A unique overview of the most important bags in the collection of the Museum of Bags and Purses.

The fully revised edition of BAGS covers the history of the bags and its uses over the last 600 years, encompassing pouches, wallets, chatelaines, reticules, travel-bags, minaudieres, vanity cases, evening bags and well-known designer bags and IT-bags.

Read about Madonna's bag, the cupcake bag featured in TV series "Sex and the City", and learn why Kelly bag will continue to be timeless.

Over the centuries, the bag has been influenced by trends in fashion, design and art, as well as by socio-cultural developments. BAGS presents the bag in all its diversity regarding its use, forms materials and adornments, a must be for enthusiastic and professionals alike. The Museum of Bags and Purses is the biggest bag Museum in the world and puts the history of the bag on display, from the late Middle Ages up to the present.

Packed with imaginative ideas for making your own cards, picture frames, gifts, invitations, envelopes, etc. All the design ideas in the book are included on the CD in multiple formats: larger versions for professionals with access to high-end equipment and smaller ones for home use with standard paper sizes (A4 or Letter). In addition to the cutting and folding templates, the CD contains some 50 decorative patterns and ornaments to embellish your work further. Step-by-step instructions make it simple and easy to assemble the designs.

Pattern Magic 2 is the cult pattern-cutting book from Japan, partner to the original title Pattern Magic. Inspiring and exciting, this volume takes a creative approach to pattern cutting, with more step-by-step projects for fashion designers and dressmakers to enjoy. These easy-to-follow illustrations and detailed instructions makeit easy to create stunning, sculptural clothes.

The book features over 1300 symbols, organized into groups and sub-groups according to their visual characteristics. Each category includes a short introduction, with expanded captions providing information on who the symbol was designed for, who designed it, when, and where appropriate, what the symbol stands for. These sections are interspersed with short case studies on both classic examples of symbols still in use, and exceptional examples of recently designed symbols.

Advertising is changing fast, in order to hold its own in an ever-changing media landscape. The traditional channels of TV, press and poster simply won't reach some target audiences. Instead, clients demand project-specific solutions involving social media networks, stunts in public places, street propaganda and more.

This book showcases the varied and inventive tactics that are being used today by big-name brands, non-profit organizations and individuals to promote themselves, their ideas and their products. Projects of this title include: giant afro combs stuck in topiaried shrubs to promote a play set in a barber shop; an inflatable pig wedged between two skinny Manhattan buildings to advertise dental floss; musical grooves in a road, only audible if you drive at the safe limit of 40 mph; and, street buskers launching a new Oasis album in New York. Over 70 international campaigns are featured, grouped according to their approach: Stunts, Street Propaganda, Sneaky Tactics, Site-specific campaigns and Multi-fronted attacks.

Product Design and Consumer Culture

Fantastic Plastic shows how product design has developed and considers its usability, technology and appearance. The history of plastics is in so many ways the history of contemporary industrial design and the book provides a fascinating look at how designs using plastics can be considered as works of art, as well as objects of our everyday lives. Fantastic Plastic provides a comprehensive survey of the ecological, technological and aesthetic qualities of plastic and considers the future of the material that has made such a mark on contemporary life.

Plastics have been the defining material of the twentieth century. From the first man-made plastics in 1862 to the patenting of Celluloid in 1870, plastics originally provided an attractive replacement for ivory, tortoiseshell and bone. In Fantastic Plastic contemporary designers, artists and scientists explore the evolution of this ubiquitous and endlessly malleable material, through its trademarked names--Spandex, Teflon, Nylon, Rayon, Tupperware--through to looking at how its function and reputation have changed over its lifetime. Plastics have been used in the manufacture of everything from toys, to furniture, to clothes and has played its part in the creation of contemporary design icons from the ipod to the Tom Vac chair.

In this new book of photographs - complete with sniping commentary - that document the dizzy heights and murky depths of street fashion, VICE magazines staple humour series is collected in its entire, unabashed glory.

The DOs are put on a pedestal that soars way past God and the DONTs are so cruel they sound litigiously close to death threats. DOs and DONTs will be the ultimate compendium of the hilarious fashion commentary that has helped forge VICE magazine's reputation; always mean, bang on and roaringly funny. If you DO want to show off your fashion sense, DONT expect to get an easy ride.

