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This book is part of a new series of high-quality blank sketchbooks is aimed at a young audience of graffiti fans, graphic designers and students inspired by street art and graffiti, as well as anyone who buys street art books. Each sketchbook has a screen-printed board cover depicting a specially commissioned artwork by a well-known graffiti artist. Darbotz is an artist, graffiti writer and graphic designer from Jakarta, Indonesia. As a well-known graffiti writer, he likes to blend his two lives - his commercial work and his underground work. His trademark character, Cumi, can be seen on walls all over Indonesia.

Studio Rarekwai specializes in the promotion of international culture and music through documentary production and film. They are the authors of RackGaki, a book and DVD dedicated to Japan's explosive graffiti scene.

This book is part of a new series of high-quality blank sketchbooks is aimed at a young audience of graffiti fans, graphic designers and students inspired by street art and graffiti, as well as anyone who buys street art books. Each sketchbook has a screen-printed board cover depicting a specially commissioned artwork by a well-known graffiti artist. Born in 1972 in Tokyo, ESOW came across graffiti at the age of 16 and has since devoted his time to the fusion of traditional Japanese art with graffiti. He is a painter with a love of skateboarding and cycling. Best known for his unique characters, he is regarded as one of the finest character illustrators on the Japanese graffiti scene.

Studio Rarekwai specializes in the promotion of international culture and music through documentary production and film. They are the authors of RackGaki, a book and DVD dedicated to Japan's explosive graffiti scene.

This book is part of a new series of high-quality blank sketchbooks is aimed at a young audience of graffiti fans, graphic designers and students inspired by street art and graffiti, as well as anyone who buys street art books. Each sketchbook has a screen-printed board cover depicting a specially commissioned artwork by a well-known graffiti artist. Jimi Crayon started working with Rarekind, the UK's first graffiti art gallery, where he did commissioned work, including murals for Harvey Nichols and Nokia. He has had solo shows in Brighton and a host of group shows in London. He also runs a successful clothing company known as urgh' from his London base. Studio Rarekwai specializes in the promotion of international culture and music through documentary production and film.

Studio Rarekwai specializes in the promotion of international culture and music through documentary production and film. They are the authors of RackGaki, a book and DVD dedicated to Japan's explosive graffiti scene.

This book explores influential designers’ sketchbooks as a truer reflection of a designer’s thought processes, preoccupations, and problem-solving strategies than can be had by simply viewing finished projects. Highly personal and idiosyncratic, sketchbooks offer an arena for unstructured exploration, a space free from all budgetary and client constraints. Visually arresting objects in their own right, this book aims to elevate sketches from mere ephemera to important documents where the reader can glean valuable insight into the creative process, and apply it to their own practices. Featured designers include Ralph Caplan, Nigel Holmes, Chris Bigg, Eva Jiricna, Jason Munn, Gary Baseman, Marian Bantjes, and many others.

A fantastic source of inspiration, the book gives insight into the inner workings and private inspiration of creatives from the world of advertising, design, graphic design, fashion design, art, street art, and illustration. Intimate and often unseen, sketchbooks document the sources of inspiration as well as the journey to final execution. Providing a showcase of ideas, the sketchbooks themselves are complemented by interviews where the artists explain how they use their sketchbooks and how these relate to finished works, giving readers a direct and unmediated insight into the process of research and creation.

About the Author:

Richard Brereton began his career in the London and New York art markets, before becoming a television producer for the BBC. He currently lives and works in London and is the editor of GRAPHIC.

Some may think sketching is a disappearing skill, but if you ever enter a design studio, you will find out differently.

Studios still make sketches and drawings by hand and in most cases, quite a lot of them. They are an integral part of the decisionmaking process, used in the early stages of design, in brainstorming sessions, in the phase of research and concept exploration, and in presentation. Drawing has proved to be, next to verbal explanation, a powerful tool for communicating not only with fellow designers, engineers or model makers but also with clients, contractors and public offices.

This book can be regarded as a standard book on design sketching, useful for students in product design.

