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The 5th edition of the Spanish Graphic Design yearbook is dedicated to the different categories in Graphic Design - editorial, packaging, corporate identity, logos, posters, catalogues, exhibitions, etc. - also including a New Media section featuring websites, video and multimedia projects. The jury members for this years' selection have been: Sergi Arévalo, Laura Armet, Ricardo Bermejo, Ramón Castillo, Oyer Corazón, Pilar Gorriz, Marc Guardiola, Enric Jardí, Jose Mª Morera, Alfredo Olmedo, Ibán Ramón, Sebastián Saavedra and Tilman Solé.

Clad in white, this year's Select H sticks to its 3-volume format introduced in its last edition, dividing the book into three blocks: Graphic Design, New Media (DVD inclusive) and Schools.

Its daring, innovative design, outlined from its very first issue, Select A, offers a format which is smaller than usual, to emphasize its thickness, while every project featured is presented on a double-page spread.

Select is considered a book of reference in the world of Graphic Design and an essential guide for keeping up-to-date with Spanish creativity, year after year.

Contributors to Select H's selectors team have been: Alberto Salván, Diego Feijóo, Enric Batlle, Astrid Stavro, Xose Teiga, Marga Castaño, Tavo Ponce, Gonzalo Zaragoza, Raquel Pelta, Marina Vilageliu y Hernán Ordoñez.

Selected is not an award, but rather, as its name suggests, it is a "selection" of the best European design projects completed within year 2009 by graphic studios, designers and students from across Europe.

The projects are chosen by a team of renowned professionals - Selectors - from various fields in the visual communication and graphic design industries, who meet to make a selection of the best work pieces among all the entries received. Only the projects which are chosen from their expert point of view are ultimately included in the book.

The annual is presented with an original design and in a special format, smaller than the average yearbook. The book is divided into three different categories (Graphic Design, New Media and Schools) and each project is featured individually on a double-page spread. Instead of being numbered, each edition of Selected is assigned a letter, in alphabetical order, which is also the initial of the font face used in the book. Namely, the first volume in the series, Selected A, refers to the font face AkzidGroBe. This is Index Book's special way of paying homage to typography as an iconic element in design.

Sin and temptation, wisdom and deceit, death and damnation, but also eternity and renewal, protection and healing power - the symbolic meanings of the snake are as manifold as the myths, sagas and legends in which it plays a significant role. The snake led Adam and Eve into temptation in the Garden of Eden, the Uraeus snake was the symbol of the pharaohs in ancient Egypt, the Midgard serpent inhabited the ocean of Germanic mythology, it was the ancient symbol of the art of healing, was worshipped as the snake spirit in India and as a deity in African and Central American cultures.

In all eras and in all cultures, the snake has fascinated humankind and inspired the creation of striking works of art. Serpentina is dedicated for the first time to the whole spectrum of the snake in jewellery, for few artists, jewellers or even the jewellery industry could resist the temptation to incorporate this creature into jewellery design. The examples span everything from Hellenistic snake bangles to the glittering art nouveau creations by Lalique and Fournet, from the luxurious creations by Cartier and Fabergé to the playful objects of contemporary jewellery artists, from snake motifs from Mexico and the golden snakes of the Akan in Ghana to Indian snake jewellery and Japanese snake netsukes. In jewellery the seductive power of the snake is unfailing. Let it put you under its spell!

Sünde und Versuchung, Klugheit und List, Tod und Unheil, aber auch Ewigkeit und Erneuerung, Schutz und Heilkraft – die symbolischen Bedeutungen der Schlange sind so vielfältig wie die Mythen, Sagen und Legenden, in denen sie eine bedeutende Rolle spielt: die Schlange führte Adam und Eva im Paradies in Versuchung, war als Uräusschlange im Alten Ägypten Symbol der Pharaonen, bewohnte als Midgardschlange das Weltmeer der germanischen Mythologie, war in der griechischen Antike Symbol der Heilkunst, wurde als Schlangen-Geist in Indien, als Gottheit in afrikanischen und mittelamerikanischen Kulturen verehrt.

