lecture sessions,and private lessons that encourage creative experimentation.Whether you are an accomplished artist, an aspiring artist, or anundiscovered artist, you will profit from the wealth of diverseexperiences, materials, and inspirations offered through thesewonderfully wild and creative methods. This is a book for painters,artists, and creative people of all types; its goal is to helpworking painters open up creativity, eliminate self-consciousness,and encourage true artistryeither in their current, chosen medium,or a completely new art medium.
Contains the story of Cartier using a number ofillustrations.
Click on the Google Preview image above to read some pages ofthis book! A home filled with books can be a place of inspiration in moreways than one. Bookcases, bookshelves, entire rooms: far from beingsimple storage spaces, home libraries reveal the personalities andlifestyles of their owners. They are always very personal andunpredictable, whether they have been specially created in aseparate room or fitted into nooks and crannies all over thehouse. Artists, interior decorators, graphic designers, fashiondesigners, writers, collectors, journalists, and business people:all have different ways of engaging with books as a designchallenge. Here we see how they have built the libraries of theirdreams, and we explore the many ways of striking a balance betweenstyle and practicality, modern trends and classic styling, strictorganization and carefree clutter. The illustrations show how the right combination of shelving,lighting, and accessories can be brought together with a dash ofimaginati
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 Palasse-Labrunie—goddaughter to both Chanel and the Duke of Westminster and Chanel’s only direct descendant—enjoyed a close-knit relationship with the designer for more than forty years. In this biography, she opens her doors and shares personal memories of her great-aunt. ...
