Art & Photography Books

Book SynopsisTry your hands at these historically and culturally important methods, and create some beautiful paintings of your own.Chinese painting is an ancient art that has evolved and become refined over many centuries. Artists brush ink and color pigments onto silk or paper using a variety of techniques, with two main approaches: gongbi a traditional and realistic style based on line drawing, and xieyi style, a freehand method that uses fewer strokes to suggest objects in a less literal way.Painting themes generally fall into three categories: figure, landscaping, and bird-and-flower. Chinese brush painting is mainly presented in lines, shades and white space to express the feelings about nature, social phenomena, and the very essence of the universe. The framework for this expression is often traditional: certain subjects carry cultural connotations that are well-known and imbue the painting with a layer of meaning beyond face value of objects shown. The traditional subjects such as mandarin ducks, butterflies, and the 'Four Gentlemen' (plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos, and chrysanthemum) are examples that contain this rich cultural meaning. Readers will learn first about the tools and materials, then painting techniques. Early pages explore the very basic painting methods and subjects—perfect for beginning painters—but continue to build skills for painting plants and animals of increasing complexity.Chinese Brush Painting illustrates several Chinese brush painting techniques with the use of different tools, brushwork and color mixing. With the step-by-step projects, you can first follow the introductory lessons to learn the necessary skills of brushwork, usage of paper, and characteristics of water, ink and colors; then follow the advanced lessons to learn the compositions and more complicated color applications.

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Book SynopsisBorn out of fourteen years of collaboration with the Mansoojat Foundation, this book pays homage to Saudi Arabia's rich textile heritage. From the Labah Sadr of the Bal Harith tribe (a silver necklace decorated with coloured glass beads, often recycled from old car lights) to the resplendent jasmine headdresses worn by the Jazan, Traditional Costumes of Saudi Arabia captures the stunning scope of traditional accessories and garb. Bright colours, bold patterns, intricate detail and eye-catching designs - the beauty of Arabian textiles is undeniable. Yet many in the western world do not appreciate the extent to which costume and culture are intertwined. Each headdress, thobe and necklace is an expression of identity, incorporating Islamic, Indian, Indonesian, Malay and Chinese influences that date back to the days of the Silk Road. Preserving costumes that are no longer worn and celebrating those which remain at the heart of communities, this book provides valuable insight into the history of Saudi Arabia through the voices of its oldest inhabitants.

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Book SynopsisWhile Photoshop and Procreate, which have always been trendy art mediums, are continuing to grow in popularity, undertaking digital art can be intimidating for many: fortunately, beloved artist Sara Tepes has used her self-taught knowledge and understanding of common struggles artists face to create the ultimate beginners' handbook for Photoshop and Procreate. With step-by-step images that are easy for readers to follow, and through various in-depth projects covering the full spectrum from composition and lighting, painting hair and eyes, to skin tone and fabrics, readersbe they art novices or simply new to digital formswill soon be amazed at how quickly their skills flourish.What is more, total beginners and artists looking to transition from traditional mediums will be given a comprehensive overview on brush types, sketching on the digital canvas and working with layers. Sara also includes a downloadable digital package of brushes and color palettes created specially for this book, so readers can easily follow along with her tutorials.With The Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting readers will demystify the digital creation process, and gain the fundamental skills to take their art to dizzying heights.

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Book SynopsisThe bestselling behind-the-scenes look at the career of the legendary photographer – now in a new, compact formatTrade ReviewPraise for the hardback edition:"McCurry's lushly coloured, far flung reportage has made his work some of the most recognisable among that of Magnum photographers."—Telegraph"It makes you want to get out and see the world, camera in hand..."—Amateur Photographer"Steve McCurry Untold spans 30 years of McCurry's career and includes fascinating ephemera from his travels: diary entries, photos of him at work, and some of the 20-plus passports he's gone through over the decades... He manages to make the world seem enormous and quite small; exotic, and somehow familiar."—Time"Spread over some 250 pages are famous and lesser-known images, as well as anecdotes and shots of ephemera he gathered along the way, including letters and journal pages."—Wall Street Journal"The word daredevil springs to mind when describing the images that Steve McCurry has captured over the years. Always willing to put himself right in the thick of things if it means snapping a small piece of history... Almost every image within the book will have you set down your coffee and pull the book closer. Full of emotionally-charged imagery, the book gifts us with some of the rawest insights into the world's hardest-hitting events and their effects."—The Essential Journal"This paperback maintains the impact of the earlier edition, and the stories behind the images elevate book above a standard 'greatest' hits' compilation."—Amateur Photographer"Steve McCurry Untold invites you to delve behind the lens to uncover tales surrounding images like 'Afghan Girl'."—Food and Travel

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Book SynopsisWig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre and Film, Second Edition is the one-stop shop for the knowledge and skills you need to create and style wigs. Covering the basics, from styling tools to creating beards, it ramps up to advanced techniques for making, measuring, coloring, and cutting wigs from any time period. Whether youâre a student or a professional, youâll find yourself prepared for a career as a skilled wig designer with tips on altering existing wigs, multiple approaches to solving wig-making problems, and industry best practices. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Wig-Making Terms, Tools, and Techniques Glossary of Wig and Hair Terms Wig-Making Tool Kit Wig Styling Tool Kit Hairpins and Clips Rollers/Curlers A Well-Equipped Wig Area Handling a Wig Blocking a Wig Blocking Hard-Front Wigs Blocking Lace-Front Wigs Basic Hand Sewing Stitches Chapter 2: Wig Application and Removal Hair Prep Long Hair Nylon Wig Caps vs Fishnet Wig Caps Short Hair Prepping for Film How to Hold and Put on a Lace-Front Wig Applying Hard-Front Wigs and Falls Removing Wigs After a Performance A Word About Quick Changes and Tap Dancing Chapter 3: Care and Maintenance of Wigs Cleaning Wig Laces Cleaning Facial Hair Touching up a Wig Washing Wigs A Note About Hair Washing ProductsWashing the Wig off the Block Washing the Wig on the Block Storing Your Wigs Storage Systems Chapter 4: Wig-Making Basics: Learning to Ventilate Ventilating Needles and Holders Loading Your Needle Wig-Making Laces and Nets Fronting Laces Back/Foundation Laces Stretch Laces Other Wig-Making Materials The Direction and Stretch of the Lace Types of Hair Basic Wig-Knotting/Ventilating Technique Double Knotting Ventilating Positions Hair Density and Ventilating Patterns Ventilating Direction Untying Knots Color Blending Sewing with Invisible ThreadHair Punching Chapter 5: Taking Accurate Measurements Proper Head Measurements Transferring Head Measurements to a Block Plastic-Wrap Head Tracings Padding Out a Block with a Plastic Tracing Chapter 6: Facial Hair Creating the Pattern for the Facial Hair Piece Tracing method, free hand method, & stock paper patternsAdding Texture to the Hair Individual Hairpiece Characteristics Eyebrows Mustaches Sideburns Beards and Goatees Cutting and Styling the Facial Hair Applying the Facial Hair Removing the Facial Hair Direct Application Techniques Hair Laid On Facial Hair Floating Beards Historical Timeline of Facial Hair Styles Gallery of Natural Facial Hair Chapter 7: Working with and Adapting Commercial Wigs and WeftCleaning Old WigsBringing Back the Shine of an Old WigDulling the Shine of a New Synthetic WigRemoving WeftThinning a Wig with Thinning ShearsSewing Weft to the Underside of a WigAdding Weft to WigsSewing Weft to a Pre-Made FoundationPiecing Together WigsFull Bottom WigPiecing Together Wigs to Increase SizeStyling Tricks to Conceal the Front Edge of a WigUsing the Performer’s Own Hair to Conceal the Front Edge of the WigChapter 8: Fronting WigsFronting and Other Adaptations of Commercial Wigs Types of Fronts The Human Hairline Changing the Hairline Building the Fronts Variation 1 Variation 2 Variation 3 Truing the Hairline Lace Direction and Hair Growth Direction Quick Front: A Step-by-Step Example Standard Front Deep Fronts Deep Front Variation 1 Variation 2 Variation 3 Mini Fronts Silk Blenders Nape Lace Chapter 9: Building a Wig From ScratchTypes of Foundations Building a Circumference-Band Foundation Vegetable Net & Caul Net/Circumference Band/Right-Side-Out/Hand Sewn Variations on Circumference Band Foundations Variations on Nape-Piece Foundations Variations on One-Piece Foundations Notes About Adding Hair Parts, Crown Swirls, and Cowlicks Miscellaneous Foundations Balding Wigs Fringes Sewing Weft to a Pre-Made Foundation Summary Chapter 10: Partial Wigs, Toupees, and HairpiecesToupee Graying Temple Pieces Pull-Throughs Falls Type 1 Type 2 Type 3 Type 4 Switches Kabuki-Inspired Lion Wig Making Custom Weft Using Weft to Make Clip-In Extensions Chapter 11: Wig Styling TechniquesElements of a Hairstyle Straight Hair Wetting and Drying Flat-Ironing and Roller Setting Steaming the Hair Wavy Hair Finger Waves/Water Waves Marcel Waves Pin curls Waving and Crimping Irons Curly Hair Roller Setting Roller Setting: Ringlets/Sausage Curls Roller Setting: Spiral Rolling Techniques Spiral Curls/Medusa Set Braids The Standard Basic Braid French Braids Reverse French Braid Rope Braids Herringbone Braids Dreadlocks Chapter 12: Creating a Hairstyle Break the Hairstyle Down into Sections Understand the Hairstyle Interpreting Research Draw Your Setting Pattern Set Your Wig Comb Out the Set Teasing and Stuffing Wire Frames Styling Men’s Wigs Wig Setting and Styling Tips From Set to Style: Examples Example 1: Cosette in Les Miserables Example 2: 1930s Hollywood Movie-Star Look Gallery of Historical Hairstyles Chapter 13: Choosing, Cutting, Coloring, and Perming the Hair Dyeing Wigs and Wig Fibers Universal Hair Color Systems American Cosmetology Hair Level System Types of Hair Color Products Dyeing Protein Fibers Using Fabric Dyes Preparing Hair Bundles for Dye Dyeing Synthetic Fibers Perming Wigs and Wig Fibers Cutting Wigs Chapter 14: Hair that Isn’t Hair: Wigs Made from Other Materials Bases and Foundations Fosshape™ Bases Buckram and Felt Bases Other Types of Bases Covering the Cap Building a Structural Support Frame Combining Hair and Non-Hair Materials Working with Jumbo Braid Example of the Step-by-Step Process of Creating an Unusually Shaped Wig Gallery of Non-Hair/Fantasy Wigs Chapter 15: The Business Of Wigs and Hair Analyzing and Understanding the Play Forms of Drama Basic Plot Structure Scene Breakdowns Organizing Your Production Bible Character Design Group Relationships Designing an Overall Look for a Production Budgeting for a Production During the Production Wig Jobs and How to Get Them A Note About Unions, Licenses, and CertificationsCharging for Your Work Appendix 1: Wig Resource/Supply ListAppendix 2: Blank Forms for Shop UseIndex

