Arkitektur og design

An expert and comprehensive new reference book on the life and works of the influential impressionist artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Arlene Davila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore how and why the contemporary international art market continues to overlook, devalue, and marginalize Latinx art and artists.

From young love to heartbreak, this fourth book in Christopher Hart's bestselling Master Guide to Drawing Anime' series focuses on the hugely popular romance genre.

For more than a century, Rolex has stood apart as the most legendary brand of watch in the world. A Rolex conveys many things: a luxury timepiece, a tool of power for movers and shakers and the symbol of passage into adulthood.

In The Book of Circles, his companion volume to the popular Book of Trees, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millenia of information design.

Building prototypes and models is an essential component of any design activity. This book illustrates how prototypes are used to help designers understand problems better, explore more imaginative solutions, investigate human interaction more fully and test functionality so as to de-risk the design process.

From the invention of the needle to the dawn of denim, neolithic weavers to catwalk creations, this title intends to cover the trends, from vintage to high street chic and the reinvention of haute couture. It also explains the forces shaping fashion, including Internet technology, celebrity influence, fast fashion, recession and global markets.

Covering a thousand years of history and an area stretching from the Atlantic to the borders of India and China, this is a guide to the arts of Islam. A glossary of Islamic terms, a timeline and maps seek to unravel the complex history of the Islamic dynasties and their artistic achievements.

A collection of flyers, invitations and rare memberships to legendary clubs and events from the Rave scene, giving an insight into a socio-cultural phenomenon that changed music, the law, drug culture, dance, fashion and design. Revised and expanded.

In this collection of photographs taken in over 36 countries, Sweden-based photographer Christer Loefgren explores the international art of graffiti and street art

The inspirational story of Mary Quant's stellar career

and visit some of the seventy border walls that have been erected in just the past decade. With provocative insight, Walls charts the centuries-long uneasy tension between the walled and unwalled, showing that walls profoundly shape the human psyche.

Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory by arguing for the creation of what he calls "autonomous design"-a design practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth.

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