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This debut monograph from Danish fashion brand GANNI documents Scandi 2.0 style, a growing global community of confident, unapologetic women and the unending pursuit of building a responsible fashion company.

Based out of Copenhagen, husband-and-wife duo Ditte and Nicolaj Reffstrup have built GANNI into a global fashion brand of the future in little over a decade. GANNI is at the forefront of responsible and transparent fashion with a cool and stylish approach that is constantly evolving. At the heart of the label lies a Scandinavian sensibility and an open-to-everyone attitude that celebrates creativity and individuality. This book captures just that — the global #GANNIGirl movement and diverse network of creatives that surrounds the brand, alongside its ongoing efforts to become the most responsible version of itself.

World-class photographers, stylists, designers and artists gather here to tell the GANNI story, with archive designs, collections, and iconic collaborations woven throughout. GANNI: Gimme More is a timely publication, printed on sustainable FSC-certified paper, that offers readers a window into the world of GANNI, a universe that is playful, mindful — and never dull.

About the Author:

Ana Kraš is a photographer and multidisciplinary artist. Richie Shazam is a New York-based photographer and model. Rosie Marks is a London-based photographer. Jacqueline Landvik is a Norwegian creative photographer and artist.

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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.

Some call it style, others a matter of taste-that certain A"touchA" some men have that lets them pick out and combine just the right suits, shirts, ties, and shoes. Actually, there is no trick to dressing stylishly as a man. You just have to become familiar with the tried-and-true classics and their history.Peruse this richly illustrated guidebook and peek into the studios of the best tailors and shoemakers on the international fashion scene.

Read which shoes Michael Douglas wears, and what kind of underwear Andy Warhol preferred. In a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience you will learn all there is to know about fabric, cut, patterns, colour, and the optimal care and clothing of a man from head to toe.From the perfectly placed tie knot to custom-made shoes, from casual sweaters to a top hat, everything you need for the appropriate outfit is explained in detail-and in the process, you'll become an expert in the finer points of life.

Geometric Patterns is a completely revised edition of one of Agile Rabbit’s best-selling volumes. All designs have been re-traced and perfected, and a vast number of exciting designs have been added.

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-manipulation, illustration, word-processing and e-mail programs; no installation is required. For most applications, single images can be used free of charge.

With its almost 900 pages, German Design Award 2011 is an opulent collection of outstanding state-of-the-art solutions in product and communication design. In addition to documenting this year's competition and winners, it contains an evaluation of the current influences on design by the German Design Council, one of the world’s leading competence centers for communication and know-how transfer in the design field. This detailed report, with a rich selection of images, puts recent design developments into context. It explains how the various design currents are related to each other and how they are expected to evolve over the next few years. The book not only provides insight into the work of current leaders in the field, but through its selection of winning design ideas, it also anticipates which challenges design will face in the future.

72 tritone photographs, 19 color photographs

One of the world's foremost artists of Fantastic Realism H. R. Giger is recognized as one of the world's foremost artists of Fantastic Realism. Born in 1940 in Chur, Switzerland, he studied architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts in Zurich. By 1964 he was producing his first artworks, mostly ink drawings and oils, leading to his first solo exhibition in 1966, followed by the worldwide distribution of his first published posters in 1969. Shortly after, he discovered the airbrush and his own signature, freehand, style, and created his most well-known works, which formed the cornerstone of his fame. Giger's first book, Necronomicon, published in 1977, served as the visual inspiration for director Ridley Scott's blockbuster movie Alien, Giger's first film assignment, earning him the 1980 Oscar for "Best Achievement in Visual Effects", for his designs of the film's title character and its otherworldly environment. Giger's album covers for Debbie Harry and the band ELP were voted among the 100 best in music history in a survey of rock journalists. Throughout his career, Giger also worked in sculpture and, in 1992, created his first total environment, the Giger Bar in Chur. The Museum H.R. Giger in Château Saint-Germain was opened in Gruyères in 1998. Today, Giger continues to live and work in Zurich with his companion in life Carmen, where his current projects include the realization of his museum bar in Gruyères. The H.R. Giger portfolio features high-quality prints that beg to be framed. Tucked in the portfolio are 14 large-format reproductions, each with a brief description. Images included: No. 312, Biomechanoid Landscape, No. 358, Illuminatus I, 1978, No. 305, Safari, 1973-76, No. 271, National Parc, 1975, No. 351, Cataract, No. 341, Witches' Dance, No. 292, Dune IV, 1976, No. 256, Minon, 1974, No. 350, Hommage à Böcklin, 1977, No. 272, Baphomet (after Eliphas Lévi), No. 274, A. Crowley (The Beast 666), No. 252, Biomechanoid I, No. 344, Mirror Image, No. 251, Li II, 1974.

