Arts

Architects use CAD to help them visualize their ideas. Parametric design is a fast-growing development of CAD that lets architects and designers sp...

An understanding of trends is a fundamental skill for anyone working in the fashion industry. In this book Gwyneth Holland and Rae Jones look at ho...

This 60-piece collection showcases an array of inspired and stylish projects that don't demand a large investment of time or money, but do give jew...

Synopsis This book presents the most flamboyant and whimsical of all Chihuly's series. The voluptuous glass pieces, shown in full-colour, were i...

This is the definitive book on fashion in the 1940s, covering everything from French style under the Occupation and the `make do and mend' mentalit...

Synopsis Ilkka Uimonen travelled to Jerusalem on September 25, 2000, to photograph a story in the Old City. Three days later Ariel Sharon visite...

Review "...[Lebensztejn] elegantly reveals how artists have repeatedly used our queasiness in the face of bodily functions to transgress narro...

Product Description Through photographs of both iconic and individual styles, this book decodes celebrity fashion secrets and demonstrates how to ...

Product Description The Digital Brushes Sourcebook is a one-stop resource for designers and illustrators who want to explore the enormous creative...

Review "With sections on creating the perfect composition, finding an original angle,and capturing scenes and places, this book covers all you nee...

For too long, kindergarten architects have been seemingly preoccupied with the principles of durability, maximisation of space, and minimisation of...

Product Description What does architecture have to do with health? This fun - damental, yet unusual question is based on the elemen - tary conside...

Silvia Bachli and Eric Hatan spent four months, from March to June, in Seydisfjordur in eastern Iceland. The landscape they explored on their daily...

Can regional and interregional mechanisms better institutionalize the - creasing complexity of economic and security ties among states in Nor- east...

Product Description In numerous civilizations throughout world history city walls were an indispensable part of every city. In China they can ...

Claude Lorrain (c. 1600/1604-1682) is justifiably referred to as the father of European landscape painting. Basing his work on carefully observed s...

Sasha Waltz is a pioneer of the so-called "turn to the installation". She is expanding the field of the installation to include actions and people....

Discover the captivating world of art and creativity with this stunning book that invites you to explore the depths of human expression. Perfect fo...

In his singular paintings, Niklaus Manuel Gudel (*1988 in Delemont, Switzerland) assigns a void to the actual pictorial subject. The people or anim...

For Stefan Hanke (*1961 in Regensburg), each new day harbored the danger of being able to meet one less person who had survived one of the greatest...

What began as an academic initiative to improve the quality of life of poor strata of the population has meanwhile become a professional "do tank" ...

Difficult to categorize and branded as "naive"-art history had and still has a hard time with works by the great autodidacts: artists such as Henri...

The Swiss artist Christoph Hansli (*1963) gained international recognition a few years ago for his epic work, Mortadella (2006-08), a series of 332...

The work of Angela Bulloch (*1966, Rainy River, Canada, currently based in Berlin) spans many media, manifesting her interest in systems, patterns ...

Summer in Siberia? What does that feel like? Is Siberia perhaps a new travel destination we didn't know about? How is climate change making itself ...

The publication presents Joan Miro's (1893- 1983) mural art in the context of his life's work. Miro's ideas for large-scale mural art can be traced...

Rapunzel, the famous fairy - tale character of the Brothers Grimm, comes from the world of magic. She is the girl, lover, woman and mother who e...

At a time when extreme climatic phenomena, air quality, and industrial impact are among the most pressing issues on the public agenda, the dramatic...

Emigration, being lost in a strange world, the search for a new identityand longing for things and people that have been lost form the central topi...

The iF product design award was introduced in 1954 and is annually conferred by iF Industrie Forum Design of Hanover, Germany. Each year the iF awa...

Product Description A key figure in French design, and the man behind the first high-speed trainThis volume compiles a selection of illustrator, g...

Discover the hidden treasures of literature with this used book, a gem that has stood the test of time! Perfect for avid readers and collectors ali...

Product Description One of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) creates immersive environments and spectacul...

Text in English and German. Shortly after the navy had given up its Flensburg Fjord base a group of developers acquired the site which comprises 7 ...

Six years ago Bryan Adams was approached by Trudie Styler to photo- graph a portrait story of homeless street vendors for The Big Issue magazine. T...

Product Description In the summer of 1955 a relatively naive and uninformed John Cohen crossed thestraits of Gibraltar. He arrived in Tangier with...

Product Description The origins of this book lie in David Goldblatt’s simple observation that many of his fellow South Africans, regardless of...

The Spirit of Lagaan is the extraordinary story of a thousand days in the lives of Aamir Khan, Ashutosh Gowarikar and their mammoth team which made...

The principal characteristics of the achitectural works presented in this book relate to different types of buildings: infrastructure and urban dev...

Product Description The first monograph of a contemporary artist, whose work offers a look at the world from a different glance, refusing to be bl...

The works by the architect and designer Federico Delrosso (1964) constantly reflect a passing of the torch between past and present that, far from ...

The Peruvian artist Jorge Eielson is a pivotal figure in the twentieth century art, whose importance is gradually garnering international attention...

Product Description The outcome of painstaking study and attentive collecting of materials like documents, photos, writings, and period public...

Product Description Born in Camaguey, Cuba in 1955, Demi depicts a vibrant and intimate universe centered upon children, but hers is neither a sug...

This monograph includes Eric Maillet entire body of personal photographic work. Water and nature occupy a very important place in Maillet's work wi...

Product Description At 80 feet high, 40 feet wide and 35 feet deep, Albert Paleys most recent sculpture is the latest work by this monumental arti...

Tatge's eye is attentive, measured, both cultured and passionate. And the Italy that he photographs for us reveals the fascination and mystery of i...

A celebration of music from the creator of Alan Partridge, The Thick of It, Veep and The Death of Stalin. All my days, I've felt pressurized by th...