It could forever change how you experience and interact with your physical surroundings, open your eyes to the perversity of bad design and the desirability of good design, and raise your expectations about how things should be designed.B & W photographs and illustrations throughout.

    For more than thirty years she worked with Hearst in a rare collaboration, creating not only his art-filled hilltop palace but also a fairytale Bavarian "village" known as Wyntoon and many other commercial and domestic structures. Yet the Hearst commissions, notable as they are, are not Morgan's only claim to fame.Given the sweep of Morgan's accomplishments, it is astonishing that this is the first substantial book ever devoted to her career. Painstakingly researched for more than a decade by Sarah Holmes Boutelle, founder of the Julia Morgan Association, this handsome volume lovingly document's Morgan's life and work. This is a remarkable book celebrating the achievements of a remarkable woman.

    This book, originally published in 1988, is a bible in the world of graphic design: the seminal expression of his early, ground-breaking typography. Brody first made his way into the public eye through his record cover designs and his involvement in the British independent music scene in the early 1980s. It was his work on magazines that firmly established his reputation as one of the world's leading graphic designers. In particular, his artistic contribution to "The Face" completely revolutionized the way in which designers and readers approached the medium. His unique designs soon became much-imitated models for magazines, advertising and consumer-oriented graphics. Brody also won much public acclaim through his highly innovative ideas on incorporating and combining typefaces into design and he later took this a step further and began designing his own typefaces, thus opening the way for the advent of digital type design. His contributions to the world of graphic design and digital typography are invaluable. Often referred to as a "star typographer," Brody has designed a number of well-known typefaces. With over 450 illustrations, this book provides a wide-ranging introduction to a crucial period in graphic design. The original expression of one of the pioneers for the digital age, "The Graphic Language of Neville Brody" is at once a historical document, a classic of graphic design, and a relevant tool for designers working today.

    Of the more than 750 photographs and diagrams, over 200-most in color-are new to this lavishly produced third edition and reflect the vision of the most creative professionals working today. John Pile's long-awaited revision of his highly regarded text features: * six new detailed case studies of projects by such noted contemporary designers as Adam Tihany, Maya Lin, and Moneo Brock Studio. * exciting coverage of the new "hot" topics in the field, including "green" design, fiber optic and LED lighting, the reconfigurable workplace, boutique hotels, and digital technology. Every chapter has been updated in organization, content, and visual examples to reflect the newest developments in this exciting field.

    This stunning stylebook showcases the best of his work -- from dramatic entryway scenes to rustic paintings for the bedroom -- and brings to life the many delights of decorating with murals. Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 color photographs, The Painted House includes projects for every home, from small chimney boards and folding screens to spectacular full-room scenic paintings. For anyone interested in interior design at its most fanciful and amazing, this book -- back in print at last, in an affordable paperback edition -- will be a revelation.

    The Art of Graphic Design (Hardcover)

    Over 70 designs that transform the world of basic gift cards into one of unforgettable three-dimensional forms and bring to life motifs of flowers, sports, animals, birds and letters of the alphabet.

    

    The triumphs and despairs described in Capitman's text are the result of the struggle between the pressure for development and the necessity for preservation. 135 color plates.

    Adapted from borders, tiles, carved wood panels, and other ornamental sources, the designs include classic Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Etruscan motifs; Chinese, Japanese, Persian and Indian patterns; samples from the Arabic and Byzantine cultures; Celtic, medieval, Renaissance and 18th century European art.

    Synectics, from the Greek for 'bringing different things into unified connection', delivers a breakthrough approach to the elements and principles of design. This versatile resource can be used as a reference, art 'workbook', or inspirational tool.

    The author uses line drawings to illustrate errors that may occur and demonstrates how best to use the elements of shape, size and colour to convey harmony.

    

    Partial Contents1: The Problem of PersistenceWeinberg's Law(s) of Twins - The General Systems Approach to Continuity2: AggregatesBirths and Deaths--The Fundamental Aggregate Equation3: Birth-Free AggregatesSocial Versus Innate Survival - Exponential Decay - Unimodal Life Tables, and Ogives4: Reasoning About AggregatesCooperation and Competition--The Law of Collapse - The Law of Typology5: Modeling Differentiated AggregatesThe State Vector - Constructing a System of Equations - To Solve or Not To Solve?6: Programs for Models of Differentiated AggregatesVarieties of Programs - Transitive Closure--The Diagram of Possible Effects7: Structure and BehaviorThe Structure of Structure - Projecting Behavior with a Linear Program8: The Structure-Regulation LawThe Equivalence of Structure and Input - Can a Linear System Be Stable?9: The Search for RegulationThe Problem of Multidimensional Regulation - Separation of Variables10: The Homeostatic HeuristicsThe Internal Environment - Identifying and Essential Variables11: Other Regulatory HeuristicsThe Feedback Principle - Analyzing Feedback Loops - The Piddling Principle12: Types of Regulatory MechanismsConditional and Unconditional Mechanisms - Error-Control - Anticipation13: Regulation and EnvironmentActing on the Environment - The Environment Regulation Laws - The Regulatory Model - The Game of Regulation14: When the Model FailsThe Fundamental Regulator Paradox - Noise - Noise in Communication Systems15: Making Regulation MysteriousThe Impression of Intelligence - The Myth of Superiority16: Overly Simple Views of RegulationThe Kool-Aid Fallacy and the Aspirin Illusion - The False-Alarm Fallacy - Flareback17: Blindness and Reversed VisionHiddenReverses - Denying the Existence of Regulation18: Epilogue

    

    It provides an informative introduction to understanding color from the approaches of aesthetics, science, psychology, and history; and includes beautiful illustrations and direct quotes from working artists about their perspectives about color use. The book discusses all facets of color in historic and contemporary paintings, with sections on the psychological and compositional effects of color, theories of color relationships, subtractive notation and light mixtures, color combinations, and color in fine art and applied design. For working artists and employees in the fields of art and design, such as painters, sculptors, crafters, photographers, advertisement creators, cartoonists, commercial designers, computer artists and website designers, architects, landscape designers, interior designers, and clothing designers.

    250 full-color photographs.

    The task of the sculptor is to understand the natural properties of a chosen material, to know in the process of creation how best to work with, or against, its characteristics. In this generously illustrated studio manual, sculptor Oliver Andrews takes a new approach to sculpture, focusing on how the innate assertiveness of materials affects the complex act of making a sculpture.

    Winner of the George Wittenborn Award

    Panel decorations, bands, borders, ornaments, crestings, diaper patterns, and many more.

    

    

    It was a 10,000 mile odyssey.

    Despite impoverished beginnings, the Shakers flourished in the early nineteenth century, and by 1840 there were four to six thousand members living in eighteen principle communities from Maine to Kentucky. Turning away from society, they lived in large families that were both celibate and communal. In striving for heaven on earth, they created a visual environment of such harmony and quiet power that it continues to impress observers today, when the Shakers have all but passed from the American scene.The many works presented in this beautiful volume reveal the Shaker commitment to excellence in all matters. The chairs, cases of drawers, work stands, baskets, oval boxes, wheelbarrows, stoves, looms, and even tailoring tools have a purity of form that transcends mere utility and elevates our appreciation beyond a sense of function.This volume draws objects from forty collections, including extant Shaker villages, the work of some thirty known individuals, and as many artists who remain anonymous.