Gijs Bakker (b. 1942), Dutch jewellery and product designer, has figured prominently in the front rank of international auteur jewellery for forty years. He has been setting trends in both form and design since the 1960s. Unsurprisingly, what is known as the ‘Dutch soft style’ has been an international hit. Collaborating with his former wife, Emmy van Leersum, he advocated the status of designer jewellery as autonomous works of art.

The present publication, which includes a detailed description of all his pieces, represents a complete annotated catalogue of Gijs Bakker’s œuvre. In this sumptuously illustrated book, the historian Ida van Zijl takes us through Gijs Bakker’s work, showing his importance for the development of jewellery worldwide.

The complete annotated catalogue of jewellery by the internationally renowned Dutch jewellery and product designer Gijs Bakker.

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Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique - which earned him a reputation as "The Norman Rockwell of cheesecake" - involved photographing models and then painting them into gorgeous hyper-reality, with longer legs, more flamboyant hair and gravity-defying busts, and in the process making them the perfect moral-boosting eye-candy for every homesick private.

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Minimum Design: An indispensable compendium on important designers of the modern era
An ideal and accessible introduction suitable for students and lovers of design today

Gio Ponti (Milano 1891-1979) was founder of 'Domus', Europe's most influential architecture and design magazine. Artistic director of Richard-Ginori, the ceramics manufacturer. Ponti's style was dominated by an exultant sense of the aesthetic both in his objects and his numerous buildings.

The Minimum Designers series includes books about the major figures in the field of design, creators of objects that have become a part of our daily lives. The lamp on our desk, the chair we are sitting on or the glasses we are wearing have a genius behind to be discovered.

These volumes will introduce in a practical manner the personalities and the works of the world's major designers by way of an historical-critical introduction to the work and life of each individual designer. An accurate selection of the designer's most famous objects arranged in chronological order and a critique of his or her work summarising the most significant reviews published in magazines and newspapers will complete the subject.

Available at a new, lower price, this comprehensive celebration of the fashions of one of the world’s most revered designers is now perfect for a wider audience.
 
This lavish book focuses upon the key creations and important milestones in the history of the celebrated Italian designer and his eponymous fashion house. With personal texts written by Giorgio Armani, the book contains biographical details interwoven with the story of the company.
 
Giorgio Armani has been universally credited with changing the rules of contemporary fashion and creating a timeless version of modern dress by removing excess ornament and translating traditional sportswear looks into business and evening wear. His impact is felt not only in women’s fashion and red- carpet glamour, but it is also inseparable from the evolution of men’s style in recent decades. More than any other contemporary designer, Armani best represents the global success of Italian style.
 
This gorgeously illustrated volume includes photography by a virtual who’s who of leading international fashion photographers, such as Steven Meisel, David Sims, Craig McDean, Herb Ritts, Mario Testino, Deborah Turbeville, Aldo Fallai, and Annie Leibovitz, and features numerous fashion icons.

About the Author

Award-winning fashion designer Giorgio Armani launched his menswear label in 1975, with his first womenswear collection following a year later. By 2001 he was acclaimed as the most successful designer to come out of Italy, with a retail network encompassing 37 countries.

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Creative jewelry design beyond luxury and pomp.

Contemporary jewelry has been vitalized by a recent burst of innovative concepts, materials, and designers. A Girl’s Best Friends is a compilation of the most creative pieces by outstanding jewelry designers from around the world.

The book features styles from glamorous to minimalistic, forms from geometric to organic, and materials from gold and silver to plastics and feathers. It includes work ranging from new interpretations of necklaces, rings, bracelets, earrings, and brooches to more experimental forms of body decoration.

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Today, jewelry — whether glamorous, gothic, or minimalist — is en vogue. Jewelry goes back centuries and has been on the forefront of design many times throughout history. Now, thanks to a burst of innovative concepts, materials, and designers, a new age of contemporary jewelry has begun. A Girl’s Best Friends is an eclectic collection of work from around the world that documents this current development.

