Poised at the start of the 21st century, we can see clearly that the previous century was marked by momentous changes in the field of design. Aesthetics entered into everyday life with often staggering results. Our homes and workplaces turned into veritable galleries of style and innovation. From furniture to graphics, it`s all here - the work of artists who have shaped and recreated the modern world with a dizzying variety of materials. From the organic to the geometric, from Art Deco, through to Pop and High-Tech, this book contains all the great names - Bernhard, Bertoia, De Stijl, Dieter Rams, Starck, Charles and Ray Eames, to name only a very few. This essential book is a comprehensive journey through the shapes and colors, forms...

ISBN: 978-3-8228-4078-8
Издательство: TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000

Design Elements, Form and Space takes an in-depth look at building grids and layouts based on visual language systems and how images, text, and white space interact on the page. Principles of spatial organization are examined and explored through visual examples accompanied by brief text to keep the content light and simple, and content rich.

ISBN: 978-1-59253-700-6
Издательство: Rockport
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

The thirty volumes in this series are thematically divided by room (living rooms, bathrooms, kitchens, and so on), and also by style (including designer homes, country houses and contemporary interiors). The reports in these books combine to create a unique voyage of discovery through modern trends in decoration and architecture, reflecting the lifestyle and outlook of the people who live in these beautiful homes. Every book in this stunning series shows the finest projects by leading architects and interior specialists, in a kaleidoscope of styles and genres, and is packed with ideas for your own home.

ISBN: 978-9089-44041-9
Издательство: Beta-plus
Дата выхода: июль 2011

is a website dedicated to the worldwide community of designers and was created to showcase their latest and most innovative design work. Every day, the homepage features two design pieces, selected from the graphic, packaging and product design submissions received daily from a wide range of international designers. The book of the year shows these 730 fresh, and for the most part unpublished original designs.

ISBN: 978849264-341-7
Издательство: Index Book
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

A sneak preview of 21st century aesthetics via the vision of today`s most innovative designers. How do today`s best and brightest designers see the future of design? Including a cross section of the world`s most influential designers, from superstars to newcomers, this guide explores cutting edge product design, furniture, ceramics, appliances, electronics, glassware, and textiles. Издание на немецком, французском, и английском языках. Формат: 20 см х 25 см.

ISBN: 3-8228-5883-8
Издательство: TASCHEN
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

From cities across the United States, design firms have been selected to showcase their work in DesignersUSA No. 2 Each of these cutting age design companies have provided its own unique statement of purpose. This volume serves to illustrate graphic design`s unusual power that has come about due to the growing reliance of the modern world on visual communications to convey its messages.

ISBN: 978-1-932026-07-8
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Designs for life. From eco-design to design-art. Not only an in-depth exploration of contemporary design practice, this book is also a rallying call for a more sustainable approach to product design of every type, from lighting and furniture design to consumer electronic equipment, transportation, product architecture, and environmental design. Visually stunning and highly informative, Design Now! Illustrates the latest work by 90 of the world`s leading designers and design-led manufacturing companies, while also featuring in-their-own-words statements that give a unique insight into the nature of 3-dimensional design today. Additionally, the editors` introductory essay authoritatively outlines the main issues facing designers,...

ISBN: 978-3-8228-5267-5
Издательство: TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000

A compulsive, edge-of-your-seat read from a bestselling author, combining glamour, thrills and dangerous passion Lisa Costello is leading a charmed life - until she wakes up the morning after her glamorous Thailand wedding to find her new husband Josh dead in their bed, the murder weapon in her hand. She remembers learning at the wedding that Josh had been unfaithful, but she certainly doesn`t remember killing him. As Lisa flees the scene for Europe, ex-FBI trainee Sam Murray is on her trail. Catching up with her, he`s quickly convinced she`s been set up, and they start to work out which of movie producer Josh`s many enemies could be behind the hit. It`s a race against time to unearth the truth and keep Lisa out of jail - or gunned down...

ISBN: 978-0-7553-3615-9
Издательство: Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Liz and Jonathan Chambers were in trouble. Mortgage trouble. They`d stretched themselves to busting with their new exciting project - well, Liz thought it exciting - buying and managing the Silchester Tutorial College, and now couldn`t sell their old house. Here they were, stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn`t wanted to move anyway. Then Marcus Witherstone came into their lives - and at first it seemed he would solve all their problems. Marcus, senior partner in Silchester`s leading estate agency, was large, assured, and wore an expensive overcoat. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house - glamorous PR girl Ginny and almost-famous Piers. Everything was going...

