Arkitektur og design

Featuring 20 exclusive prints to pull out and frame, Star Wars Art: A Poster Collection is an affordable way for fans to decorate their homes or offices.

This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future. Particularly pertinent in the current economic climate, this book offers the reader new approaches to architectural practice in a changing world. It makes essential reading for any architect, aspiring or practising.

Racinet's Costume History is a landmark in the study of clothing and style. From Eskimo attire to high French couture, this unrivalled encyclopedia is an invaluable reference for students, designers, artists, illustrators, and historians, and anyone interested in style.

An exclusive selection of awe-inspiring traditional and digital concept designs and sketches from some of the world's most talented artists.

Upcycling goes upscale in this beautiful, elegant and global collection that showcases what today's designers are creating out of yesterday's materials.

Topics covered include:Tools and equipmentCapturing facial expressionsCreating a sense of movementChoosing a subjectUsing computers

Examines many of Basquiat's individual works in detail, with particular reference to his working methods and techniques. This unabridged compact edition of a critically acclaimed book, features spectacular reproductions of Basquiat's work.

Suitable for individual learning, for classrooms, and for a team that wants to develop a culture of design practice, this book provides instructions and exercises, various sketching methods that may let you express your design ideas about user experiences across time.

Topics include:Single-section bindings; paperback and hardbackMulti-section bindings; full cloth case, photograph album, quarter leather binding with paper or cloth-covered sides, and wrap-around structureContainers; phase box, slipcase and portfolio case

Chibis are the cute, miniature characters and creatures of Japanese comics. They appear in various genres of manga. This book covers chibis, character by character, according to the various subgenres in which they appear, including fantasy, occult, shoujo, fairy and action. It provides an introduction of chibi animals, chibi witches and vampires.

Suitable for aspiring comic book artists, this book teaches writing, drawing and creating comic book characters. It focuses on action-adventure comics, and touches upon other genres and styles, such as romance, humour, horror and the widely influential manga style.

An intimate and revealing collection of photographs of astonishingly beautiful, iconic, and undiscovered mid-century interiors. Among significant mid-century interiors, none are more celebrated yet underpublished as the homes created by architects and interior designers for themselves. This collection of newly commissioned photographs presents the most compelling homes by influential mid-century designers, such as Russel Wright, George Nakashima, Harry Bertoia, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eva Zeisel, among others. Intimate as well as revelatory, Williamson’s photographs show these creative homes as they were lived in by their designers: Walter Gropius’s historic Bauhaus home in Massachusetts; Albert Frey’s floating modernist aerie on a Palm Springs rock outcropping; Wharton Esherick’s completely handmade Pennsylvania house, from the organic handcarved staircase to the iconic furniture. Personal and breathtaking by turn—these homes are exemplary studies of domestic modernism at its warmest and most creative.

A biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest fashion icons, reissued to coincide with the biopic Coco avant Chanel.

Aprestige format, lavishly illustrated hardback book gives fans a rare glimpse into the creative process of the director.

Wondrous panorama of the animal kingdom, with detailed reproductions of over 600 rare engravings: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, crustaceans, insects, some plants--all identified. Royalty-free illustrations for designers and craftspeople. Excellent sourcebook for students of natural history.

He's like Banksy -- but not as big...

This fourth edition of Metric Pattern Cutting for Children's Wear and Babywear remains the standard text book but has three majorimprovements. First, the sections have been re-organised to reflect changes in producing and marketing children's clothes.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, sculptor, musician, architect, engineer, inventor, scientist, anatomist and mathematician. This book presents a chronological selection of drawings by Leonardo along with other works thought to be by his students and other members of his circle.

Reproduced from a surviving edition of a rare manuscript, this title brings Hiroshige and Eisen's portrait of daily life in 19th century Japan. Each of the seventy-one images teems with different characters, from beggars and brawling men to boaters and finely clothed women. It tells the story of a landmark, 2 immortal artists, and a masterpiece.

Offers insightful approaches to the complex subject of human anatomy. This title features three sections: the skeletal form, the muscular form, and action of the muscles and movement. It also includes illustrations that detail the movement and actions of the bones and muscles and charts that reveal the origins and insertions of the muscles.

Chronicles three decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Robert Irwin. This book surveys many of Irwin's site-conditioned projects - in particular the Central Gardens at the Getty Museum and the design that transformed an abandoned Hudson Valley factory into Dia's new Beacon campus.

In this book Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi-sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin , by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking.

A fascinating look at how pigments were created, used, and revered in the Middle Ages.

"When nature inspires our architecture-not just how it looks but how buildings and communities actually function-we will have made great strides as a society. Biophilic Design provides us with tremendous insight into the 'why,' then builds us a road map for what is sure to be the next great design journey of our times.

This comprehensive new book is an essential volume for anyone who wants to learn more about this intriguing artist, and to survey their greatest works in one beautfully illustrated collection.

This retrospective of Jim's skateboard art bombards the reader with colorful decks, logos, ad art, ad layouts, photos, and stickers to illustrate the history of skateboarding, from the urethane revolution to the present. Take a ride with an inside view o

Shows how easy it is to draw anything you set your mind to. This work helps artists realise that drawing is a fun activity open to everyone. It deals with various aspects ranging from choosing materials to drawing popular subjects.