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Fashion and wisdom from style rebels in New York City and beyond

In a world where stores, clothes, and trends have become increasingly standardized, fashion is one of the most powerful ways to explore and express our personalities, identities, and individuality. For years, renowned photographer Robbie Quinn has come across style rebels and bold expressionists on the streets of NYC and the world’s largest cities, stopping them for impromptu photoshoots and testimonials. He’s even given these eccentric lovers of style a name: Street Unicorns. In these pages, Quinn shares the portraits, viewpoints, and aspirations of more than 250 Street Unicorns with the hopes of inspiring readers to rediscover the most authentic parts of themselves. A vibrant declaration against ageism, racism, homophobia, and all other discriminations, this book is a love letter to those who aren’t afraid to stand out, embrace nonconformity, and share who they are with the world.

About the Author:

Robbie Quinn is an award-winning, New York-based commercial photographer specializing in environmental portraits. His work, which has brought him to more than a dozen countries, speaks to current issues including race, immigration, gender identity, and sexual orientation with an emphasis on promoting diversity and inclusion.

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Unlike other packaging titles, which simply provide templates to copy, this book enables designers of all packaging types to create 3-D packaging forms that are specific to their needs rather than based on an existing design.

It teaches a simple ‘net’ construction system – a one-piece 2-D configuration of card seen when a 3-D package is opened out and flattened – which enables the designer to create a huge number of very strong 3-D packaging forms that are both practical and imaginative. Each chapter concludes with photographs and net drawings of 6–10 creative examples of packaging designs made using the principles outlined in the preceding chapter.

Structural Packaging gives the reader an understanding of the underlying principles of packaging construction and the technical knowledge and confidence to develop a greater number of their own unusual and innovative designs than any comparable book.

"Your job as a designer is not to find all the options (life is too short) but to find the ones that work for you; to limit your options … put simply: to design."

Paul Jackson is the author of over 30 books on paper arts and crafts. He has taught the techniques of folding on more than 150 university-level design courses in the UK, Germany, Belgium, the US, Canada and Israel and been a 'folding consultant' for companies such as Nike and Siemens.

Contents:

1.  Before You Start
2.  How to Design the Perfect Net
3.  Square-Cornered Boxes
4.  Deforming a Cube
5.  Common Closures
6.  Creating With The System
How Do I Produce My Box?

About the Author:

Paul Jackson is a well-respected professional paper artist, bestselling author of over 30 books on paper arts and crafts, teacher and passionate advocate of folding as a language of design.

_ Introduction to the basics of graphic design
_ Backgrounds, explanations, guidelines for all thematized aspects
_ Strong focus on the grid as the most important element for the topic
_ With many visual examples

Where do you use which grids? What is their significance? How are they created? This book answers all of these questions.
Where do you begin? What steps follow each other? What differentiates the visual from the verbal? This book will tell you.
What is “visual rhetoric”? What are the “four sides of a message”? What is the relationship between method and intuition? Read all about these topics in this book.

And much more besides: “Structuring Design” presents the principles and rules of visual communication as an introduction to practical design. The book offers a compact mix of explanations, practical tips, and background information, coupled with an extensive glossary.

Awarded with the TDC New York “Certificate of Typographic Excellence”

This is the definitive guide to dressing up, dressing down, dressing your age. Written by 40-something fashion journalist Alyson Walsh, and with a foreword by Mary Portas, Style Forever is inspired by Alyson’s popular blog, That’s Not My Age, which has been heralded as an alternative to the Botoxed, celebrity-obsessed, airbrushed world that we live in – and which evolved from Alyson’s long-standing observation that you don’t have to have youth to have style.

Alyson believes that style is available at any age. We become more confident as we get older, but our sartorial concerns shift - we want to look modern not mutton and have to consider how to best conceal the wobbly bits without taking the last train to Frumspville. Here Alyson shows you exactly how to exude that confidence and make the correct sartorial decisions. Chapters cover the likes of What Women Want: The Manifesto; Casual Glamour; Not Dead Yet Style; You’re Never Too Old For...; The Fashion Bin; and The Grown-Up Style Guide. Stylishly illustrated throughout, and with interviews with designers and inspirational women such as Eileen Fisher and an introduction from Ari Seth Cohen of Advanced Style.

