Starting in the North of India, this compact guide to the Indian style takes the reader on a tour down through to the south of the country, exploring a range of Indian architecture and interior design.

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Grand Batik Interiors unravels the historical trajectory of batik. It records batik's transformation from its traditional context into the world of modernity. It examines the way this cloth with its deeply embedded, multi-layered meanings has been re-created to become relevant to a modern lifestyle, including its use in the garment/fashion, and interior design industries. The book's mastermind, Joop Ave, was the first person

Wydawnictwo: BAB PUBLISHING

This book highlights new ways of thinking about sustainable design. It is a collection of outstanding and innovative product, graphic, fashion, and environmental designs. The thoughts of the world’s leading designers— Ezio Manzini (Italy), Ed Van Hinte (the Netherlands), Droog members Richard Hutten (the Netherlands) and Bless (France), Tom Dixon (UK), Jan Dranger (Sweden) and Edwin Datschefski (UK)—provide grounding in the materials, methods, and processes behind outstanding p

Wydawnictwo: Rockport

Napisana przez trzech uznanych historyków publikacja jest pierwszą krytyczną oceną europejskiego designu od co najmniej dwóch dekad. Rozpoczyna ją omówienie złożonych sił - społecznych, politycznych, ekonomicznych i kulturalnych - które przyczyniły się do ukształtowania europejskiego designu. Następnie przedstawione zostały najważniejsze konceptualne i estetyczne ruchy powstałe po 1985 r

Wydawnictwo: MERRELL

Successful sales result from effective successful self-promotion and the "Big Book of Self Promotion" is an extraordinary resource featuring work from top designers around the globe. It offers hundreds of ideas, pages of inspiration, and loads of advice for professional graphic designers and students alike. This book provides ideas on corporate and product literature, annual reports and direct marketing, and new media, providing a wellspring of ideas for designers creating client brochures. It

Wydawnictwo: HARPER DESIGN

Do you remember the groovy days back in the 1960s? Excitement, freedom and revolution - the call for change was born in the sixties! Men's hair grew long, women's skirts became short and people dreamed of love, peace and happiness. Everything seemed to be possible: a just society for all races and both genders - even man taking a walk on the moon. Fascinating novelties in fashion, music and design were the breeding ground for all the tr

Wydawnictwo: TECTUM

Do you remember the good old days back in the 1950s? The petticoats and polyester slacks, the massive Cadillacs and tiny Fiats, the hula hoops, Tupperware and Coca-cola? Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley; Playboy magazine and Transistor Radios; Chanel No. 5 and Christian Dior. Prepare yourself for an amazing journey into the past. This book presents household products, innovations in fashion, style, art, science and technology which influe

Wydawnictwo: TECTUM

Now in its thirteenth edition, the Andrew Martin International Interior Design Review has become renowned as the reference book for designers. Andrew Martin is one of the world's best known furnishing brands, with sales in over 50 countries. "The Andrew Martin International Interior Designer of the Year" attracts entries from all over the globe and is described by "The Times" as 'The Oscars for the Interior Design World'. This year's edition features 91 designers offering the reader even

Wydawnictwo: ANDREW MARTIN

"We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept." – Philippe StarckPhilippe Starck wants to bring love and happiness into your life by designing objects, environments, and appliances that will brighten your days. He spent his childhood under his father's drawing boards, sawing, cutting, gluing, and sanding, dismantling bikes, motorcycles and other objects. Sever

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We all know we're not supposed to judge books by their covers, but the truth is that we do just that nearly every time we walk into a bookstore or pull a book off a tightly packed shelf. It's really not something we should be ashamed about, for it reinforces something we sincerely believe: design matters. At its best, book cover design is an art that transcends the publisher's commercial imperatives to r

Wydawnictwo: PRINCETON AP

Exploring Materials invites you to get inspired by physical forms and substances. Materials are like words. The richer your design vocabulary, the more design solutions you can see and express. Foam, mesh, wood, plastic, and wire each have behaviors and properties that suggest different types of structure, surface, and connection. Each has its place, consequences, and cost. Understanding materials is essent

Wydawnictwo: PRINCETON AP

The metabolism of travel changed more in the last century than in the previous half-millennium, a stunning transformation triggered by American wanderlust. In less than 100 years

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Sustainability is not a passing fashion, and people are constantly searching for more information, products and innovations in this area. Designers, in turn, are responding with elegant, efficient, low-impact products that look towards a sustainable future. This book brings together over 180 such innovative and award-winning projects from over 20 countries, launched by leading design offices and companies worldwide, including IDEO, IBM, and New Deal Design. Featuring reusable products from water

Wydawnictwo: taschen

The Fundamentals of Design Management is a comprehensive guide to managing the people, projects, processes and procedures behind the design of everyday products, services, environments and experiences.The book explicitly places the principles and processes of design within the context of a business or enterprise, explaining how design management can relate to the cultural, environmen

Wydawnictwo: AVA

ABCing: Seeing the Alphabet Differently is a primer to seeing and understanding the visual world. From abstract to zeitgeist, the book uses the Latin alphabet to introduce ways of visualizing, thinking and talking about art and design. Each illustration is created using only the negative shapes of a given letter. It is not the actual letterforms from which these new perspectives take shape, but the spaces around them. The shapes are rotated and resized; they are not duplicated, mirrored or other

Wydawnictwo: MARK BATTY PBL.

With health-consciousness on the rise, fitness is a factor that plays an increasingly important role. In consequence, the demand for up-to-date and sophisticated fitness facilities is growing. Around the world, studios with widely contrasting concepts compete for sports-minded clients. The best gyms provide their customers with modern exercise equipment as well as relaxation and wellness areas, whi

Wydawnictwo: BRAUN

Advertising has changed. In today's world of multimedia and digital technology, the industry must find ways to build new relationships between brands and their audience, to make each product relevant as well as desirable. No longer is a simple television advertisement enough; brands need to communicate with their audience through all different kinds of media.    This is Advertising ad

Wydawnictwo: LAURENCE KING

A comprehensive round-up of the best in contemporary design. Featuring a huge range of striking new products, chapters include: Tables and chairs; Sofas and beds; Storage; Kitchens and bathrooms; Tableware; Textiles; Lighting; Electronics and more.    Works by the finest international talents, such as Konstantin Grcic, Tokujin Yoshioka, Ron Arad, Patricia Urquiola and Pearson Lloyd, a

Wydawnictwo: LAURENCE KING

Exhibition Design offers a thorough grounding in the principles of designing for exhibitions. It describes the skills needed to become an exhibition designer, including: • developing a brief and working with clients• design principles for graphics, circulation, lighting and accessibility • presenting ideas to clients • the practicalities of production     Visual mat

Wydawnictwo: LAURENCE KING