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Book Synopsis"…a rare delight; a quite surprising array of oddly–shaped box designs, with a shape for almost every occasion and product." – Art Box"…this book gives the reader an understanding of the underlying principles of package construction and the confidence to have a go at creating ideal product packaging from scratch" – Art BoxUnlike other packaging titles, which simply provide templates to copy, this book enables designers of all packaging types to create 3–D packaging forms that are specific to their needs rather than based on an existing design.It teaches a simple ''net'' construction system – a one–piece 2–D configuration of card seen when a 3–D package is opened out and flattened – which enables the designer to create a huge number of very strong 3–D packaging forms that are both practical and imaginative. Each chapter concludes with photographs and net drawings of 6–10 creative examples of packaging designs made using the principles outlined in the preceding chapter.Structural Packaging gives the reader an understanding of the underlying principles of packaging construction and the technical knowledge and confidence to develop a greater number of their own unusual and innovative designs.Presents a unique system for creating strong 3D packaging • Explains over 70 forms with clear instructions and advice, and gives the reader technical knowledge to create countless others • One of a series of three titles on paper engineering by Paul Jackson: the other titles are Promotional Materials (Spring 2013) and 3D Pop–ups (Spring 2014) • Follow up to the best–selling Folding Techniques for DesignersAlso available from Paul Jackson:Folding Techniques Complete Pleats Cut and Fold Paper Textures Cut and Fold Techniques for Pop–Up Designs Cut and Fold Techniques for Promotional Materials How to Make Repeat Patterns

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Book SynopsisCharacter Design Quarterly (CDQ) is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from professional illustrators, artists, and character art enthusiasts worldwide. Each issue provides detailed tutorials on creating diverse characters, enabling you to explore the processes and decision making that go into creating amazing characters. Learn new ways to develop your own ideas, and discover from the artists what it is like to work for prolific animation studios such as Disney, Warner Bros., and DreamWorks.

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Book SynopsisIn 1947, Christian Dior stunned the fashion world with his first collection; his 'New Look' featured designs that transformed the way women dressed.Dior continued to send shockwaves with his later shows, significantly altering the fashion landscape during the ten years of his career as a couturier. This book recounts Dior's search for the perfect line and how his unique vision of women's ideal silhouette developed. More than any designer before him, Dior embraced the dual aspects of creativity and commerce, becoming the first couturier to license his products in 1949.He became one of the most famous designers of the twentieth century, and his name still fronts one of the most successful haute couture fashion houses. As portrayed in the pages of Vogue by photographers such as Horst and Irving Penn and artists like Christian Berard, the book offers a unique insight into Dior's contribution to design, his dramatic impact on the landscape of 40s and 50s fashion and his personal legacy.Vogue, the international fashion bible, has charted the careers of designers through the decades. Its unique archive of photographs, taken by the leading photographers of the day from Cecil Beaton to Mario Testino, and original illustrations, together with its stable of highly respected fashion writers, make Vogue the most authoritative and prestigious source of reference on fashion. With a circulation of over 160,000 and a readership of over 1,400,000, no brand is better positioned to present a library on the great fashion designers of the modern age.

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Book SynopsisStep into a world of witchcraft both good and evil, where the iconic character of myth and legend is once more brought uniquely to life. From the first alleged witch to be hanged in Salem, and Goya’s depictions of witchcraft, to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Hogwarts, and beyond, there is no shortage of inspiration, but also of recycled characterizations and central-casting stereotypes. Now, 30 of the world’s most talented fantasy and concept artists discover their own, personal manifestation of the witch. Starting with research, readers will witness the alchemy of details extracted from the seemingly mundane transformed the whole body of the witch, fantastical yet unnervingly believable at the same time. The design process goes on to cast spells not only on appearance, but also the environment, practices, and magical belongings of this one-of-a-kind witch. With the final design depicted as both a line drawing and in full color, the whole character and their world is defined. A summary of each witch details their background, behaviour, strengths, weaknesses and, of course, powers. The result is 320 pages encased in a beautifully finished hardback cover, the ultimate field guide to designing witches that transcend time, place, and even the most vivid imagination.

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Book SynopsisPresence is a thrilling immersion into the personal collection of photographer and humanitarian Judy Glickman Lauder. Nearly 160 images by some eighty photographers, selected from Judy Glickman Lauder’s collection of over 650 prints, explore the idea of “presence” of the human spirit. This stunningly designed album showcases the imagery of beloved and influential photographers of the twentieth century, such as Berenice Abbott, Richard Avedon, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Nan Goldin, Susan Meiselas, Gordon Parks, Sebastião Salgado, Weegee, and James Van Der Zee. Spanning Pictorialism, portraiture, and fashion, to documentary and photojournalism, and featuring iconic figures from the fields of art, politics, entertainment, and social justice, Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder celebrates photography’s ability to capture the human experience. Essays by Anjuli Lebowitz and Adam D. Weinberg provide historical and artistic context, while an autobiographical essay by Glickman Lauder tells the story of her collection. This book accompanies an exhibition drawn from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection at the Portland Museum of Art, to which the Collection has been gifted. Published by Aperture in partnership with the Portland Museum of Art, MaineTrade Review“Going through the pages of this book and seeing how Judy collects only deepens my love for the photographic medium. As a photography collector myself, I can relate to Judy’s directive that the image must speak to the viewer in an emotional way—and every image within this book does just that!” —Elton John

