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Philippe Starck is one of the world's most prolific and famous designers. Well known for his luxurious hotels and restaurants, he is equally celebrated for his inspirational reworkings of everyday household items.

Whether it be his iconic lemon squeezer, dubbed the 'Juicy Salif', or his colourful stylized toothbrushes, Starck's works are some of the earliest examples of 'democratic design'. This idea, that exceptional products should not be exclusive and elite, but be accessible and affordable, would eventually revolutionise modern design.

Starck has worked privately for French president Francois Mitterand, decorating a suite in the Palais d'Élysée in Paris in 1982. He has designed products for a number of internationally renowned organisations including Microsoft, Lacie, Eurostar, Alessi and Fossil.

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.

Christina Morozzi is the editor of Design magazine and works as a curator of exhibitions in Italy and abroad. She is also a visiting professor at Domus Academy of Milan and University of Art and Design, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Полное, развернутое описание всех возможностей последней версии лучшего графического редактора — Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 4 — сопровождается рекомендациями по практическому применению функций и инструментов программы. Большое количество примеров позволяет получить навыки работы в Photoshop. Особое внимание уделено нововведениям CS4, в частности возможностям версии Photoshop CS4 Extended. Материал структурирован таким образом, чтобы облегчить читателю поиск необходимой информации. Часть иллюстраций представлена на цветной вклейке. Прилагаемый компакт-диск содержит видеоуроки, дополнительные фильтры, макросы и многое другое.
Для всех пользователей Photoshop, а также для тех, кто хочет научиться эффективно работать в этой программе.

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Лучший способ научиться что-нибудь делать — это попробовать. Книга, которую вы держите в руках, поможет вам в этом. Приведенные примеры не просто научат эффективно использовать возможности Photoshop CS4, но и обеспечат дизайнерскими рецептами на все случаи жизни. Вы сможете сразу перенести описанные приемы на практику. Много полезного содержит компакт-диск: дополнительные фильтры, кисти, макросы, а самое главное — видеоуроки и цветные иллюстрации к книге. Самые важные рисунки вынесены на цветную вклейку.
Для всех, кто хочет быстро получить практические навыки работы в Photoshop, а также иметь под рукой сборник готовых дизайнерских решений.

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Picnic is the compliation of the best works from the new-wave of international artists, setting new directions in retro-inspired modernist and folkloric illustration. Their old-school methods of using silk-printed graphics, collage photocopying, engraving, hand-drawing, lettering and stencilling, lend the work a strong personality and originality, far removed from the more sterile, minimal cutting-edge design trends seen over the last decade. This refereshing work is a nod to the golden age of graphic design in the 50s and 60s in 20th century Europe.

This book recalls the techniques used by the grand maestros of design and illustration, Saul Bass, John Hubley (Mr.Magoo), Friz Felang (Pink Panther and legends of pop graphic design, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand and Edelman.

Detailed illustrations and photographs of over 300 exquisite lace samples and designs created over past 500 years. Delicate masterpieces depict human and mythical figures, filigree designs of hearts and flowers, beautiful floral and foliate motifs, and more.

Royalty-free designs from elegant borders, edgings, collars, doilies, much else.

Over 450 black-and-white photographs, royalty-free, show ironwork masterpieces from all over Europe — doors, gates, railings, grilles, door knockers, locks, lanterns, candelabra, firedogs, chandeliers, much more. Beautiful examples from Notre Dame; Chichester Cathedral; Barcelona Cathedral; Fredericksborg Castle, Denmark; Versailles; scores of other sites.

300 illustrations

Pictures and Words collects some of the most outstanding contemporary examples of pictorial storytelling. Celebrating illustration that stands on its own to tell a story rather than simply accompanying or adorning another medium, the book includes extracts from graphic novels, comic strips and books, as well as single-panel cartoons and drawings. Words are present in the form of character dialogue or narration, or sometimes a story emerges from a series of illustrated panels that contain no text at all. With or without words, this is a highly expressive medium, dealing with a vast range of subjects from political issues to the most complex of human emotions. Comics and graphic novels are currently enjoying huge popularity in mainstream culture. This timely book brings together work by 30 key artists from around the world, including Paul Davis, Benoît Jacques and Andrzej Klimowski.

