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Monuments and Marvels. A defining record of Islamic art and architecture

Émile Prisse d’Avennes (1807–1879), a French Orientalist, author, and artist, was one of the greatest pre-20th-century Egyptologists. As a youth he dreamed of exploring the Orient and at 19 began traveling to Greece, India, and Palestine. Over the next 40 years he explored Syria, Arabia, Persia, and also spent long periods living in Egypt and Algeria. Having converted to Islam, he traveled under the Arabic name Idris Effendi.

With a keen eye for the symmetry, opulence, and complexity of local visual cultures, Prisse d’Avennes recorded the art and architecture which he encountered on his travels. His work would later become one of the most outstanding surveys on Islamic art and architecture, with Arab Art (L’Art arabe d’après les monuments du Kaire) being published between 1869 and 1877 in Paris.

This TASCHEN edition revives Prisse d’Avennes’s magisterial chromolithograph survey in all its attention to detail, as well as to historical, social, and religious contexts. For further situational understanding, it includes his supplementary studies of the people and costumes of the Nile Valley, which he published in the Oriental Album (Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life, the Valley of the Nile, London, 1848). It is a precious record not only of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman heritage but also of the history of thought and imagination between Europe and the Middle East.

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Bibliotheca Universalis — Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!

Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together more than 100 of our all-time favourite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.

Bookworm’s delight — never bore, always excite!

Assouline presents the autobiography of Giancarlo Giammetti, Valentino s trusted business partner for fifty years.

Beginning with his childhood in Rome under Nazi occupation and his chance meeting at a café with a certain rising fashion designer, Giammetti shares stories from his remarkable life.his beautiful collector s volume features in-depth interviews, recollections from his personal journals, and a curated selection of exclusive images from Giammetti s archive of 50,000 photos, vividly portraying the exciting world of fashion.

ДЖАММЕТТИ GOES PRIVATE: КНИГА ВОСПОМИНАНИЙ О VALENTINO

Джанкарло Джамметти, бизнес-партнер и, как его часто называют, альтер эго дизайнера Валентино Гаравани, собрал в книгу личный фотоархив за последние полвека.

СЛОВО АВТОРА

Мало кто в курсе, но я всю жизнь занимался фотографией и насобирал около 50 тысяч снимков. Недавно я их пересмотрел и понял: в нашей с Валентино жизни была уйма интересного — таким надо делиться. Лучшее я публикую в книге Private: Giancarlo Giammetti.

Describes more than 30 manufacturing processes, from the traditional and established to cutting edge technologies

Product and Furniture Design is a vital resource for product designers, 3D designers, engineers and architects who must be fully informed about how their designs can be produced efficiently and effectively.

Part of a new series built on the authority of the highly acclaimed Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals, this is the essential reference guide to creating product and furniture designs for mass production in a wide range of design disciplines.

With 430 specially commissioned photographs and technical illustrations, it describes more than 30 manufacturing processes, from the traditional and established to cutting-edge technologies.

Clearly presented explanations of each manufacturing process include
• a full technical description
• analysis of typical applications and design opportunities
• information on cost, speed and environmental impact
• detailed step-by-step case studies with a leading international supplier

Photographs of geometry, detail, colour and surface finish complete the practical information designers need to select the right process to realize their designs.

FORMING technology
Compression Molding • Thermoforming • Rotation Molding • Plastic Extrusion
Injection Molding • Metal Injection Molding • Foam Molding • Dip Molding 
High pressure Die Casting • Investment Casting • Metal Press Forming • Punching and Blanking 
Metal Spinning • Tube and Section Bending • Swaging • Superplastic Forming 
Ceramic Press Molding • Ceramic Slip Casting • Steam Bending 
CNC Machining • Loom Weaving • Laser Cutting

JOINING technology
Hot plate Welding • Ultrasonic Welding • Vibration Welding • Staking
CNC Joinery • Assembly • Upholstery

FINISHING technology
Tampo Printing • Screen Printing • Anodizing
Automated Spray Painting • Electroplating • Vacuum Metalizing

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 bottles and diapers to solar- and wind-powered goods; clocks that run by reacting with soil; air and water purifiers; coffins and urns for sustainable funerals; paper made from elephant and sheep dung—as well as eco-friendly chocolates, bikinis, guitars, energy efficient appliances and much more—this is a state-of-the-art update on the sustainable revolution in product design.

Product designers are faced with the challenge of designing merchandise, which is not only functional and easy to use, but attractive and eye-catching to the consumer. Product Design Now showcases the best products designed in recent years -- with a special focus on electronics -- categorized by size: small, medium, large, and extra large. Emphasizing the design process step-by-step, this book shows all of the creative work-from handmade drawings and sketches to diagrams and computer renderings -- that go into the development of a product before it hits the assembly line. With beautiful images of innovative and cutting edge product design, this book is a perfect resource for consumers and designers alike.

All great products begin with a rough sketch. This book is an outstanding compilation of the work of the world's most innovative product designers. It showcases thousands of hand drawings and 3D renderings of amazing products, ranging from the very smallest to tree-houses and road vehicles.