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Book SynopsisThe magnificent costume of the Herero of Namibia, southern Africa, is a stark reminder of the country's tumultuous past. In the late 19th century, the influence of missionaries and traders in German Southwest Africa led to the adoption by the Herero of the European dress of the day. Over time, the voluminous gowns, completed by a cattle-horn-shaped headdress, came to represent the cultural identity of the Herero women. The men's ceremonial dress also harks back to colonial times: following the brutal war of 1904, the Herero adapted the uniforms of German soldiers for their own Otruppe ('troops') movement. In Conflict and Costume, acclaimed photographer Jim Naughten captures the colourful Herero attire in a series of spectacular portraits. Set against the Namibian landscape, these dramatic images show the striking costumes and their proud owners to full effect: men in elaborate, home-made paramilitary uniforms, and women in floor-length frocks with matching horns. Dr Lutz Marten contributes an insightful text that places the dress in its historical context.Trade Review'an amazing visual publication showing this tribe's magnificent costumes, which are a real fashion statement. Words won't do this book justice: you have to see it for yourself!' - SIR PAUL SMITH, MR PORTER 'These gorgeous images - left me in awe at the beauty of this tribe and their countryside. The portraits exude strength and regality, which is only intensified by their unique costume and stark background.' -BLACK BOX BLOG '[Naughten's] ethereal portraits present pride, strength and a wonderfully unique sense of fashion - jaw-dropping images' -HUFFINGTON POST 'This collection - celebrates not only a way of dress but more importantly, the survival of a culture and sense of identity.' -MONSTERS AND CRITICS 'Naughten's portraits are as majestic as the poeple he photographs, imparting a feeling of beauty nd power that many in the West rarely consider when they think of Africa today.' -LE JOURNAL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE 'Riveting and evocative photos - Merrell Publishers did an incredible job - lovers of history, art, culture and costume will love this book, but then so would anyone with an eye for gorgeous photography.' -AMOXCALLI

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Book SynopsisReeling from a brutal childhood, immersed in a world of go-go dancers and hustlers, dirty cops and gangsters, Stephanie Johnson was determined to become the fiercest thing the city had ever seen. And she succeeded. This is her story.The storytelling phenomenon Humans of New York has captivated a global audience of millions with personal narratives that illuminate the human condition. But one story stands apart from the rest . . .She is a woman as fabulous, unbowed, and irresistible as the city she lives in.Meet Tanqueray.Humans of New York featured a photo of a woman in an outrageous fur coat and hat she made herself. She instantly captured the attention of millions. Her name is Stephanie Johnson, but she’s better known as 'Tanqueray,' a born performer who emerged from a troubled youth to become one of the best-known burlesque dancers in New York City.Real, raw, and unapologetically honest, this is the full story of Tanqueray as told by Brandon Stanton – a memoir filled with never-before-told stories of Tanqueray's struggles and triumphs through good times and bad, personal photos from her own collection, and glimpses of New York City from back in the day when the name 'Tanqueray' was on everyone’s lips.Trade ReviewA deeply touching memoir . . . A beautiful, sometimes shocking story, kept out of the lily-white, upper crust canon of literature — until now -- Washington PostOutrageously funny, raw and unfiltered, and quintessentially New York City, the true-life story of Tanqueray will seduce and fascinate you -- Reader's Digest 'Reader's Pick'Hypnotizing . . . this has it all: humor, intrigue, and heart * Publishers Weekly *A frank, deadpan and often melancholy memoir * New York Times *

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Book SynopsisCelebrate Spidey's 60th anniversary by discovering the wonderful world of webs in this epic official Marvel Spider-Man colouring book!Colour your way through the spider-verse and bring all of the different iterations of Spider-Man to life, including Miles Morales, Spider-girl, Scarlet Spider and many more. With original artwork and illustrations from giants like Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby all the way to John Romita Jr. and Todd McFarlane, this epic colouring book will keep you glued to the page for hours!Also available:- Spider-Man Museum: The Story of a Comic Book Icon- Marvel Museum- Marvel Heroes & Villains- Marvel Universe: An Atlas of Marvel- What Would Spider-Man Do?- What Would Hulk Do?- What Would The Mighty Thor Do?© 2022 MARVEL

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Book SynopsisAs the 1950s close, Peanuts enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to speak in the previous volume, becomes downright eloquent. Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to loserdom. But the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy. He's at the centre of the most action-packed episodes. Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections and life-long Peanuts fan, introduces the collection.Trade ReviewOne of the finest cultural artifacts made in the 20th century. -- Russell T. Davies...as powerful a comic art-piece as anything out today...will delight Peanuts aficionados. * * Observer * *Beautifully designed ... One of the high-water marks of post-war popular culture. * * Daily Telegraph * *All sorts of important writers have marveled at the glorious simplicity of [Schulz's] draftsmanship and his unerring jokecraft, all underpinned by a quiet melancholy and stoicism . . . by some miracle, the entire Peanuts oeuvre is gradually being republished in this country, by Canongate . . . in lavishly appointed hardback . . . Unlike almost everything you read as a child, they are actually better than you remember them. * * Spectator * *...these timely re-issues illustrate not only the skill and subtle brilliance of his work but also the origins of the form beyond simple merriment. * * The List * *Canongate has had the brilliant wheeze of reprinting Charles Schultz's strip cartoon from the beginning in hardback volumes... * * Herald * *The Complete Peanuts is beautifully bound, a comprehensive resource and, with an index and introduction, a useful contextualisation of a modern legend. * * The Skinny * *...in these first volumes (1950-54), we can already see what will appeal to 21st century readers. * * Sunday Times * *

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Book SynopsisArtist Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) was a unique cultural figure. His varied yet instantly recognisable work chronicles the significant changes in British art from the austere 1950s to the post-post-modern late 1990s. This highly illustrated and visually exciting book provides the first comprehensive overview of the career of a major, prolific and complex artist, exploring Paolozzi's work from all periods and across all media: collage, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, tapestry and film.An Italian Scot, Paolozzi studied first at Edinburgh College of Art, before moving on to the Ruskin Drawing School and the Slade. He was a founding member of the Independent Group in the early 1950s but steadfastly resisted the 'Pop' label, preferring instead to see his pioneering interdisciplinarity as an extension and an expansion of radical Surrealism.Dedicating a chapter to each facet of Paolozzi's wide-ranging practice - including, in turn, his bronze, aluminium and public sculptures, as well as his early collages and his innovative screenprints - this book offers the definitive, illustrated, art-historical appraisal of an artist whose work continues to fascinate and inspire. Published with support from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.Trade Review‘the definitive study of this major force in twentieth-century art.’ The TLSTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Chronology; Chapter 1: Art School 1941-47; Chapter 2: Paris 1947-49; Chapter 3: London October 1949 to early 1952; Chapter 4: The Independent Group 1952-56; Chapter 5: Working with Bronze 1949-62; Chapter 6: Working with Aluminium c.1962-76; Chapter 7: Working with Prints 1950-2000; Chapter 8: Working with Film, Music and Words; Chapter 9: Beyond the Gallery 1951-2000; Chapter 10: Returns 1980s and 1990s; Conclusion; Major Public Collections; Select Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn I Love You, Mario Testino presents a celebration of weddings. A beginning in life —that is also a culmination and a public promise – captured by a unique photographic point of view which shows beauty not only in emotion and tradition, but in the complete intimacy of shared joy. Featuring essays by the illustrious fashion designer Carolina Herrera and party expert Riccardo Lanza, the book traces Testino’s memories of many iconic moments and many unknown ones, captured in the privacy of close friendship and family. Unparalleled access unveils the secret, the tender, the wild and the festive of such celebrations, some of which can be considered the most talked-about unions of the past four decades. I Love You is a homage to weddings and to everything they comprise. A love declaration and a glimpse into the heart of brides getting ready, special rites among friends, the zest of extraordinary parties. Every image showing the unique fantasies of a life to start anew. "LONG LIVE LOVE!" — Mario Testino Also available in an Art Edition with the signed and numbered print Chiara Slewett, Rio de Janeiro, 2005Trade Review“Long Live Love!” * Mario Testino *“…a joyous celebration of fashion, marriage and all things love.” * The Daily Mail *

