Musikgraphics features contemporary designs from pure graphics to photography, collage and packaging on today’s most exciting genres of music from both the west and the east.
Specifications
- Flexi Cover
- Full colour throughout
- 220 x 235mm
- 288 pages
- English
- ISBN 978-988-98229-7-2
- Online price: US$40.00
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This book offers a user-friendly reference guide to all aspects of visual merchandising and covers both window dressing and in-store areas. Using examples from a range of shops, from fashion emporia to small outlets, the book offers practical advice on the subject, supported by hints and tips from established visual merchandisers. It reveals the secrets of their toolkit and information on the use of mannequins, the latest technology and how to construct and source props, and explains the psychology behind shopping and buyer behaviour. Presented through colour photographs, diagrams of floor layouts and store case studies, and including invaluable information such as a glossary of terms used in the industry, Visual Merchandising is an essential handbook for anyone working in and learning about this exciting area.
Written by one of the world’s leading trend spotters and proprietor of the widely-read www.coolhunter.net, Bill Tikos, The World’s Coolest Hotel Rooms opens the doors to more than fifty of the hippest, sexiest, newest, and most unusual rooms across the seven continents. Featuring the work of today’s top architects and interior designers, this book offers diverse accommodations with one thing in common: impeccable taste with edge.
So wherever wanderlust may take you—from an idyllic getaway in Scotland’s remote Jura Island to the bright lights and nonstop action of Berlin—there is an amazing place to stay, and Tikos has roamed the globe to find it and the best room in the house.
From a personal concierge in Buenos Aires who can schedule an impromptu tango lesson to a spectacular view of Rajasthan’s age old Aravali hills from a deluxe suite, every accommodation provides a unique experience. Boring is not an option. There are rooms that fulfill rock star fantasies—complete with soundstage—and others that elevate the meaning of luxury, with sumptuously dressed daybeds in lush, secluded gardens with private pools. Each entry provides the inspiration behind the hotel’s architecture, details the room’s special amenities, design features, and rate. Local points of interest are described as well.
With every entry personally selected by a tastemaker whose discerning eye for the most happening movements, styles, and trends in travel, fashion, music, urban living, and design has earned him a global following, The World’s Coolest Hotel Rooms is indispensable for creating a special travel experience.
About the Author
Bill Tikos is the author of The Cool Hunter, a weekly syndicated column featured in various magazines and newspapers worldwide. Tikos is a go-to resource for the most influential media in the world. His web site www.thecoolhunter.net receives over 1.5 million hits per month and is read by the most influential media in the world. Subscribers include Vogue, the New York Times, and Travel & Leisure.
Special Holiday
Whether you are camping in France, visiting the Acropolis in Athens, or bobbing on one of the Frisian lakes, it will be evident that holidays and other leisure activities are making their mark on the landscape. Is this a positive or negative development? The book Greetings from Europe investigates this issue by means of observations, analyses, strategies, photos, maps, statistics, and also a DVD.
Edited by Annika van Dijk, Niek Hazendonk, Mark Hendriks, Hans Venema, contributions by Dirk Sijmons and others
Designed by Johannes Niemeijer
http://www.010.nl/catalogue/book.php?id=650
English
194 pp / 240 x 160 mm / hardcover with dvd
In the films of Alfred Hitchcock, architecture plays an important role. Having worked as a set designer in the early 1920s, Hitchcock remained intensely concerned with the art direction of his films. In addition, the ’master of suspense’ made some remarkable single-set films, such as Rope and Rear Window, that explicitly deal with the way the confines of the set relate to those of the architecture on screen. Spaces of confinement also turn up in the ’Gothic plot’ of films in which the house is presented as an uncanny labyrinth and a trap. Furthermore, it became a Hitchcock hallmark to use famous monuments as the location for a climactic scene. Last but not least, Hitchcock used architectural motifs such as stairs and windows, which are closely connected to Hitchcockian narrative structures (suspense) or typical Hitchcock themes (voyeurism). Apart from dealing with these issues extensively, Steven Jacobs discusses at length a series of domestic buildings with the help of a number of reconstructed floor plans especially made for this publication.