The book includes photographs and digital protoypes - sketches which offer the reader a detailed look at the creative process from start to finish. Descriptive captions and contact details for every designer are also featured. Products features include kitchen gadgets (eg, coffee machines), office equipment (desktop accessories, and ballpoint pens), footwear (rrainers and sandals), and technology gadgets (speakers and futuristic hand-held scanners).

Computer technology has completely revolutionized the work of graphic designers, printers, and print production professionals. To keep pace with these far-reaching changes Production for Graphic Designers is set firmly in the digital age. The book comprehensively explains the prepress and printing processes from traditional letterpress to the latest on-press CtP (computer-to-plate) digital offset and on-demand colour printing. It also covers design to production workflows.

Alan Pipes is a freelance writer, illustrator, webmaster, and part-time publisher specializing in the applications of computers in graphic design, fine art, illustration and product design. He is the former editor of CadCam International and the author of Drawing for Designers.

This book is a one-of-a-kind, educational, easy-to-follow, how-to guide for the do-it-yourselfer as well as the skilled craftsman. Every step is clearly illustrated with more than six hundred photographs and more than eighty-five tips! Now you can learn all the trade secrets. Individual projects include how to make a zippered pillow with pleated corners and welted seams, how to make two styles of dining room seats, how to make a zippered cushion, how to repair frames and touch up the wood, and a featured project-a fully upholstered wing chair and matching footstool.

Ce livre permet de comprendre les systèmes de construction des principaux types de meubles. Il comprend près d’une centaine de modèles dessinés en perspective éclatée. Cette technique de représentation privilégie la compréhension des assemblages en isolant chaque élément. Le texte est ainsi réduit au minimum, les dessins d’une grande lisibilité sont très explicites. Ils permettront à l’ébéniste de construire ses plans de fabrication et sa feuille de débit. Cet ouvrage par la qualité de son illustration intéressera tous ceux qui à partir d’un dessin ou d’une idée, ont le désir de concevoir et de réaliser un meuble.

Sommaire :
Les tables (14), les tables d’appoint (19), bureaux (11), commodes (15), buffets (31), lits (10).

Sales promotion is a means of communication between marketers and customers. A good sales promotion not only stimulates consumption and improves sales performance, but also impresses customers. Fast economic growth brings a variety of sales promotions to the market. This book is aimed to introduce various sales promotion designs for holidays, campaigns, anniversaries, etc. Combining the graphic design and store design of each sales promotion case, this book offers a gate into the colourful world of sales promotion.

PEPIN gift wrap paper books all contain 4 pages of introduction and 12 large sheets of very high-quality wrapping paper. They can easily be removed from the books by tearing them along a perforated line. The wrapping papers are folded to fit into the book; when removed and opened they measure 50 cm x 70 cm (19,5 inch x 27,5 inch; a standard size for gift wrapping papers). Depending on the theme, we have selected a suitable light-weight paper quality. For example, papers with designs in gold, silver or bronze are printed on silky art paper on which the inks show to their best advantage. Designs with an antique or hand-made feel are printed on high-quality creamy offset paper. PEPIN papers make your gift package look very special. In addition, our papers are suitable for scrap booking and all sorts of craft projects. Each volume contains 12 different, exceptional designs.

Puerto Rico is best known for piña coladas and Salsa music but it is also home to beautiful examples of Spanish Colonial and modern Caribbean architecture. Puerto Rico experienced a building boom at the beginning of the 20th century, just as the technology for designing and making hydraulic tiles was becoming popular in the Caribbean. In recent years, the tile industry in Puerto Rico has been seeing a revival of traditional designs and new wave of tile design. The designs featured in this book are based on historic designs from the height of Puerto Rican tile design in the first half of the 1900s.

Agile Rabbit Editions contain stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM and are ready to use for professional quality printed media and web page design. The pictures can also be used to produce postcards, or to decorate your letters, flyers, etc. They can be imported directly from the CD into most design, image-editing, illustration, word-processing and e-mail programs; no installation is required. For most applications, single images can be used free of charge.

This Victorian artist/architect A. Welby Pugin is perhaps best known for his work on the Houses of Parliament in the neo-Gothic style, but he also produced a wealth of beautiful ecclesiastical designs that hark back to their medieval roots.

Hundreds of his best designs for embellishing crosses, altar cloths, and church vestments are shown in magnificent colour on the 59 plates in this new anthology.

The intricately handcrafted paper fashions of Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave will astound readers with their artistry, creativity, and resemblance to the finest couture designs. Exhibition Itinerary: Legion of Honor, San Francisco February 5–June 5, 2011
Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Elizabethan gowns, Renaissance finery, and Fortuny pleats, as well as elaborate headpieces, cascading flowers, and exquisite footwear, are all part of Isabelle de Borchgrave’s oeuvre. The companion volume to a major museum exhibition, this book highlights three of de Borchgrave’s most beloved series: Papiers à la Mode and the Fortuny and Medici collections. A special section focuses on the making of a new work inspired by a portrait in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Full-color illustrations of her historically inspired works reveal the painstaking detail that goes into each piece and the whimsical magic that transforms a simple material into the most luxurious of garments. Broad in its appeal, this lovely volume will fascinate anyone interested in fashion, costume history, paper, and design.