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FASHION WITH SOUL offers a vision of fashion in its most strikingly creative facets. It shows an entire diverse, multicultural universe of creativity, in complete and utter independence from all established systems such as brands, trends, catwalk shows, magazines, fairs, chains, department stores and advertising. The designers chosen (both established and upcoming) are able to express their vision, ideas and thoughts through personal texts and extraordinary images. Together, they give insight into today's world of cutting-edge fashion.

NOOVO is an aesthetic arbiter and a cultural mediator in the fields of fashion, photography and jewellery: a platform to show the highest level of creativity from around the world.

Den ultimata inspirationsboken för fotografer och entusiaster!

I boken presenteras 100 praktiska fotoprojekt som utmynnat i de vackraste och mest häpnadsväckande bilder.

Varje fotograf berättar om sin idé och vision men också om arrangemanget, platsen, utrustningen och kamerainställningarna. Ofta har fotograferna gjort egna små uppfinningar som ersätter dyra tillbehör.

Välkommen backstage för att se hur magi skapas!

Ur innehållet:

Abstrakt, Action, Arkitektur, Barn, Dokumentärfotografi, Landskap, Makro, Montage, Människor, Natt, Natur, Stilleben.

Boken du inte har råd att vara utan!

Det sägs att reklamen inte längre lönar sig. Men de som säger så har förmodligen inte läst den här boken. Den avslöjar till exempel att en kreativ idé kan ge upp till 4000 % bättre effekt än en dålig.

Faktum är att nyskapande människor tänker påfallande lika. Fuck logic ger dig en inblick i hur de tänker och vilka tekniker de använder.

Boken är som Viagra för hjärnan. Förutom 34 tändstift för tanken får du veta hemligheten bakom konsten att förföra och därtill ta del av ett lika metodiskt som magnifikt lustmord på undersökningsbranschen.

Boken riktar sig till såväl kreatörer som kreatörernas kollegor - inte minst uppdragsgivare, som måste anlita dessa virrpannor och som dessutom har det obehagliga ansvaret att budgetera, planera och dirigera det hela.

Per Robert Öhlin är varumärkesstrateg, copywriter och föreläsare.

"Alla som vill göra bättre reklam och vinna fler priser för sin reklam borde läsa Fuck logic. Boken fick oss på KING att börja tala om våra idéer och om hur de blir till på ett helt nytt sätt. Den har gjort mig till en bättre reklamare."

Frank Hollingworth Jr., Creative Director KING

"Vare sig du är nybörjare eller professor i reklam kommer du att få många aha, haha och aaah-upplevelser."

Tore Claesson, Creative Director, New York

"En välskriven och inspirerande bok om meningsskapande idéprocesser bortom logikens artificiella värderingsgrunder."

Christer Fernström, Universitetsadjunkt, Institutionen för reklam och PR, Stockholms Universitet

Michiel Schwarz and Joost Elffers' Sustainism Is the New Modernism declares the dawn of a new cultural era, as we transition from modernity to sustainity- towards a world that is more connected, more localist, more digital and more sustainable. As the authors of this clear-eyed manifesto argue, "sustainism marks a shift not only in thinking and doing but in collective perception--of how we live, do business, feed ourselves, design, travel and communicate, as much as how we deal with nature." In the twentieth century, whether we knew it or not, our world was shaped by modernist values, from the design of our cities to our homes, technologies and our conceptions of progress. Sustainism recasts our relationship to all of these things, binding ecological issues to a larger picture of our world. Through a series of graphically dynamic aphorisms, quotes and symbols designed for worldwide use by businesses, individuals and institutions, to signal support for sustainism, Michiel Schwarz and Joost Elffers show how the movement is already reshaping global culture, technology, food and media. With this concise manifesto, they launch the term sustainism into the public consciousness. The sustainist era has begun.

Michiel Schwarz is a Dutch independent cultural thinker, innovator and producer, now working from Berkeley, California. Originally trained as a sociologist of technology, he has initiated projects on global issues, the future of design, technology and media. His publications include The Technological Culture and Speed: Visions of an Accelerated Age.

Joost Elffers is a designer, "symbol maker" and creative producer of award-winning and innovative books such as 48 Laws of Power, Play With Your Food and Tangram: The Ancient Chinese Shapes Game.

