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Trend-forecasting collection of work from the trend think-tank at the world-famous Central Saint Martins college in London (often referred to as 'Saints').

'Trends 09' represents in a clear and concise visual manner early trend directions. Amongst the maelstrom of creativity, Saints edits, sources and narrates key early trends, mixing and matching creative disciplines (from fashion, design, fine art and product design), acknowledging that everything influences everything. Based on a 24-month forecast with considerable amount of design data, Saints thin-slices the most influential, directional and creative work to represent it in its rawest and earliest form with enough flexibility to adapt over the two-year lead.

'Trends 09' is composed of a general introduction to the think-tank’s findings, highlighting key drivers and influences in the year’s graduates work. It then presents the 10 key trends – some socio-cultural, some design led and some style based. All the work collated and represented in 'Trends 09' is from graduates and students.

Central Saint Martins is unique in its expression of emerging trends and its privileged position at the heart of what is a world famous art and design college.

The Saints think-tank consults blue chip companies such as Nokia, the Gucci Group and Dyson, providing an authoritative and proven track record in trend forecasting.

This guide to the identification of motifs, designs and patterns of the rich weaving traditions of the Near East and Central Asia is an indispensable resource on Oriental rugs and carpets.

The book is divided into six major regional and tribal groupings, covering Anatolian, Baluchi, Caucasian, Kurdish, Persian and Turkmen motifs. These are further subdivided into sections which give more precise attributions and motif types, and examine the derivations and uses of medallions, field repeats and borders, as well as the relationships between them.

Pattern recognition has long been used to determine the origin and age of rugs, and this detailed analysis of designs and their component elements provides a vital key to accurate attribution.

Lavishly illustrated throughout, this book has become an invaluable aid to identifying the enormous variety of tribal and village rug motifs. It is also a treasure house of creative inspiration for designers of all kinds.

Peter F. Stone is an expert on Oriental carpets and the author of several books, including The Oriental Rug Lexicon.

Tricia Guild is known for her bold fabric, wallpaper designs, and an extraordinary sense of colour and pattern. Following the success of her books on colour, she now shares her skills with patterns. The book draws on historical and global patterns. Woven or printed or embroidered, patterns inspire Tricia Guild as she uncovers their origins and explores the exotic. Any pattern can be appropriate for the right room — European checks and stripes, Asian silks and damasks, the Caribbean's vibrant ethnic prints, as well as contemporary abstract and geometric patterns.

The book is divided into style sections: floral, painterly, geometric, classics, silks, and tropical. The author draws on examples from her own designs to demonstrate the impact pattern has on the energy and mood of a room and how to use pattern with confidence. Included at the end are colorboards with hints and tips for designing.

With stunning, original photography and a text rich in insights from the designer's own experience, this is a must-have compendium for anyone interested in contemporary interior design.

Featuring the artwork of over 25 leading artists with name recognition

As art journaling grows in popularity (even attracting a new breed of scrapbookers who call themselves "life artists"), there is a movement afoot toward creating more authentic, personal, what some people call "raw" journals. These journals are filled with not just attractive, well-composed pages, but pages that are filled with personal, meaningful content.

True Visions is focused on ways to bring authenticity and meaning into one's art journaling. The book will examine themes and topics common to all while offering activities and exercises to create rich meaningful content. Each chapter will highlight familiar subject areas such as life events, spirituality, childhood, and even an artist's favorite writings. Within each topic, readers are given guided activities and exercises for developing content, provided one or two artistic techniques, and are shown inspiring examples of work by a variety of talented art journal artists.

The tuning and customizing any means of transport, is a growing industry and a very popular and widespread hobby. The process consists equally of making modifications to the mechanics as to the vehicle's external appearance to achieve a unique style which is tuned to the style of its owner's driving.

For this reason it's not uncommon to hear it said there are no two cars tuned absolutely alike. The interest in tuning is increasing exponentially and almost every town or village, no matter how small, includes a couple of dates on its local fairs and fiestas calendar to organize a rally to display tuning in its pure state, something which has developed into a cult and an approach to style which has become part of today's "urban culture". This activity is a cultural expression of urban life, very similar to tattoos or piercing.

Text in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish

Turkish design is heavily dependent on the use of ornate calligraphy, geometric patterns and especially floral elements, such as foliage and creeping vines. These forms of decoration reached great heights in the former Ottoman Empire. Turkish Designs contains a collection of carefully reproduced, stunning images, with an emphasis on decorations taken from ceramics, mosaics and tile design.

Turkish design is heavily dependent on the use of ornate calligraphy, geometric patterns and floral elements, such as foliage and creeping vines. This new, revised and expanded edition of Turkish Designs contains a collection of carefully reproduced, stunning images, with an emphasis on decorations taken from ceramics, mosaics and tile design.

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. Please consult our section on image rights for conditions.

This glamorous book, part of the V&A Fashion in Detail series, illustrates the intricate details of twentieth-century fashion. Spectacular photographs, accompanied by expert commentaries and specially commissioned line drawings, focus on fanciful Dior bows, Chanel button-holes and metal sprinfs on a Schiaparelli jacket. This unique study provides an insight into the techniques and craft practices used by couturiers and the construction of these amazing garments. Twentieth-Century Fashion in Detail will delight all followers of fashion. Previously available as Modern Fashion in Detail.

About the Authors: 

Claire Wilcox is Senior Curator of the Department of Furniture, Textiles & Fashion at the V&A and Professor of Fashion Curation at the London College of Fashion. She curated the exhibitions Vivienne Westwood (V&A 2004), and The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957 (V&A 2007), and also edited the accompanying catalogues. 

