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Meggs' History of Graphic Design by Philip B. Meggs (Hardcover - John Wiley & Sons Inc)
 

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Meggs' History of Graphic Design by Philip B. Meggs (Hardcover - John Wiley & Sons Inc)
In its debut edition in 1983, A History of Graphic Design received accolades from the Association of American Publishers as a publishing landmark. Now in its Fourth Edition, this unrivaled, seminal work continues its long tradition of providing balanced insight and thorough historical background. Widely accepted as the most authoritative book of its kind, this enlightening Fourth Edition offers more than 450 new images, along with expansive coverage of such topics as Italian, Russian, and Dutch design.

Under the new authorial leadership of Alston Purvis, A History of Graphic Design, Fourth Edition offers hundreds of full-color images supported by the latest information, including a new chapter on modern type design. With more than 1,000 illustrations, lucid text, and interpretive captions, this Fourth Edition reveals a saga of creative innovators, breakthrough technologies, and important design innovations.

Graphic design is a vital component of each culture and period in human history, and this Fourth Edition was carefully reviewed and updated to best represent the work of particular time periods and designers. This edition's historic account is an extraordinary panorama of people and events, including:
* The Invention of Writing and Alphabets
* Medieval Manuscript Books
* The Origins of Printing and Typography
* Renaissance Graphic Design
* The Arts and Crafts Movement
* Victorian and Art Nouveau Graphics
* Modern Art and Its Impact on Design
* Visual Identity and Conceptual Images
* Postmodern Design
* The Computer Graphics Revolution

A History of Graphic Design, Fourth Edition surpasses in detail and breadth the content, design, and color reproduction of previous editions. Professionals, students, and everyone who works with or loves the world of graphic design will quickly find this reference tool is an invaluable visual survey that they will turn to again and again.

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Drawing and Designing With Confidence by Mike W. Lin (Hardcover - John Wiley & Sons Inc)
 

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Drawing and Designing With Confidence by Mike W. Lin (Hardcover - John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Readers of this book learn graphic rendering skills quickly with the proven how-to approach that has made Lin the most successful teacher in the field. His method emphasizes speed, confidence, and relaxation, while incorporating many time-saving tricks of the trade.

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Greek and Roman Architecture in Classic Drawings by H. d Espouy (Paperback - Illustrated)
 

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Greek and Roman Architecture in Classic Drawings by H. d Espouy (Paperback - Illustrated)
The Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris was a famous training ground in the classical arts, and the renderings of its architects sent to study in Rome are perhaps the finest record of the details of classical architecture ever made. In training their eyes in the use of proportion and the distribution of light and shade, these students achieved images with three-dimensionality and effects of scale that capture details more effectively than any photograph. Hector d'Espouy (1854-1929), a teacher at the Ecole and a leading muralist of his day, collected these drawings (including some of his own) in several large folio volumes. This splendid collection is a distillation of the best of these drawings, featuring images of the Acropolis, the Parthenon, fragments from Pompeii, Roman temples, the Pantheon, the Coliseum, and numerous other sites and artifacts. Executed in the demanding technique of India ink and water color rendering, the drawings exhibit a uniformly high level of scholarship and beauty of presentation. Classical architecture appeals to a large audience (the Dover edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture is currently in its 28th printing!) and this splendid compendium of studies, enhanced with informative Introductory Notes by John Blatteau and Christiane Sears, is sure to appeal to that audience. It will be welcomed by any architect, classicist or student who loves the simplicity, grace, and elegance that characterized the buildings of ancient Greece and Rome.

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Tiny Houses by Mimi Zeiger (Hardcover - Rizzoli Intl Pubns)
 

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Tiny Houses by Mimi Zeiger (Hardcover - Rizzoli Intl Pubns)
In the spirit of treading a bit lighter on the planet, a new trend in sustainable living architecture is what is called "microgreen living"--literally the creation of tiny homes where people challenge themselves to live "greener" lives. This idea, which sprang from eco-awareness and the reduction of carbon footprints, has led people to consider low-impact living as a "greener" alternative to ordinary housing. Far beyond solar panels and the use of sustainable materials, homeowners have embraced the concept and have implemented many creative and stylish solutions for day-to-day living, such as a room that doubles as a shower with one swift movement of plexi-glass from a well-concealed pocket door. A tiny house is an experiment of space but also a challenge to simplify ways of life. TINY HOUSES brings together an international collection of over thirty prefab homes and living concepts under 1,000 square feet--some are practical and others are cheeky, ranging from treehouses and compact dwellings to floating houses. The book presents conceptual building plans, detailed illustrations, and vivid photographs of the homes, architects, and proud enthusiasts who live in them. How much space is unused and "wasted" in your own home? This book will inspire the reader to think about architecture and interior design in a new and enlightened way.