This book explains the basic sketching techniques and decisions more in-depth and provides much more step-by-step example drawings, which makes it even more suitable for students and professionals who want to become better sketchers. Sketching the Basics can be seen as the prequel to Sketching as it is more targeted at the novice designer.

The Basics explains the essential techniques and effects more in detail, taking the reader by the hand and guiding him step by step through all the various aspects of drawing that novice designers come up against.

The recent years have witnessed the birth of many smart products that have dramatically changed our life. It's believed that smart products will be even closer to our life with the development of science and technology. Smart Product Design unveils the world behind intelligent products by featuring interviews with some of the most talented designers and company leaders, and showcasing a selection of smart products from them.

The book is more than a source of inspiration for product designers, but also shares the insights from industry veterans with readers passionate for smart products.

Every Sneaker Story Worth Telling! A 15-year anthology of cult magazine Sneaker Freaker

The first and only publication of its kind, Sneaker Freaker has been at the forefront of the global sneaker scene for nearly two decades. With over 650 redesigned pages, fresh photography, insane historical detail, and otaku-level minutiae, this monster anthology combines the magazine’s finest and content created exclusively for TASCHEN into one seriously epic celebration of sneakers.

Back in 2002, Simon “Woody” Wood was dreaming up schemes to get free sneakers. Two weeks later, he was the proud owner of Sneaker Freaker and his life was never the same.

From its early roots as a punk-style fanzine to today’s super-slick print and online operations, the fiercely independent publication has documented every collab, custom, limited edition, retro reissue, Quickstrike, Hyperstrike, and Tier Zero sneaker released over the last 15 years.

Woody’s original premise that Sneaker Freaker would be “funny and serious, meaningful and pointless at the same time” has certainly been vindicated in The Ultimate Sneaker Book. With more than 650 pages jam-packed with insider knowledge and his own irreverent observations, the insane historical detail and otaku-level minutiae is beyond obsessive.

Traversing 100 years of history, each chapter paints a rollicking picture of the sneaker industry’s evolution. Air Max, Air Force, Adi Dassler, Converse, Kanye, Dapper Dan, Dee Brown, Michael Jordan, and Yeezy — along with obscure treasures like Troop, Airwalk, and Vision Street Wear — are all exhaustively documented.

This is a definitive source of knowledge. This is… The Ultimate Sneaker Book!

About the Author:

Simon “Woody” Wood is the founder and editor of Sneaker Freaker magazine. In little more than a decade, the Australian created a unique global brand at the fore of the sneaker industry, publishing in over 50 countries. Sneaker Freaker are headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

Every Sneaker Story Worth Telling! A 15-year anthology of cult magazine Sneaker Freaker

The first and only publication of its kind, Sneaker Freaker has been at the forefront of the global sneaker scene for nearly two decades. With over 650 redesigned pages, fresh photography, insane historical detail, and otaku-level minutiae, this monster anthology combines the magazine’s finest and content created exclusively for TASCHEN into one seriously epic celebration of sneakers.

Back in 2002, Simon “Woody” Wood was dreaming up schemes to get free sneakers. Two weeks later, he was the proud owner of Sneaker Freaker and his life was never the same.

From its early roots as a punk-style fanzine to today’s super-slick print and online operations, the fiercely independent publication has documented every collab, custom, limited edition, retro reissue, Quickstrike, Hyperstrike, and Tier Zero sneaker released over the last 15 years.

Woody’s original premise that Sneaker Freaker would be “funny and serious, meaningful and pointless at the same time” has certainly been vindicated in The Ultimate Sneaker Book. With more than 650 pages jam-packed with insider knowledge and his own irreverent observations, the insane historical detail and otaku-level minutiae is beyond obsessive.

Traversing 100 years of history, each chapter paints a rollicking picture of the sneaker industry’s evolution. Air Max, Air Force, Adi Dassler, Converse, Kanye, Dapper Dan, Dee Brown, Michael Jordan, and Yeezy — along with obscure treasures like Troop, Airwalk, and Vision Street Wear — are all exhaustively documented.

