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Sources are eclectic, results mixed, but one thing is certain: car design is being forced up an ever tightening spiral of creativity. These machines are memorials of our tastes, yearnings and capabilities. They have layers of meaning and can, as Henry Ford knew, be read like a book...if only you know how. The story of the car is the story of how the objects of industry became a medium of artistic expression. This book tells that story in a series of case studies which reveal national characteristics: American flair, German technical suprematism, French vernacular chic, gorgeous Italian sculpture, English antiquarianism, Japanese ingenuity, Swedish responsibility. Cars featured appear in chronological date order from the 1908 Ford Model T to 2003 BMW 5 Series. The chosen cars will be specially photographed in a uniform style and reproduced in very textured, 4 colour b/w so as to distance this book from the cliches and conventions of specialist automotive publishing and to highlight form and shape. Each picture will be accompanied by a short critical essay including essential historical material together with colorful anecdotage and quotations as well as a persuasive aesthetic appraisal of each vehicle. This lavish and beautifully designed book is the gift book for all car enthusiasts and design aficionados.

D&AD 2009, The Best Advertising and Design in the World

TASCHEN has teamed with D&AD to make its previously exclusive and highly-coveted Annual – featuring the year’s best creative work – available to the public. The awards panel judges over 20,000 works from design studios, advertising agencies, branding consultancies, film production and photographic agencies, digital media pioneers, and other creative firms from all over the globe. Winners receive the legendary D&AD Yellow Pencil Award – or in the case of exceptional and outstanding work, the rare Black Pencil Award.

The TASCHEN D&AD Annual is an absolute must-have reference work for anyone interested in creativity, communication, design, or advertising.

Featuring the latest D&AD award-winning work in the fields of:
Ambient, Art Direction, Book Design, Branding, Broadcast Innovations, Digital Installations, Direct, Environmental Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Magazine & Newspaper Design, Mobile Marketing, Music Videos, Online Advertising, Packaging Design, Photography, Poster Advertising, Press Advertising, Product Design, Radio, TV & Cinema Advertising, TV & Cinema Crafts, Viral, Websites, Writing for Advertising, and Writing for Design.

Hundreds of artists and designers expressed support for the Obama candidacy by designing posters and submitting them to designforobama.org for free download. This selection of the very best - curated by Spike Lee and Aaron Perry-Zucker - is a visual document of the most inspirational U.S. presidential campaign in living history.

From its inception, the Barack Obama campaign was destined to make history. Its message of inclusion and empowerment was spread by thousands of volunteers, a grassroots organization of unprecedented size and enthusiasm. Design for Obama built on this spirit with an online forum where artists, designers and supporters could upload their artworks and download others. Shepard Fairey’s social realist "Hope" poster became 2008’s enduring image, inspiring scores of designs that appeared on the streets, at rallies and registration drives, and in homes and offices around the country.

Edited by designforobama.org founder Aaron Perry-Zucker and filmmaker Spike Lee, this collection showcases over 200 of the best pro-Obama posters. Contributors range from prominent graphic and street artists to young up-and-comers. With essays by Spike Lee, Perry-Zucker, and design historian Steven Heller, this outstanding collection serves as a matchless historical document of the widespread visual creativity that helped spur Obama to victory.

The spaces children occupy in the home are not only play areas, but rather something much more complex, they are their kingdoms. It is where the major part of their leisure, rest and study time is spent.  From there, is the importance of instilling in them at a very young age to appreciate the value of sustainable products.

This is an exciting collection of the most innovative and original eco-friendly children's products. The spaces children occupy in the home are not only play areas, but something much more complex, they are their kingdoms. It is where the major part of their leisure, rest and study time is spent. It is in these spaces that we can begin to instil in them, from a young age, an appreciation of the value of sustainable products and environmentally friendly living. All of the products shown in the book are geared and manufactured with ecological friendly materials that do not harm the environment and perfectly adapt to the needs of the little ones at home.

No plan, all real scene pictures!

