Разные книги о дизайне

Stickerbomb Monsters features an extensive assortment of fantastic and scary monster designs. Including weird and wonderful creatures ranging from zombies and ghosts to spaghetti monsters and love bugs, the stickers are fun for everyone to play with, and to use to create their very own beastly collections.

Selected artists include: Vladimir Stankovic, Alex Young, Iain Burke, Johnny Ryan, Ronzo and Sunil Pawar.

This collectable, fully-peelable sticker book is filled with an amazing set of 250 stickers created by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world.

About the Author:

Stickerbomb creates collectable sticker books, featuring illustration, graffiti and graphics from around the globe. Since 2008 the team has released more than 10 publications, becoming an essential part of the street art and sticker movement.

The latest in our super-successful Stickerbomb line of books, Stickerbomb XL takes it to the next level, with large format and vinyl stickers.

Stickers are an essential part of the street art movement. Inexpensive and easy to produce, they act as a kind of informal business card for some graffiti writers, and a quick and effective promotional tool for many artists and illustrators. As more and more stickers are placed around major cities in the world, interest in the subject keeps growing.

Stickerbomb XL is filled with an amazing collection of more than 160 specially-commissioned stickers by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world, many of whom have not been featured in a publication before. It will appeal to a young market of designers, street artists and illustrators, plus street art fans and anyone who collects stickers.

About the author:

SRK is a creative studio based in London and Jakarta. Initiated by a director and producer partnership in 2006 with a focus on documentary films, SRK grew in size to house a troupe of creatives whose skills encompass filmmaking, sound design, animation, illustration, publishing, and events. The SRK has worked with Polydor Records, ARTE TV, the BBC, Channel 4, Film4, MTV, SONAR, Spaceshower TV and a number of international non-governmental organisations. Their books include RackGaki, Graffiti Asia, and the Stickerbomb series (all Laurence King).

Willow Crossley believes that everything in the home, however mundane, can be beautiful.

This book shows her ideas for turning the most basic objects into original life enhancers. Willow casts her crafting style all around the house and beyond, making things you will want to keep for yourself or reluctantly give away as presents.

The first chapter, To Decorate, includes floral napkin rings, seasonal wreaths, Christmas baubles and vintage fabric bunting. To Hang shows how to fill printers’ trays with your own treasures, make pictures from stamps and buttons, and create your own pinboard with fabulous ribbons. To Nest includes ideas for grainsack cushions, block print napkins and heart-shaped lavender bags. In To Wear, there are fabric-twisted bracelets, silk-trimmed panama hats and simple linen aprons.

To Use is a feast of candles made in vintage teacups, fabric-covered books, bath salts infused with lavender and coat hangers decoupaged with fabric scraps. Having lived in France, Willow is besotted by their vintage textiles as well as their knack of making life’s necessities, such as a straw hat or panier basket, so effortlessly decorative. None of her ideas are difficult to create or demand serious sewing or crafting skills.

The only requirements needed are patience and the desire to find those raw materials that work their magic.

This wonderful book presents a thorough survey of the art of stained glass from early times to the present day.

This is a guide to the most important, beautiful and unusual stained glass to be found around the world

It is an invaluable sourcebook, with a meticulous, step-by-step illustrated account of the process of the making of a stained glass window and a comprehensive analysis of the issues facing conservationists.

International stained glass expert Virginia Raguin traces the emergence of stained glass as a unique art form through an examination of its techniques and symbolism, and the political and historical contexts – both ecclesiastical and secular – in which it has been displayed.

The story spans over 1,000 years, from the dramatic, richly patterned figures in Strasbourg Cathedral, via the monumental programmes at Chartres, York, Cologne and Florence, to modern masterpieces by Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Henri Matisse and John Piper among others.

From Romanesque to Gothic Revival, Renaissance to Opalesque, Virginia Raguin reveals her profound knowledge of the naunces of style and the aesthetics of light in this compelling field.

"A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles, you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, ‘Madame, if that`s the way you see it, so be it.`" An engagingly sly comment by the renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898–1972) - the complex ambiguities of whose work leave hasty or single-minded interpretations far behind. Long before the first computer-generated 3-D images were thrilling the public, Escher was a master of the third dimension. His lithograph "Magic Mirror" dates as far back as 1946. In taking that title for this book, mathematician Bruno Ernst is stressing the magic spell Escher`s work invariably casts on those who see it. Ernst visited Escher every week for a year, systematically talking through his entire œuvre with him. Their discussions resulted in a friendship that gave Ernst intimate access to the life and conceptual world of Escher. Ernst`s account was meticulously scrutinized and made accurate by the artist himself.

Escher`s work refuses to be pigeonholed. Scientific, psychological, or aesthetic criteria alone cannot do it justice. The questions remain. Why did he create the pictures? How did he construct them? What preliminary studies were necessary before he could arrive at the final version? And how are the various images Escher created interrelated? This book, complete with biographical data, 250 illustrations, and explications of mathematical problems, offers answers to these and many other questions and is an authentic source text of the first order.

Think Like a Lawyer, Don't Act Like One provides strategies to solve conflicts. Co-developed by Harvard University, many lawyers, three bonobo's, two kissing boxers, a cowboy, Mikael Gorbatsjov, Sun Tze en John Rambo.

