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In this collection of essays about visual culture, Rick Poynor directs a critical eye at brands, billboards, magazine, architecture, tattoos and trends in cosmetic surgery. A key target is the pervasiveness of sexual imagery in the market place and the media's symbiotic relationship with porn.
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Graphic design is, now more than ever, a broad ranging discipline with rigorous demands for its practitioners. It requires a capacity and inclination for invention & rationality as well as an intuitive knack for human communication and cognition. Prague has often historically been at the center of innovative movements - including Art Nouveau, Constructivism & Functionalism - and it has certainly left its mark on all of the applied arts. The new Prague School is no exception, creating work that is fresh, inspired and communicative. Posters are graphically and socially vivid, and graphics for pamphlets, brochures and products are clean and outstanding. Work! is a refreshing compendium of the best student work in the vital genre of graphic design that highlights the individual achievements which reflect the sound tradition of the Czech style and its influence.
A collecton of brief biographies of individuals from the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
Since its initial appearance in 1961, Theorie und Praxis des Goldschmieds has become a standard for training goldsmiths and professional workshop practice, and is here translated from the 1994 edition. It discusses materials, basic techniques and tools, and such specific techniques as joining and pl