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Book SynopsisThis major practical handbook bridges the gap between strategy and design, presenting a step-by-step design process with a strategic approach and extensive methods for innovation, strategy development, design methodology and problem solving. It is an effective guide to planning and implementing design projects to ensure strategic anchoring of the process and outcome.Built around a six-part phase structure that represents the design process, covering initial preparations and project briefing, research and analysis, targets and strategy, concept development, prototyping and modelling, production and delivery, it is a must-have resource for professionals and students. Readers can easily dip in and out of sections, using the phase structure as a navigation tool. Unlike other books on the market, Design and Strategy addresses the design process from the perspective of both the company and the designer. For businesses, it highlights the value of design as a strategic tool for positioning, competition and innovation. For the designer, it teaches how to create solutions that are strategically anchored and deliver successful outcomes for businesses, resulting in appreciative clients. It includes over 250 illustrations and diagrams, tables, and text boxes showing how to move through each stage with clear visualisation and explanation. This book encourages all designers in product design and manufacturing, service design, communication design, branding, and advertising, to think beyond shape and colour to see design through the lens of strategy, process and problem solving, and all business managers, innovators and developers, to see the value in strategic design outcomes.Trade Review"I have worked at the intersection of design and strategy for over 25 years, have read a great deal of nonsense written about both, fortunately this book bucks the trend. A ready reckoner for anyone looking to develop cohesive, intelligent new design work rooted in plans, not hopes." Simon Manchipp, Founder & Executive Strategic Creative Director of SomeOne."A very accessible and comprehensive overview of a strategic design process – with practical tools and guides for working strategically with design – for both students and practitioners."Rachel Cooper OBE, Distinguished Professor of Design Management, Lancaster University, UK."Wanda’s book is encyclopedic and unrivaled. The most comprehensive deconstruction of the rigor it takes to build on a strategy to design a sustainable future, whether you are a designer, a marketer, or a manager." Alina Wheeler, Author Designing Brand Identity: an essential resource for the whole branding team.Table of ContentsIntroduction How does the book work? What is design? Phase 1 Initiation 1.1 Initial preparations 1.2 Project brief 1.3 Initial meeting 1.4 Initial workshop 1.5 Project description 1.6 Progress schedule 1.7 Price quotation 1.8 Contract 1.9 Team collaboration Phase 2 Insight 2.1 Understanding the company 2.2 Situational study 2.3 Problem statement 2.4 Method selection 2.5 Research process 2.6 Research 2.7 Analyses 2.8 Mapping 2.9 Testing and measuring Phase 3 Strategy 3.1 Strategy development 3.2 Overall strategy 3.3 Goals and sub-goals 3.4 Business strategy 3.5 Business model 3.6 Market strategy 3.7 Brand strategy 3.8 Communication strategy 3.9 Design strategy Phase 4 Design 4.1 Design brief 4.2 Strategy>Phase 5 Production 5.1 Implementation 5.2 Model 5.3 Material selection 5.4 Paper and cartonboard 5.5 Colour management 5.6 Production for digital media 5.7 Production for printed media 5.8 Quality assurance Phase 6 Management 6.1 Intangible assets 6.2 Legal protection 6.3 Design management 6.4 Effect measurement 6.5 Design manual 6.6 Design templates 6.7 Operating manual 6.8 Further development 6.9 Sustainability management

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Book SynopsisA bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological and cultural significance. They play a decisive role in human flourishing and, for hundreds of years, their walls and walkways, windows and doorways have guided our relationships with others and with ourselves. They reflect and reinforce social inequalities; they allow us to celebrate and cherish those we love. They are the places of return that allow us to venture out into the world.In this intimate, elegantly argued account, Coccia shows how the architecture of home has shaped, and continues to shape, our psyches and our societies, before then masterfully leading us towards a more creative, ecological way of dwelling in the world.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Revealing...Fuller could come across as a selfless seer, almost a secular saint; in Nevala-Lee’s biography he is all too human...The strength of this carefully researched and fair-minded biography is that the reader comes away with a greater understanding of a deeply complicated individual who overcame obstacles—many of his own making—to achieve a kind of imperfect greatness.” — Witold Rybczynski, New York Times "Alec Nevala-Lee is a sure-footed guide to a dizzying life. He eschews mythmaking, laying out the way Fuller burnished his own legend by rewriting history and slighting the contributions of his collaborators. Clear-eyed about his subject’s faults, Mr Nevala-Lee nevertheless gives him his due as a dazzlingly original thinker...The portrait the author paints is compelling...[Fuller] comes alive in these pages as a visionary who rose above his imperfections to labour for the benefit of humankind." — The Economist “Brilliant...Alec Nevala-Lee’s writing is as serene and precise as one of Fuller’s geodesic domes...A genuinely groundbreaking book full of surprises.” — Esquire “Nevala-Lee is something of an expert in a very specific type: twentieth-century men, working on the fringes of stem careers, who channeled the technological optimism of the years between World War I and the 1970s into careers as media icons…A labor of love…Meticulous and clearly written.” — New Republic "It requires a Dymaxion biographer to take the full measure of Buckminster Fuller—the huckster-visionary who finally made good on (at least some of) his dizzying schemes and changed the world. In his effervescent Inventor of the Future, Alec Nevala-Lee proves himself Bucky’s match, debunking myths and ferreting out deeper truths at every twist and turn of this remarkable saga of an unlikely rise to global fame and influence. Nevala-Lee is the rare biographer of a 'great man' who successfully links private and public life, showing how Fuller’s incomparable genius was both innate and inspired by the synergy of meetings with a cast of brilliant characters, a Who’s Who of the twentieth century’s modernist intelligentsia. For Fuller, a better future was never beyond imagining, an optimism this fine biography makes contagious." — Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life "Buckminster Fuller was part design guru, part visionary futurist, part bold technocrat, part New England patrician and part insecure striver. Until now we have never had a book about him that portrays the full extent of his complex and contradictory character, and explains how he could be at once a quirky iconoclast and an inspiration to technological empires. Alec Nevala-Lee’s beautifully written Inventor of the Future is the perceptive, nuanced biography of Fuller that we have needed, and it is as engaging to read as Fuller's extraordinary geodesic domes are to look at." — Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry “Various friends and acolytes wrote books about Fuller in his lifetime, but until now there has never been a thoroughgoing biography…Carefully researched…Nevala-Lee compares Fuller to Steve Jobs, a design visionary, and Elon Musk—both ‘outsiders who disrupted established fields’—as well as Jeff Bezos.” — James Gleick, The New York Review of Books "Ever the optimist, ever the outsider, Fuller never tired of trying to pull humanity toward a better future. Alec Nevala-Lee’s authoritative biography...tells Fuller’s story in greater detail than ever." — Wall Street Journal "Alec Nevala-Lee’s new biography, Inventor of the Future, fact-checks Fuller’s legend and then corrects the record...He resists the hypnotic whirlpool surrounding Fuller...A bedazzling cobweb of who’s who in 20th-century America." — Pradeep Niroula, Los Angeles Review of Books “Novelist, biographer, and science-fiction writer Nevala-Lee draws on abundant archival material to fashion a thoroughly researched, comprehensive biography of architect, inventor, and “serial entrepreneur” R. Buckminster Fuller….A perceptive and cleareyed biography of a unique figure.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "This probing biography of Buckminster Fuller distinguishes man from myth while giving the iconic designer and futurist due credit for influencing generations of big thinkers...Nevala-Lee diligently emphasizes Fuller’s contradictions...but he also persuasively demonstrates that, in the end, none of Fuller’s epic shortcomings would matter. Fuller’s most enduring creation was his own ethos, that of the free-thinking futurist whose design solutions would solve the planet’s problems. Such ideas would take deep root, especially in Silicon Valley, even if the math never quite worked out." — Booklist (starred review) "A clear-eyed portrait of the cult of (tech) personality that reads very 2022." — Chicago Tribune, "Books for Summer 2022" "Novelist Nevala-Lee (Astounding) offers a cogent assessment of futurist Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), “a man who had been revered by both the counterculture and the establishment” in this solid biography...a fascinating portrait of a larger-than-life figure." — Publishers Weekly "This new biography of the multi-hyphenate American icon and futurist promises to dig deep into both his professional and personal life and frames him as the father of startup culture, showing how his ideas infected Silicon Valley and still hold sway today—whether you live in a geodesic dome or not." — Lit Hub, "Most Anticipated Books of 2022, Part Two" “Nevala-Lee draws a revealing portrait of the Buckminster Fuller behind the legend. It encompasses both Fuller’s passions and his foibles. Placing Fuller where he belongs in the pantheon of America’s inventors, Inventor of the Future is the first complete portrait of both the man and the myth.” — John Markoff, author of Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand "This is a deceptively artful book of circuitous tensions and great circles (which the author uses as beautiful chapter titles and section headings) where, finally, all the loops and time-bends of Buckminster Fuller's improbable life come close to merging into one." — Paul Hendrickson, author of Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright "Nevala-Lee brings back to life one of the most influential American minds of the twentieth century—revealing both the brilliance and the flaws that are contributing to the bold and radical technological reimagining of how we think and live." — David Edwards, author of Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last "Revealing . . . Utterly fascinating . . . An important biography and entertaining read from start to finish." — Analog Science Fiction and Fact "This exhaustive biography of mastermind architect Buckminster Fuller sheds light on the origins of some of his most notable works. While the book looks back on interviews and unpublished documents from Fuller’s lifetime and career, Fuller himself will always be remembered for looking toward the future." — The Architect's Newspaper

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Book SynopsisDraw, colour and shade like a real manga artist! Includes manga industrytools and directions to draw, ink and colour manga characterslike a pro.

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Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, the concern to define areas of research in design has dominated academic debates. As a result, we are now facing a multitude of understandings. This is especially true for practice-based design research. Sandra Dittenberger, Hans Stefan Moritsch and Agnes Raschauer discuss how the concept of learning by research can be integrated into product design studio teaching. They show different international approaches for integrating research into teaching and contrast the areas of design research with scientific standards. The book features study results that helped generate both a general orientation for research in design education and guidelines for students of how to integrate research into their project work.

