Publication date: 2005-06-23
Dewey code: 741.2
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.01
Review Design: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) / OUP Oxford:
Creator: W.J.T. Mitchell
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2002-07-15
Dewey code: 760.04436
RRP: £11.00
Price: £7.76
Review Landscape and Power / University of Chicago Press:
Publication date: 2008-09-01
Dewey code: 741
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.19
Review Best of Brochure Design 9: No. 9 / Rockport Publishers:
Authors
- Khalid Mughal
- Rolf Rasmussen
Dewey code: 005.133
RRP: £36.99
Price: £23.69
Review A Programmer's Guide to Java Certification: A Comprehensive Primer (Professional Computing) / Addison Wesley:
Edition: Pap/Cdr
Publication date: 2004-04-22
Dewey code: 808.23
RRP: £27.50
Price: £11.65
Review Developing Digital Short Films (Voices That Matter) / New Riders:
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2006-05
Dewey code: 731.42
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.50
Review The Art of Polymer Clay: Designs and Techniques for Creating Jewelry, Pottery and Decorative Artwork / Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.:
Publication date: 2003-11-28
Dewey code: 738
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.97
Review Lettering on Ceramics (Ceramics Handbooks) / A & C Black Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-05-05
Dewey code: 745.20973
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.30
Review Design in the USA (Oxford History of Art) / OUP Oxford:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-03
Dewey code: 746
RRP: £24.95
Price: £18.99
Review Fashion Today / Phaidon Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-08-15
Dewey code: 560.222
RRP: £22.00
Price: £13.83
Review A History of Paleontology Illustration (Life of the Past) (Life of the Past) / Indiana University Press:
Publication date: 2007-03-30
Dewey code: 305.23520952135
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.96
Review Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno / Chronicle Books:
Publication date: 2007-10-15
Dewey code: 747
RRP: £30.00
Price: £10.63
Review Couture Interiors: Living with Fashion / Laurence King Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-03-26
Dewey code: 747.20492
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.99
Review Art Deco House Style: An Architectural and Interior Design Source Book / David & Charles PLC:
Edition: Pap/Cdr
Publication date: 2004-11
Dewey code: 745.4091767
RRP: £24.99
Price: £13.18
Review Islamic Design (Dover Pictura) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Edition: 2New Ed
Publication date: 2004-06-07
Dewey code: 738
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.67
Review Resist and Masking Techniques (Ceramics Handbooks) / A & C Black Publishers Ltd:
Edition: 25 Anv
Publication date: 2005-07-27
Dewey code: 781
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.18
Review 1000 Record Covers (Taschen 25) / Taschen GmbH:
Edition: Bilingual
Publication date: 2005-08-30
Dewey code: 643
RRP: £9.95
Price: £4.50
Review new patio design / daab:
Publication date: 2008-04-01
Dewey code: 645
RRP: £17.99
Price: £10.49
Review Nursery Style / Chronicle Books:
Publication date: 2004-01-01
Dewey code: 704
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.43
Review Las Vegas Vintage Graphics (Icon) / Taschen GmbH:
Authors
- Suzy Menkes
- et al
- Melanie Rickey
- Richard Martin
- Angela Buttolph
- Alice Mackrell
Dewey code: 746.9203
RRP: £29.95
Price: £22.49
Review The Fashion Book / Phaidon Press Ltd:James Abbe, a 1920s fashion photographer, and Zoran, the designer whose simple, monochromatic clothes were extremely popular in the 1970s, anchor the 500 entries in this massive encyclopedia of fashion. Each designer, photographer, model or icon gets a page with a large photo and informative but short caption. This has the wonderful effect of weighting each entry equally, thereby devoting the same amount of space to Charles Revson, creator of the Revlon cosmetics empire and relative makeup newcomer François Nars, pioneering clothing designer Mariano Fortuny and contemporary favourite Tom Ford. Clearly, a good set of eyes edited this book. It's a tall order to choose just one image to define the many facets of a designer, model, or photographer. The choices made here are excellent and often surprising. The indomitable Coco Chanel demonstrates the ease of movement her designs afforded women by briskly swinging her arm out to one side, while Kate Moss is shown at the height of her waifdom, likely the mode in which she will best be remembered. Model Linda Evangelista is pictured with curly locks of hair. It's obvious, too, that the editors employed the haphazard juxtaposition created by the alphabetical organization. Facing entries, no matter how seemingly incongruous, are united by a visual theme to spectacular effect. [+]The ovals made by the either screaming or yawning mouths of Kurt Cobain and his infant daughter are mirrored in a 1937 Jean Cocteau illustration of an Elsa Schiaparelli design. A model in a 1930s outfit by John-Frederics faces a portrait of post-punk design queen Betsey Johnson, whose floral outfit echoes the flowery silhouette behind the model. A troika of Robert Lee Morris bracelets matches the arcs of a bombed-out London building in a 1941 Cecil Beaton photo of a Digby Morton design. The vibrant prints of Emilio Pucci and Lilly Pulitzer fall together naturally. The reams of fabulous images and the inventive design alone make The Fashion Book a treat at any cost, but the low price-to-size ratio (like its cousins The Art Book and The Photography Book) makes it a real bargain.
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Design: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), Landscape and Power, Best of Brochure Design 9: No. 9, A Programmer's Guide to Java Certification: A Comprehensive Primer (Professional Computing), Developing Digital Short Films (Voices That Matter), The Art of Polymer Clay: Designs and Techniques for Creating Jewelry, Pottery and Decorative Artwork, Lettering on Ceramics (Ceramics Handbooks), Design in the USA (Oxford History of Art), Fashion Today, A History of Paleontology Illustration (Life of the Past) (Life of the Past), Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno, Couture Interiors: Living with Fashion, Art Deco House Style: An Architectural and Interior Design Source Book, Islamic Design (Dover Pictura), Resist and Masking Techniques (Ceramics Handbooks), 1000 Record Covers (Taschen 25), new patio design, Nursery Style, Las Vegas Vintage Graphics (Icon), The Fashion Book |
