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Turner

As a blind person might see the world if the gift of sight were suddenly returned - this is how we might describe the effect of William Turner`s paintings on the observer. John Ruskin, Turner`s uncompromising...

Tuscany Style

For those who have never had the pleasure of a Tuscan sojourn, the simple idea of it is exhilarating; for those who have, the slightest reminder sends a flood of passionate memories rushing to the head. In other...

Tuscany Interiors / Интерьеры Тосканы

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Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles: Volume 2: 1901-1938

This book offers a connoisseur`s overview of typeface design, exploring the most elegant fonts from the history of publishing. Taken from a distinguished Dutch collection, this exuberant two-volume edition traces the...

Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles: Vol. 1: 1628-1900

This book offers a novel overview of typeface design, exploring the most beautiful and remarkable examples of font catalogs from the history of publishing, with a special emphasis on the period from the mid-19th...

UNStudio

UNStudio, led by Dutch architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, creates spaces that are surprisingly innovative. Their work doesn`t rehash Modernism but rather embraces the digital age via the invention of new,...

Urban Style / Maisons de Ville / Stadtische Hauser

Awareness of the benefits of ecologically sustainable architecture has increased throughout the world, particularly over the past two decades. At a point in time when half the world`s population lives in cities and...

Valentino: A Grand Italian Epic

Think Valentino: think luxury. Think elegance. Think red carpet. Fashion`s most beloved upholder of refined decadence and the most exciting couturier in business is known around the globe simply by his first name....

Valentines / День Святого Валентина: Графика (ICONS)

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Van Gogh

Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man his whole life long. His truest friend was his brother Theo, who supported him...

Van Gogh (Biblioteca Universalis) Ван Гог

Vincent van Gogh`s story is one of the most ironic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museums, and record...

Velazquez. Complete Works

Vermeer

Vermeer: The Complete Paintings

We know very little about Vermeer`s life. There is a tradition that he was baptised in Delft on 31 October 1632, the second child and only son of Reynier Jansz. His father was born in 1591 in Antwerp. In 1611 he moved...

Victor Vasarely / Виктор Вазарели

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Video Art

The immediacy and accessibility of video makes it an ideal medium for artists who want to work with sound and moving image; no sooner than video cameras were available to the public in the 1970s were artists already...

Vintage Surfing

Covering the 1920s to the 1960s, this book brings together vintage ads, postcards, brochures, and photographs as well as period Top 10 lists covering surf superstars, songs, and surfing spots. If you`ve ever found...

W. Allen

Woody Allen began his career writing jokes and scripts, then progressed to stand-up and acting, and finally wrote and directed his first film, Take the Money and Run, in 1969. This was a screwball comedy that starred...

Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra

At first glance, Walton Ford`s large-scale, highly-detailed watercolors of animals may recall the prints of 19th century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear, and others of the colonial era. But a closer...

Wassily Kandinsky (Basic Art) HC Василий Кандински

Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual,...

Web Design: Navigation

This addition to our popular Web Design series focuses on very carefully crafted navigation systems, where usability and narrative are taken in consideration in the development of the website. Featuring over 90...

Web Design: Video Sites

The YouTube phenomenon is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the presence and importance of video on the web today. With increasing bandwidth speeds come more and more possibilities for the moving image to find...

Web Design: E-commerce

Have you ever bought online? Or better, how often do you buy online? Even if you have never bought online, you know that in fact all the stuff available to us "offline" is managed and mostly ordered online. Some years...

Web Design: Flashfolios

Following up on the success of "Web Design: Portfolios", this volume features the Internet`s best examples of artists, design studios, photographers, designers, and corporations that use Flash to showcase their...

Web Design: Music Sites / Вэб дизайн: Музыкальные сайты