Graphic Art Design category: 1547 books
die welt als entwurf
schriften zum design
Language: German
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Otl Aicher (1922–1991) war einer der herausragenden Vertreter des modernen Designs, er war Mitbegründer der legendären Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm (HfG). Der heute geläufige Begriff der visuellen Kommunikation ist auf ihn zurückzuführen. Was er seit den 1950er Jahren geschaffen hat, erinnert...
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Le Centre national des arts plastiques soutient le développement du design graphique. A cette fin, chaque année, depuis 1994, chercheurs, sociologues, critiques et professionnels du graphisme partagent leur regard et leurs recherches sur les grandes thématiques qui animent la création graphique...
The Complete Book of Chalk Lettering
Create and Develop Your Own Style
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Ubiquitous at boutiques and cafés, on Etsy and Pinterest, in stationery and home decor, the art of chalk lettering is hotter than ever. Valerie McKeehan, an Etsy standout whose work has been featured in magazines and websites from Good Housekeeping to RealSimple.com, teaches us everything we need...
Cartoon Character Animation with Maya
Mastering the Art of Exaggerated Animation
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Have you ever wanted to try your hand at cartoony computer animation? Then look no further… Cartoon Character Animation with Maya will help you create just that, guiding you through every step of the process including how to incorporate multiple limbs, smears, motion lines and staggers seamlessly...
by Michael Siebenbrodt, Lutz Schöbe
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The Bauhaus movement (meaning the “house of building”) developed in three German cities - it began in Weimar between 1919 and 1925, then continued in Dessau, from 1925 to 1932, and finally ended in 1932-1933 in Berlin. Three leaders presided over the growth of the movement: Walter Gropius, from...
Lessons from Madame Chic
20 Stylish Secrets I Learned While Living in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Inspired by Paris, this lighthearted and deceptively wise contemporary memoir serves as a guidebook for women on the path to adulthood, sophistication, and style. Jennifer Scott’s self-published success is now a beautifully packaged and fully illustrated gift book, perfect for any woman looking...
The Strategic Web Designer
How to Confidently Navigate the Web Design Process
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Expand your strategic capabilities and technological understanding!
Your clients are looking for an expert--someone who understands rapidly changing technology and can provide strategic insight into their web projects from inception and development to launch and beyond. Are you that person?
Today,...
Critical Fashion Practice
From Westwood to Van Beirendonck
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
There is a new form of design practice within the contemporary fashion industry which is active in complex forms of social commentary and critique. While fashion in the modernist era has shown signs of criticism and subversion, these were either in the form of subcultures or perversions, such as punk...
The Improbable Return of Coco Chanel
As Witnessed by Her Assistant, Richard Parker
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
An inexperienced young army veteran starting his career, that was me, and an aging fashion icon, that was Coco Chanel. An unlikely combination, but fortunately we worked well together. It all began in 1953, when at age seventy she was asked to leave retirement in Switzerland to become the creative director...
by Joe Fig
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Inside an art gallery, it is easy to forget that the paintings there are the end products of a process involving not only creative inspiration, but also plenty of physical and logistical details. It is these "cruder," more mundane aspects of a painter's daily routine that motivated Brooklyn...
Changing Fashion
A Critical Introduction to Trend Analysis and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. Changing Fashion presents for the first time a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change, bringing together theory from fashion studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and art history,...
Extravagances
Habits of Being 4
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This final volume in the four-volume series Habits of Being shows how the dialectic between everyday appearance and outrageous acts is mediated through clothing and accessories. It considers how clothing and accessories can move quickly from the ordinary to the extravagant. Employing many different approaches,...
by Shôjirô Nomura, Tsutomu Ema
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Japan's ancient and esteemed tradition of textile arts has long been reflected in the delicate beauty of the kimono and its appealing designs. This unique design treasury, consisting of lavish full-color pictures of a vibrant array of kimonos, is reproduced directly from two rare and costly original...
by Noor Unnahar
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Noor Unnahar is a young female voice with power and depth. The Pakistani poet's moving, personal work collects and makes sense of the phases of collapsing and rebuilding one's self on the treacherous modern path from teenager to adult. Tinged with the heartbreak of a broken home and the complexity...