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Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated book is the first full-length critical study to focus on the watercolours of multitalented British artist and designer Eric Ravilious (1903–1942). Adopting the wide-ranging approach familiar to readers of his previous books on the artist, author James Russell explores the evolution of a remarkable talent. An introductory section offers an intimate portrait of Ravilious, an artist for whom personal relationships, particularly with women, were paramount. It goes on to describe the extraordinary achievements of an all-too-brief career, drawing on new research to seek out artistic influences and examine Ravilious’s relationships with fellow-artists, as well as the development of his mark making. There follows the most comprehensive display of Ravilious watercolours yet assembled. Some have never been published, while others are familiar and well loved. Many are explored in short accompanying essays, some with full-bleed images that show details of paintings at full size. These texts are designed to entertain and enlighten, looking at composition, technique, influence and inspiration, or discussing the significance of particular subjects and the people behind the scenes. This is the definitive guide to the luminous, evocative and timeless watercolours of Eric Ravilious, an artist now regarded as one of the finest of the twentieth century.Trade ReviewThe thematic sections consist of superb reproductions of the paintings in the exhibition, including some full-size detail views bled out to the edges of the page * The Eclectic Light Company *Table of ContentsForeword Preface Ravilious: A Portrait Relics & Curiosities Figures & Forms Interiors Place & Season Changing Perspectives Darkness & Light Exhibitions Timeline Notes Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Image Credits Index

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Book SynopsisA new concise history of modern painting, offering an indispensable reference to the complexities and characteristics of this medium. While acknowledging the legacy of Herbert Read's classic 1959 study A Concise History of Modern Painting in the World of Art series, academic and artist Simon Morley places the foundation of modern art much earlier than Read, at the emergence of Romanticism and the dawn of the industrial age. Structured loosely chronologically by period, the focus is as much on individual artists as well as movements, with works discussed within a broader context - stylistic, historical, geographical, and gender and ethnic frames - themes that recur throughout the chapters. Generously illustrated, the global and diverse range of artists featured include William Blake, Édouard Manet, Hilma af Klint, Kazimir Malevich, Willem de Kooning, Amrita Sher-Gil, Faith Ringgold, and Kehinde Wiley. This guide also includes an Appendix in the form of questions the reader might lTrade Review'A productively concise history […] that opens onto a globalized and differently technologized present that likewise questions the European fundaments of modern art and its institutions' - Suzanne Hudson, author of 'Contemporary Painting''Generously illustrated' - Artlyst

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Book SynopsisPublished to accompany the Royal Academy exhibition from 29 June to 13 October 2024, a major study of Ukrainian art from 1900 to the mid-1930s with loans from major museums in Ukraine, elsewhere in Europe, the United States (including MoMA) and Israel. How does artistic life flourish during revolution and conflict? Ukraine in the early 1900s endured unimaginable political upheaval, yet this became a period of true renaissance in Ukrainian art, literature, theatre and cinema. In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 19001930s presents the ground-breaking art produced in Ukraine in the early 20th century, focusing on the three key cultural centres of Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa. Against a complicated socio-political backdrop of collapsing empires, World War I, the revolutions of 1917 with the ensuing Ukrainian War of Independence, and the eventual creation of Soviet Ukraine, several strands of distinctly Ukrainian art emerged. While émigrés such as Sonia Delaunay and AlexandTrade Review'Generously illustrated... An introduction to an influential period and a diverse group of artists whose works continue to be uncovered, and whose history reverberates today' - Library Journal'Informative and wide-ranging' - Apollo'[Documents] an impressive exhibition of Ukrainian modernism with colour plates and extensive essays by 12 Ukrainian scholars and museum officials... Highly recommended' - ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza Acknowledgments Introduction Konstantin Akinsha I. Kyiv From Kyiv to Paris: The Cosmopolitanism of Alexandra Exter Katia Denysova The Beginning: The First Avant-Garde Exhibitions in Ukraine Olena Kashuba-Volvach The Art Section of the Kultur Lige: Yiddish Avant-Garde Art in Kyiv (1918–1922) Hillel Kazovsky Oleksandr Bohomazov: The Ukrainian Version of Futurism Olena Kashuba-Volvach Boichukism Myroslava M. Mudrak Bauhaus on the Banks of the Dnipro Olena Kashuba-Volvach II: Kharkiv The Tragic Sensuality of the Kharkiv Avant-Garde Tetiana Zhmurko Constructor Vasyl Yermilov: A Captive of the Material World Konstantin Akinsha Visual and Spatial Experiments in Ukrainian Scenography of the 1920s Olena Kovalchuk Ivan Kavaleridze: Searching for the Hero of the New Age Oksana Barshynova Nova heneratsiia (1927–1930) Myroslava M. Mudrak III. Odesa The Odesa Society of Independent Artists Olha Barkovska From Symbolism to Avant-Garde: The Emancipation of Ukrainian Cinema in the 1920s Ivan Kozlenko IV. Aftermath In the Shadow of Russia: Ukrainian Art at the XVI Venice Biennale of 1928 Olena Kashuba-Volvach & Maryna Drobotiuk The Émigrés from Ukraine: Archipenko, Delaunay and Baranoff-Rossiné Katia Denysova From Oblivion to Glory: Spetsfond or The Special Secret Holding Yuliia Lytvynets Plates Authors’ Biographies Picture Credits Index

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Book SynopsisA new, revolutionary history of photography from a stellar team of writers and thinkers that challenges all existing narratives by focusing on the complex collaborations between photographer and subject. Collaboration presents a groundbreaking and multifaceted history of photography which explores photography through the lens of collaboration, challenging the dominant narratives around photographic history and authorship. In a vast, collaborative effort led by five of the great thinkers and practitioners in photography that includes more than 550 photographs and over 80 text contributors, this book breaks apart photographyâs âsingle creatorâ tradition by bringing to light tangible traces of collaboration â the various relationships, exchanges and interactions which occur between all participants in the event of photography. This book will provide the keys to understanding and decoding the complex politics of seeing. The conditions of collaboration in photography are explored thro

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Book SynopsisThis volume of The Complete Peanuts features the long, surprisingly dramatic sequence in which a grievously ill Charlie Brown checks himself into a hospital while his friends worry. But the rest of the stories in this, the final volume from the 1970s, are far less sombre, as Snoopy launches his 'bird scout' treks, Peppermint Patty gets leaked on at school and sues - plus one of the great forgotten romances in Peanuts history!Trade ReviewCharles Schulz was an American treasure - an artist, philosopher, and keen observer of human life -- BILL CLINTONIt's impossible to think of another popular art form that reaches across generations the way the daily comic strip does . . . at the pinnacle of that long tradition, there was Charles Schulz * * Seattle Times * *The world of Peanuts is a microcosm, a little human comedy for the innocent reader and for the sophisticated -- UMBERTO ECORepublishing Peanuts in one gorgeous volume after another is really the first time we can truly take a step back, appreciate Schulz's work as a whole and ultimately wrap our arms around the accomplishment of Charles Schulz. Sometimes, happiness is a warm book * * Huffington Post * *These timely re-issues illustrate not only the skill and subtle brilliance of his work but also the origins of the form beyond simple merriment * * Sunday Times * *All sorts of important writers have marvelled at the glorious simplicity of [Schulz's] draftsmanship and his unerring jokecraft, all underpinned by a quiet melancholy and stoicism . . . by some miracle, the entire Peanuts oeuvre is gradually being republished in this country, by Canongate . . . in lavishly appointed hardback . . . Unlike almost everything you read as a child, they are actually better than you remember them * * Spectator * *As essential as pop texts get * * The Onion * *Charles Schulz was, plain and simple, a great artist and philosopher . . . But most importantly, he teaches all ages that if you can learn to laugh at the things that cause you the most pain you will be the strongest of all. Peanuts: a real way of life -- John Waters

