Identity 2.0 looks at current and future issues that influence businesses, institutions, and service-oriented organizations. The book connects identity as the driving force behind everything from innovation and change processes to social and economic topics--all illustrated with case-studies and opinions of creative and business companies.
World War I was the first war in which the pictorial full color poster played a major propaganda role. The era’s greatest illustrators and fine artists contributed their energies to produce hundreds of great and classic posters. A surprising number of these posters have survived and many are still found in attics and barns today. This book illustrates over 450 World War I posters that were produced in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Many great classics are featured, but numerous less dram...
This magnificent new book explores the history of the perfume bottle, from dusty fragments found in Mesopotamian ruins, through the Middle Ages and the Victorian era, to the most resplendent examples of modern glassmaking. It even includes a Lalique bottle not yet released to the public! Other major bottle designers and manufacturers are discussed-Stiegel, De Vilbliss, Baccarat, and Saint Gobain Desjonquere, to name a few-along with perfumers who were instrumental in the growth of the industry i...
2006
Der Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist die höchste offizielle Design-Auszeichnung des Landes und wird vom Rat für Formgebung im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Arbeit organisiert. Aus insgesamt 865 nominierten Produkten wählten die Juroren aus Industrie, Handel, Design und Medien 25 Produkte von besonders herausragender Gestaltungsqualität aus, für die fünf Preise in Gold und 20 in Silber vergeben wurden. Der Katalog stellt zum einen ausführlich die Preisträger sowi...
In devising a concept for the Abbildungen exhibition, Konstantin Grcic thought back to one of his earliest designs, an additional pedestal for a sculpture by Constantin Brancusi. This became the leitmotif of his staging of twenty-one selected objects. The exhibition is the underpinning for the conception of this publication, which turns its gaze on the media-framing of Grcic's design objects. First researched in early magazines, company prospectuses, flyers and other print media, the selected pi...
Facade-Shop
In 1995, the D&AD published a book on the art of writing for advertising. The then best-selling book remains an important reference work today-a bible for creative directors. D&AD and TASCHEN have joined forces to bring you an updated and redesigned edition of the publication. Regarded as the most challenging field in advertising, copywriting is usually left to the most talented professionals-often agency leaders or owners themselves. The book features a work selection and essays by 53 leading p...
Scandtastic! (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Scandinavians are exceptionally gifted in design. They are world-famous for their inimitable, democratic designs which bridge the gap between crafts and industrial production. The marriage of beautiful, organic forms with everyday functionality is one of the primary strengths of Scandinavian design and one of the reasons why Scandinavian creations are so cherished and sought after. This guide provides a detailed look at Scandinavian desig...
To advance the subject of design one has to engage in the activity of designing. Sustainable by Design offers a compelling and innovative, design-centred approach that explores both the meaning and practice of sustainable design. Walker explores the design process in the context of sustainability, and challenges conventional ways of defining, designing and producing functional objects. He discusses the personal design process, tacit knowledge, ephemeral design, experimental design, and the relat...
This book is a magnificent and useful collection of world-style patterns. The carefully selected images are organised in 10 categories making this book a wonderful resource for crafters, artists and professional designers. The CD-Rom provides 250 patterns in both high definition JPEG format and PSD with a layer so you can freely create your own patterns by colouring and modifying the PSD files. This is highly inspirational and practical design tool for anyone.
Finds a correspondence between the evolution of stylistic forms in Early Christian art and the social, religious, and historical developments of the period.
20 removable posters by trend-setting artists, and fitting into the standard 11 x 14 inch frame. The 20 works featured on the posters are 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.
"Twenty-first Century Design" is a fascinating survey of the contemporary design landscape, guiding the reader through the intoxicating array of contemporary movements, styles and trends, and identifying today's leading designers, as well as future design classics. This pioneering publication places the contemporary scene in a historic framework and explores cultural and economic forces shaping design now and in the years to come. Accessible and engaging, it charts the incredible explosion of de...
A Brush with the Real (An Elephant Book)
by Margherita Dessanay and Mark Valli
Why painting today? In the digital age, with its powers of instant recall and infinite reproduction, why are we witnessing an unprecedented revival of figurative painting? A Brush with the Real presents a survey of key contemporary artists who have each embraced painting and are working within a realist tradition. Through individual interviews the book peers into the life and work of each of these artists, discussing their methods, motives and sources, from art history to the internet and the...
Three facsimile editions of Francoise Gilot's travel sketchbooks, made between 1974 and 1981, combine the distinct atmospheres of Venice, India, and Senegal with Gilot's abstract figuration. Packaged in a fold-out box set, the sketchbooks are accompanied by an illustrated booklet which gathers an insightful introduction, a conversation with the artist on her work and travels, and translations of the handwritten text within the drawings. Limited and numbered edition of 5,000 copies. Also availabl...
The rip-roaring twenties Prohibition made liquor illegal but all the more fun to drink. Speak easies, luxury cars, women's liberation, and a booming economy kept the country's mood on the up-and-up. Women sheared off their locks and taped their chests, sporting pageboys and flapper dresses and doing the Charleston until their legs gave out. Gangsters flourished in the big cities and gangster movies flourished in Hollywood. It was the roaring twenties in America: a singular time in history, a lul...
NERD - New Experimental Research in Design 2 (Board of International Research in Design)
Design is inextricably interwoven with all aspects of life and has even produced its own astonishing genre of research. Design research opens up new perspectives of interdisciplinary empiricism, joining with economics, sociology, technology, and philosophy to produce analyses and syntheses that get to the heart of daily life. The twelve contributions from international authors that comprise this book vividly make this case. They cover the relationship between subject and object, animation, all...