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The origins of a fairy tale or myth may get lost in the mists of time, but the central figures can endure for hundreds, even thousands, of years. Queens and princes, trolls and goblins, centaurs, selkies, and magical beings all evolve with every depiction and retelling.

This action-packed book showcases the unique interpretations of 50 specially commissioned artists. From concept sketches and thumbnails, to emotions, expressions, and outfits, they share their explorations alongside expert advice. To bring each character to life, further pages explore action and pose with a library of dynamic sketches and basic-shape overlays. The result is a revealing collection of each artist’s ideas and experiments as they reimagine classic characters from fairy tales and folklore.

• Part of the Character Design Collection series
• Inspirational sketches, thumbnails, expressions, outfits, and dynamic action poses
• Expert advice and creative insight from professionals across the character-design industry

50 classic characters reimagined. 50 innovative professional artists. 2,000+ drawings and sketches. Featured artists include Justin Gerard, Valentine “Valp” Pasche, Marcel Mosqi, Gretel Lusky, plus many mor

This issue’s cover was created by Feefal, who shows us how she created the image and talks to us about the scientific influences behind her art. Feefal's cover art is also included as a pull-out print.

Each issue of CDQ is packed with tutorials and tips from industry professionals. Marco Ferarris shows us how he brought three characters to life, Roger Pérez designs a family of eccentric billionaires, and Johanna Forster shows us the secrets of her sketchbooks.

With loads more tutorials, interviews, and gallery art, there’s something for everyone crammed into the pages of CDQ 31 – open the cover and find your next creative project!

BEHIND THE COVER ART by Feefal
SCARE, WASH, RINSE, REPEAT by Teo Skaffa
STORMS, SORCERY, AND SHRIMP! by Juan Diego León
MEET THE ARTIST Rex Crowle
DEVELOPMENT GALLERY ONE Laura Pauselli
MAKING A MECH by Haiyang Sun
FAMILY FORTUNES by Roger Pérez
DEVELOPMENT GALLERY TWO Marco Ferraris
MEET THE ARTIST David Ardinaryas Lojaya
HOW I STYLIZE by Yasoslava Apollonova
A WORLD IN YOUR POCKET by Dan Sprogis

Character Design Quarterly is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques to professional illustrators, artists, and character design enthusiasts worldwide. 

This issue’s cover was created by Feefal, who shows us how she created the image and talks to us about the scientific influences behind her art. Feefal's cover art is also included as a pull-out print.

Each issue of CDQ is packed with tutorials and tips from industry professionals. Marco Ferarris shows us how he brought three characters to life, Roger Pérez designs a family of eccentric billionaires, and Johanna Forster shows us the secrets of her sketchbooks.

We also have an interview with Rex Crowle, who has worked on such games as LittleBigPlanet and Return to Monkey Island. Discover this and much, much more inside.

Character Design Quarterly is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and techniques to aspiring artists, characterdesign enthusiasts, and professional illustrators around the world.

This issue’s glow-in-the-dark cover was created by Simone Grünewald, who shows us how her enchanting image was made, and talks about her recent work and inspirations. 

CDQ 32 includes an exclusive glow-in-the-dark pull-out print of the cover art!

We also speak to the organizers of the social-media sensation MerMay and feature art from their favourite winners and contributors over the years, and Carles Dalmau, the lead artist on the hit indie-game Cult of the Lamb creates a character from scratch and chats to us about his art journey so far.

With all this plus incredible character tutorials, invaluable advice on working with lighting, and a guide to creating a comic-book page, there’s certain to be something to inspire in CDQ 32.

Contents and contributors:

BEHIND THE COVER ART by  Simone Grünewald
MISSION POPO by Jennifer Wu
THE MAGIC OF MERMAY
DEVELOPMENT GALLERY ONE Grace Tran
LIGHTING THE WAY by Chelsea Blecha
MEET THE ARTIST Carles Dalmau
SEASON OF THE WITCH by Carles Dalmau
HOW I STYLIZE by Roma Gewska
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS by Kate Pellerin
SPINNING AROUND by Sheryl Yap
DEVELOPMENT GALLERY TWO Jose Ciceraro
COMIC CREATIONS by Marco Ferraris

This issue’s cover artist, Gretel Lusky, shows us how she created the dazzling colour illustration in an in-depth tutorial, and talks to us about her career and inspirations.

Each issue of CDQ is packed full of tutorials and tips from industry professionals. Meike Schneider reimagines a fairy-tale character, Tessa Nelissen shares tips for drawing cats, and veteran comic artist Derek Laufman chats to us about his life as an artist.

Character Design Quarterly issue 33 contains a pull-out print. 

