The efficiency of getting around by bike has made cycling a popular pursuit of city life. More recently, biking and street style have come together to form an entire spectrum of urban self-expression. From gritty...
In New York, Berlin and Tokyo, night is the new day, and life is celebrated in some of the most unusual clubs around. With unique style and creative design, a culture of its own is staged. The wide field of...
Featuring innovative and stylish interior products that all design-savvy parents will want for their children, Designed for Kids is the first such guide for children from the nursery up. Sourced from around the world,...
Designing Sustainable Packaging
This is a practical book on creating packaging prototypes that reflect sustainable and ecologically sound principles. It challenges the next generation of graphic designers to re-envision packaging design as a less...
Detail in Contemporary Timber / Современная архитектура из дерева (Laurence King)
An invaluable book for both students and professionals and includes a FREE CD-ROM with all drawings. ...
Detail in Contemporary Kitchen Design
"Detail in Contemporary Kitchen Design" features over 30 kitchen designs from around the world, each created by a notable architect for a specific residence. Arranged into chapters according to the dominant material...
Detail In Contemporary Residential Architecture
This book provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in the development of contemporary residential architecture, providing a study of the emerging trends in detailing in recent...
"Digital Textile Design" covers everything students and practitioners of textile design will need to learn about designing and printing digitally. Textile designers are beginning to realise the creative potential of...
New in paperback, this is an in-depth survey of today`s best design and art production using digital technology in creative and unexpected ways. Troika, a multi-disciplinary art and design practice showcases nearly...
DIY Fashion: Customize and Personalize
A guide to making and customizing your own clothes, bags and accessories. It contains over 40 thrifty, sustainable and stylish projects, none of which require prior skill or a sewing machine. It also includes projects...
Edward Steichen: In High Fashion
Edward Steichen was already a famous painter and photographer when, in 1923, he was offered one of the most prestigious and most lucrative positions in photography – that of chief photographer for Condé Nast’s...
Egon Schiele: Drawings & Watercolours
Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele produced a prolific body of work before his early death in the flu epidemic of 1918 at the age of 28. His few hundred oils have often been reproduced and are well recognized, but he...
Elizabeth I was one of the great personalities of all time, with Elizabethan England being a scintillating cultural era, with an enduring legacy in literature, architecture and sheer style. In this book, newly...
This beautifully illustrated book examines the fascinating symbolism behind the motifs and patterns of embroidered textiles, from Ghanaian patchwork banners to Egyptian headshawls. Complete with a glossary, dictionary...
The art of embroidery has been practised for thousands of years. In the West, traditions have been at the mercy of trade and fashion, but in much of the rest of the world, embroidery continues to be rooted in ancient...
From about 1700, English design, craftsmanship, and production techniques inspired admiration and imitation throughout the Western world. The designers of the period and their associated manufacturers created a legacy...