Piero Fornasetti was a master of the decorative imagination. He employed illusionism, architectural perspectives and a host of personal leitmotifs - the sun, playing cards, still lifes, libraries, harlequins, newspapers, the face of a once-famous opera singer - in seemingly endless variations on plates, chairs, desks, screens, scarves, cabinets and decorative objects of every kind. As Gio Ponti, his friend and collaborator, said: 'he makes objects speak.'

Fornasetti's oeuvre is celebrated here in a publication that marks him out as a virtuoso conjurer of dream and illusion. Captured in paintings, drawings and photographs from the family and studio archives, Fornasetti's designs testify to a unique imaginative genius.

This series presents international architects and designer in monographies. Pierro Lissoni is one of Italy's most successful Designers, leading a company in Milan with over 50 Architects and Designers.  So far he is known more for his furniture design rather than his architecture. He is often thought of as a minimalist, but in reality, Piero Lissoni's aim is to create a complementary cohabitation of different styles. His highest goal is simplicity: as way of thinking, as an attitude, simplicity holds a great inner complexity. For Piero Lissoni it is always imperative to scale down and get to the bottom of things. Among his customers are renown companies such as Boffi and Matteograssi. The book introduces to a selection of his outstanding projects all around the world.

We are good at designing beautiful products and we offer good services. We always know exactly what the user wants and we know dozens of methodologies. However, if we have to convince our customers and colleagues, we find it rather difficult. For one reason or another, pitching ideas is one of the most undervalued practices in the creative field.

From convincing a colleague to opt for a certain methodology to persuading a customer to go for a certain concept, you can have the best ideas in the world, but if you are not able to bring them across, they will never become reality. In this book the author will take you inside of the heads of the people you have to convince.

Pitching Ideas will help you to find the essence of the idea you want to get across and will explain how you can really convince the right people in the end. "Pitching Ideas provides a bulletproof framework and approach to pitching for all aspects of your life, professional and private alike!" - Philip Battin, Design Strategy Lead at Google

Pixel Surgeons presents the very best of today's styling and illusion in fashion and lifestyle photography.

Fifty years ago fashion photography was perceived as the elitist preserve of glossy magazines across the world. Today it is part of the 21st-century lifestyle. Commuting to and from work, we are subjected to billboards and hoardings advertising well-known labels. It is now de rigueur for every tabloid to contain a fashion features page. Style magazines - for both men and women - dominate the heaving newsagent's shelves.

Media awareness and discriminating aesthetics have provoked a multi-layered language of fashion photography, and digital technology has introduced a level of image manipulation that has further enriched the genre. Today's photographic communicators offer personal visions that grab the viewer by the throat in their attempt to satisfy the market's craving for more and more imaginative imagery.

Martin Dawber presents the work of over 30 of the most exceptional new international practitioners of photography, styling, and digital manipulation, exploring their methods and influences.

Ce titre regroupe des plans de meubles faciles à réaliser. Les modèles sont illustrés par des schémas cotés pouvant servir de base à une reproduction à l’identique ou à une adaptation libre.

Sommaire :
Historique du mobilier US.
Interprétation des dessins.Conseils techniques.
Types de meubles : Chaises. Lits. Bureaux. Tables.

Ce livre permet aux amateurs du travail du bois de se familiariser avec la pratique de la menuiserie. Il présente 17 plans de meubles à réaliser. Les plans sont cotés et comportent une feuille de débit et une représentation de l’ouvrage.

Sommaire :
Plans : coffre, banquette, table monastère, meuble téléphone, meuble bas, coffre à linge, bureau, secrétaire, jardinière, table ronde, etc.

During the last 50 years, the plastic industry has grown at an incredible pace until becoming part of nearly all the areas of human activity. Plastic materials moreover have made practically any architectural solution affordable to all. This book contains dozens of examples and architectural projects which have used plastic in one or various of their features: walls, illumination, roofs, facades, furniture...The examples featured cover practically all the possible applications of plastic materials in contemporary architecture. An index of contact information of the designer and architects is enclosed.