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Making and Breaking the Grid-a Graphic Design Layout Workshop more books like this

by Timothy Samara, other copies of this book

Description: New. For designers working in every medium, layout is arguable the most basic, and most important, element. 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, one must first understand those rules and see them applies to real-world projects. ... read more

Let's Make Some Great Art more books like this

by Marion Deuchars, other copies of this book

Description: New. In this interactive coloring and activity book, Marion Deuchars takes the broad canvas of art and fills it with drawings and activities that engage with what art can be, how it can be made, what it can mean for you and what it has meant for people through the ages. Aimed at children aged eight and older, the emphasis is on fun and making the creation of art an integral part of the way you express yourself. read more

David Armstrong: 615 Jefferson Avenue more books like this

by David Armstrong, Boyd Holbrook, other copies of this book

Description: New. It was for his sharply focused portraits of young men--friends and lovers--that David Armstrong (born 1954) first gained critical attention, alongside his Boston School friends Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson, Mark Morrisroe and others. In the 1990s he changed tack somewhat, producing soft-focus cityscapes in which street lights, street corners and urban signage were elaborated into a soft blur. With 615 Jefferson Avenue, Armstrong returns to the subject of his youth. The photographer's first ... read more

Tropical Houses: Living in Paradise

by Michelle Galindo, other copies of this book

Description: New. This title features a stunning array of the most ambitious examples of residential design in the tropics. From a simple dwelling on a remote island to a luxurious holiday home set in a spectacular landscape from Brazil to Florida, from New Zealand to Singapore Tropical Houses brings together a collection of exotic environments designed by well-known architectural firms with interesting approaches by local architects. The houses featured in this volume embrace the tropical lifestyle with ... read more

Eyewear

by Moss Lipow, other copies of this book

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Frank Lloyd Wright Designs: the Sketches, Plans, and Drawings more books like this

by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, other copies of this book

Description: New. The first major presentation in decades of the visionary drawings of the artist-architect and master designer. Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect of vast and unprecedented vision, whose work is not only still admired by the critics and carefully studied by historians but is also widely beloved. Comfortable spaces, humanly scaled, with extraordinary attention to detail-as seen in a range of architectural forms-are at the center of Wright's enduring appeal. This vision and attention is ... read more

Balenciaga and Spain more books like this

by Hamish Bowles, other copies of this book

Description: New. This unprecedented volume accompanies the first exhibition to consider the impact of Spain's culture, history, and art on one of its greatest designers of the twentieth century, the legendary Balenciaga. Hailed as Fashion's Picasso by Cecil Beaton, Cristobal Balenciaga (1895-1972) created an innovative oeuvre that transformed the way women dressed. From the opening of his Paris fashion house in 1937 until his retirement in 1968, Balenciaga's visionary, ever-evolving designs and impeccable ... read more

The Snow Yak Show more books like this

by Mark Ryden, Yoshitomo Nara, other copies of this book

Description: New. Traverse Mark Ryden's vast wintry landscapes into the frigid domain of the majestic Snow Yak. Images from Ryden's acclaimed Japanese Snow Yak Show are reproduced in large 11 x 14 format, and include many detail images and drawings. In this set of work, Ryden paints with a pallet of subtle whites and greys to create mysterious scenes of soft snow, clouds, and fur. The inhabitants of this wintry world are bare angelic figures and their companion woolly snow yaks. The works were originally ... read more

Twentieth Century Fashionable Plastic Jewelry more books like this

by Lillian Baker, other copies of this book

Description: Used-Very Good. A definitive book about the prized plastic genre of jewelry, inlcuding Celluloid, Catalin, Lucite, Bakelite, Tenite, Marblette, resins and the space-age phenolics which comprise the overall picture of 20th century production and design. Features more than 500 variations, pictured in 66 full-color and 20 black-and-white photographs, plus dozens of 1935 illustrations. Outside of book has some light scuffing. Other than that, bright, clean, and crisp. Inside looks practically new. ... read more