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Thom Filicia Style by Thom Filicia (Hardcover - Atria Books)
 

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Thom Filicia Style by Thom Filicia (Hardcover - Atria Books)
A lavishly illustrated, room-by-room guide to the secrets of shaping décor draws on the author's expertise as an interior designer for the Emmy Award-winning Queer Eye for the Straight Guy series and invites readers to develop personalized styles by completing a series of quizzes and exercises. 75,000 first printing.

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A History of Building Types by Nikolaus Pevsner (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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A History of Building Types by Nikolaus Pevsner (Paperback - Reprint)
Available again in paperback, this first survey of building types ever written remains an essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance of the West. Here Nikolaus Pevsner shares his immense erudition and keenly discerning eye with readers curious about the ways in which architecture reflects the character of society. He describes twenty types of buildings ranging from the most monumental to the least, from the most ideal to the most utilitarian. More than seven hundred illustrations illuminate the text. Both Europe and America have been covered with examples chosen largely from the nineteenth century, the crucial period for diversification. Included are national monuments, libraries, theaters, hospitals, prisons, factories, hotels, and many other public buildings; churches and private dwellings have been excluded for practical reasons. The author is concerned not only with the evolution of each type in response to social and architectural change, but also with differing attitudes toward function, materials, and style.

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Michael Taylor Interior Design by Stephen M. Salny (Hardcover - W W Norton & Co Inc)
 

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Michael Taylor Interior Design by Stephen M. Salny (Hardcover - W W Norton & Co Inc)
Assesses the life and work of a ground-breaking interior designer and forefront contributor to the "California Look," in a visual tour of more than fifty of his commissions and other signature projects that reflect his use of classical and regional themes.

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Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (Hardcover - William Morrow & Co)
 

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Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (Hardcover - William Morrow & Co)
Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages.

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A Global History of Architecture by Frank Ching (Hardcover - John Wiley & Sons Inc)
 

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A Global History of Architecture by Frank Ching (Hardcover - John Wiley & Sons Inc)
History of Architecture is a required course in all accredited architecture programs, as well as many non-accredited and art history programs.

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Programs and Manifestoes on 20Th-Century Architecture by Ulrich Conrads (Paperback - Mit Pr)
 

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Programs and Manifestoes on 20Th-Century Architecture by Ulrich Conrads (Paperback - Mit Pr)
The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philosophic and social basis of their art. Nearly every important development in the modern architectural movement began with the proclamation of these convictions in the form of a program or manifesto. The most influential of these are collected here in chronological order from 1903 to 1963. Taken together, they constitute a subjective history of modern architecture; compared with one another, their great diversity of style reveals in many cases the basic differences of attitude and temperament that produced a corresponding divergence in architectural style. In point of view, the book covers the aesthetic spectrum from right to left; from programs that rigidly generate designs down to the smallest detail to revolutionary manifestoes that call for anarchy in building form and town plan. The documents, placed in context by the editor, are also international in their range: among them are the seminal and prophetic statements of Henry van de Velde, Adolf Loos, and Bruno Taut from the early years of the century; Frank Lloyd Wright's 1910 annunciation of Organic Architecture; Gropius's original program for the Bauhaus, founded in Weimar in 1919; "Towards a New Architecture, Guiding Principles" by Le Corbusier; the formulation by Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner of the basic principles of Constructivism; and articles by R. Buckminster Fuller on universal architecture and the architect as world planner. Other pronouncements, some in flamboyant style, including those of Erich Mendelsohn, Hannes Meyer, Theo van Doesburg, Oskar Schlemmer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, El Lissitzky, and Louis I. Kahn. There are also a number of collective or group statements, issued in the name of movements such as CIAM, De Stijl, ABC, the Situationists, and GEAM. Since the dramatic effectiveness of the manifesto form is usually heightened by brevity and conciseness, it has been possible to reproduce most of the documents in their entirety; only a few have been excerpted.

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