BEHIND THE COVER ART by Gretel Lusky
A CAT FOR ALL SEASONS by Tessa Neilssen
DEVELOPMENT GALLERY ONE Valentina Graziuso
THE MARKET by Lulu Chen
WARRIOR PRINCESS by Athena Dela Victoria
MEET THE ARTIST Brian Weisz
FRENCH FANCY by Brian Weisz
DEVELOPMENT GALLERY TWO Agathe Molin
THE MIGHTY MOUSEKETEER by Sabrina Sentoso
MEET THE ARTIST Derek Laufman
HOW I STYLIZE by Dan Gartman
UP IN THE CLOUDS by Meike Schneider

Character Design Quarterly is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and techniques to aspiring artists, character-design enthusiasts, and professional illustrators around the world.

Delve into the world of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his Glasgow School of Art-trained contemporaries who forged a unique and distinct vision in both art and architecture at the end of the Victorian era.

The Glasgow Style is the name given to the work of a group of young designers and architects working in Glasgow from 1890–1914. At its centre were four young friends who had trained at Glasgow School of Art; two architects and two artists – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert MacNair, Margaret Macdonald and Frances Macdonald – who were simply known by their friends and contemporaries as ‘The Four’.

Their work was a personal vision in the new international style of the 1890s, Art Nouveau, and is perhaps best known for Mackintosh’s architecture and furniture. But at the root of this new style was a graphic language which all four shared.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art of The Four presents the most coherent story to date of this important group, concentrating on the entirety of their artistic imagery and output, far beyond the best known work of the 1890s, and charting the constantly changing relationships between the artists and their work.

About the Author:

Roger Billcliffe was formerly a lecturer at Glasgow University, Assistant Keeper of the University Art Collection, and subsequently Keeper of Fine Art at Glasgow Art Gallery, and then Director of The Fine Art Society. He now owns and runs the Roger Bilcliffe Gallery in Glasgow. He is the author of The Glasgow Boys, Visiting Charles Rennie Mackintosh, The Scottish Colourists and the definitive Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was one of the most intriguing and influential artists of his time. 

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Masterpieces of Art reveals a selection of some of his most important and popular works, from stained glass pieces and furniture through to architecture, at the same time giving an overview of his life and career. 

The introduction reveals his journey from early Symbolist watercolours and Japanese-influenced details to his influence on the Vienna Secession and crowning works of architecture such as the Glasgow School of Art. 

The informed text and beautiful images of key artworks give depth and fuller understanding to create a beautifully rich and enjoyable tribute to the father of the 'Glasgow Style'.

Renowned and beloved interior designer and tastemaker Charlotte Moss celebrates gracious hospitality — from assembling striking place settings and arranging the table to hosting a dinner party or simply serving an elegant afternoon tea.

Charlotte Moss inspires readers to imbue everyday life with elegance and romance. Moss focuses on events — as small as breakfast in bed or tea in the afternoon or as elaborate as a festive Christmas luncheon or large dinner party — and the artifacts of our lives (china, silver, linen) to create the backdrop for a life well-lived.

Moss celebrates the day-to-day by bringing her enthusiasm and impeccable style to every domestic activity. Setting the table becomes a joy when putting together stylish combinations of placemats, monogrammed linens, china, tableware, curios, and flowers. From tasteful meals for one to grand occasions for friends and family, Moss chronicles her own aptitude for hospitality. Style icons are conjured for their entertaining savvy: Pauline de Rothschild for her pioneering tabletop decoration, Marjorie Merriweather Post for her organizational precision, Lesley Blanch for her introduction of exotic delights to the table, and Elsie de Wolfe for her always-right recipes. Butlers’ pantries are explored. Linen closets are catalogued. Flowers are collected from the garden and artfully arranged for a memorable meal. Moss invites you into her world to discover how to make everyday an occasion.

About the Author:

Charlotte Moss is a designer, author, and philanthropist. She has designed numerous private residences in the United States and abroad, collections of carpets, furniture, fabrics, china, and enamelled jewellery. She has authored nine books, most recently Charlotte Moss: Garden Inspirations. Moss lectures internationally on the art of fine living and is consistently featured in the top lifestyle and design publications.

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Пролистать книгу Charlotte Moss Entertains: Celebrations and Everyday Occasions

Renowned interior designer and tastemaker Charlotte Moss celebrates flowers and offers endless inspiration in their use as glorious additions to decorating, entertaining, and everyday living.

Charlotte Moss encourages readers to bring the garden indoors -- with ideas for arranging flowers, selecting containers, and placing blossoms around the house. An inviting cluster of blooms on a guest room's bedside table, lavish floral displays for parties and holidays, single stems adding life to any corner of a room -- Moss has been photographing her flower arrangements for over a decade. This book is a celebration of her artistry and a testament to flowers as part of day-to-day life.

From Moss's grander displays in the city to her more informal and breezy creations at her home in the country, as well as in the refined interiors of her clients, the visual result is a chronicle of the myriad ways flowers provide inspiration -- indoors and out. Readers will be further motivated as Moss describes the contributions of past tastemakers: Gloria Vanderbilt for her ingenious use of floral patterns in her licensed products, Pauline de Rothschild for her fantastic tablescapes, Bunny Mellon for her profusive use of topiaries, Constance Spry for the use of inventive containers and for her groundbreaking artistry, and Lady Bird Johnson for her embrace of the simple, exquisite wildflower. With nature as her muse, Moss implores us to create the backdrop for a life well-lived, imbuing every day with flair, beauty, and elegance.

About the Author:

Charlotte Moss is a designer, author, and philanthropist. She has designed numerous private residences in the United States and abroad, in addition to collections of carpets, furniture, fabrics, china, and enamelled jewellery. She has authored ten books, most recently Rizzoli's Charlotte Moss Entertains (2018). Moss lectures internationally on the art of fine living and is consistently featured in the top lifestyle and design publications.

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Пролистать книгу Charlotte Moss Flowers

Celebrated interior designer and renowned tastemaker Charlotte Moss turns her eye to the garden as a resource for interiors, entertaining, and good living. Charlotte Moss’s greatest muse is the garden, and this book shows the myriad ways the garden provides inspiration every day — indoors and outdoors. Touring readers through her own gardens, Moss offers insights on how to bring the garden into home life — including ideas for elegant flower arrangements from the garden and the table settings and menus they inspire, garden seating for entertaining and relaxing, interior colour schemes drawn from nature, and much more. Moss also shares with readers key garden lessons that she has culled from her time spent exploring magnificent gardens around the world, including French and Italian, English and Russian, private and public, and also the gardens of great women, past and present. An extensive resource guide of notable gardens to visit is also included. With this verdant volume, Moss shows us — implores us — that "to behold our own patch of beauty and pleasure" (in Edith Wharton’s words) is not beyond our reach.

About the Author:

Charlotte Moss is a designer, author, and philanthropist. She has designed numerous private residences and executive offices in the United States and abroad, collections of carpets, furniture, fabrics, china, and enamelled jewellery. She has authored eight books, most recently A Visual Life: Scrapbooks, Collages, and Inspirations. She lectures internationally on the arts of living and is a contributor to House Beautiful magazine.

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Пролистать книгу  Charlotte Moss: Garden Inspirations

Chinatown Pretty features beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinatowns.  

Andria Lo and Valerie Luu have been interviewing and photographing Chinatown's most fashionable elders on their blog and Instagram, Chinatown Pretty, since 2014.
Chinatown Pretty is a signature style worn by pòh pohs (grandmas) and gùng gungs (grandpas) everywhere — but it's also a life philosophy, mixing resourcefulness, creativity, and a knack for finding joy even in difficult circumstances.

- Photos span Chinatowns in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Vancouver.
- The style is a mix of modern and vintage, high and low, handmade and store-bought clothing.
- This is a celebration of Chinese American culture, active old-age, and creative style.

Chinatown Pretty shares nuggets of philosophical wisdom and personal stories about immigration and Chinese American culture.
This book is great for anyone looking for advice on how to live to a ripe old age with grace and good humor — and, of course, on how to stay stylish.

- This book will resonate with photography buffs, fashionistas, and Asian Americans of all ages.
- Chinatown Pretty has been featured by Vogue.com, San Francisco Chronicle, Design Sponge, Rookie, Refinery29, and others.
- With a textured cover and glossy bellyband, this beautiful volume makes a deluxe gift.

About the Authors:

Andria Lo is a freelance photographer whose work has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Times, and Wired. She lives in Berkeley.
Valerie Luu is a writer and one-half of the Vietnamese pop-up restaurant Rice Paper Scissors. She lives in San Francisco.

The elegant pen-strokes and visual harmony of Chinese writing, known as hànzì, have long been admired in the West. Classical Chinese calligraphy is a popular and valuable art form and is becoming more widely appreciated and understood. In particular, the deep layers of history and symbolism that exist behind even the most everyday character have a strong appeal to those seeking understanding from an alternative philosophy.

Chinese Characters: The Art and Meaning of Hànzì features 86 of the three to four thousand characters needed to write modern Chinese. Characters expressing concepts such as love, peace, respect and happiness are reproduced in a large format, enabling the reader to trace them for transfer to any other medium. Alongside the character is an accessible and inspiring explanation of how the character developed, what the particular strokes symbolize, and its various different meanings.

About the Author:

James Trapp is the author of Chinese Characters: The Art and Meaning of Hanzi, Chinese Proverbs and also has translated a new edition of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. A Chinese language graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, he teaches Mandarin and is an Education Officer on the China Collection at the British Museum.

Welcome to Communist Utopia. Mao’s starring role in Chinese propaganda art

With his smooth, warm, ruddy face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the People’s Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s.

Chairman Mao, portrayed as a stoic superhero (aka the Great Teacher, the Great Leader, the Great Helmsman, the Supreme Commander), appeared in all kinds of situations (inspecting factories, smoking a cigarette with peasant workers, standing by the Yangzi River in a bathrobe, presiding over the bow of a ship, or floating over a sea of red flags), flanked by strong, healthy, ageless men and “masculinized” women and children wearing baggy, sexless, drab clothing. The goal of each poster was to show the Chinese people what sort of behavior was considered morally correct and how great the future of Communist China would be if everyone followed the same path toward utopia by uniting together.

This book brings together a selection of colorful propaganda artworks and cultural artifacts from Max Gottschalk’s vast collection of Chinese propaganda posters, many of which are now extremely rare.

The contributing authors:

Anchee Min was born and raised in Mao’s China. A staunch party supporter, she was awarded the lead role in a film to be made by Mao’s wife, Jiang Ching, but the death of Mao soon after caused the film to be cancelled. In 1984, Min emigrated to the United States and later wrote the bestselling biography Becoming Madame Mao.

Poet and fiction writer Duo Duo was born in Beijing, China in 1951 and emigrated in 1989, later settling in the Netherlands, where he became a writer in residence at the Sinological Institute of Leiden University. He is considered one of the most outstanding poets to emerge after the Cultural Revolution.

Stefan R. Landsberger holds a PhD in Sinology from Leiden University, Netherlands. He is a Lecturer at the Documentation and Research Centre for Modern China, Sinological Institute, Leiden University, and one of the editors of the journal China Information. Landsberger has published extensively on topics related to Chinese propaganda and he owns one of the largest private collections of Chinese propaganda posters in the world.

Chip Kidd is recognized worldwide as one of the best graphic designers working today, especially in book design. This is a much-anticipated follow-up to Chip Kidd: Book One, where he not only showcases his most recent work, but demonstrates the relationship he has with some of the world's most influential authors and sheds light into his passion for the art of book-making and most recent expansion to other media design like film posters, magazine covers, and artist collaborations. This book is a must-have for designers and all book-lovers interested in the man responsible for some of the most recognizable book covers in the world.

Chip Kidd: Book Two is a work of art itself, a book on a designer described as "a design demigod," and "the closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design. The book will feature all of Kidd's book designs from the years 2007 to 2017, including book cover designs for best-selling authors Haruki Murakami, Cormac McCarthy, Orhan Pamuk, Augusten Burroughs, and David Sedaris, each whom share insight on Kidd's creative process and the importance his designs have had on their work.

About the Author:

Chip Kidd is associate art director at Alfred A. Knopf. His first novel, The Cheese Monkeys, was a national bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is the editor-at-large for Pantheon and the author of Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz, Batman Collected, and others. He lives in New York City and Stonington, Connecticut.

The first comprehensive overview of Chloé’s collections presented through catwalk photography, published in collaboration with Chloé to celebrate the house’s 70th anniversary in 2022.

Founded by Egyptian-born Gaby Aghion in 1952, Chloé pioneered luxury ready-to-wear that was all about ease and femininity, offering an elegant haute bohemian style for the modern, liberated Parisienne. Resolutely contemporary, the house spotted and hired a young Karl Lagerfeld as early as the 1960s: he stayed for over two decades, achieving fame and recognition worldwide through his Chloé work, before Stella McCartney (and her then assistant Phoebe Philo) succeeded him straight out of fashion school.

This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house of Chloé before exploring the collections themselves, which are organized chronologically. Each new era in Chloé’s history opens with a brief overview and biography of the new designer, while individual collections are introduced by a short text unveiling their influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book.

After Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, Vivienne Westwood and Versace, Chloé is the eighth in the Catwalk Series of high-end, cloth-bound books that offer an unrivalled overview of the collections of the world’s top fashion houses through original catwalk photography.

About the Author:

Suzy Menkes is one of fashion's most respected journalists. She was the international editor of Vogue until 2020. Lou Stoppard is a writer, curator and broadcaster. She regularly writes for the Financial Times, The New Yorker and various international editions of Vogue. She is the author of Fashion Together and Pools.

Capturing the highlights of the major Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition, Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, this stunning souvenir celebrates the House of Dior from its foundation in 1947 to the present day.

Haute-couture gowns by Christian Dior and the illustrious creative directors who followed him - Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferre, John Galliano, Bill Gaytten, Raf Simons and Maria Grazia Chiuri-are showcased here, each described by Oriole Cullen and atmospherically photographed by Laziz Hamani.

About the Authors:

Oriole Cullen is curator of Fashion and Textiles at the V&A.

Connie Karol Burks is Assistant Curator, Furniture, Textiles and Fashion at the V&A.