Valerie D. Mendes is a fashion and textiles historian who became Chief Curator of the former Textiles and Dress Department at the V&A. She has curated numerous exhibitions and published widely on twentieth-century dress and textiles.

Twentieth-century Jewellery presents an extraordinary collection of jewels, jewellers and international maisons which, from the start of the twentieth century to the present day, have mirrored the changing taste of the twentieth century. It is a global journey which takes us from France to Russia, from the United States to Italy, from Britain to Germany and from the Netherlands to Scandinavia. From the Art Nouveau masterpieces of Lalique, Vever and Fouquet to Art Deco elegance and the wonders of Cartier, Boucheron, Tiffany, Mario Buccellati and Fabergé. From the inventions of Van Cleef & Arpels and Bulgari in the 1950s to the Dutch avant-garde and the artist’s jewel of the 1960s, ending with illustrations of up-to-date and contemporary jewellery design. A brilliant historical-critical essay introduces a magnificent selection of pictures, designed to be an ideal gallery of masterpieces of twentieth-century jewellery, accompanied by technical explanations and an exhaustive glossary.

This wonderful collection of inspirational period carving projects ranges from the quick and simple to the long and complex, so caters for hobby carvers of all abilities. The new carver can start with the simplest project and, over a period of time, work through to the intermediate and advanced levels, while experienced carvers will find pieces to challenge and engage them. Each project is designed to capture the spirit and style of a particular period throughout history and at the end of each project readers will have developed new skills, gained an understanding of another style, and created a carving to proudly display in their home. Projects each have an introduction, setting it in historical context, a tracing pattern, an inspirational picture of the finished carving and comprehensive, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and photographs.

This is a recipe book of twenty-two tips in creating the best typography and twenty-two things you should never do with lettering. Secrets which many designers will never reveal. In an era of typographic fundamentalism and the cult of forms, this list of dos and don'ts explodes myths and provides a fresh view of typography.

Enric Jardí is Professor of design at prominent institutions including Eina, Elisava, and Universitat Ramon Llull. He is President of the ADG-FAD, based in Catalonia, one of the most important graphic design institutions internationally.

Know your type

Type 2: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, 1901-1938 offers a connoisseur's overview of typeface design, exploring the most elegant fonts from the history of publishing. Taken from a distinguished Dutch collection, this exuberant two-volume edition traces the evolution of the printed letter via exquisitely designed catalogs, showing type specimens in roman, italic, bold, semi-bold, narrow, and broad fonts. Borders, ornaments, initial letters and decorations are also included, along with lithographic examples, letters by signwriters, inscription carvers, and calligraphers. 

Featuring works by type designers including William Caslon, Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke, Peter Behrens, Rudolf Koch, Eric Gill, Jan van Krimpen, Paul Renner, Jan Tschichold, A. M. Cassandre, Aldo Novarese, and Adrian Frutiger.

In order to accommodate a vast amount of material, we have divided this text into two volumes. This, the second volume, covers the period from 1900 to the mid-20th century and contains a historical outline by Alston W. Purvis.

Includes exclusive access with TASCHEN keycard to online image library: over 1400 high-resolution scans of type specimens downloadable for unrestricted use.

The editors and authors: 

Cees W. de Jong is a designer and publisher based in Laren, the Netherlands. He has published numerous books on design, architecture and art, and is now working as a design/publishing consultant and author. He has also published many books on graphic design.

Alston W. Purvis is a professor of the visual arts division of the School of Arts at Boston University, USA. He is also the author on many books on graphic design.

The late Jan Tholenaar was a collector of the printed letter in all its various incarnations, but especially exquisite design catalogs and specimen books. He lived in Amsterdam, where he passed away in 2009.

From 2D to 3D design, types are another key visual besides pure graphics and illustration. How to deal with types is a common challenge among designers/artists from various design disciplines. We are excited to present you our latest title Type Addicted which shows you the new trend of A to Z typo-graphics.

Type is one of the graphic elements that designers always get addicted to play with. It is commonly used on almost every item in our daily life. The title not only presents a rich selection of experimental and inspirational typefaces and its application, it also reveals the diversity and innovative approaches of contemporary typography. Examples of work by up-and-coming practitioners as well as international and renowned icons are demonstrated; new directions and trend of nowadays typography around the world will also be disclosed eventually. This is truly developed for type addicts!

Among the graphic design competitions on a global scale, there is a sparkling and well-targeted competition which never seeks to make money by charging extra expense and always adheres to its own principles and quality requirements. It is: Type Directors Club of New York (NY TDC). The entry fee for this competition is very low, enabling students and rookie designers to participate. The jury consists of young and top creatives from around the world who treat every piece of work with caution and criticism and make judgments based on their professional competence. The winning entries will be exhibited in major cities around the world. Collecting all the winning entries of the year, “Type Directors Club of New York: Typography 39”will also be released globally. In this wonderful book, you will experience works of world-class quality and be inspired to move forward at the same time.

NY TDC was founded in 1946, and its Best Typeface Design Award is one of the most influential typeface design awards. The exhibition of the wining entries is an annual event with high reputation and professionalism in the industry, and 64 exhibitions have been held so far. The NY TDC typeface design competition is the world’s first typeface-based competition and one of the most important graphic design competitions in the world, attracting graphic designers, art directors, editors, multimedia professionals, students and entrepreneurs to it every year. This year, the competition attracted 1,835 pieces of work from more than 55 countries across 5 continents. The Collection of the winning entries of the year is released worldwide and regarded as a bible by designers all around the globe.