Best seller with the latest, quickest and the most comprehensive architecture designs of Shanghai Expo buildings!

Professional real scene pictures introduce more than 70 projects in the Expo Park comprehensively, with all design elements presented thoroughly from functional areas, parts to materials!

Future architecture, advancing design and leading concept. Enjoying top designs around the world with no need to go abroad.
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The World Expo 2010 Shanghai China is a classical grant meeting in human’s society in the new century. People of various countries will happily gather in Shanghai Expo then to jointly experience the good life in cities and look for the future development of cities. It will be a grand gathering for global civilization.

Sponsored by China and undertook by Shanghai, the World Expo 2010 Shanghai China is the first register-class Expo hold in a developing country. The theme of Expo 2010 is "Better City, Better Life" and the five different sub-themes are “blending of diverse cultures in the city”, “economic prosperity in the city”, “innovations of science and technology in the city”, “remodeling of communities in the city” and “interactions between urban and rural areas”. Undoubtedly, the Expo 2010 will be a great meeting in discussing humankind’s urban life in the new century. The city is a crystallization of human civilization. By virtue of its embracive and regenerating nature, the city has played a significant role in the perfection of order in the human society.

As the initial Expo that takes “city” as theme, the Expo 2010 will adopt the concept of “harmonious city” to be coherent with the theme “better city, better life”, and positively model an example of a “harmonious city”. The concept includes "harmony between man and nature”, “harmony between past, present and future”, and “harmony between human individuals”. The reason of choosing “city” as the theme is because the prospect of the future urban life is a global issue during the important phase for city development in 21st century. Whether in developed countries or developing ones, the topic of “city” can arouse a responsive chord.

Expo 2010 Shanghai China will be a great event to explore the full potentials of urban life in the 21st century and a significant period in urban evolution. It will be centered on innovation and interaction and offer a wonderful opportunity for cross-culture dialogues.

There’s never been a better time to be a geek. After decades, if not centuries, of persecution, ridicule and never, never getting the girl, geeks are hot. They are on the cover of magazines, win awards at the Oscars and the Baftas, eat at the best tables of the best restaurants, and park their Ferraris in front of their million pound houses. They are the geeks, and their time has come.

Geek Chic is the story of their long rise to power, told in a language and using a method that they have helped pioneer. It is a lively combination of text, design and images, and takes us all the way from Zeus to Dr Seuss, from Copernicus to Einstein, from Tesla to Tarantino, from computers to duct tape and from Space Invaders to Star Wars. It can be read from start to finish or, just as easily, be dipped into and surfed at leisure.

Irreverent, light but substantive, Geek Chic is a manifesto for the generation that has changed the world. It will be essential reading for geeks everywhere and for the people who know, live with, love or are just confused by them.

This work offers a visually stunning exploration of the hundreds of works of art hidden in plain sight around the fabulous city of Barcelona. It offers dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted art and photography related media. Barcelona is a city filled with some of the world's finest examples of art, architecture, and design. But most people will never see them. Why? Because they are all around us - from modernist facades to traffic signs, from busy streets to quaint shops, stunning art can be found everywhere, but you have to know where to look! "Graphicity Barcelona" brings together hundreds of full-colour photographs that showcase the very best of Barcelona's real 'street art'.

Sustainability has become one of the most important words and objectives in the last years. Eco-friendly and eco-friendly produced products are being hyped, especially if they are well designed. Green Design encompasses products from vastly different areas of life representing different aspects of environmentally friendly and sustainable design.

This book presents around 100 products that are not only "Green", but also "Design": beautiful and functional everyday objects that qualify through certain principles of environmental sustainability. These include environmentally friendly resources, production and disposal, energy efficient or energy self-sufficient use as well as fair production.

