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.

Surveying applied arts and industrial design from the 18th century to the present day, this book explores the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing, and the technological, social and commercial context in which this relationship developed. The effects of a vastly enlarged audience for the products of modern design and the complex dynamic of mass consumption are also discussed. Part of this dynamic reveals that products serve as signs for desires that have little to do with need or function.

The book also explores the impact of a wealth of new man-made industrial materials and tools on the course of modern design - from steel to titanium, plywood to plastic, cotton to nylon, wire to transistors, and microprocessors to nanotubes. The research, development and applications of these technologies are shown as depending upon far-reaching lines of communication stretching across geographical and linguistic boundaries.

History of Modern Design is an inclusive, well-balanced introduction to a field of increasing scholarly and interdisciplinary research, and provides students in design with historical perspectives of their chosen fields of study.

From A-line to yukata, from batik to yoke, "The Visual Dictionary of Fashion" explores and explains the many terms used in the fashion industry. Each term is defined and put in context to give the reader a clear understanding of fashion terminology.

More than 270 common fashion terms are explained and illustrated, from practical day-to-day words such as lapel, pattern, and crewelwork to conceptual terms such as postmodernism.

"The Visual Dictionary of Fashion" is like having a personal translator for rag-trade shop talk. More than 270 entries in visual format Clear, concise sourcebook Handy take-along format

Design Sketching fördjupar på ett unikt sätt olika skisstekniker genom att visa skisser från designprocessens alla faser. Den breda kollektionen innehåller skisser av varierande svårighetsgrad och ändamål.

Design Sketching hjälper dig att lättare hitta vägar att visualisera designidéer som passar din personliga stil. Boken är ett inspirerande komplement till de mer teoretiska skissböckerna.

The Pepin Press introduces a new series of packaging books – Structural Package Design – consisting of 4 new titles: Basic packaging, Advanced packaging, Complex packaging and Fancy packaging. Each volume is jam-packed with 100% structurally accurate, scalable packaging templates.

All of the designs are tested, working models, ready for immediate use. Every design template is illustrated with a photograph of the final product and a 3-D structural drawing that clearly shows how the package is constructed.

Basic Packaging, the first title in this series, contains 300 designs, including all major international packaging standards which is very important for communication between designers, clients and manufacturers.

All designs are stored in various formats on the CD that accompanies this book. The CDs also included a demo version of packaging software which folds and tests two-dimensional templates in 3-D.

These books are a great source of inspiration for graphic, product and packaging designers!

The Pepin Press introduces a new series of packaging books – Structural Package Design – consisting of 4 new titles: Basic packaging, Advanced packaging, Complex packaging and Fancy packaging. Each volume is jam-packed with 100% structurally accurate, scalable packaging templates.

All of the designs are tested, working models, ready for immediate use. Every design template is illustrated with a photograph of the final product and a 3-D structural drawing that clearly shows how the package is constructed.

Advanced Packaging, the second title in this series, contains 200 designs which build on and expand the collection provided in the first title in the series.

All designs are stored in various formats on the CD that accompanies this book. The CDs also included a demo version of packaging software which folds and tests two-dimensional templates in 3-D.

These books are a great source of inspiration for graphic, product and packaging designers!

The Pepin Press introduces a new series of packaging books – Structural Package Design – consisting of 4 new titles: Basic packaging, Advanced packaging, Complex packaging and Fancy packaging. Each volume is jam-packed with 100% structurally accurate, scalable packaging templates.

All of the designs are tested, working models, ready for immediate use. Every design template is illustrated with a photograph of the final product and a 3-D structural drawing that clearly shows how the package is constructed.

Complex Packaging, the third title in this series, contains 200 designs which build on and expand the collection provided in the first two titles in the series.

All designs are stored in various formats on the CD that accompanies this book. The CDs also included a demo version of packaging software which folds and tests two-dimensional templates in 3-D.

These books are a great source of inspiration for graphic, product and packaging designers!

The Pepin Press introduces a new series of packaging books – Structural Package Design – consisting of 4 new titles: Basic packaging, Advanced packaging, Complex packaging and Fancy packaging. Each volume is jam-packed with 100% structurally accurate, scalable packaging templates.

All of the designs are tested, working models, ready for immediate use. Every design template is illustrated with a photograph of the final product and a 3-D structural drawing that clearly shows how the package is constructed.

The fourth volume the series, Fancy Packaging, contains 200 unusual designs that show the amazing variation and creativity that is possible in package design.

All designs are stored in various formats on the CD that accompanies this book. The CDs also included a demo version of packaging software which folds and tests two-dimensional templates in 3-D.

These books are a great source of inspiration for graphic, product and packaging designers!

A Graphic History of the Seven-Inch Record

Listening to music on vinyl is enjoying a huge resurgence and collecting vinyl is more popular than ever - and not just for the music. Vintage 45s from all music genres are widely sought after by collectors for their unique graphics. Since its birth in 1949, the 45 has provided a creative outlet for graphic designers and artists, who have used the record sleeve as a canvas, as a place to experiment visually and to express the aesthetics and sentiments of the times.

From Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz, award-winning designers of album art for countless industry legends—including U2, the Ramones, the Velvet Underground, and Joan Jett—comes Five Hundred 45s: the most comprehensive compilation of 45rpm record sleeve graphics available in book form on the market today. A real collector’s item—and at a great price—for classic rock fans, art book collectors, and graphic design aficionados alike.

Five Hundred 45s contains more than 500 examples of striking seven-inch record sleeve design across every genre of music and its great musicians—all reproduced at full size.