Zu allen Zeiten und in allen Kulturen faszinierte die Schlange den Menschen und inspirierte ihn zu herausragenden Kunstwerken. Die Publikation widmet sich erstmals der gesamten Bandbreite der Schlange im Schmuck, denn kaum ein Künstler, Juwelier oder selbst die Schmuckindustrie konnte der Versuchung widerstehen, diesem Wesen im Schmuck Gestalt zu verleihen. Die Beispiele reichen vom hellenistischen Schlangenarmreif bis zu den glanzvollen Kreationen des Jugendstils von Lalique und Fouquet, von den luxuriösen Kreationen von Cartier und Fabergé bis zu verspielten Objekten zeitgenössischer Schmuckkünstler, von Schlangenmotiven aus Mexiko, den goldenen Schlangen der Akan in Ghana über indischen Schlangenschmuck bis zu den japanischen Schlangen-Netsukes – im Schmuck ist die Verführungskraft der Schlange ungebrochen. Lassen Sie sich in ihren Bann ziehen!

Summer at the Serpentine. Ten years of temporary pavilions by top architects

Since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Kensington Gardens has called on some of the world’s top architects to design summer pavilions – temporary structures that are erected next to the Gallery itself for a three-month period. The Serpentine, which was built in 1934 as a tea pavilion, opened in 1970 as a showplace for exhibitions of modern and contemporary artists ranging from Matthew Barney to Dan Flavin, Ellsworth Kelley, Louise Bourgeois or Rachel Whiteread.
The pavilions in the Programme that was conceived in 2000 by the Serpentine Director Julia Peyton-Jones, are the work of international architects or design teams who at the time of the Serpentine’s invitation have not completed a building in England. A maximum of six months from invitation to completion is allotted. The only architecture program of its type in the world, the Serpentine Gallery Pavilions attract up to 250,000 visitors each summer. The Serpentine Pavilion is regularly ranked in the top 5 most attended architecture and design exhibitions worldwide in The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of museums and galleries visitor figures. The architect Richard Rogers has stated, “The pavilions, erected for reatively little money, are unbelievably good. I coudn’t single one out that I have liked more than the others – they have all been masterpieces.”

The projects completed or envisaged include the work of

* Zaha Hadid, 2000
* Daniel Libeskind, 2001
* Toyo Ito, 2002
* Oscar Niemeyer, 2003
* MVRDV, 2004 (un-realised)
* Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura with Cecil Balmond, 2005
* Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond, 2006
* Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen, 2007
* Frank Gehry, 2008
* SANAA, 2009
* Jean Nouvel, 2010
* Other works such as Zaha Hadid's temporary 2006 installation Lilas are included in the book as well.

This book is the first to bring together all of the Serpentine Pavilions. Interviews of Serpentine Director Julia Peyton-Jones and Co-Director Hans Ulrich Obrist complete the description of the pavilions, illustrated by the original drawings by each architect and photos of the completed works.

The author:

Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN’s Architecture Now! series, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid. He is internationally renowned as one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture.

This sumptuously illustrated book reveals the decorative seams, exquisite stitching, voluptuous drapery, strict corseting and slashing and stamping that make up the clothing in the V&A’s superlative seventeeth- and eighteenth-century fashion collection. Using an authoritative text, exquisite colour photography and line drawings of complete garments, the reader is allowed the unique opportunity to look closely at clothing, often too fragile to be on display.

Part of the V&A Fashion in Detail series, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail is an inspirational resource for students, designers, collectors and all followers of fashion.

This handy reference offers more than 40 major corner and edge techniques for garments and home decorating projects. The easy, step-by-step instructions are appropriate for all experience levels and cover everything from tablecloths and napkins to pillows, shams, vest, and ties.

Пролистать книгу Sewing Edges and Corners: Decorative Techniques for Your Home and Wardrobe на Google Books.

It's undeniable: sex is everywhere: advertisements, fashion, art, film, music and television. All proliferating the "sex sells" adage. SEX DESIGN is a great looking, graphic, and entertaining book presenting an exciting selection of designers and their work on the pursuit of pleasure. Included are both product and graphic designs, objects relating to sex, hearts, love, provocative ads using sex as an enticement, phallic architecture, sex toys, and lots of sexual innuendo.

This amusing collection is amassed from sources around the world, from a diverse group of designers who are happy to cross the line into risqué territory. From the subliminal to the overt, SEX DESIGN takes a look at the way this subject has become ingrained in popular culture and brings ingenious new meaning to the word "erotica".

Shadowfolds — це багате поєднання традиційних мотивів, виражених у сучасному стилі. Техніка, започаткована художником Крісом К. Палмером, створює візерунки з однієї нерозрізаної панелі тканини за допомогою простого триетапного процесу.