Pattern Factory shines a light on unconventional contemporary patterns created by cutting edge illustrators and graphic designers and showing how these unique patterns are created, applied to products, and presented in stores. With full-color illustrations throughout, it showcases more than 100 images by artists and designers who create distinct and unique patterns and graphics. It features selected designers and artists who have shown originality in the range of their products as well as in their print designs, and brings an insight into their creative processes with interviews and photos of their working environments. The book will be a useful resource for artists, illustrators, fashion designers/enthusiasts, and graphic designers, and will attract textile and crafts lovers to an under-represented area of popular contemporary visual culture.

When we hear the word "pattern" in the design world, we often associate it with textiles. But this book is not just about textile design, it is about how patterns started to be recognised as art or graphic icons individually, especially in the last decade. This is partly to do with the recent trend towards commercial collaboration that occurs when artists are asked by brands to apply their artwork to various products such as bags, mineral water bottles, and cars. It also reflects how streetwear brands such as Supreme and Stussy have had a strong influence over teenagers and on subcultures such as the skate scene of the 90′s. Many of those who grew up with these influences now have disposable incomes that allow them to buy unique homeware products, clothes, designer toys and other limited edition, visually unique, products. But with these new designs comes a reappreciation of handmade items and craftmanship that can be seen in the way some of the most influential modern designers work using traditional methods. And consumers have responded positively to this sort of uncompromising and personalised style.

Indispensible artifacts of our material and virtual culture, calendars help us to organize our increasingly complicated lives within the framework of the passage of time. We depend on them as personal flash drives to contain and retrieve the overflow of data we have resigned to not committing to memory. But, whether on our walls, desks, or desktops they rarely stray from anticipated or traditional forms. Save the Date showcases groundbreaking designs for calendars and planners, where aesthetic concerns compete with the temporal to create new and often startling combinations. No longer largely invisible or disposable, the calendars of today demand pride of placement in our homes or workplaces to be followed by a graceful retirement as collectible or covetable objets d art. Break the grid!

En inspirerande fotobok som utmanar och ger dig massor av aha-upplevelser.

Joe McNally är en av världens toppfotografer när det gäller digital fotografering. Hans verk har prytt omslagen på kända tidskrifter som Sports Illustrated, Time och National Geographic. Nu bryter han ny mark när han gör något som ingen fotografibok gjort tidigare, genom att blanda "coffee table"-bokens fantastiska bilder och eleganta layout med de ovärderliga kunskaper som man bara hittar i riktiga läroböcker.

När Joe inte har uppdrag för de största tidskrifterna och de stora företagen, är han klassrumslärare i ljussättning, porträttfotografering och hur man tar "bilden". Seminarierna här är vanligen reserverade för en handfull fotografer om året, men i den här boken har du nu möjlighet att lära dig samma tekniker som Joe lär ut på sina seminarier och lektioner.

Det som gör denna bok så unik är "inlärningstriangeln" där (1) Joe bryter ner ett koncept till en enda kort mening. Det börjar vanligtvis med något som "En redaktör på National Geographic bad mig..." och sedan delar han med sig av de svårförvärvade yrkesknepen som du bara kan få från någon som tillbringat en livstid bakom objektivet. (2) På framsidan av den är boken illustreras Joes teknik med hans briljanta bild. Och (3) i boken beskrivs historien om hur bilden togs och vilken utrustning han använde (objektiv, f/stop, ljussättning, tillbehör m.m.) och även vilka utmaningar du möter med denna typ av projekt och hur du ska göra för att själv ta samma bild.

Boken ger dig också något mer. Den inspirerar. Den utmanar. Den informerar. Men det kanske allra viktigaste, den hjälper dig förstå fotografi och konsten att ta fantastiska bilder på en nivå som du inte trodde var möjlig. I boken finns massor av aha-upplevelser - insikterna som gör att allt faller på plats. Den ger dig det där underbara tillfället är allt plötsligt får en mening - då det säger klick.

Författaren och fotografen Joe McNally är en internationellt hyllad fotograf, vars karriär har utspelat sig över 30 år och inkluderar uppdrag i över 50 länder. Han har fotograferat för kända tidskrifter som Time, Sports Illustrated, Life och National Geographic. Han har också gjort reklambilder för Taget, Nikon och Sony, bara för att nämna några stora företag. Han har fått flera internationella utmärkelser. Ett av Joes mest kända projekt är Faces of Ground Zero, en jättesamling bilder, som är ett av de mest kända konstnärliga gensvaren på tragedin med World Trade Center.