Think Like a Lawyer, Don't Like One can be used when dealing with grumpy police officers, angry neighbours, unwilling debtors, failing clients, nasty lawyers and other conflict seekers.

Each strategy is thoroughly tested and can be used at the kitchen table, on the street and in the boardroom.

All 75 rules are illustrated in a funny way.

This is a complete and tested ready to use guide to prevent and solve conflicts.

Managers, we all know them. They make sure that things get done, that agreements are observed and that results are achieved.

Ten years ago they were seen as the ideal solution for many companies. These days, their very existence is being called into question. Why this separate role? After all, managing is something we all do.

Think Like a Manager, Don't Act Like One offers 75 successful approaches to help you foresee or manage unpredictable situations. Developed with the assistance of John F. Kennedy, Johan Cruijff, Casanova, talented management gurus, elusive laboratory molds, one oval table, one donkey, Barack Obama, and Johnny Cash. These 75 perspectives will add to your confusion; but also your understanding.

This collection of approaches may well irritate you from time to time, and possibly inspire you, but really it should make you think. It probably wouldn't be sensible to follow every one of them, but they might give you some fresh ideas. Because those who keep doing what they've always done achieve the results they've always achieved.

Creators of designer toys come from the world of graphic design, illustration or street art, and they use all kind of materials to create these collecting articles. Although the most common raw materials are vinyl and plastic, we can also find pieces made of metal, wood, resin, fabrics, and plush. In the pages of  Toyland we will see more than half a million examples of limited editon designer toys, unique custom works of art, moulded, sculpted, sown and hand painted by the best artists of international level.

This book offers a strikingly illustrated look at the world of the designer toy, featuring some of the best designers and artists worldwide. After first appearing in Hong Kong at the end of the 1990s and then spreading rapidly through Japan, then the USA and UK, the 'designer toy movement' is now truly a worldwide phenomenon. "Toyland" is a lavishly illustrated volume that brings together the very latest trends in toy design - including customized one-offs and special limited editions - from some of the world's best known illustrators, designers, and even graffiti artists, such as Gary Baseman, Buff Monster, eBoy, Jon Burgerman, Kennyswork, and many more.

The tuning and customizing any means of transport, is a growing industry and a very popular and widespread hobby. The process consists equally of making modifications to the mechanics as to the vehicle's external appearance to achieve a unique style which is tuned to the style of its owner's driving.

For this reason it's not uncommon to hear it said there are no two cars tuned absolutely alike. The interest in tuning is increasing exponentially and almost every town or village, no matter how small, includes a couple of dates on its local fairs and fiestas calendar to organize a rally to display tuning in its pure state, something which has developed into a cult and an approach to style which has become part of today's "urban culture". This activity is a cultural expression of urban life, very similar to tattoos or piercing.

Featuring more than 1,700 unique designs from all over the world, TypoShirt One is the first book to focus exclusively on T-shirt typography. Spanning message and logo T-shirts to more abstract and arty models that transmit more cryptic messages, TypoShirt One showcases current and historical T-shirts from small, independent labels and artists to those created by globally recognized names and brands. Ever since the T-shirt crossed over from unadorned male innerwear item to a hugely popular unisex wardrobe staple more than half a century ago, no other piece of apparel has featured as many expressive and fascinating claims, statements, typefaces and “instant messages.” These transmitted messages gain an irreversible strength and power through the motifs that, in this book’s pages, are reduced to their substance, related to the form and content. Created for fans of graphic design, fashion and popular culture, TypoShirt One is an intriguing look at the wearable fabric canvases where these worlds–and words–meet.

Planet on the page. A visual atlas of our vast, fragile world

Dazzling in scale, diversity and detail, the world never ceases to open our eyes and captivate our curiosity. Ever since the earliest cave paintings, humans have looked at this Earth that is our home and endeavored to understand it.

This expansive visual atlas presents the most exciting, creative and inspiring ways of explaining the world in information graphics. Divided into five chapters, the book covers the environment, technology, economics, society, and culture to reveal some of the Earth’s greatest intricacies in accessible visual form. Featuring more than 280 graphics, reproduced in large scale including seven fold-out spreads, the collection focuses on the 21st century, but also includes historical masterpieces to put our current situation into perspective.

Nigel Holmes introduces the book with an exclusive infographic of his own, while Sandra Rendgen provides an illustrated historical essay to explore how we have studied and interpreted our world over the centuries. With graphics drawn from such sources as Fortune, National Geographic, and The Guardian, this is not only a showcase of outstanding data design, but also a fascinating digest of where and how we live.

In "Unfolded—Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry" paper conquers the third dimension and demonstrates the undreamed-of possibilities it holds today for lightweight construction, product design, fashion and art.

From "Paper", the collection of bags by Stefan Diez, to Konstantin Grcic’s paper models and the scented paper garments of Issey Miyake, this book presents paper as a high-quality contemporary and ecological material.

An enormous selection of projects, the lavish design and numerous illustrations provide designers with invaluable inspiration for their work.

The content core of the book is a comprehensive list of state-of-the-art paper products and innovative paper technologies, supporting designers in their everyday work with detailed information on the "high-tech" material paper.

From Japanese washi paper and paper foam, to ceramic paper and carbon fiber paper, "Unfolded" presents the latest in research and development, as well as the most important methods and technologies in handcrafts and industry.