Owen Jones was, and still remains, a highly influential force in the world of architecture and design. His prolific and impressive work - captured here in its various stages through drawings, architectural plans, and photographs - is as current, imaginative, and important now as when it first emerged more than 125 years ago. Owen Jones: Design, Ornament, Architecture & Theory in an Age in Transition fills a serious gap in the history of Victorian design. In his early career Jones was recognized as an authority on Oriental design. In the 1850s he was commissioned to decorate the interior of Joseph Paxton`s magnificent World`s Fair Crystal Palace in London. Other signature projects include St. James` Hall, the Crystal Palace Bazaar,...
ISBN: 0-8478-2804-2
Издательство:
Rizzolli
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Edited by the Japan Package Design Association, this title presents a wide selection of award-winning package designs from Japan. Established in 1962, the JPDA now has some 850 members, both in-house and freelance, and their work spans a broad cross-section of purposes and fulfils an equally wide variety of criteria. The designs are for everyday objects and include packaging for foodstuffs, beverages, perfume, cosmetics, homewares, tobacco products and health supplements. This book sheds light on the vast cultural and creative differences between Eastern and Western packaging and graphic design. Text in English and Japanese.
ISBN: 4-89737-514-2
Издательство:
Rikuyosha Co
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Lavishly illustrated with nearly 400 color images, Painting the Maya Universe is the most thorough study and brilliant display of Classic Maya ceramic painting yet published. Building on twenty years of research and debate, Dorie Reents-Budet and her collaborators Joseph W. Ball, Ronald L. Bishop, Virginia M. Fields, and Barbara MacLeod bring together many perspectives, including the art historical, archaeological, epigraphical, and ethnohistorical, to examine one of the world’s great but overlooked painting traditions. With an emphasis on sixth- to eighth-century pottery featuring both pictorial and hieroglyphic imagery, Painting the Maya Universe presents an extraordinary exploration of the cultural roles and meanings of these...
Today pools come in all shapes, sizes, materials and designs in part propelled by rapidly evolving wellness and fitness trends that has shaped the look and the function of these glittering blue bodies of water. Tranquility and relaxation from work are central themes when designing business hotels, wellness retreats and spas. Paired to these aspects are the demands for water jets and Jacuzzis as well as additional rooms for massages, relaxation, beauty treatments, steam rooms, saunas and far eastern relaxation exercises. The materials used - wood, stone and stoneware - additionally enhance the beauty of the forms and the simplicity or complexity of the designs. This book includes a selection of 58 of the most interesting pool designs by...
ISBN: 978-3-86654-009-5
Издательство:
daab
Дата выхода: январь 2010
Poster-Art - коллекция интеллектуальных, остроумных, оригинальных работ собранных по всему миру и ломающих традиционные представления о графическом дизайне и технологии печати плакатов, постеров и афиш. Poster-Art - новое издание продолжающее серию книг CD-Art, DVD-Arl и Mag-Art. В книге собраны постеры, сопровождающие различные виды деятельности и участвующие во всевозможных мероприятиях: музыкальных,...
ISBN: 978-2-940361-55-7
Издательство:
АСТ/Астрель
Дата выхода: июль 2011