ISBN: 978-0-552-77224-2
Издательство: Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

Design in the 21st Century has liberated itself from industrial conditions and the associated physical demands. With new technology, expanded choice of materials and the practice of luxurious craftsmanship, designers are embracing design with scintillating attitude, challenging aesthetic boundaries and speculating new expressions in visual codes. "Desire" documents current developments in furniture and object design today, showcasing recent work by the most exciting and influential designers from around the globe categorised into four distinct trends and groups: Modernists, Taletellers, Inventors and Entertainers. Featured designers include: Designers, Ron Arad, Autoban, Maarten Baas, BarberOsgerby, Joost van Bleiswijk, BLESS, Jörg...

ISBN: 978-3-89955-218-8
Издательство: Die Gestalten Verlag
Дата выхода: июль 2011

You`ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you`re destined for - what do you do? In Murakami`s world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of Desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.

ISBN: 9781784872632
Издательство: Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: январь 2021

From the author of the internationally bestselling Sophie Kinsella novels, Madeleine Wickham`s newest novel features a house whose asking price includes a stunning renovation of dreams and Liz and Jonathan Chambers were stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter. Then Marcus Witherstone came into their lives - and it seemed he would solve all their problems. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house: a glamorous PR girl, Ginny, and her almost-famous husband, Piers. But soon Liz is lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan is left to run their tutorial college, and neither of them has time to notice that their teenage daughter is developing a passion for the tenants, Piers...

ISBN: 978-1-250-00324-9
Дата выхода: июнь 2012

ISBN: 978-0-7553-3614-2
Издательство: Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: май 2012

ISBN: 978-0-00-649924-4
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012

ISBN: 9780141198262
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: январь 2020

ISBN: 0-14-101068-1
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with Felix, a man he believes to be his double, reveals a frightening "split" in Hermann`s nature. Convinced that he has found his doppelganger, Hermann uses this discovery to weave a money-making plan that leads to disguise, betrayal and eventually murder.

ISBN: 0-14-118454-X
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2002

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.

ISBN: 978-0-679-72343-1
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011

This title contains geography with the gritty bits left in. Where in the world can you: Spot sand dunes that bury whole villages? Discover some deadly desert wildlife? Follow in the footsteps of daring desert explorers?

ISBN: 978-0-439-94455-7
Издательство: Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: август 2010

ISBN: 0451191919
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: февраль 2002

The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a `sensation novel` in the mode of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and storm, flight and pursuit. Anyone who enjoys The Woman in White is likely to enjoy Desperate Remedies. But that is only half the story. Hardy contrived also, in this unlikely context, to give a first airing to various of the ideas and technical experiments which were to characterise his later fiction. The result is an exhilaratingly uneven work: at any point in the narrative some brilliant passage of description or...

ISBN: 978-1-84022-634-8
Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 978-5-521-06903-3
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: апрель 2018

A smart, funny junior novelization of "Despicable Me", an animated movie about "world`s greatest villain" Gru, coming from Universal Studios in Summer 2010! Includes a color insert of stills from the film!

ISBN: 978-0-316-08380-5
Издательство: Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: август 2011

Perfect for students preparing to take a B2 level exam, for example the Cambridge FCE examination or for those students aiming for the IELTS band 5. Includes 28 alternating grammar and vocabulary units •Up-to-date syllabus based on the B2 (Vantage) level of the Council of Europe`s framework •28 units, alternating grammar and vocabulary units •A well researched grammatical and lexical syllabus •Clear comprehensive grammar and vocabulary presentation tables •Useful reference section including regular verbs, glossary, phrasal verbs, phrases and collocations, word patterns, word formation and British English/American English differences

ISBN: 978-0-230-03538-6
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2011

Up-to-date syllabus based on the B2 (Vantage) level of the Council of Europe`s framework. 28 units, alternating grammar and vocabulary units. A well researched grammatical and lexical syllabus. Clear comprehensive grammar and vocabulary presentation tables. Useful reference section including regular verbs, glossary, phrasal verbs, phrases and collocations, word patterns, word formation and British English/American English differences. Perfect for students preparing to take a B2 level exam, for example the Cambridge FCE examination or for those students aiming for the IELTS band 5. Includes 28 alternating grammar and vocabulary units.

ISBN: 978-0-230-03539-3
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011