Cardboard It's low cost, readily available, familiar, portable, and recyclable, but something that's better than all of those qualities put together is the ease with which it can be used. No special tools or skills are required to cut, bend, fold, stack, glue, or tape it. All you need is a keen sense of imagination.

This amazing book is packed with examples of the ingenious ways architects, designers, artists, and craftspeople have put cardboard to the test and successfully harnessed its amazing qualities of strength and sound absorption.

Projects featured include the conversion of a Paris industrial space into a youthful and dynamic office; a collection of do-it-yourself cardboard furniture for kids; and, a flat packed recyclable Christmas tree that comes with an assortment of cardboard decorations. Chapters include Architecture, Interiors, Furniture, Products, Art/Installations, Crafts/Toys and there is an Index of designers and artists.

How to Disappear — it’s a constant concern in artist Moki’s work. Moki’s photorealistic paintings find inspiration in comic book themes and natural and human mysteries. Her images are unsettling and charming, strange yet familiar. They feature lonely northern landscapes: isolated Scandinavian and Icelandic terrain, a subarctic frozen lake continent, untouched caves and moss meadows, and mountains sculpted into anatomical shapes by wind and water. Animals and humans emerge and dissolve into their environments. Within the solitude of nature, disappearing seems an obvious act.

Moki lives and works in Hamburg, where she studied at the Hamburg Academy of Arts. She also creates animation, comics, performance art, and toys and is active in international art collectives and the Street Art scene. Her art evokes the animation of Hayao Miyazaki, but with a chilling beauty that's pure Moki.

Enjoy the haunting alternate world within this monograph.

För dig som gillar scrapbooking. En rik inspirationskälla att ösa idéer ur!

"I min magiska scrapbookingvärld" är fylld av personliga idéer och inspiration som ger dig nya infallsvinklar i ditt kortmakande. En stor mängd kortidéer utgår ifrån årets högtider och andra viktiga händelser.

Boken har också en kalender som ger dig ett enkelt sätt att komma ihåg din familjs och dina vänners födelsedagar, namnsdagar och andra högtider. Njut och inspireras av en bok fylld av kort, inspiration och färg!

Här kommer uppföljaren till storsäljaren The Photographer´s Eye!

A book that all photographers will want for themselves and as gifts for their photographer friends!

The aim of this book is to answer what makes a photograph great, and explore the ways that top photographers achieve this goal time and time again. The Photographer's Mind will provide you with invaluable knowledge on avoiding cliché, the cyclical nature of fashion, style and mannerism, light and even how to handle the unexpected.

The source of any photograph is not the camera, or even the scene viewed through the viewfinder - it is in the mind of the photographer. In The Photographer's Mind, photographer and author Michael Freeman unravels the mystery behind the creation of a photograph. More than any other art form, the nature of photography demands that the viewer constantly be intrigued and surprised by new imagery and different interpretations.

Perfekt presentbok! 100 stycken kylskåpsmagneter medföljer med läckra bokstäver som fotograferats på stan.

Outdoor Types is not just a book but an artwork in itself. The author Simon Jennings takes a unique look at the real world and presents over five hundred found letterforms in a remarkable book.

For anyone interested in visual art and design, this beautifully produced and refreshingly tangible alternative to the digital world is a treasure trove of the typographic delights to be found in our everyday lives.

Jennings has been recording letterforms for over forty years, and the book is his tribute to the anonymous talents of vernacular artists around the world.

Konst och politik! Högaktuell bok om gatukonsten vid barriären mellan Israel och Palestina.

Banksys målningar på barriären mellan Israel och Palestina banade väg för en våg av gatukonstnärer från hela världen som ville presentera sin konst i ett av världens mest konfliktfyllda områden.

I Concrete Messages berättar de om varför de har valt att resa till Västbanken för att arbeta vid barriären. Konsten ställer frågor och förtydligar motsättningarna.

Den 725 kilometer långa separationsbarriären skulle vara klar 2010. Idag är drygt 60 procent byggd. Om barriären blir färdig är oklart, men klart är att den åtta meter höga betongbarriär som redan finns påverkar och väcker starka känslor. Den har blivit ett gatukonstens MOMA, med verk av de största namnen som Banksy, Blu, Faile, JR & Marco, Know Hope, Ron English och Swoon.