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Book SynopsisA stunning celebration of Ralph Lauren s signature home collections including the designer s own homes which have inspired the world of interior design for nearly half a century.Trade Review"Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Ralph Lauren Home collection, this book underlines the iconic American designer’s groundbreaking approach to branding. From the debut of his flagship store on New York’s Madison Avenue, the residential retailing of which immersed customers in the world of Ralph Lauren, to his cinematic multi-page ads, his innovative use of materials, his restaurants and the houses — a sprawling Colorado ranch, an island retreat in Jamaica, a Fifth Avenue penthouse, a Montauk beach house and a country estate in Connecticut — that have inspired his fashion and home collections, Ralph Lauren: A Way of Living (Rizzoli) serves as proof that he architected a blueprint that paved the way for today’s lifestyle brands." —THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER"“Quiet luxury” became a hashtag in 2023, but for more than a half-century, Ralph Lauren has been making it his life’s work. In these pages, the iconic fashion designer takes readers on a tour of “the places, the things, and the people” that have influenced him…including his private homes (!). Each is lushly photographed, from the cedar-clad Montauk compound to the rustic Colorado lodge to his Bedford, New York, stone manor, his white-washed Jamaican escape, and his luxe Manhattan apartment. Alongside these drool-worthy images, Lauren shares private family anecdotes, a timeline of the Ralph Lauren Home collections, and some vital fashion lessons." —OPRAH DAILY"Icon, pioneer, innovator, influencer. From clothes to housewares, Ralph Lauren designed a complete world. The book commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Ralph Lauren Home Collection and illustrates how he created a signature style that defined a lifetime of design." —MANSION GLOBAL"Fashion designer Ralph Lauren homes opens the doors to his Colorado ranch, Jamaican island retreat, Fifth Avenue penthouse, seaside home in Montauk and a country estate in Connecticut." —HOUSE & HOME"Ralph Lauren is many things: fashion visionary, author, and godfather of American East Coast elite style. Known for his prophetic vision of prep, his timeless apparel has forever etched his name in the top tier of the beau monde. That’s the story we all know. It’s not the one explored in Lauren’s confessional self-penned book. Here you’ll find the legendary multihyphenate reflecting on his impact on the world of interior design. Spanning 544 lustrous pages, featuring a visual timeline of Lauren’s legacy as a lifestyle pioneer and an intimate look at his striking homes, Ralph Lauren A Way of Living: Home, Design, Inspiration is rich reading for the haute homebody." —V MAGAZINE"It’s been 40 years since Ralph Lauren launched his range of home decor and furnishings, renowned for pieces like the tufted wingback Writer’s Chair. To commemorate the milestone, this book delves into the lifestyle visionary’s interconnected worlds of design, retail, and hospitality, buoyed by peeks inside his collection of private homes scattered across New York, Colorado, and Jamaica." —AD"Step into the world of Ralph Lauren. This special volume details the evolution of the renowned designer's influence on interiors and the way we live. Discover how Lauren seamlessly blends fashion and the home with a visual timeline of his remarkable history within the lifestyle arena." —VERANDA"A huge range of styles are displayed here, from the couple’s minimalist white apartment on Central Park to the antler-clad getaway in the Rockies. Each is perfectly curated, down to how the blue-velvet settee in a Bedford sitting room plays off the green felt of the pool table. “Our homes are a canvas for living,” Lauren writes. And he has filled them artfully. Aristocratic layering is a guiding principle of his interiors — never too many tartan blankets — but any time the color and pattern threaten to riot, wooden antiques and crackled-leather furniture keep it earthy and grounded." —1st Dibs"Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the company’s home collection, the book includes a visual time line of its countless innovations as well as a detailed look at all the places from which Lauren gains inspiration, including his own homes. Also included is a collection of personal essays, written by the designer himself, and quotes from Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and architecture critic Paul Goldberger." —Airmail"Published on the 40th anniversary of Ralph Lauren Home, the volume bothsurveys the designer’s own abodes andchronicles the evolution of his trailblazinglifestyle brand—launched in 1983as a furnishings extension to his fashionempire. “Our homes are a canvas forliving,” he writes. “Whether we live in the city, the country,on a farm, at the beach, in a penthouse or cabin, each is homeand tells our story.” —AD"There is nothing radical about Ralph Lauren—but don’t let that fool you. With his shapeshifting, canny retakes on tradition, Lauren has long set the trends on how we dress, live, and head out on the town. This year marks four decades since Lauren galloped his way into the home sphere—one of the first major fashion designers to do so.His new book...celebrates 40 years of design. The book is the first dedicated to Lauren’s focus on lifestyle and makes the case that his influence has been as profound in the home sphere as it has been in fashion." —Elle Decor"The centerpiece of the bookis the exclusive look into Lauren’s impeccably designed privateresidences, where he shares his life with his family. From his expansive ranch in Colorado to his tranquil island retreat inJamaica, his idyllic beach house in Montauk, the cosmopolitan allure of his Manhattan penthouse, and the rustic charm of his country estate in Bedford, each of these homes serves as a testament to Lauren’s unique vision of modern living. The visual journey through these residences is followed by a celebration of Ralph Lauren’s lifestyle collections." —Quest"Who doesn’t want to live in a Ralph Lauren store? The genius designer is known for his sophisticated, classic interiors almost as much as his iconic clothing. In this gorgeous new tome commemorating 40 years of his home collection, Lauren invites us into his jaw-dropping residences in Montauk, NY, Jamaica, New York City, Colorado, and Bedford, NY—and the visuals are both beautiful and inspiring." —Serendipity

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Book SynopsisDiscover 65 beautiful Japanese-style fabric flowers to make from French artist Sylvie Blondeau. Projects include clear instructions with stunning accompanying photography. 'Japanese Fabric Flowers is one of those books that is just a joy to look at. The beautiful designs are stunning and really amazing', Tracy Shephard Postcard Reviews The Japanese word 'kanzashi' originally referred to decorative pins as part of the traditional female hairstyles. These pins were often works of art in themselves, holding in place elaborate floral arrangements made with natural or silk flowers. Today, kanzashi encompasses flowers made from regular fabrics. Sylvie Blondeau shows you how to make 65 of these simply stunning designs. The projects are so easy and fun to make that you will soon be making them for every occasion! They are perfect as accessories on clothing, jewellery, home decorations or table adornments for special occasions.Trade ReviewKanzashi flowers are a traditional Japanese craft originally used as a hair ornament. In this collection, French costume designer Blondeau presents the basics of kanzashi making, including designs ranging from simple to complex. Basic kanzashi flowers require simple supplies that most sewists will have on hand—fabric scraps (medium-weight fabrics such as cotton poplin or raw silk are ideal), fabric glue, and a hand sewing kit. As the flowers become more complex, kanzashi flower makers, which are plastic templates in five different shapes corresponding to a specific petal type, are used. Flowers can be finished with beads or buttons and incorporated into numerous projects, including jewelry or handbags, or used as an embellishment or an accessory. Step-by-step directions for sewing 16 different kanzashi are provided; 12 projects supply ideas for using the finished flowers as well as further variations. VERDICT Crafters with an interest in embellishment or in traditional Japanese crafts will enjoy this collection. * Library Journal USA *I adore fabric flowers and I am always amazed by the very effective and beautiful results achieved by the manipulation of small pieces of fabric. Kanzashi is the Japanese art of making these divine creations, and even though they look intricate and difficult to make they really are quite simple. Use them to adorn your bags, hats and home decor, you can even make earrings and necklaces which could be given as gifts to your favourite friends. Japanese Fabric Flowers is one of those books that is just a joy to look at. The beautiful designs are stunning and really amazing. Each design has a pattern, including tools needed and extra advice on cutting your fabric and even using embellishments. Templates are included and with simple visual diagrams there is no reason for you not to create something wonderful. This is a beautiful craft and well worth the effort as the final results are just stunning. -- Tracy Shephard * Postcard Reviews *Wow 65 different flowers to decorate things with. Sylvie brings together her skills to show you how to make beautiful flowers that can be easily be made with regular fabric. Not only does Sylvie share her step by step instructions to make beautiful flowers you also get step-by-step instructions for making different projects to add your flowers to. Sylvie explains the history behind these beautiful flowers and talks you through creating and using templates. Some of the flowers use the clover kanzashi (the name of the beautiful flowers) flower makers. These templates make it easier for you to make matching flowers all the time. In the book clear instructions are given so that you can make the flowers very easily. Each of the 65 designs have their own look Some look like specific types of flower and others are unique. Sylvie also takes you through using other materials to finish off your designs. You can use everything from buttons to chain. The book makes the flowers in multiple colours to create different designs. Plain fabric is used and then on others patterned fabric is used to create a completely different look. The flowers are fantastic to make with scraps of fabric and can be easily altered to match your decor or outfit. With so many flowers to make and so many projects to use them on this book offers so much. The book is full of amazing colours! For the full review and images please visit: www.crochetaddictuk.com * Crochet Addict UK *Kanzashi flowers are those beautiful fabric flowers associated with traditional Japanese hairstyles, especially those of geishas. They are not hard to make, and can be used to adorn more than hair decorations; they are also a great way of using up oddments of fabric. This book, translated from the French shows you how to make both the styles with just fabric, and those using the plastic Clover Flower Makers. There are sixteen different flowers to choose from, plus the more Western yoyo (aka Suffolk puff), rosette and padded “pumpkin” shape reminiscent of pincushions. Each flower has a series of captioned diagrams that are well laid out on the page but would be even better if they were all in a dark line color rather than red, pink or orange. There is a handy gallery of all the finished types, and then it is on with the projects. All these are illustrated with large photographs, often giving more than one view of the finished piece and separate parts. The print is quite small, and instructions don’t always feature staged diagrams so some sewing experience is essential for the more challenging projects. You won’t find any Japanese style hair decorations in here and the hanging “falls” are omitted, but instead there are many ingenious ways of using the flowers to decorate all kinds of other things. These are beautiful and unusual – waterlily table decorations, lots of jewelry, Christmas decorations, Peter Pan collar with flower and a crafter’s bag to name some. If you have always wanted to make your own kanzashi this is the place to discover how, and also how they fit into modern Western life. * Rachel Hyde - Myshelf.com *Great value book with full colour photos and instructions to make 65 fabulous flowers. Some you can make with card, for others it recommends a template maker. Love the ideas and end results in this book. Use your fabric stash and scraps, you need 3 inch diameter circles. You learn the basics first - rounded petals, pointed petals and so on and then specific flowers. I love them all. Easy to make flowers that match your handmade outfits. * Karen Platt- yarnsandfabrics.co.uk *