Steven Jacobs is an art historian who has published widely on the photographic and cinematic representations of architecture, cities, and landscapes. He currently lectures on film history at Sint Lukas College of Art Brussels and the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, and on urban studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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Two Faced: The Changing Face of Portraiture
Conceived of as a celebration of portraiture in the 21st century, Two Faced unfolds over two sections and offers an interesting, unique and often amusing look at the art form. The first section of the book showcases a selection of portraits in various mediums by well known artists. The second section then sees these image-makers divided into pairs and charged with the task of producing each other’s portraits. The wide variety of artists involved spans many disciplines and includes Marion Deuchars, David Shrigley, Michael C. Place, eBoy, Rankin, Simon Henwood, Stella Vine, Ian Wright, Paul Willoughby, and filmmaker Shynola. How did each artist respond to their subject and to their task? What does each image reveal about both the sitter and the artist responsible? Find out in Two Faced, not simply a collection but an art project that celebrates the notion of cultural exchange through the talents of some of the most in-demand artists of our time.
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This book features examples of recent innovative and groundbreaking design work that is inspired by richness of the region’s visual culture. Arabesque investigates the creative potential of the Arab world and Iran. Given the important role of calligraphy in the middle east, arabesque focuses on typrography, it presents a wide range of modern arabic fonts and typefaces.
Edited by Ben Wittner and Sacha Thoma and Nicolas Bourquin Release: March 2008
Price: € 44,00 / $ 65,00 / £ 33,00
Format: 24 x 28 cm
Binding: 192 pages, full colour, hardcover, incl. CD-ROM
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I am delighted to announce that I have taken part in a very exciting project that has just been published. Victionary’s Fashion Wonderland is a selection of images taken from the work of contemporary fashion illustrators.
You will find 5 pages under Coco and much more in very varied styles, including some definite illo nuggets. A reference book and a very beautiful object with a great lay-out and nice sleek print, all in all, a must buy.
( Illustration is everywhere in our life and permeates through all aspects of design - industrial design, interior design, product design and many more. Most generally and distinctly, it impacts on the world of fashion. The luminous work demonstrated in the book is certainly a thrilling and stirring composition of captivating symphony in fashion design!
Hot fashion illustration grabs everyone’s attention and influences shopper’s choice. It brings fashion stand out of the clutter. Following Fashion Unfolding, Fashion Wonderland specifically studies the visual illustration in fashion, depicts its empowerment in all kinds of medium such as print, installation, interior decoration etc. in the fashion empire around the globe. )
With, Alexandra Compain-Tissier, Berto Martínez , Cecilia Carlstedt, Coco, Klaus Haapaniemi, James Jean etc…
Moments In Time, the project of an adventure that became a book
Moments in time, the first book of the designer, is the story of a meeting between the photographer and a little girl, Lou Lisa Lesage.
Edited by the house of Anne Valérie Hash, the book is sold in Paris at the bookshop of the Museum of Arts Décoratifs, at the George Pompidou Center and at the bookshop Galerie 213. In London, you can find it at Dover Street Market and at Liberty.
Moments in time, the first book of the designer, is the story of a meeting between the photographer Fabrice Laroche and a little girl, Lou Lisa Lesage
His last book was published in 1998 and chances to have another one are slim. Serge Lutens was a talented fashion photographer and later became a fragrances genius. He started to experiment with makeup and photography, using his friends to pose as models. In 1962 he moved to Paris. After seeing his work, Vogue hired him to create makeup, hair and jewelry. Throughout the sixties he collaborated with great photographers such as Richard Avedon, Bob Richardson and Irving Penn. In 1967, Christian Dior commissioned him to create a makeup line which Vogue USA called “ A revolution in makeup.” Serge Lutens has a influence of geisha traditions in his work as a make-up artist. His book is just beautiful.
Books: L’Esprit Serge Lutens: The Spirit of Beauty (Editions Assouline, Paris,1992)
Serge Lutens - (Editions Assouline, Paris, 1998)
