Puerto Rico is best known for pina coladas and Salsa music but it is also home to beautiful examples of Spanish Colonial and modern Caribbean architecture. In recent years, the tile industry in Puerto Rico has seen a revival of traditional designs and a new wave of tile design. This book contains stunning examples of tile designs from Puerto Rico. The enclosed CD contains the images for use as a graphic resource or for inspiration. The files can be used for high-quality printed media, web page d

Wydawnictwo: Pepin Press

This lavishly illustrated volume presents highlights from the Victoria and Albert Museum’s extensive collection of Japanese textiles and dress, which is one of the finest in the West. Ranging from highly decorative, embroidered kimono and woven actors’ robes to the indigo-dyed textiles of rural Japan

Wydawnictwo: V & A

Austin Kleon is a cartoonist and poet from Austin, Texas, who takes a page from an existing newspaper and blacks out words until he finds a new hidden meaning in the text. Hilarious and profound, silly and contemplative, the poems in this collection will provide readers with a sense of satisfaction and much-needed comic relief during these tough times.

Wydawnictwo: HARPER

The packaging industry is more competitive every day so creating a new package that is innovative, adds value, and makes a connection with the consumer is a challenge often met with limited success. Dynamic and unusual package designs can really make a statement in overcrowded markets. What makes a package successful? How do designers find the inspiration and execute the designs that really work? This compendium of package design answers

Wydawnictwo: Rockport

By focusing on a single city, London, where every shop conveys the vibrancy and sophisticated design values that characterize this great metropolis, this book showcases ninety-seven examples of shop identity in London, and reveals the intimate connection between the city’s history and the design on its streets, and how that history has influenced international design trends. The examples here are organized by industry and feature three design categories: classic, modern, and exotic. "Clas

Wydawnictwo: PIE BOOKS

Now that computer games have come to stay, tin toyshave become obsolete for today's children. For those of us who remember themfrom times past, these tin toys can transport us back to our childhoods; theycall up a vision of a time we thought we had already forgotten. They also bearwitness to history; they have survived wars and crises, and tell us somethingof the fashions, colors and tendencies of their times.

Wydawnictwo: taschen

'Logos series' has documented and indicated design styles and trends in contemporary logo design worldwide. The Los Logos series provides an overview of current developments and advances in logo design. Showcasing a collection of contemporary logo design by bourgeoning design talent Los Logos

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Expanding on "Los Logos" and "Dos Logos," this volume demonstrates how influences from illustration and street art have become increasingly evident in logo design. Full color.

Wydawnictwo: GESTALTEN VERL.

kimonos have been the ubiquitous garment for Japanese men and women formany centuries. Throughout history, Japan’s very best designers havedevoted themselves to kimono design. Kimono Patterns offers a wide selection of the very best examples of kimono patterns, in various techniques and from various eras.

Wydawnictwo: Pepin Press

INDEPENDENT DESIGN GUIDE Innovative Products from the New Generation An explosively growing collector’s market in design has fuelled the interest in young, emerging designers whose work has become as highly sought after as that of established names. Around the world more and more galleries are opening to meet this new demand.

Wydawnictwo: Thames & Hudson

Covering a vast range of cutting-edge graphics, with politically charged anti-commercial work placed in the same context as Nike's latest ads, this book presents highlights of today's most progressive graphic currents - from signage and packaging to branding and web-design.

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Geometric Patterns is a completely revised edition of one ofAgile Rabbit’s best-selling volumes. All designs have been re-tracedand perfected, and a vast number of exciting designs have been added.

Wydawnictwo: Pepin Press

Packed with imaginative ideas for making your own cards, pictureframes, gifts, invitations, envelopes, etc. All the design ideas in thebook are included on the CD in multiple formats: larger versions forprofessionals with access to high-end equipment and smaller ones forhome use with standard paper sizes (A4 or Letter). In addition to thecutting and folding templates, the CD contains some 50 decorativepatterns and ornaments to embellish your work further. Step-by-stepinstructions make it simple

Wydawnictwo: Pepin Press

Things, objects, stuff, trinkets, tools, materials, gadgets, the things we use, abuse, throw away, cherish, depend on: these are the things we own, simple objects for our everyday lives. They may or may not hold special meaning to us, but their importance, as objects of cultural identity, is unmistakable.

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Release: September 2009  Format: 24 x 19 cmFeatures: 304 pages, full colour, softcover

Wydawnictwo: GESTALTEN VERL.

Walk into a bar or restaurant in Barcelona and chances are that you will encounter a beautiful tile pattern on the floor. In the late 19th century, mass reproduction of intricately designed floor tiles became possible, and they became a common feature in the interiors of buildings in cities all around the Mediterranean. In Barcelona, the design of such tiles reached its peak in the age of ‘Modernismo’, the Spanish variety of Art Nouveau, in the early 20th century. Barcelona Tile Desi

Wydawnictwo: Pepin Press

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

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

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

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