DESIGNS FOR MUSIC shows a selection of CDs, concert posters and other music-related work designed by 25 artists from around the world. As with the first volume, there is a focus on work in which disciplines like graphic design, illustration and lettering overlap.

The book contains interviews with a number of artists - such as Rian Hughes (Device), Jorge Alderete, Invisible Creature and Andersen M Studio - about their work and their relation with music. This book includes a free sampler (Audio)CD with several tracks of music by the designers featured in the book or the musicians for whom they have designed work.

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.

Figure Drawing for Men's Fashion focuses on the male form in fashion design. It offers a concise, topic-by-topic guide to acquiring and perfecting the skills needed to produce realistic and precise fashion plates that accurately reflect a designer's creative vision.

The authors, Elizabetta Drudi and Tiziana Paci, have decades of experience in the fashion industry and have created an invaluable resource for designers, illustrators, and artists. The breadth of information and attention to detail make this title ideal for students, professionals, and anyone who enjoys fashion design.

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This new edition of Figure Drawing for Fashion Design is fully revised, updated and expanded and offers a concise, topic by topic guide to acquiring and perfecting these skills, concentrating on the female form.

The book is ideal for those who want to apply themselves professionally to fashion design as well as enthusiasts of drawing the human body.

This edition contains the following chapters:

Drawing the female figure

A very comprehensive course in drawing all parts of the female body

The figure in fashion

Teaches you how to draw specifically for fashion design and presentation

Fashion design

Provides and introduction into what is required to design and draw new collections

Garment drawing and design

What you need to know to make accurate technical drawings of whole garments, details, trimmings, etc.

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.

From Sheet to Form

Many designers use folding techniques in their work to make three-dimensional forms from two-dimensional sheets of fabric, cardboard, plastic, metal and many other materials. This unique book explains the key techniques of folding, such as pleated surfaces, curved folding and crumpling. An elegant, practical handbook, it covers over 70 techniques explained by clear step-by-step drawings, crease pattern drawings, and specially commissioned photography. This book will be accompanied by a CD containing all the crease pattern drawings.

This broad introduction to illustration reveals the artistic, intellectual and organizational skills needed to practice as a freelance illustrator, and helps the reader navigate the specialist areas of its application.

There is a practical introduction to image-making, covering ways of drawing, viewpoints and perspective, colour palettes and choice of media, along with an examination of how illustration communicates through metaphor, symbolism, wit, narrative, and more. Chapters devoted to editorial, publishing, corporate/advertising and the entertainment industry introduce the reader to the nature and function of different types of illustration, tracking the progress of real-life commissions and presenting a gallery of examples of contemporary work.

The book also addresses practical considerations when setting up a working environment, from the design of the workspace - lighting, computer equipment and basic tools - to time management and collaborative working.

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.

Whether adored or abhorred, graffiti and street art provoke passionate debate.

This is the first comprehensive popular survey of the art movement around the world. Organized thematically, it explores the origins of the movement and its evolution, the relationship between street art and the urban environment, its interactions with (or rejection of) the market and the world of commercial galleries, and the culture of street art online.

The book features a wide range of artists working in different media and styles across multiple countries. It explains the terms and language of street art from tags and throwies to culture jamming and subvertising as well as its multiple influences and sub-genres.

Japan has long been a breeding ground for innovative appropriation of Western traditions, as with cinema and baseball. But the fanatical embrace with which Japanese artists have welcomed graffiti has made for a street-art scene wholly apart from its Western origins. As the first English-language book dedicated to Japanese graffiti, Graffiti Japan is an obvious choice for a paperback edition, featuring all the same great photographs and artist interviews with KRESS, BELX2, FATE, TENGA, EMAR, SUIKO, QP, and many more.

The graffiti featured in Graffiti Japan replicates the calligraphic intricacies of the Japanese language with spray paint, depicting how anime and manga characters, national pride, as well as foreign influences, are integral parts of the country's scene. From sprawling, legally sanctioned murals to illegal throw-ups hidden in alleyways, this work could not exist in any other country.

This example-packed overview of contemporary Japanese illustration showcases the works of 100 of Japan's most successful and exciting artists and designers. The images embrace a huge range of styles, from traditional to futuristic, from classic ukiyo-e prints to the worlds of manga and anime. Some look towards urban street culture or build their own surreal dreamscapes, while others revisit a playful world of childhood innocence or explore darker realms of violence and terror. The book also includes ten interviews in which the illustrators discuss their work and what inspires them.

The range of amazing images and subjects in this book is hugely memorable, an exciting journey to the utterly idiosyncratic but wonderful world of the Japanese sensibility.