About the Author:

Alyson Walsh believes that you don’t have to have youth to have style. As former fashion editor for Good Housekeeping magazine and regular feature writer and columnist for the Financial Times, How to Spend It website, and her very own style blog That s Not My Age, Alyson has excellent fashion credentials. That’s Not My Age, in particular, has developed a loyal group of followers, all hungry for Alyson’s fashion advice and insider knowledge.

A new guide to Tokyo street style, documenting looks from Japan and beyond, featuring endless inspiration, tips, and tricks to put together that killer look.

A veteran of Fruits magazine, Rei Shito is a pioneer of the Harajuku street-style scene. Known for her unique ability to capture the unexpected, Rei's collection of street snaps offers a local girl's look into Tokyo's inimitable style -- one that is honest, descriptive, and always super cool.

Unlike most street-fashion compendiums, entire chapters are tutorials on achieving your own signature style. Illustrated and with step-by-step instructions, Rei unlocks the secret to pairing bold graphics, patterns, and metallics with everyday staples to create ensembles that are at once fearless and effortless. Interview from fashion insiders including Chitose Abe, Motofumi "Poggy" Kogi, and Scott Schuman highlights the influence that Tokyo street style continues to have on fashion, while dozens of tips and tricks offer readers endless inspiration on how to master pattern, texture, and color to create the perfect outfit the Tokyo way. This collection of diverse, urban style inspirations is a necessity for any fashion lover's bookshelf.

About the Authors:

Rei Shito is a Japanese street photographer and the creator of the blog Style from Tokyo. Scott Schuman is an American photographer and the creator of the fashion blog The Sartorialist. Chitose Abe is founder and designer of Sacai.

From Achillea to Zinnia, here are 75 plant profiles of the most beautiful flowers and foliage to bring shape, colour and beauty to any garden

Leading plant specialist Jac Semmler revives the appeal of treasured, old-world, beautiful flowers for the modern garden in this comprehensive gardening how-to for beginners and experts alike, which covers:

• Care and growing notes for over 70 flowers
• Advice on how to start gardening
• Soil, aspect and climate information
• Planting, propagating, training and pruning
• Saving seeds
• Planting partners
• Experiences from the garden
• Must-have and nice-to-have tools
• And so much more

An innovative, immersive photographic style illustrates techniques such as planting seeds, caring for seedlings, transplanting flowers, propagating and dividing plants, pruning techniques as well as offering a breathtaking bee’s-eye view of the garden.

Maximum plants, maximum colour, maximum beauty: Super Bloom is a love letter to flowers.

About the Author:

Jac Semmler is a plant specialist, advising on living beauty, tending plants and the future of gardening. She is head of Plants & Strategy at The Plant Society, Australia, and until 2021 was the head of the ornamental gardening and range at the Diggers Club, Australia’s largest gardening club. Jac holds a certificate in Horticulture, a bachelor of arts, a bachelor of education, and a graduate certificate in Biosecurity
Science (Plants).

Behance.com is the world’s largest network for showcasing and discovering creative work. In their first-ever book, Behance’s expert curators share an inside look at the trends driving today’s most exciting art and design creations.

Presenting a tightly curated collection of cutting-edge creative work from all over the world, Super-Modified: The Behance Book of Creative Work takes you inside the trends driving today’s most exciting art and design creations.

Founded in 2006, Behance is the world’s largest creative network, where millions of people showcase and discover creative work. While it can take years for new creative trends to be identified and then showcased in museum exhibitions, Behance—and its team of curators — take the pulse of the creative world every day.
From innovative implementations of traditional crafts to wildly unexpected uses of new technologies, Super-Modified presents an insider’s look at how classical approaches to art and design are being subverted, blurred, and reinvented by today’s crop of emerging creatives.

About the Author:

Behance is on a mission to connect and empower the creative world to make ideas happen. Millions of people use Behance to showcase and discover inspiring work, and both companies and enthusiasts use Behance to track and engage top talent. As part of Adobe, Behance is now connecting the creative world on a global scale, boosting creative careers through community and the services it uses to create.

The first-ever book celebrating black models, filled with revealing essays, interviews, and stunning photographs

To date, there has never been a book devoted exclusively to black models. Supreme Models fills that void, paying tribute to black models past and present: from the first to be featured in catalogs and on magazine covers, like Iman, Beverly Johnson, and Donyale Luna, to the supermodels who reigned in the nineties ― Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell. The book also observes the newest generation of models ― Adwoa Aboah, Jourdan Dunn, and Joan Smalls ― who are shaking up the fashion industry by speaking out about racial prejudice and becoming social media sensations.