From the contents:

Energy (USBcell by Moixa Design Products, Great Britain)
Fashion (Woven Food Wrappers by Mitz, Mexico)
Home (Wooden Radio by Singgih Susilo Kartono, Indonesia)
Light (SunCubes by Geotectura, Israel)
Public (Photosynthesis Car by Michal Vlcek & Piano, Czech Republic)
Work (soft wall + soft block Modular System by molo, Canada)

Children should have their own space in the house because it is where they spend most of their leisure, rest, study time, and where they develop their creativity...

This book showcases some of the most exciting and innovative environmentally-friendly products for creating wonderful living spaces for children. Children spend such a large amount of their time at home - study, rest, and play - that having a space of their own, where they can develop their creativity and sense of self, is extremely important. It is in this space we can begin to inform children of the value of the environment and sustainability.

Green Design for Kids is a magnificently illustrated volume that showcases how recycled, eco-friendly, and bio-degradable materials can be used to create innovative, practical, and stimulating products for children and their spaces the live in.

Showcases over 1000 hairstyles and explores trends through the ages from ancient Greece to modern day

Hairstyles: Ancient to Present is not only the most comprehensive survey of hairstyles ever published, it is also a visual celebration of this remarkably inventive cultural phenomenon from ancient Greek tresses and 18th century powdered wigs to Art Deco bobs and Punk spikes to the latest directions in the world of hairdressing today. Sumptuously illustrated and authoritatively researched, this book showcases an amazing array of wonderfully imaginative styles, while also demonstrating the remarkable skill of their creators.

This unique publication includes over 1,000 hairstyles - from beautiful Victorian chignons to Fifties ponytails to the work of today's top stylists. Page after page of visual inspiration, Hairstyles: Ancient to Present also contextualises through its accompanying texts the historical and cultural relevance of hairdressing in society as well as analysing its role as a signifier of female social status.

Hairstyles: Ancient to Present is an essential book that every hairstylist must own. This publication will also appeal to every woman because hair is a universal feature of feminine beauty. As Martin Luther noted, 'Hair is the richest ornament of women'.

Seeing Is Understanding. How complex ideas are communicated via graphics

Graphs, maps, stats, and diagrams: this collection of infographics explores the development of visual communication in the big data age. More than 400 exemplary graphics — ranging from journalism to art, government to education — are accompanied by essays tracing the evolving art form that is pictorial explanation. Complete with in-depth fact sheets explaining each graphic project.

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
— Albert Einstein

Our everyday lives are filled with a massive flow of information that we must interpret in order to understand the world we live in. Considering the complex variety of data floating around us, sometimes the best — or even only — way to communicate is visually. This unique book presents a fascinating perspective on the subject, highlighting the work of the masters of the profession, creators of breakthroughs that have changed the way we communicate. Information Graphics has been conceived and designed not just for graphics professionals, but for anyone interested in the history and practice of communicating visually.

The in-depth introductory section, illustrated with over 60 images (each accompanied by an explanatory caption), features essays by Sandra Rendgen, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Richard Saul Wurman, and Simon Rogers. Looking back all the way to primitive cave paintings as a means of communication, this section gives readers an excellent overview of the subject. The second part of the book is entirely dedicated to contemporary works by today’s most renowned professionals, presenting 200 graphics projects, with over 400 examples — each with a fact sheet and an explanation of methods and objectives — divided into chapters by the topics Location, Time, Category, and Hierarchy.

Includes:

- 200 projects and over 400 examples of contemporary information graphics from all over the world — ranging from journalism to art, government, education, business and much more
- Four essays about the development of information graphics since its beginnings

The author:

Sandra Rendgen studied art history and cultural studies in Berlin and Amsterdam. Her work both as an editor and in developing concepts for media installations concentrates at the interface between image culture and technology, with a particular focus on data visualization, interactive media and the history of how information is conveyed. She is the author of TASCHEN’s Information Graphics and Understanding the World.

The editor:

Julius Wiedemann studied graphic design and marketing and was an art editor for newspapers and design magazines in Tokyo before joining TASCHEN in 2001. His titles include the Illustration Now! and Record Covers series, as well as the infographics collection and books about advertising and visual culture.