Today, jewelry exists in a wide spectrum of forms from traditional to modern, from geometric to organic. It is inspired by elements of folklore and the composition of collage. The materials used include gold, silver, and gemstones as well as plastics, porcelain, leather, wood, feathers, and hair. These are being used to create not only necklaces, rings, bracelets, earrings, and brooches, but also more experimental forms of decoration that expand the human body.

A Girl’s Best Friends features work by outstanding jewelry designers including Ted Noten, Saskia Diez, byAMT, and Kelsey Quan; fashion labels such as Bless; creatives working with cutting-edge technologies such as Nervous System; and a range of innovative designers from other disciplines.

In short, A Girl’s Best Friends is the most comprehensive showcase of the innovative jewelry being created today.

Conceived of and written by seven-time FiFi Award winner, internationally renowned packaging designer Marc Rosen, 'Glamour Icons' is a book that both recognises and celebrates perfume bottle design as an art form. Rosen calls them "small pieces of glass architecture."

'Glamour Icons' is a collection of Marc Rosen's remarkable bottle designs, as well as a selection of perfume bottles from the last century that he considers iconic. It abounds with industry back stories never published before about working at his first job with Revlon founder the imperious Charles Revson, his career at Elizabeth Arden, his collaboration with the fashion houses of Chloe, Karl Lagerfeld, Fendi, Perry Ellis, Ellen Tracy, and Jill Stuart, as well as with celebrities such as Joan Rivers, Christina Aguilera and Celine Dion. The book recounts intriguing stories about working with Princess Grace of Monaco and Saudi Prince Fahad and about the experience that changed his life, working on a fragrance with Arlene Dahl, one of Hollywood's most glamorous leading ladies, and marrying her, as well. Marc Rosen is the first perfume bottle designer to write a book about his craft, and to describe the design process from original sketches to models, to working with glass manufacturers on engineering drawings to actual production. He shares his insights into creating the logo, graphics, colours, boxes and counter displays, as well as the "theatre of the launch."
'Glamour Icons' documents perfume bottles, their history, their place in society and their inspiration. Illustrated with amazing photographs by Vincent Ricardel, the book also contains Rosen's personal photographs and artwork given to him by many of the people he has worked with.

Foreword: Harold Koda Introduction: Fleur Cowles Chapter 1: Glamour Icons Chapter 2: My Perfume Bottles At Revlon The Arden Years Kaiser Karl Carnivale Fendi On My Own Chapter 3: The Art of Designing a Perfume Bottle Chapter 4: A Designer's Eye: Icons of the Past Chapter 5: Enduring Glamour A Conversation with Hamish Bowles

An updated illustrated survey overview highlighting the most outstanding projects by the well-established and renowned Mexican interior and furniture designer Gloria Cortina.

Superbly photographed, this beautifully crafted volume presents Cortina’s most recent interior projects and unique furniture pieces.

Cortina’s design inspirations range from Mayan artifacts to cubism, twentieth-century modernist art and architecture, Mexico’s unique arts and crafts heritage, and natural and archaeological environments.

Her unique approach to design, shaped by the visions of Mexican masters such as Diego Rivera and Luis Barragán, seeks to consolidate European and modernist influences with Mexico’s own arts and crafts heritage in pieces characterized by luxurious materials like tropical wood, stone, textured metal, and rich textiles sourced both locally and worldwide. Her designs are known for mixing Mexican antiquities, bespoke artisan-made pieces, and contemporary artworks and for her exquisitely rendered and sculptural pieces in bronze, obsidian, and quartz.

This volume will present Cortina’s blend of Old World sophistication and Mexican flair, which has affirmed her position as an arbiter of taste among the country’s elite; her aesthetic reflects the cosmopolitan nature of contemporary life in Mexico. Cortina’s recent projects range from Cabo San Lucas vacation homes for tech and finance giants to a new penthouse suite at the Sebastian resort in Vail, Colorado, luxury apartments in New York, and monumental homes in Mexico City.

About the Author:

Gloria Cortina was born and raised in Mexico City and studied at Parsons School of Design in New York. After a period of working with architect David Ling in New York, she returned to Mexico to work for the architect Ricardo Legorreta, later joining forces with others to launch the avant-garde firm A5 Arquitectura. In 2009 she established her own studio. Sean Kelly is a British, New York-based gallerist, contemporary art dealer, and owner of the Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. Jay Merrick is an architecture critic of The Independent and a regular essayist for the Architects Journal. He also contributes to leading magazines such as Blueprint, ArtReview and the periodical London Magazine.