Written by celebrity stylist and journalist Marcellas Reynolds, Supreme Models features more than 70 women from the last 60 years. The book is filled with gorgeous photographs of the women, and details their most memorable covers, campaigns, runway shows, and editorials. Black models have been influencing fashion and pop culture for decades, reshaping the standards and boundaries of beauty. Supreme Models is a celebration of their monumental impact.

Author James Jebbia, Contributions by KAWS, Introduction by Glenn O'Brien and Aaron Bondaroff

The first monograph on the iconic independent New York street fashion label Supreme.

In April 1994, Supreme opened its doors on Lafayette Street in downtown Manhattan and became the home of New York City skate culture. Challenging the dominance of the established Wes Coast skater scene and the new conservatism of 1990s New York, Supreme defined the aesthetic of an era of rebellious cool that reached from skaters to fashionistas and hip-hop heads.

Over the last sixteen years, the brand has stayed true to its roots while collaborating with some of the most groundbreaking artists and designers of its generation, and with stores in Los Angeles and Japan has become an international icon of independent counter-cultural style.

This definitive monograph - with written contributions from contrasting arbiters of style, Aaron Bondaroff and Glenn O'Brien, and including an interview between founder James Jebbia and the artist KAWS - brings together the disparate elements of the brand's output, from legendary advertising campaigns to especially commissioned skateboard designs, photographs, and artworks, and a comprehensive index of their products to date.

Including collaborations with Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Damien Hirst, Public Enemy, Lou Reed, and Futura 2000 among many others, this richly illustrated book is a survey of sixteen years of contemporary street fashion and culture reflected in the pioneering work of one of New York's most influential independent labels.

About the Authors:

Aaron Bondaroff began his career working at the Supreme store, and has since created his own fashion and lifestyle brands, Off Bowery and aNYthing. He lives in New York.

Glenn O'Brien is a renowned journalist who has been both music critic and editor of Interview magazine, and writes a monthly style column for GQ magazine. He lives in New York.

KAWS is a New York-based artist who has blurred the boundaries between street art, design and high art in his collaborations with Supreme, Original Fake, and Comme des Garcons, and in his exhibitions at galleries worldwide.

Explore the most important sacred signs and symbols in the world with this visual directory

Chosen for their powerful symbolism, the illustrations in this book range from the myths and legends of the ancient world to the icons used in modern culture and science. You will discover the fascinating origins and meanings of over 500 signs and symbols, from the secrets of the Maya calendar to demon-summoning seals and secretive symbols of the hermetic orders.

Divided into seven thematic sections – astrology; the natural world; sacred writings; alchemy, numerology and sacred geometry; magic; demonology; and the western esoteric tradition – this decoding guide is the ultimate resource for unlocking the secret language of signs and symbols for the modern occultist.

Contents List:

Foreword
1. Astrology
2. The Natural World
3. Sacred Writings
4. Occult Sciences
5. White Magic and Cartomancy
6. Black Magic and Demonology
7. Western Esoteric Tradition

About the Author:

Eric Chaline is a professional author and editor based in London. He has a special interest in religion and philosophy, especially in relation to East Asia, Mesoamerica, and India. He has written books on a range of subjects, such as history, travel, and health and fitness. His published works include The Book of Zen, The Book of Gods and Goddesses, Simple Path to Yoga, 101 Dilemmas for the Armchair Philosopher, Lost Treasures, History’s Worst Inventions, Fifty Minerals that Changed History, Ancient Greece, and Strokes of Genius: A History of Swimming (which won the Lord Aberdare Prize for best book on the history of sport in 2018). Publishers he has worked with include Quarto Publishing plc, Harper Collins, Firefly, New Holland Publishers Ltd, David and Charles Plc, and Reaktion Books Ltd. He has an MA in Japanese Studies and spent seven years in Japan where he studied Zen Buddhism and the martial arts. He also has a BA in Spanish and Latin American Studies.

Target sparked the democratization of design two decades ago, as the first retailer to forge partnerships with well-known and emerging designers to offer high style without the high price tag.

This idea altered the fashion and style landscape forever -- and became a retail game changer. Now readers can discover the inside story from those who were there -- the designers, photographers, creators, superfans, and, of course, the Target guests.

For 20 years, Target's design partnerships have made a mark on culture at large, with the retailer's brand promise of "Expect More. Pay Less." embracing the belief that design should be accessible, too. At the center of Design for All are the designers -- offering exclusive collections in stores or at another Target first, the pop-up shop. From Michael Graves to Isaac Mizrahi, John Paul Gaultier to Philippe Starck, Jason Wu, Alexander McQueen, Gwen Stefani and more, Target has collaborated with more than 180 designers throughout the past two decades. And this book covers it all with new glimpses behind some of the most iconic collections including Missoni, Stephen Sprouse, and Lily Pulitzer.

Target: 20 Years of Design for All is the definitive tale of Target's impact on culture and retail with page after page recounting every one of those memorable years. Through beautiful photographs, advertising stills, sketches, and interviews with designers, influencers and Target insiders, this book offers everything readers love about Target. It's chic and approachable. Stylish and inclusive. With surprises around every corner.

About the Authors:

Target, considered a leader in design, is one of the largest retailers in the United States with more than 1,800 stores across the country. Kim Hastreiter cofounded Paper, an independent pop-culture magazine, which she coedited for thirty-three years.

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Start every day in style. A century's worth of fabulous looks to inspire you daily

For those of you whose datebooks have been replaced by smartphones, TASCHEN has created the new 365 Day-By-Day series so that you can still enjoy the warm analog feeling of marking every day with the turn of a page. Each day you'll discover a new image and a related quote - on special days you'll also learn the birthdays of fashion's greatest icons - ensuring a constant source of inspiration right on your desktop. At the end of the year, just turn back to the beginning and start again!

Discover the story of colour through the significant scientific discoveries and key artist’s works over 400 years.

From Isaac Newton’s investigations through to Olafur Eliasson’s experiential creations, this stunning book documents the fascinating story of colour with an extraordinary collection of original colour material that includes charts, wheels, artists’ palettes, swatches and schemes.

“In 1704, the scientist Isaac Newton published Opticks, the result of many years of researching light and colour. By splitting white light, Newton identified the visible range of colours, or the rainbow spectrum. In Opticks, he built a colour system around his findings, and he visualised this system in a circular shape, making it one of the first printed colour wheels.
The influence of Newton and his followers, combined with the invention of many new pigments as well as watercolours in moist cake form, had made painting with colour an exciting occupation not just for serious artists but also for a much wider audience. The colour revolution had begun.”

Contents:
Introduction
1. Unravelling the Rainbow: The Eighteenth-Century Colour Revolution
2. Romantic Ideas & New Technologies: The Early Nineteenth Century
3. Industrialism to Impressionism: The Later Nineteenth Century
4. Colour for Colour’s Sake: Colour into the Future:
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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Adorn your skin with these beautiful tattoos inspired by the botanical world

With over 100 designs, from peonies, poppies and ferns to wild roses and daisy chains, Tatouage: Blossom also includes 21 art-print keepsakes.

A mix of colourful and black-and-white designs, in a variety of sizes and shapes, makes these tattoos suitable for different parts of the body. There is also a book of quality art prints to use for flower and plant identification, as art-print keepsakes, or as flash sheets to inspire further tattoos.

Each tattoo is non-toxic and transfers easily, leaving a vibrant design that will last a few days. When it begins to fade, it can be removed easily with baby oil.

A GIANT 512-page collection of Katsuya Terada's RAKUGAKI sketches and illustrations.

The one and only legendary illustrator Katsuya Terada, a.k.a. RAKUGAKING (The Sketch King), well known as a pioneer who is always seeking new ideas and motifs for his drawings, has finally revealed his RAKUGAKI sketches and illustrations, long kept only in his sketchbook.

Although most illustrations in this collection have appeared in Terada's previous international exhibitions (e.g., Giant Robot in Los Angeles), never before has any book collected so many of his RAKUGAKI. This is the best and most comprehensive collection of Katsuya Terada's pencil sketches, making it a must-have book for both his hardcore fans and also to illustrators in general.

About the Author:

Katsuya Terada, a.k.a. Rakugakingu ("The Sketch King") is a Japanese illustrator who is well known in the US from his work related to Ironman and Hellboy. He likes to sketch a little everywhere he goes and has done many live drawing events where he absorbs himself in drawing on walls. What is amazing is that he does this without doing any rough drafts. Each of his drawings is done in one shot. His drawing style is heavily influenced by Moebius and Katsuhiro Otomo. Terada is a versatile genius who has worked in many fields ranging from manga and anime to live-action film and character design. His notable works in character design are Blood: The Last Vampire and Virtua Fighter.