This is a definitive source of knowledge. This is… The Ultimate Sneaker Book!

About the Author:

Simon “Woody” Wood is the founder and editor of Sneaker Freaker magazine. In little more than a decade, the Australian created a unique global brand at the fore of the sneaker industry, publishing in over 50 countries. Sneaker Freaker are headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

Over 1,200 high-quality colour images of traditional and innovative textiles, in print and on CD-ROM.
Modelled on the successful Surfaces, also published by Thames & Hudson, this new collection of photographs catalogues hundreds of varieties of textiles, grouped by structure and surface treatment, up-close and in interior and exterior applications, such as window treatments, upholstery, awnings, tents and floor coverings.

Like the previous book, Soft Surfaces is tailored to research needs, providing examples for architects, interior designers, theatrical and film designers, illustrators, artists and graphic designers. All the images are included on a CD-ROM for ease of use and are supported by a full reference section with a glossary and source information.

Artists and designers working in all fields of the visual and creative arts will find everything they need in this vibrant, vital resource.

The long-awaited illustration collection by nekosuke

nekosuke is one of the most popular illustrators on social media in Japan. The atmosphere of corrupt beauty and the sense of decadence in nekosuke's artworks have made the illustrator an instant internet sensation with more than 60,000 followers on Twitter. Following this success online, nekosuke released four original doujinshi, which sold out immediately: Exotica, Exotica 2, Kaiki-to-jou, Yume ni Utsutsu. nekosuke now draws illustrations for book covers and magazines.

This book contains illustrations from nekosuke's first four doujinshi AND features original artworks, as well. Cute original characters such as "small Alice" and "cat" are also included in this book.

About the Author:

Nekosuke is one of the most popular illustrators on social media in Japan. The atmosphere of corrupt beauty and the sense of decadence in Nekosuke's artworks have made the illustrator an instant internet sensation.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Dé coratifs in Paris, this handsome volume presents fashions by noted designer Sonia Rykiel who celebrated her 40th anniversary in fashion in October 2008 and was famously anointed the fashion world's “Queen of knitwear” by Women's Wear Daily

This sumptuous book is a celebration of the iconic designer's lifetime in fashion. Included are photographs from 80 seasonal collections spanning 40 years and interlaced with remarkable personal anecdotes and reminiscences alongside candid photos of the designer by acclaimed photographers Dominique Issermann and Sarah Moon. Also included are images from the official campaigns that originally appeared in such leading fashion publications as Vogure, Elle, Marie-Claire, and many others.

Though designing since 1962, Sonia Rykiel achieved instant acclaim when she founded her own label in 1968. She is celebrated for creating several transformative decorative features that transformed knitwear into fashion. These include inside-out stitching, no-hem and “unlined” pieces, bold stripes, lace, rhinestones and sweaters with written messages. She is also known for several signature looks including long clinging sweaters, small cropped pullovers, large rolled-back cuffs, and long shawls usually in a spectrum of key colours (beige, grey, dark blue and charcoal). These looks all reflected her philosophy of la dé mode, or “un-fashion” which abolished total-look diktats in favour of a wardrobe adapted to expressing a woman's individual personality.

„Sound And Design“ covers the whole range of music-related graphic design. While the focus lies on the designing of CDs (Music and Audiobooks), „Sound And Design“ also includes all kinds of music-related merchandise. Therefore it provides a fascinating demonstration of how to apply an aesthetic developed for an album or an artist to all kinds of media and objects.

Dating from 1917 to the end of the Cold War, the posters in this book feature the work of such major Russian groundbreaking avant-garde designers as El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko as well as extraordinary works by lesser known artists. Presented in full color, the 250 posters gathered here range in themes from warnings about the dangers of alcohol abuse and the creeping Nazi menace to illustrations of utopian harmony and the Soviet industrial machine. A brief illustrated introduction offers a chronological overview of the period that produced such eloquent art, which has long been a major source of inspiration to artists and designers.