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Book SynopsisA unique tribute from David Bowie’s official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie’s blessing.In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it landed Bowie’s Stardust alter ego: a glitter-clad, mascara-eyed, sexually ambiguous persona who kicked down the boundaries between male and female, straight and gay, fact and fiction into one shifting and sparkling phenomenon of ’70s self-expression. Together, Ziggy the album and Ziggy the stage spectacular propelled the softly spoken Londoner into one of the world’s biggest stars.A key passenger on this glam trip into the stratosphere was fellow Londoner and photographer Mick Rock. Rock bonded with Bowie artistically and personally, immersed himself in the singer’s inner circle, and, between 1972 and 1973, worked as the singer’s photographer and videographer.This collection brings together spectacular stage shots, iconic photo shoots, as well as intimate backstage portraits. With a lenticular cover of different headshots, it celebrates Bowie’s fearless experimentation and reinvention, while offering privileged access to the many facets of his personality and fame. Through the aloof and approachable, the playful and serious, the candid and the contrived, the result is a passionate tribute to a brilliant and inspirational artist whose creative vision will never be forgotten.Trade Review“Mick Rock bore more intimate witness to Bowie the Man than perhaps any other living lensman.” * Vogue *

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Book SynopsisThe Canon PowerShot G16 compact digital camera is the successor to the successful G15 and the first in the G-series to come equipped with built-in Wi-Fi. This facility makes it ideal for sharing images and video on social networking websites, or via email through the Canon Image Gateway. Images can also be uploaded using the maker's compatible iOS(R) or Android(t) device with the download of a free Canon CameraWindow app. The G16's 28 - 140mm wide-angle lens has an aperture range of f/1.8 - f/2.8, making it ideal for shooting in low-light conditions or for capturing a dramatic shallow depth-of-field with soft backgrounds. The camera features Canon's HS System, which combines a DIGIC 6 image processor and a 12.1-megapixel High-Sensitivity CMOS image sensor. Autofocus (AF) times and reduced shooting lag are improved over previous G-series models and continuous shooting speeds of up to 9.3 frames-per-second are possible. New shooting modes include Star mode for capturing the night sky: Star Nightscape will capture stars in a landscape image, while Star Trails will capture trails of stars in a still image; Star Time Lapse Movie will shoot continuous still images of stars and combine them into a video that replicates the motion of the stars in the sky.

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Book SynopsisEmbrace the spirit of a beloved Japanese art form through a beautifully designed 78-card deck and guidebook inspired by traditional manga artwork.Ukiyo (which can be translated to floating/fleeting/transient world) is the Japanese term used to describe the urban lifestyle and culture, especially the pleasure-seeking aspects, of the Edo period (1600–1867) in Japan. Floating World Tarot creatively reimagines the ukiyo lifestyle through the lens of manga art and pairs it with the ancient art of tarot to create an all-inclusive kit that gives you everything you need to master this powerful divination tool.   78 tarot cards encompassing both Major and Minor Arcana, each illustrated in a unique and gorgeous manga style An 80-page illustrated guidebook with detailed explanations, guiding keywords, and reversed meanings of each card With this deck and book, gather the knTrade Review"An effective and impressive blending of Japanese spiritualist traditions and the ancient metaphysical format of the Tarot, Floating World Tarot will be of special appeal and value to anyone with an interest in exploring the immersive world of manga art as adapted to the Tarot. Unique, inspiring, fun." * Midwest Book Review *

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Book SynopsisDavid Hockney: Normandy Portraits accompanies a major exhibition on David Hockney at the National Portrait Gallery, London. It reveals new portraits painted in Hockney's Normandy Studio between 2020 and 2022. David Hockney: Normandy Portraits illustrates around 40 acrylic on canvas works painted by Hockney at his Normandy studio – depicting his friends and visitors, including his partner JP, pop-star sensation Harry Styles, and the artist himself. This image-led book product will showcase a series of some previously unseen portraits, through 48 pages, uninterrupted by text, to allow readers to engage directly with the artworks that will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery as well as some added exclusives. These works highlight the ongoing importance of portraiture within the artist’s practice and demonstrate his sentiment that ‘drawings and paintings … are a lot better than photographs to give you a sense of the person’. Hockney returned to painting after an intensive period spent depicting the Normandy landscape using an iPad. The portraits were painted quickly and directly onto the canvas without under drawing. As Hockney has said ‘to do a portrait slowly is a bit of a contradiction’.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers practical help and guidance to aspiring illustrators. All areas of the job are covered – how to create a portfolio; the most effective ways to approach would-be clients; how to prepare for meetings and negotiate contracts; and how to handle, deliver, and bill a job. There is advice on how to avoid the pitfalls that can undermine crucial first impressions; how to set up a studio; and how to maintain a flow of work and manage one''s time and cash. Success in self-promotion, creating websites, self-publishing, and the pros and cons of agents are all explored.International illustrators are interviewed, discussing how they got their break in the industry, their experiences with clients, their methods of promoting work, and more. In addition, leading art directors describe their approach to commissioning illustration, how they spot new talent, their thoughts on promotional material, and their advice to up-andcoming illustrators.Packed with useful tips gleaned from the author''s own career as an illustrator, and his work as an agent handling some of the best new talent, the book is an essential read for anyone looking to succeed in illustration.

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Book SynopsisCreating a brand identity is a fascinating and complex challenge for the graphic designer. It requires practical design skills and creative drive as well as an understanding of marketing and consumer behaviour. This practical handbook is a comprehensive introduction to this multifaceted process. Exercises and examples highlight the key activities undertaken by designers to create a successful brand identity, including defining the audience, analyzing competitors, creating mood boards, naming brands, designing logos, presenting to clients, rebranding and launching the new identity. Case studies throughout the book are illustrated with brand identities from around the world, including a diverse range of industries digital media, fashion, advertising, product design, packaging, retail and more.

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Book SynopsisArtist and illustrator Elizabeth Gould is finally given the recognition she deserves in this gorgeous volume that includes hundreds of her stunning and scientifically precise illustrations of birds from nearly every continent. For all of her short life, Elizabeth Gould's artistic career was appreciated through the lens of her husband, ornithologist John Gould, with whom she embarked on a series of ambitious projects to document and illustrate the birds of the world. Elizabeth played a crucial role in her husband's lavish publications, creating beautifully detailed and historically significant accurate illustrations of over six hundred birds -many of which were new to science. However, Elizabeth's role was not always fully credited and, following her tragic death aged only thirty-seven, her efforts and talent were nearly forgotten. This marvelous volume offers a new and timely tribute to Elizabeth's reputation and skill. It opens with an introduction to her life and achievements that reflects the latest scholarship. Following is a geographically organized collection of full-color plates depicting birds from nineteenth-century Europe, South and Central America, Africa, Asia, and Australia including previously unpublished original artworks. Filled with the highest quality reproductions, this volume allows readers to appreciate first-hand Gould's talent for capturing the unique character of each species and the beauty of avian diversity. At the same time it offers a valuable reconsideration of a woman who left a lasting legacy as one of the greatest bird painters of all time.Trade ReviewIn BIRDS OF THE WORLD we find lithographs whose knowingly slapdash linework, paired with bright pigments and quick washes, makes prints such as her candy-cloudy Senegalese woodland kingfisher feel like daydreams as much as records. As Her Majesty’s navies and naturalists patrolled the world, Gould limned its limits, whetting the visual imagination of an ever-reaching empire.

