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Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Exclusive cocktails at a bar, excessive partying at a club, or relaxed chilling at a lounge people need to occasionally escape from their everyday life into another world. This is made possible by the individual character and the very own atmosphere of each special location, which are strongly defined by architectural and design visions. Apart from the drinks, the music and the people, lighting…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: This unashamed visual feast celebrates the best designed and illustrated picturebooks from around the world over the past one hundred years. Each book is a creation of genius and inventiveness, and their design and illustration represent such diverse trends as the Russian Constructivists, Italian Futurists, and Postwar Neo-romantics. They are also mirrors of their times reflecting social concerns…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: What is a true 1950s look, as opposed to a 1930s or 1940s look? This book aims to address that question by thoroughly surveying the development of graphic design over the course of the 20th century. Timelines for each decade highlight key moments, styles and movements, while profiles of thirty influential graphic designers three per decade are interspersed throughout the book.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: Japanese interior design is marked by contradictions. Simple color schemes belie complex and playful concepts, hyper-modern spaces are created using only traditional materials, and the relationship between nature and human architecture is sometimes tense, sometimes harmonious. Some aspects do remain constant: stylish minimalism rules, the color palette tend to be warm and light, and the designers…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The debate surrounding hand drawing versus computer-generated imagery has become a hot topic. Having grown up with computers, todays interior design and architecture students are extremely adept at creating computer imagery, but often lack confidence in their freehand sketching skills, or do not know how to sketch at all. Sketching, and the careful observation that it entails, is essential for…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great, the Hermitage Museum is one of the largest museums in the world. In early 2000, it was decided that the eastern wings General Staff Building (182030) should be converted into a museum of 19th and 20th century art, and an international architectural competition was held. St Petersburg-based Studio 44 won the commission for the elegant manner with which it…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The Evolution of Type takes the reader on a journey through the development of type design and typographic style from the mid-15th century to the present day, by way of 100 typefaces. Chosen to represent the key elements of style and form used by the punch cutters, calligraphers and designers of their day, and presented in chronological order according to release date, each typeface is discussed…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Greek sculpture is full of breathing vitality and yet, at the same time, it reaches beyond mere imitation of nature to give form to thought in works of timeless beauty. For over 2000 years the Greeks experimented with representing the human body in works that range from prehistoric abstract simplicity to the full-blown realism of the age of Alexander the Great. The ancient Greeks invented the…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: What drives artists to represent people as they do? This question, at the heart of figurative art, and how we represent ourselves as a society, is especially relevant today. Author Charlotte Mullins picks up the conversation at a time when the art world is influenced by the proliferation of images of all kinds, across all mediums, as well as a growing interest in figurative art. Profiles of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Drawing was central to Cezannes indefatigable search for solutions to the problems posed by the depiction of reality. Many of his watercolours are equal to his paintings, and he himself made no real distinction between painting and drawing. This books six chapters are arranged thematically covering the whole range of Cezannes uvre: works after the Old Masters such as Michelangelo and Rubens; his…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: John Singer Sargent: Painting Friends features a fascinating selection of over forty of the artists portraits of his circle of associates artists, writers, actors and musicians, many of whom he knew well. In contrast to his well-known society portraits, these works were rarely the result of commissions, and so are often more informal and radical in style. Beautifully reproduced here, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The essence of Italian style through fashion and costume in the 20th century in a handsome volume that captures the evolution of Italian fashion's biggest brands. The fashion archive of Enrico Quinto and Paolo Tinarelli has been painstakingly assembled over the last twenty years and traces the international evolution of costume from the mid-19th century to the present day. This quintessential…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: How Posters Work is more than a standard exhibition catalogue. Conceived as a useful and illuminating primer in visual thinking, it explores principles of design through a range of historical and contemporary works, uncovering ideas relevant not just to the design of posters but to 2D design more generally. How Posters Work has a unique focus on visual language. Rather than provide a history of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: Exhibition Design 2 describes the skills needed to become an exhibition designer, including: developing a brief and working with clients; design principles for graphics, circulation, lighting and accessibility; presenting ideas to clients; and the practicalities of production. A wealth of visual material includes photographs of completed exhibitions by world-renowned designers, concept drawings,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Concrete is an all-around talent, already in use in ancient Rome and since the second half of the 20th century one of the most important building materials. After a period of excess and architectural faux pas a renaissance of exposed concrete began in the 1990s. Whether the design would expressive-opulent or minimalistic-clear, the constant advance of technological developments, especially…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Abstract Expressionism is arguably the most important art movement since the Second World War. Because the images created by such leading figures as Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko were so extraordinary, it is often thought to have been a revolution in painting only, but its radical spirit also encompassed David Smith s sculpture and Aaron Siskind s…

Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: You've already learnt How To Become The Best Bubble Writer In The World Ever — now do it in 3D! In this great new addition to the Bubble Writer series, learn how to draw loads of great new bubble alphabets — and then learn how to take them off the page! Make your letters pop off the page with perspective, create real 3D letters of all shapes and sizes, try out stand-up letters, hanging letters,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: Michelangelo regarded portraiture as a trivial genre, and Peter Paul Rubens did not instantly develop a preference for it either. Yet Rubens succeeded, as none other, in endowing his portraits with an almost palpable sense of immediacy, and was to become one of the greatest portraitists of all time. His most beautiful and surprising portraits are those of his immediate family. These intimate…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Many of the sitters in this collection were John Singer Sargents close friends. They are posed informally, sometimes in the act of painting or singing, and it is evident from the bold way they confront us that they are personalities of a creative stamp. Brilliant as these pictures are as works of art and penetrating studies of character, they are also records of relationships, allegiances,…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Aperture is pleased to present the elegantly updated and refreshed Henri Cartier-Bresson edition of the Aperture Masters of Photography Series. With an introduction by notable curator Clement Cheroux, this edition includes new, image-by-image commentary and a chronology of this influential and iconic artists life. Initially presented as the History of Photography Series in 1976, the first volume…