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In postwar America, everything pointed to a bright, shiny future. Sheer optimism and opulence informed everything from automobile design to architecture, infusing design with larger-than-life planes and curves. Storefront design of the era is particularly indicative of this phenomenon, incarnated here in an extensive collection of hand-illustrated shop window designs from 1938 to 1950. These spectacular, often grandiose plans for grocery stores, shoe shops, beauty salons, bakeries, and more are reminders of a time when stores were sacred shrines for the congregation of American shoppers - impressive and even slightly intimidating, just like the future itself. Collected for this unique book, the designs viewed in retrospect reveal the mindset of a unique period in history. In addition to an extensive selection of drawings are historical black and white photographs of actual shops built in a similar style. Shop America offers a rare look at mid-century commercial America as it pictured itself.

With SHOWREEL.01, Daab Publishing releases a design book, dealing exclusively with the design of audiovisual media. The subjects range from Commercials, TV Design and Film Design (Titles/Trailers), to Music Videos and Short Films. Under each of these headings, SHOWREEL.01 features - both in a book and on DVD - outstanding Audiovisual Design from the last 2 years, interviews with the people behind the work and a portrait of the agency will complete the edition. With about 50 projects a year, Reel will try to cover Audiovisual Design on a world-wide scale, addressing an audience of Agency People, Production Professionals, Designers, Filmmakers and Educational People.

Cette série de trois ouvrages d’initiation se propose d’aborder les différents aspects du métier de tapissier décorateur. Chaque sujet comprend deux parties, l’une technique, l’autre historique. On ne peut pratiquer le métier de tapissier décorateur sans de solides connaissances des styles et de leur évolution. À la fois pratique et technologique, ces livres contribuent à la formation professionnelle en tapisserie et en décoration d’intérieur.

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Généralités et définitions, normes et dimensions. Les styles, l’évolution du rembourrage. Les techniques : le rembourrage classique et moderne, le capitonnage, les couvertures et les finitions, les housses, la coupe des tissus et des cuirs. Glossaire.

Smart business owners know the value of well-designed signs. They capture the customer s attention, provide the first impression and communicate the type of business. Sign Gallery 7 offers a wide range of excellent signs for businesses and budgets of all types. These are the winners of the annual Signs of the Times International Sign Design Competition. The types of signs include electric signs and channel letters, neon signage and graphics, digital displays, painted and vinyl signs, carved, routed and gilded dimensional signs, digitally printed banners, large-scale wall murals, architectural sign systems, vehicle graphics, entry monuments and more. Sign Gallery 7 provides the photos and descriptions that will help anyone to design and fabricate more eye-catching and effective signs: the kinds of signs smart business owners demand.

About the Author
Signs of the Times is the world leading magazine on sign information, and its annual sign design competition attracts the finest projects from around the world.

Sign Graphics delves into the world of graphic signage and wayfinding, which can be found anywhere from retail stores, museums, theaters, and libraries to airports, subway stations, highways, and public spaces. Signs everywhere attract us with their stunning visual image, while presenting us with a coherent message. This book features sections on "Graphic Identity," which explores visual representations of companies and their corporate image; "Interior Artworks," which examines beautifully designed signs, murals, and posters in interior spaces; and finally "Environmental Signs," which presents eye-catching signage applied to outdoor landscapes, creating a powerful visual presence. Complete with an extensive array of beautiful, color images, Sign Graphics is a detailed look at cutting-edge sign and wayfinding designs from top creators and sites around the world.

Where the constraints of time and space do no allow for the use of words, we use signs and symbols to convey meaning. Signs & Symbols, a collection of over 1,300 images, covers many of the important uses of this universal language, from the heraldry and property marks of the past to the very modern world of health, travel and safety (and, perhaps most importantly, the washing instructions in your clothing). The wide-ranging collection contains all the usual suspects, such as the arrow, the cross, the star and the crescent, but also lesser-known examples such as symbols devised by the Akan people from West Africa and a number of Japanese coats of arms.

The world is full of sings and symbols. Their language is universal, it has to be easily understood and unambiguous, intelligible in every region and culture. Still there is enough room for variations and innovation. „Signs, Symbols & Pictograms“ presents new designs for a great variety of purposes.

В этой книге представлено несколько сотен разнообразных силуэтов многих веков, видов и стилей, начиная со старинных восточноазиатских и заканчивая силуэтами начала 20-го века.

Они помогут вам придумать ваши собственные модели для любого случая, или вы можете просто разглядывать их как будто при свете волшебного фонаря.

В книге выбраны самые оригинальные, интересные и необычные модели силуэтов, чтобы усладить ваш взор и развить воображение.

Consecrating Cartier’s new collection of high jewelry and precious objects, this volume honors the iconic brand and its signature artistry.

Cartier continues to follow in the footsteps paved by its founding brothers, and to create breathtaking and unique pieces.

About the Author:

Francois Chaille is passionate about art history, fashion, jewelry, and watchmaking. He has collaborated with Flammarion to publish over fifteen books on these subjects.

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New materials for new shapes

Skeletons contains a selection of amazing line drawings of skeletons of a wide array of animals: from frogs to ostriches, from fish to mammoths, and from mice to... humans. This incredible collection of surprising, amusing, and very recognisable images is stored on the accompanying free CD-ROM in high and low resolution.

PEPIN gift wrap paper books all contain 4 pages of introduction and 12 large sheets of very high-quality wrapping paper. They can easily be removed from the books by tearing them along a perforated line. The wrapping papers are folded to fit into the book; when removed and opened they measure 50 cm x 70 cm (19,5 inch x 27,5 inch; a standard size for gift wrapping papers). Depending on the theme, we have selected a suitable light-weight paper quality. For example, papers with designs in gold, silver or bronze are printed on silky art paper on which the inks show to their best advantage. Designs with an antique or hand-made feel are printed on high-quality creamy offset paper. PEPIN papers make your gift package look very special. In addition, our papers are suitable for scrap booking and all sorts of craft projects. Each volume contains 12 different, exceptional designs.