Product Description: World's Fairs and International Exhibitions have always had a political as well as a commercial and cultural context. This was particularly true during the Cold War when America and the Soviet Union, while laying claim to the same cultural values, used architecture and design to represent their opposing political ideologies at expos and exhibitions in hopes of influencing international fairgoers...read more

Product Description: While technological change is generating an increasing number of virtual modes of communication, the exhibition stand remains a core element in the business, branding and marketing strategy of so many companies. The fifth edition of the International Trade Fair Annual brings together well-known and less well-known designers, working for well-known clients such as Audi, BMW, O2, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen, and for others less well-known ? united by the inspiration, intelligence and imagination needed to compete creatively in the international market for trade fair stand design...read more

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Description: They call it "undesigning" and they do it very well, if the tally of awards and expanding client base is anything to go by. By undesigning they mean design as a ludic process not a pre-determined solution. Design, for D’art Design, is a pathway of discovery, not the application of a set of rules, whether it is a question of three-dimensional design, graphic work or exhibition and stand design...read more

Product Description: The selection for this edition of the International Trade Fair Stand Annual mirrors some of the trends of global business, with the inclusion of stands from Japan, China and Thailand, marking the growing importance of the Eastern market...read more

Product Description: Werner Sobek is an engineer. An intelligent and gifted engineer, a specialist in lightweight structures, in using fabric where others would pour concrete, in letting glass float where others would frame it in steel. He is an architect as well...read more

Product Description: For decades the disciplines of museum exhibition design and trade fair shows remained separate. New demands on museums, and new technologies for presenting information have brought the areas of practice closer. But some design agencies saw and even anticipated the potential of bringing these skills together...read more

Product Description: Mitchell Mauk knew he wanted to be an exhibit designer when, at the age of 13, his parents took him to EXPO 70 in Osaka, Japan. Thirty-odd years on, and his design office in San Francisco has won a string of awards for its work, designing stands for Levi Strauss, Sony Playstation and Intel, as well as designing the launch of the new VW Beetle across America...read more

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Product Description: I'm the urban spaceman, baby, I could fly,I'm a supersonic guyI'm the urban spaceman, baby, I'm making out,I'm all aboutI wake up every morning with a smile upon my faceMy natural exuberance spills out all over the placeI'm the urban spaceman, I'm intelligent and clean,Know what I mean?These words (from Neil Innes's hit lyric for the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band in 1968) could be describing the designer Marc Newson...read more

Product Description: Triad: linking culture, media and environment. This Berlin-based design agency won awards for its planet M project a Expo 2000 in Hanover, and its Happy Ending event at Expo02 was one of the great successes of that fair. Within a decade, Triad has made its mark on the national and international design world, thanks to a truly interdisciplinary approach to design that ranges across both cultural and commercial projects and clients...read more

Product Description: Munich-based group KMS design as a team, whether for full scale three-dimensional projects such as their highly-acclaimed Audi Museum Mobile, or their trade fair stand for Lamborghini, or their graphic identity work for clients such as O2, Pro Sieben, Loewe and Evotec OAI, or their involvement with cultural institutions such as the Villa Stuck and the new Pinakothek der Moderne...read more

Product Description: Atelier Br ckner brings the language of the theatre to their design vocabulary. Based in Stuttgart, their recent work features the CycleBowl event at Hanover 2000, the Titanic exhibition and stands for Kodak and Panasonic. Current projects include the new Archaeological Museum in Herne and the Borders project for EXPO 2002...read more

Product Description: root. is a London-based design agency with an enviable reputation in the contemporary music field, and which also specialises in branding, identity, packaging and exhibition design. Their clinet list includes blue-chip companies such as Sony Playstation, Microsoft, Virgin Interactive and bands and solo artists like Vega 4, Westlife and Dido...read more

Product Description: This is a bluffer's guide to the design criticism and commentary of the 20th century, providing an entertaining summary of the key design texts of the last hundred years. Yet this collection goes further than simply listing the design classics: it also puts design in context and demonstrates the impact and relevance of design values on contemporary living...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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