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Packaging is a highly underrated art form. As the first thing a consumer sees when looking at a product, the packaging can make or break a sale. Every year, the Pentawards celebrate the art of the package by presenting awards to designs from around the world. Designers compete in five main categories?beverages, food, body, luxury, and other markets?and no fewer than 50 sub-categories • Featuring a selection of hundreds of works, this book brings together Pentawards winners from 2008 to 2016, providing a vivid demonstration of creativity in every form of packaging. Readers will discover, through product descriptions and plenty of images, what drives design industry leaders and agencies behind these creations which are so much part of our everyday lives

From Astro Boy to Akira, the superstars of the manga scene • Since the original TASCHEN edition of Manga Design, Japan’s comic phenomenon has produced yet more captivating characters and a whole host of hot new talents. This revised and updated edition delivers the lowdown on the latest and the greatest makers and shapers of the manga scene • Through an A–Z directory, we discover the superstars—both human and fictional—of what is now a vast global industry, inspiring advertisers, filmmakers, creative professionals, millions of avid fans, not to mention an entire cosplay lifestyle, in which manga devotees in elaborate costume meet to celebrate the existence of their characters at huge conventions from Los Angeles to Leipzig • From classic maestros—like Osamu Tezuka (creator of Astro Boy) and Katsuhiro Otomo (creator of Akira)—to newcomers such as Hajime Isayama, each entry includes biographical and bibliographical information, descriptions of main characters, and, of course, plenty of examples of the artist’s finest manga spreads and covers

BIG’s third installment of its TASCHEN trilogy: Formgiving. An Architectural Future History • Formgiving. An Architectural Future History, the new book by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), is a visionary attempt to look at the horizon of time. The Danish word for “design” is “formgivning,” which literally means to give form to that which has not yet taken shape. In other words, to give form to the future. Using our power to give form, rather than allowing the future to take shape, is more important now than ever, as humankind’s impact on the planet continues to increase and pose ever greater challenges to all life forms. Architecture plays a special role by proposing spaces for our lives that are fragments of the future in the making. William Gibson’s words embody architecture’s role perfectly: “The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed

The roaring twenties in Berlin • It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag balls, cabaret, Metropolis, and Marlene Dietrich’s rising star in theater and silent film. Between the paroxysms of two world wars, Berlin in the 1920s was a carpe diem cultural heyday, replete with groundbreaking art, invention, and thought • This book immerses readers in the freewheeling spirit of Berlin’s Weimar age. Through exemplary works in painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic design, photography, and film, we uncover the innovations, ideas, and precious dreams that characterized this unique cultural window. We take in the jazz bars and dance halls; the crowded kinos and flapper fashion; the advances in technology and transport; the radio towers and rumbling trams and trains; the soaring buildings; the cinematic masterworks; and the newly independent women who smoked cigarettes, wore their hair short, and earned their own money

Die berühmteste Kunstschule der Moderne • Zwischen zwei Weltkriegen, in gerade mal 14 Jahren, veränderte das Bauhaus die Moderne. Die von utopischen Idealen geleitete Schule für Kunst und Design führte Kunst, Handwerk und Technik zusammen und wandte dieses ganzheitliche Konzept auf Malerei, Bildhauerei, Design, Architektur, Film, Fotografie, Textilgestaltung, Töpferei, Theater und Installationen an • Das Künstlerkollektiv mit Außenwirkung war zugleich eine enge persönliche Gemeinschaft. Gegründet wurde die Schule von Walter Gropius (1883-1969), zu den Mitgliedern gehörten Josef und Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stölzl, Marianne Brandt und Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. An allen drei aufeinander folgenden Standorten der Schule in Weimar, Dessau und Berlin herrschte ein reger kreativer Austausch zwischen den Schülern und Lehrern, die zwar alle unterschiedliche künstlerische Stile und Vorlieben pflegten, jedoch in ihrem Idealismus und dem Streben nach einem „Gesamtkunstwerk“ vereint waren

Основанный в 1928 году как "живой дневник" великим миланским архитектором и дизайнером Джио Понти, Домус был признан самым влиятельным журналом по архитектуре и дизайну в мире. В нем строго и стильно освещаются основные темы и стилистические направления в промышленном дизайне, дизайне интерьеров, изделий и конструкций • Книга Маноло де Джорджи "Домус 1940-1949" объединяет наиболее важные моменты десятилетия разрушений и реконструкции. Даже во время бомбардировок Милана "Домус" продолжал публиковаться на протяжении большей части войны, отражая дух времени в дизайне, одновременно управляя сменой редакторов и главных редакторш во время "междуцарствия" Понти между 1941 и 1948 годами • Книга на английском языке • Architecture and design in the context of WWII • Founded in 1928 as a "living diary" by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world's most influential architecture and design journal

The History of Graphic Design. Vol. 2. 1960–Today XL — масштабное исследование графического дизайна с 60-х годов прошлого века по наши дни. Автор — Йенс Мюллер (Jens M?ller). В издание включено более 3500 работ, рассмотренных в соответствии с годом создан

Hidden treasures, dreams of universal knowledge, and exquisite beauty • The Wunderkammer, or “cabinet of curiosities,” saw collectors gathering objects from many strands of artistic, scientific, and intellectual endeavor, in an ambitious attempt to encompass all of humankind’s knowledge in a single room • From the Grand Duke Francesco I de’ Medici and Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to Archduke Ferdinand II of Habsburg, these aristocratic virtuosos acquired, selected, and displayed the objects in real-life catalogues that represented the entire world—spanning architecture, interior design, painting, sculpture, gemology, geology, botany, biology and taxonomy, astrology, alchemy, anthropology, ethnography, and history • Marvel at the unicorn horns (narwhal tusks), gems, rare coral growths, Murano glasswork, paintings and peculiar mechanical automata

The definitive reference work in a revised and updated edition • In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which they applied across media and practices from film to theater, sculpture to ceramics • This book is made in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum fur Gestaltung in Berlin, the world’s largest collection on the history of the Bauhaus. Some 550 illustrations including architectural plans, studies, photographs, sketches, and models record not only the realized works but also the leading principles and personalities of this idealistic creative community through its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin