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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.

From camisoles to corsets, basques to boudoir caps and girdles to garters, Underwear: Fashion in Detail gets up close and personal with some of the most intimate items in the V&A. Lynn traces the evolution of underwear, drawing on 120 objects that include rare examples dating from the sixteenth century, the exaggerated shapes of eighteenth-century court dress, Dior’s curvaceous ‘New Look’ and contemporary lingerie by Agent Provocateur and Rigby and Peller. Beautiful new photography shows close-up details of these fascinating garments, while intricate line drawings reveal their masterly construction. The book also highlights the work of designers such as Vionnet and Westwood who have taken influence from underwear for their own outerwear creations.

About the Author:

Eleri Lynn is a Fashion Curator at the V&A. Previously she was the Assistant Curator of the V&A’s major exhibition The Golden Age of Couture (V&A 2007).

A book for fashion and design lovers detailing Emilio Pucci's creativity beyond fashion, expressed through his interior design projects, rugs, and porcelain.

The brightly colored printed fabrics that twist around in a kaleidoscope created by Emilio Pucci recount an important period of Italian fashion history dating back to the 1960s.

This volume celebrates Emilio Pucci's creativity, which he expressed through his interior design projects, rugs, and porcelain, as well as in his fashion. Pucci's patterns and designs have been used in collaboration with other brands to create designer and collector objects.

Emilio Pucci focused on the creation of rugs that were presented in 1970 at the Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo in Buenos Aires. The production of exclusive rugs continues upon the request of selected clients, whose houses have been photographed for the book. Currently, Pucci collaborates with Cappellini, Kartell, Bisazza, Illy, and many others on their interior design projects.eation of rugs that were presented at the Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo in Buenos Aires. The production of exclusive rugs continues upon the request of selected clients, whose houses have been photographed for the book. Currently, Pucci collaborates with Cappellini, Kartell, Bisazza, Illy, and many others on their interior design projects.

About the Author:

Laudomia Pucci graduated in business and economics at LUISS University in Rome. After the death of her father,
Emilio Pucci, in 1992, she became head of the Emilio Pucci company. Suzy Menkes is a British journalist and fashion critic. Angelo Flaccavento is a contributing editor to the Business of Fashion. Piero Lissoni is one of Italy's leading Italian architects and designers, known for his contemporary furniture design.

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.

Perhaps you suffer from it too! it starts as a hobby, a collection, a job, an interest... then somehow it grows taking over your life, every waking moment becoming part of the obsession... our obsession, manifest in sleepless nights, haunted days, the angst over imperceptible detail, the quest for perfection.

The disorder is unknown, the cure - success. This year, 2012, OFFF Barcelona celebrates the designers infected with the Unknown Disorder and showcases their work, the symptoms of obsession. The festival book develops the diagnostic theme, presenting the work of this years artists as a series of patient files in the hospital of OFFF.

Each file presents original work by the artists including some made specifically for the festival. The book allows reader feedback by way of device scan-able barcodes which will be used to develop info-graphic artwork later in the year.

This year the roster of artists includes publically submitted work alongside such luminaries as: Daniel Eatock, Lucy McRae, Radical Friend, Jessica Hische, 1st Ave Machine, Yuko Shimizu, Attik, James Victore, Andreu Balius, Brosmind, Folch Studio, Carlitos y Patricia, Mario Lombardo, Catalina Estrada, Sehsucht, Ritxi Ostáriz, Losiento, Emil Kozak...

The book design is by Doce Collective and contains a special case-file dedicated to their obsession with the theme of 'twelve' .

Urban Bags, bag designs, introduces a wide variety of projects from different sources of creative are and design, with the bag designs taken to be a point of reference.

This phenomenon goes way beyond the world of fashion, and is something which has spread through various design sectors with a wide range of highly diversecreators participating in the creation from illustrators, graffiti experts, graphic designers, etc., using a wide variety of materials including canvas, pvc plastics, artificial leather and recycled fabrics.

For many years the current fashion trends have been set by the big names on the catwalk but this is no longer the case and the fashion rules are now undoubtedly established on the street.
Urban fashion, also known as streetstyle, leaves it up to the citizens from numerous places around the world to model the latest trends. A great many streetstyle blogs have appeared the world over, from London to Barcelona, New York, Shanghai, Moscow, Berlin, etc. All featuring photos of the “coolest” gear appearing on all of these cities’ streets.
Urban Flavor, is a collection taken from various fashion designers whose newly released designs just happen to be strongly influenced by the latest streetstyle.

The book includes a selection of the sketches that Lanfranco Bombelli drafted, first in Paris and later in Barcelona, for the graphics of the exhibitions in the American Trade Centers in Milan, Stockholm, Paris and Frankfurt, from 1963 to 1978, until they were closed, as a continuation of what the Marshall Plan had been. His artistry in geometrical compositions is based on a minimum of plastic means and inspired by mathematical principles. He depicts in this way new products of technological innovation in the fields of pharmaceutics, design industry or printing among others.

This box set contains the next four titles in the popular V&A series of patterns books. Beautifully designed, accessible and informative, the box set is a respository of ideas for designers of all kinds but also a collectable object in itself. Commercial designers looking to license patterns canuse these books as a starting point for research.

Each book includes a CD of all the images contained within - to be redrawn or reworked.

The new titles for Spring 2010 contained in this box set are Owen Jones, Novelty Patterns, Kimonos and Secret Garden. Carefully branded to draw on the V&A's pre-eminent status, the series will encourage you to collect the entire range. The V&A is the world's greatest museum of art and design. For the past 150 years its collection has been an inspiring resource for designers, reflecting a breadth and depth that represents over 3,000 years of artefacts from all over the world.

'Beautiful and practical, the books are visual summaries of the most sumptuous parts of the V&A collections' Royal Academy Magazine

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high resolution images.

This collector's slipcase edition contains four titles in the series - Owen Jones, Novelty Patterns, Kimono and Garden Florals.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Chinese Textiles moves through the centuries highlighting the motifs of luxurious courtly robes, floral silks intended for the export market, and even the tongue-in-cheek patterns of Vivienne Tam.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Digital Pioneers showcases the work of post-war designers and artists using new technology to create images of unexpected purity in their natural patterning, symmetry and order. Artists featured include Ben Laposky, Herbert Franke, Charles Csuri and Paul Brown.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Garden Florals showcases textiles and wallpapers that depict motifs derived from the natural world - the selection is mostly British and from the period 1880-1910. Artists and designers featured include William Morris, Walter Crane, C.F.A Voysey and Lewis Foreman Day.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Published to celebrate British Design at the V&A, Heal's showcases the mid-twentieth century fabrics of this retail institution as commissioned by director and visionary Tom Worthington.

This attractive series reveals the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high-resolution images.

Indian Florals showcases the patterns derived from plants and flowers found in Indian textiles, ranging from bed covers and carpets to saris and sashes.