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Ultimate London Design
London has a well-deserved reputation as a premier European design and style center. This volume covers up-to-the minute London design from the worlds of architecture, interiors and fashion. This truly is a comprehensive survey with coverage of cultural, commercial and residential spaces. In addition, there's an analysis of product design and other specialized areas. With a multitude of works from both Londoners by birth and those who've made their home there, this tome helps you stay in sync with all that's happening in the British capital.
New Chairs
Offering 67 examples of intriguing chairs, this book features chairs by famous names, such as the Campana brothers, Tom Dixon and Marcel Wanders, as well as by lesser-known designers. In addition to large-format images of the completed designs, it includes drawings, prototypes, and photographs of manufacturing processes.
Visual Communication
Visual Communication: From Theory to Practice explores how cultural theory can be applied to the real-world practice of graphic design. Theories are presented and then discussed by designers such as Neville Brody, Michael Bierut, Erik Spiekermann and Joan Farrer. Issues such as mass culture, political design and semiotics are all debated, making this a unique companion to theory and culture modules on any undergraduate degree course in graphic design. Visual Communication helps students to develop sound critical judgment and informed strategies for the conception of new ideas that accurately reflect the current zeitgeist.
Jam #2
Includes interviews with various artists.710:2 : Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery.
Design Meets Disability
How design for disabled people and mainstream design could inspire, provoke, and radically change each other. Eyeglasses have been transformed from medical necessity to fashion accessory. This revolution has come about through embracing the design culture of the fashion industry. Why shouldn't design sensibilities also be applied to hearing aids, prosthetic limbs, and communication aids? In return, disability can provoke radical new directions in mainstream design. Charles and Ray Eames's iconic furniture was inspired by a molded plywood leg splint that they designed for injured and disabled servicemen. Designers today could be similarly inspired by disability. In Design Meets Disability, Gr...
HOW TO CREATE A GOD.
In order to become the battle shrine maiden to defeat the raging god Yusemi, the living god Koharu has been raised in Isshinden Temple. She was promised that she may leave the temple once she became a fully-fledged god. However, she runs away, wanting to see boys. She encounters Yajuro, a serious boy who practices kendo, and his cousin Haruchika. Along with Yatsutose, who came to search for Koharu, they fight Yusemi. Koharu finds out who her enemies are, as well as the secret of her birth. She eventually finds out who she really needs to destroy, the true enemies.
Skin
A companion to an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution from May to September 2002 illustrates designs relating to coverings that resemble, in some way or another human skin. Organics, artificial and digital skin, vessels and membranes, padding and protection, and warps and folds are among the dimensions explored. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Convertible Houses
"Convertible Houses" showcases examples of "convertible" design-homes thatre designed to accommodate multiple functions. In the first section of theook, case studies illustrate the principles of flexible, multipurpose livinghat enable the occupants to enjoy more functionality in a finite amount ofpace. To further illustrate how convertible features add more versatility toiving space, a second section details the most successful strategiesmployed by architects, designers, and homeowners, with chapters devoted topecific devices in action, such as sliding walls, removable partitions, andnveloping curtains. Finally, for those who don't have the budget to makeechnical improvements, a closing chapter will offer architects' and interioresigners' tips on making aesthetic improvements with simple materials (likeolour and lighting) and furniture.
Japanese Design
The Museum of Modern Art and 5 Continents Editions recently launched this series of books dedicated to industrial and graphic design. Each volume offers an overview of a single country's design achievements and illustrates its particular design history and aesthetic by showcasing renowned architects and designers through exemplary works drawn from The Museum of Modern Art's unmatched collection. This season, they take on Japan. Japanese designers' special ability to combine aesthetic tradition with contemporary visual culture and material innovation has created a distinctive and exceptionally successful design industry in Japan, which has produced such divergent icons of Modern design as Sor...