Every designer has a favorite typeface. More than a vehicle to transport words onto a page, a typeface can express taste, style, opinion, and attitude. Using a selection of high-quality graphic design work for books, promotional materials, signage and more, each book in the "I Love Type" series highlights a single typeface and its prevalence in the design community. This narrow focus lends itself to an in-depth study of each typeface - how the same font can be altered to create different moods and generate an entirely original effect.

One of the most used sans serif typefaces, Futura is synonymous with efficiency and modernity, with its clean, even strokes, geometric shapes and lack of decorative flourishes. Created in the 1920s, it shows the influence of German Bauhaus, and has inspired an army of geometric typefaces in the years since its inception. Futura's iconic status and simplicity have inspired the designers in this text to push for innovation.

Every designer has a favorite typeface. More than a vehicle to transport words onto a page, a typeface can express taste, style, opinion, and attitude. The typeface a designer uses - and how he has manipulated it - reveals the personality and aesthetic of the designer himself. First designed by Herb Lubalin as a logo, not a typeface, Avant Garde has had a tumultous history. Once a representation of innovation and singularity, its popularity in the 1970s has given it a distinctly retro connotation in modern times. Its complex ligatures, particularly the distinctive dramatically-slanted A, are a challenge for any designer to master.

On the trail of success of the first volume, this second edition of “Brochure Parade” explores and celebrates the all Italian talent and creativity of immagining and creating “stories”, which developed in the best brochures we have selected among the numerous that we received.

Tunnelbanan är för de flesta stockholmare en självklar del av vardagen. Dess spår tar oss till och från arbetet, från förorter till centrum. Det finns emellertid mycket i tunnlarna under vår vackra huvudstad som aldrig kan ses eller upplevas av allmänheten.

Frilansfotografen och tillika tunneltågföraren Johan Fredin-Knutzén fascinerades tidigt av de många okända och spännande miljöer som han kom i kontakt med i arbetet - vem visste till exempel att det finns förberedelser till tunnlar för ytterligare spår vid Östermalmstorgs och Odenplans stationer?

Följ med på en spännande bildresa i det tunnelsystem som du kanske färdas i dagligen, upptäck de speciella miljöer som en trafikapparat under jord ger upphov till - välkommen på en resa I STADENS SPÅR.

Titta på bilderna: http://www.istadensspar.se/

Impalas, Cadillacs och Rivieras. I Lowrider Coloring Book kan du färglägga de klassiska och mest populära modellerna. Lowrider-kulturen sträcker sig tillbaka till 1930-talets Los Angeles, där det blev populärt för stilmedvetna latinamerikaner att lasta sina bilar med sandsäckar för att sänka dom ner mot vägen. Stil var allt, och när metoden förbjöds i Kalifornien på 1950-talet blev det nödvändigt att hitta ett sätt att höja och sänka bilen för att undvika böter. Lösningen blev att använda hydrauliker från gamla stridsflygplan kvar från andra världskriget. Idag är lowriding mer populärt än någonsin tidigare och har tusentals entusiaster världen över.

Bläddra i boken här: http://vimeo.com/23685401

Street, ramp, downhill och slalom. I Skateboarding Coloring Book kan du färglägga alla de olika stilarna inom skate-kulturen. Från pool-åkare och knähöga strumpor i 70-talets Kalifornien till de avslappnade men modemedvetna åkarna i Brooklyn och våghalsiga trick i Paris. Här finns mer än 60 illustrationer att färglägga!

Bläddra i boken här: http://www.vimeo.com/29417823

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.

Bläddra i boken här:

http://www.vimeo.com/28934240

The Noughties saw the rise of a new generation of Club Kids following in the footsteps of their predecessors - the original Club Kids of New York City, who, in turn, had followed London's Blitz generation. In the early 1980s, the Blitz Club in London's Covent Garden became the focal point for an alternative club scene-frequented by Adam Ant, Boy George, Siouxsie Sioux and Steve Strange-which spawned even more radical clubs such as Leigh Bowery's infamous Taboo club in London's Leicester Square. Bowery famously enjoined, 'Dress as though your life depends on it or don't bother', a mantra the new Club Kids have adopted as their own. They dress outrageously, with a penchant for kitsch and anti-fashion. Often with a mixture of their own self-made outfits and carefully selected labels (predominantly Vivienne Westwood), oversized accessories, excessive amounts of make-up and frequently highly androgynous looks, these flamboyant clubbers have created a vibrant New Club Kids' scene in London's bohemian nightlife underground. Fabulous or trashy, beautiful or scary, glamorous or freaky - meet the New Club Kids in these incredible photographs.