У Shadowfolds Джефф Рутцкі, сам досвідчений і пристрасний орігаміст, і Палмер пропонують детальну та захоплюючу інформацію про техніку та її походження як у мавританській плитці, так і в класичному японському орігамі. Палмер вперше зіткнувся з вишуканою мозаїкою Альгамбри і зацікавився тим, що навчився перекладати ці візерунки на складений папір. Він звернувся за натхненням до робіт японських майстрів орігамі Томоко Фюзе, Джун Маекава, Тосікадзу Кавасакі та Шузу Фудзімото, а також до великих американських орігамістів Роберта Ленга та Пітера Енгела.

Потім був перехід до роботи по сукну. Гнучка властивість тканини дозволяє складати складки для збільшення та надання розмірності, якої немає на плоскій поверхні; а напівпрозорість додає неповторної складності геометричним візерункам. Коли лінії у візерунку складаються як складки, отримані форми, утворені складками, стають частиною художнього вираження матеріалу.

Можливості використання Shadowfolds у дизайні безмежні. Деякі аплікації використовують світло, що просвічує тканину, інші демонструють багатство складок, які мають власну глибину. На додаток до пояснення трьох дуже простих кроків техніки, автори показують, як навіть новачки папки можуть створювати захоплюючі витвори текстильного мистецтва, а також передовий одяг, аксесуари та домашні меблі, що містять ці тривимірні прикраси. Вони також включають розділ візерунків, тканини та ресурси для рукоділля.

A colorful postcard gallery presents a dozen immortal scenes from the works of the English language's greatest playwright. Vignettes include Juliet on the balcony, mad Ophelia wreathed in flowers, and images inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, and other plays.

Table of Contents for Shakespeare Illustrations Postcards
Charles Robinson, The Songs and Sonnets of William Shakespeare
William Hatherell, Romeo and Juliet
John Simmons, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Charles Folkard, As You Like It
John William Waterhouse, Hamlet
Hugh Thomson, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Norman M. Price, Much Ado About Nothing
Arthur Rackham, King Lear
John Singer Sargent, Macbeth
Frank Schoonover, Macbeth
John William Waterhouse, The Tempest
Edmund Dulac, The Tempest

“A shoe is a very complicated object to design. It is art, but involves mini architecture: materials, techniques, tooling. The end result is a fantasy sculpture to look at, but has another life when it is worn.” - Kobi Levi

Exotic shoes have been around for centuries. Sandals made of solid gold were found in the royal tombs of ancient Egypt. Six hundred years ago, women teetered around Venice in chopines with platforms up to a foot high. And in China, tiny golden lotus shoes were brightly colored and elaborately embroidered. In the twentieth century, Salvatore Ferragamo introduced platform shoes and “invisible” sandals. Beth Levine invented sprint-o-lator mules and topless shoes held to the sole by adhesive. Roger Vivier created the concave stiletto and comma heels for his extravagantly bejeweled concoctions. The last two decades have seen an explosion of creativity in footwear design. Sexy laced-up sandals, sky-high platform heels, and outrageously decorated shoes are seen on fashionable women everywhere, from the catwalk to the street. In Shoegasm, you’ll find page after page of fabulous footwear from fashion icons such as Christian Louboutin, Manolo Blahnik, Vivienne Westwood, and Alexander McQueen, as well as exciting young designers like Nicholas Kirkwood, Charlotte Olympia, and collaborators Rem D. Koohhaas and Galahad Clark. You’ll also see shoes that are truly wearable art from innovators like Kobi Levi, Julian Hakes, and Marloes Ten Bhomer.

Charting shoe fashion from tight-laced Edwardian boots to the eccentric designer classics of today, with stunning full-colour photography, this chunky and fun collection appeals to the princess in every woman. Special feature spreads shine a spotlight the major designers, their influences and their most famous clients on celebrities and their shoes including Elton John and Naomi Campbell. The perfect gift book for any woman who loves shoes, this is the first title in a new series. Future titles in this series include: "Teddy Bears", "Watches", and "Vintage Gems".

About the Author:

Judith Miller began collecting in the 1960s while a student at Edinburgh University in Scotland. She has since extended and reinforced her knowledge of antiques through international research, becoming one of the world's leading experts in the field. In 1979 she co-founded the international best-seller Miller's Antiques Price Guide and has since written more than 100 books, which are held in high regard by collectors and dealers. Judith Miller appears regularly on TV and radio. She is an expert on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and co-hosts the popular BBC series The House Detectives, ITV's Antiques Trail, and Discovery's It's Your Bid. She has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show and CNN. She is a regular lecturer and contributor to numerous newspapers and magazines, including Financial Times, BBC Homes & Antiques and House & Garden. She has lectured extensively, including at the V&A in London and the Smithsonian in Washington.