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Book SynopsisA 44-card oracle deck focusing on the teachings, traditions, and wisdom of the Mi'kmaq people, meant to help the reader create a deeper connection with the spirit world and Mother Earth.Indigenous wisdom is sacred and has been shared for many generations by the Elders of the spirit world, and it is through their wisdom that we bridge the physical world to the spirit world. When you use these oracle cards you are walking in the world with the wisdom of the Elders. These teachings were meant to be shared with you, and to help you through your daily and spiritual life. This deck is a tool meant to support you on your journey through life; the purpose of sharing these teachings is to help you grow and develop spiritually, within your own personal connection to Spirit, and to your loved ones on the other side. The cards includebut are not limited toteachings like: the Seven Grandfather Teachings, the Four Sacred Fire Teachings, and the Four Sacred Medicines; and co

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Book SynopsisPackage design is one of the most dynamic and fast-evolving fields of design today. Featuring over 600 creations from more than 35 countries, this compact edition celebrates extraordinary work from the global packaging design community. Showcasing the winners of the Pentawards from the past decade, the world’s leading packaging design competition.

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Book Synopsis"A fascinating cultural history" (People) of how Japan adopted and ultimately revived traditional American fashion A strange thing has happened over the last two decades: the world has come to believe that the most "authentic" American garments are those made in Japan. From high-end denim to oxford button-downs, Japanese brands such as UNIQLO, Kamakura Shirts, Beams, and Kapital have built their global businesses by creating the highest-quality versions of classic American casual garments-a style known in Japan as ametora, or "American traditional."In Ametora, cultural historian W. David Marx traces the Japanese assimilation of American fashion over the past 150 years. Now updated with a new afterword covering the last decade, Ametora shows how Japanese trendsetters and entrepreneurs mimicked, adapted, imported, and ultimately perfected American style, dramatically reshaping not only Japan's culture but also our own.

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Book SynopsisCharlotte Bolland is Senior Curator, Research and 16th Century Collections, at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Among other publications, she authored The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics (National Portrait Gallery, 2022) and Tudor and Jacobean Portraits (National Portrait Gallery, 2018), and co-authored with Tarnya Cooper The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt (National Portrait Gallery, 2017). Suzannah Lipscomb is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Roehampton and Senior Member at St Cross College, Oxford. She has written and edited seven books and is an established television presenter. She hosts the History Hit podcast, 'Not Just the Tudors'. Her next book, The Six: A New History of Henry VIII's Queens will be published in Autumn 2025. Other contributors include Nicola Clark, Brett Dolman, Alden Gregory, Benjamin Hebbert, Nicola Tallis, and Valerie Schutte.

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Book SynopsisTim Hetherington highlights 50 photographs by the award-winning conflict photographer Tim Hetherington. Featuring seminal photography of his time in Liberia (2003-2006), Afghanistan (2007-2008) and Libya (2011) alongside unseen moments, this book showcases his important work as both a conflict photographer and humanitarian innovator.

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Book SynopsisA Sunday Times Art Book of the Year: written by one of the UK's foremost art critics, this new narrative history of the Renaissance takes in the whole of Europe and its global context. What was the 'Renaissance'? In the nineteenth century this flowering of creativity and thought was celebrated as the birth of the modern world. Today many historians are sceptical about its very existence. Earthly Delights rekindles the Renaissance as a seismic change in European mentalities, in a panoramic history that encompasses Florence and Bruges, London and Nuremberg. Artists from northern as well as southern Europe, including Leonardo, Bosch, Bruegel and Titian, star in a captivating and beautifully illustrated narrative that sets their lives against a period of convulsive change across a continent that was finding itself as it discovered' the world. Art critic and writer Jonathan Jones tells the story of Renaissance artists as pioneers, adventurers and geniuses', a Renaissance concept. AlTrade Review'A pearl of a book, a delight to read, full of language and ideas that form a tumbling elegy to the “eruption of curiosity” of the age' - Anna Keays, The Times'Jonathan Jones, the art critic of the Guardian, rides into battle like the knights in Uccello’s Battle of San Romano, gives you big ideas and bold themes, then, dismounting, writes with lyrical loveliness about the “light-catching locks” and spiralling curls of Leonardo’s angels or the slender, honeytrap Venuses of Lucas Cranach the Elder ... This is the Renaissance of Botticelli and Bosch, of heavenly goddesses and teeming hells' - Laura Freeman, Art Books of the Year, The Sunday Times'Jonathan Jones has reimagined the Renaissance for our times in a beautifully written love letter to the art of Leonardo, Bosch, Dürer, Titian, Michelangelo and so many others ... it is a tale of artistic innovation and exchange in a world of sex, piety, revolution and discovery. From Van Eyck to Caravaggio, each page makes new connections and offers brilliant revelations about works we thought we knew, but which appear anew under Jones’ period gaze. His love of the art of the period is passionate and infectious: a superb achievement' - Jerry Brotton, author of 'The Renaissance Bazaar''Earthly Delights captures the extraordinary transformation in Europe of thinking from 1400 to 1600 ... Packed with the stories of the geniuses who made the art of this period soar -- from Leonardo and his ideas for a flying machine to Michelangelo and his St Peter’s Basilica – this book is both beautifully illustrated and hugely readable' - Art Society Magazine'One of the most compelling and widely read critics of our time … Jones deftly side-steps the great morass of scholarly verbiage that has built up around this pivotal era, and goes straight to the works of art themselves. We stand at his shoulder as some of the greatest paintings and sculptures of all time reveal their meanings to him - and to us. The result is a highly readable book that makes an extraordinary, but now distant period of human history feel fresh, immediate and very relevant to now. And not least through Jones's own unquenchable passion for his subject' - Mark Hudson, art critic and author of 'Titian, The Last Days''The author surveys a wide range of artists and key paintings, providing his own perspective on masterpieces such as Donatello’s Judith and Holofernes (1455-60) sculpture in Florence' - Art Newspaper'Jonathan Jones sets out to rebut the view that the very idea of the Renaissance is “a wheezing old steam train, a 19th-century construct”. Instead, he argues, it constituted a revolutionary new focus on the earthly realities of the world, human flesh among them. He makes the case vigorously, persuasively and entertainingly' - Martin Gayford, Books of the Year, Spectator'Fast-moving and zestful … re-presents the story of the Renaissance as a rollicking, whizz-bang, can-do, will-do, must-do tale of daring innovation driven by a hoard of brilliant, maverick schemers and adventurers such as Bosch, Brueghel, Durer and Michelangelo. Can be easily read to the accompaniment of several glasses of the best, needless to say' - The Tablet'Jones’s reading of Leonardo’s Cecilia Gallerani is as illuminating as it unexpected … his knowledge makes him a sure-footed guide through this seismic two hundred years of European history … We might not have “needed” another history of the Renaissance, but now that we have it, it is worth celebrating' - Literary Review'Jones paints a picture that is more multidimensional, fragmented and complicated, one in which profound changes in art and thought were also spurred by curiosity about other continents and the spirit of scientific enquiry. The entertaining and accessible text discusses all the titans – Leonardo, Diirer, Bruegel, Holbein, Botticelli, Michelangelo – as well as finding a place for some lesser-known women artists and patrons' - Art Quarterly'Revisits this well-trodden period from a more globalist perspective. Tracing influences across northern and southern Europe and its colonies, Jonathan Jones argues that the Renaissance was not the 'muted, peripheral phenomenon of elite culture' many believe it to have been' - The New York Times Book Review'Some say the Renaissance is a fantasy of aesthetic gluttony dreamt up in the 19thcentury. But The Guardian’s art critic Jonathan Jones is having none of it, and in Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance, his joyous, reflective, and beautifully illustrated account, he explores in panoramic detail an age of discovery fuelled by curiosity and delight' - The New European'It is a passion which, in Earthly Delights, Jones pursues with intelligence, knowledge and some splendidly iconoclastic readings and opinions … his reading of Leonardo’s Cecilia Gallerani is as illuminating as it is unexpected – a sly celebration of the human over the divine. Elsewhere, his knowledge makes him a sure-footed guide through this seismic two hundred years of European history … We might not have “needed” another history of the Renaissance, but now that we have it, it is worth celebrating' - Sarah Dunant'An enlightening and entertaining account of what happened when western culture went back to the future. Rather fittingly, it’s the kind of book you finish only to find yourself looking forward to reading again' - Stephen Smith, GuardianTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Arnolfini Nude 2. The Naked Citizen 3. The Triumph of Love 4. Profane Angels 5. Worldly Knowledge 6. Haywain To Hell 7. The Garden of Earthly Delights 8. Render Unto Caesar 9. Melancholia 10. Pulse of Life 11. Judgements 12. Carnival and Lent 13. Curiosities

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