Good vibrations: the best online music resources. The internet has become a major player in today`s music market, especially thanks to online sales from sources such as iTunes; while most web music sales sites boast...
When you surf the web and find a particular website you like, you probably ask yourself who designed it, and how. Brains are the most important assets for making the web dynamic and interesting. The use of the right...
We`ve been trawling the web looking for the most interesting and well-designed portfolios - of designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, and motion graphic pros - to profile the creators working behind the...
Web Design: Interactive & Games
100 prime examples from the world`s best digital agencies demonstrating the key role interactivity plays on the web today. With its origins tied to the invention of the hyperlink, the web is defined by interaction....
A recognized prodigy at age 10, world famous by age 23, Orson Welles was a triple magician of theater, radio, and film-and by age 25 a promising figure in American politics. President Franklin Roosevelt encouraged him...
What Great Paintings Say: Italian Renaissance
Surreptitious messages, concealed myths, and historical truths lie hidden in the great works of the Italian Renaissance, behind heavy gold leaf and religious symbology. Although often obscured by the archaic language...
The Vienna Workshop and the "total work of art". Founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Fritz Waemdorfer, the Wiener Werkstаtte ("Vienna Workshop") was a collective of architects and craftsmen which...
Working Spaces / Espaces de Travail / Raum fur Arbeit
The idea of transforming the working area into an integrated part of the domestic space is now a familiar concept, and freelance professionals often opt to establish their office at home not only for financial reasons...
World Architecture. Egypt. From Prehistory to the Romans
The architecture of the pharaohs represents some of the most impressive creative work ever produced in Egyptian art and yet it has never been completely assessed. Dietrich Wildung, Curator of the Egyptian Museum in...
World Architecture. Greece. From Mycenae to the Parthenon
From the superb mausoleum of Mausolus in Halicarnassus, stop by the shrine to Apollo at Delphi with its famous oracle, or pass through the imposing Lion Gate in Mycenae. This "picture book journey" takes us through...
World Architecture. International Style. Modernist Architecture from 1925 to 1965
"Modern architecture is not a new branch of an old tree - it is an altogether new shoot rising beside the old roots". Thus Walter Gropius, one of the pioneers of modern architecture, on the radical departures of the...
World Architecture. Islam. From Baghdad to Cordoba
The products of a highly-developed architectural style even today bear witness to the greatness of Arabic culture To the western eye, cities such as Jerusalem, Mecca, Baghdad or Cairo can seem utterly alien. It is...
What are tomorrow`s most important fashion designers working on today? How are they shaping the future of fashion? Within these pages are the answers: profiles of 46 designers whose work defies the established norms,...
Zaha Hadid (Basic Art) HC Заха Хадид
Discover the audacious futurism of Zaha Hadid. As the first woman to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, Hadid broke the rules and re-defined the game, despite some saying her...
