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Upstart! showcases an exciting range of visual identities for start-ups and young businesses

Upstart! presents fresh branding ideas for entrepreneurs and designers. To stand out in a land of consumerist plenty, the new generation of small business entrepreneurs has learned to set high design standards. Poised between playfulness and professionalism, their holistic visual identity concepts become an integral part of their core business. From hemp farmers to local box clubs to eyelash extension services, fresh startups and spin-offs from all sorts of sectors present themselves as inventively and stylesavvily as ever before. Communicating through vivid visual languages that unfold across media applications, they involve the customer in authentic styles and stories.

Upstart! explores the contemporary startup scene’s manifold ventures. With a focus on creativity and transformational branding ideas, the compilation covers classic stationery designs, innovative merchandise, interior concepts, and fresh digital applications that have been skillfully orchestrated to leverage business.

About the Author:

Anna Sinofzik is a freelance writer, culture editor, design critic, and strategist based in Berlin. She works with an international roster of publishers, brands, and communications agencies and teaches at Universität der Künste, Berlin.

Urban Bags, bag designs, introduces a wide variety of projects from different sources of creative are and design, with the bag designs taken to be a point of reference.

This phenomenon goes way beyond the world of fashion, and is something which has spread through various design sectors with a wide range of highly diversecreators participating in the creation from illustrators, graffiti experts, graphic designers, etc., using a wide variety of materials including canvas, pvc plastics, artificial leather and recycled fabrics.

For many years the current fashion trends have been set by the big names on the catwalk but this is no longer the case and the fashion rules are now undoubtedly established on the street.
Urban fashion, also known as streetstyle, leaves it up to the citizens from numerous places around the world to model the latest trends. A great many streetstyle blogs have appeared the world over, from London to Barcelona, New York, Shanghai, Moscow, Berlin, etc. All featuring photos of the “coolest” gear appearing on all of these cities’ streets.
Urban Flavor, is a collection taken from various fashion designers whose newly released designs just happen to be strongly influenced by the latest streetstyle.

The book includes a selection of the sketches that Lanfranco Bombelli drafted, first in Paris and later in Barcelona, for the graphics of the exhibitions in the American Trade Centers in Milan, Stockholm, Paris and Frankfurt, from 1963 to 1978, until they were closed, as a continuation of what the Marshall Plan had been. His artistry in geometrical compositions is based on a minimum of plastic means and inspired by mathematical principles. He depicts in this way new products of technological innovation in the fields of pharmaceutics, design industry or printing among others.

This box set contains the next four titles in the popular V&A series of patterns books. Beautifully designed, accessible and informative, the box set is a respository of ideas for designers of all kinds but also a collectable object in itself. Commercial designers looking to license patterns canuse these books as a starting point for research.

Each book includes a CD of all the images contained within - to be redrawn or reworked.

The new titles for Spring 2010 contained in this box set are Owen Jones, Novelty Patterns, Kimonos and Secret Garden. Carefully branded to draw on the V&A's pre-eminent status, the series will encourage you to collect the entire range. The V&A is the world's greatest museum of art and design. For the past 150 years its collection has been an inspiring resource for designers, reflecting a breadth and depth that represents over 3,000 years of artefacts from all over the world.

'Beautiful and practical, the books are visual summaries of the most sumptuous parts of the V&A collections' Royal Academy Magazine

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high resolution images.

This collector's slipcase edition contains four titles in the series - Owen Jones, Novelty Patterns, Kimono and Garden Florals.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Chinese Textiles moves through the centuries highlighting the motifs of luxurious courtly robes, floral silks intended for the export market, and even the tongue-in-cheek patterns of Vivienne Tam.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Digital Pioneers showcases the work of post-war designers and artists using new technology to create images of unexpected purity in their natural patterning, symmetry and order. Artists featured include Ben Laposky, Herbert Franke, Charles Csuri and Paul Brown.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Garden Florals showcases textiles and wallpapers that depict motifs derived from the natural world - the selection is mostly British and from the period 1880-1910. Artists and designers featured include William Morris, Walter Crane, C.F.A Voysey and Lewis Foreman Day.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Published to celebrate British Design at the V&A, Heal's showcases the mid-twentieth century fabrics of this retail institution as commissioned by director and visionary Tom Worthington.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Indian Florals showcases the patterns derived from plants and flowers found in Indian textiles, ranging from bed covers and carpets to saris and sashes.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Published to celebrate British Design at the V&A, Liberty & Co. charts the development of a legendary company through its textile designs, from its beginnings in the Aesthetic movement, through Art Nouveau and into the late twentieth century.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Published to celebrate British Design at the V&A, Modern British Designers traces the past 50 years of creative genius and innovation in British design, highlighting such designers as Terence Conran, Zandra Rhodes and Shirley Craven.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Pop Patterns showcases Warhol's influence on commercial design in the 1970s when soup cans, lipsticks, and even men's haircuts graced dress fabrics and wallpapers.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Published to celebrate British Design at the V&A, Sanderson 1954-74 showcases the wallpapers and textiles of this most British of manufacturers.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Spitalfields Silks displays delightful floral designs alongside quirky, strikingly modern silks, all produced in eighteenth-century London.