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The internet has become a major player in today`s music market, especially thanks to online sales from sources such as iTunes; while most web music sales sites boast around 40,000 songs, iTunes offers over 1.3 million—with 25,000 new songs being adde...

We've been trawling the web looking for the most interesting and well-designed portfolios - of designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, and motion graphic pros - to profile the creators working behind the scenes. The focus is not so much ...

Who are today's most innovative and successful interactive agencies? Who are the teams creating cutting-edge websites for clients such as Coca Cola, Nike, Adidas, Chrysler, and BMW? For anyone who wants to know who's who in the world of...

The follow-up to our popular title Web Design: Studios, this new installments brings you more examples of the web's most outstanding design work. Working online means working from every place you can imagine. The coolest design studios from over ...

The YouTube phenomenon is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the presence and importance of video on the web today. With increasing bandwidth speeds come more and more possibilities for the moving image to find its place in every nook and cranny...

The YouTube phenomenon is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the presence and importance of video on the web today. With increasing bandwidth speeds come more and more possibilities for the moving image to find its place in every nook and cranny...

Did the Greek gods play tennis? What is the ambassador from the land of Alchemy telling us? What secrets are being told on the shores of the Island of Venus? What is a monk doing on the Ship of Fools? What Great Paintings Say has the answers to th...

This important addition to our understanding of art history’s masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and all they reveal about a bygone time, place...

Under the Microscope. The secrets behind world-renowned masterpieces If you thought these paintings were familiar, look again, and look closer. Part art history, part detective work, this fascinating collection explores 100 world-famous works of a...

It might seem like the sitters and subjects of art history’s greatest nude paintings have little left to show, but don't be fooled: there is more than meets the eye in these naked masterworks. Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen guide us into the s...

Byzantine empresses, French revolutionaries, and Spanish generals: history’s most impressive figures stare boldly out of the canvases in this collection of formidable paintings. Each individual represented in these images radiates with strength...

Surreptitious messages, concealed myths, and historical truths lie hidden in the great works of the Italian Renaissance, behind heavy gold leaf and religious symbology. Although often obscured by the archaic language of historical painting, carefu...

The Vienna Workshop and the "total work of art" Founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Fritz Waemdorfer, the Wiener Werkstätte ("Vienna Workshop") was a collective of architects and craftsmen which aimed at ...

The Wiener Werkstatte ("Vienna Workshop") bears many hallmarks of a modern creative movement. Founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Fritz Waerndorfer, this progressive alliance of artists and designers was particularly in...

The ultimate intimacy. If orgasm is the little-death, is masturbation the little suicide? The title means "the little death," a euphemism for orgasm, but the women who exuberantly masturbate for Toronto photographer Will Santillo in this...