Carlo Mollino (1905–73), the son of a prominent engineer of the city of Turin, graduated with honours from the Royal School of Architecture. He joined his father’s firm in 1931, only to pursue an independent and highly original career in design and architecture seven years later. From the start, both ...
Bringing together the finest artwork produced by skateboarders around the world, this second volume of skater-art follows on the successful first book "Concrete to Canvas". Since the first time a graphic was hand drawn onto a board, there has been a deep-rooted connection between skateboarding and art. ...
Print magazine’s Regional Design Annual is the most comprehensive yearly profile of the American graphic design industry on the market. Showcasing more than 2,000 designs selected from nearly 40,000 entries to Print’s national competition, this is the definitive guide to current trends in US design.
For all the popularity of e-commerce, store windows are still the most effective way of selling new product to consumers. Window displays connect the reality of the street to the fantasy of the shop and also have a huge influence on the distribution of space within the store itself. This copiously illustrated ...
Experimental Formats 2 builds on the success of Experimental Formats, bringing the subject bang up to date. It explores every aspect of designing the printed form, from single page to commercial package. Case studies of professional work celebrate the healthy tradition for experimentation in this field, ...
Traditionally considered the heart of the home, the fireplace (or hearth) has become a metaphor for shelter and security, yet there are few books devoted exclusively to its design. Here is an overview that approaches the subject from both an aesthetic and a practical point of view. Packed with beautiful ...
The latest edition of Rockport’s best-selling The Best of Business Card Design series features a high-end collection of the most recent and best work by top designers around the world. Organized in a visually focused presentation, this comprehensive collection contains approximately 800 images, selected ...
Graphic design on "non-traditional” materials attracts both designers and consumers. The subject fascinates consumers because unique materials can be difficult to engineer and incorporate so, tactile sdesign nearly always becomes coveted and collectible. Moreover, the designer who can get a consumer ...
The Society of Publication Designers’ (SPD) annual competition seeks the very best in editorial design work. Judged by a worldwide panel of top designers, the 39th edition of Rockport’s best-selling SPD series celebrates the journalists, editorial directors, photographers, and other talented individuals ...
Designed to be a companion to the classic title 1000 Chairs, this two-volume edition contains an awesome selection of over 1200 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history’s most interesting electric lights, from Edison''''s first light bulb to Tiffany''''s beautiful leaded glass shades to ...
This bumper edition combines all seven books in John Peacock''s renowned "Fashion Sourcebooks" series, which charts in meticulous drawings the development of women''s and men''s clothing in the 20th century. It will become an indispensable part of the library of fashion students, historians and collectors, ...
Every graphic designer works diligently to make his or her creative impressions exceptional and long lasting. Achieving this goal can make first impressions extremely important. Every aspect of a piece must be thoughtful and well laid out to communicate the pertinent information and, most importantly, ...
Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design, but to digest information easily. Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, ...
The latest installment in Rockport\''s Graphic Design America series is sure to top the previous two best-selling volumes. Like its predecessors, Graphic Design America 3 profiles more than 35 of the graphic designers and graphic design firms in the United States. The work being produced in America is ...
"Ornamentation is a modus operandi for communication, for providing dimension, texture, pattern, depth, and spirit—it is a way to liven up space, to create complementary conditions, to move the eye and break up surfaces, to bring illusion or entropy, to embellish and give richness to surfaces and materials ...
The kitchen is one of the most important spaces where our lives are played out: the place where food is prepared, a center of communication and companionable shared times. From the utilitarian uses of past centuries, the kitchen has evolved beyond a purely functional room to a space expressing individual ...
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 scenes. The focus is not so much the work presented, but the way the portfolios are designed. ...
This book marries Stafford Cliff\''s unerring eye with the remarkable photography of Gilles de Chabaneix to present a marvellous portrait of the delights of living alfresco around the world.
In this richly illustrated history of wearable art, beautiful, imaginative, provocative, even surreal works of artwear are featured including examples from North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Korea and Japan. The full spectrum of work ranges from pieces that are only technically wearable, ...
Type Specific shows designers how typefaces designed for a specific purpose succeed by exploring each of the features that must be considered. These include letterforms, counterspaces, cross sections, ascenders/descenders, and junctions and how they work, in both print and screen, across a range of applications: ...
