Product Description: The long sought after original is back: After the best-selling Character Encyclopaedia from 2006, Pictoplasma finally presents a brand new compilation with the latest works by the international protagonists and new talents in the field of character design...read more

Product Description: For the first time, British artist and illustrator Jon Burgerman's commercial, personal and collaborative works are collected together in this lavish and fun publication. Burgerman's brightly colored parades of monster faces and abstract glyphs have found their way onto a huge range of merchandise--toys, clothing (for Ripcurl), snowboards, exhibitions, murals, customizations, sketchbooks, even a sick bag--as well as galleries around the world (he is especially popular in China and Japan, whose graphic arts traditions his work draws on)...read more

Product Description: From the worlds of drawing, graphic design and painting, Pictoplasma examines the latest tendencies in character design. Having closely coincided with the character design movement since 1999, Pictoplasma presents a new, incomparable collection of what has become the world's most popular visual language...read more

Product Description: Traditional animationís system of interchangeable characteristics and predictable limited movements is being overturned by a new breed of character designers who are redefining the craft. Berlin-based Pictoplasma documents that revolution in this NTSC DVD and book set, which showcases over 50 forward-looking, stylistically outstanding studios, animators and designers in three hours of programming and 80 pages of text...read more

Product Description: Whether they appear as painted stones, smiling houses, Nick Park-like clay figures or classical cartoons, characters are still the best way to create visuals with which one can identify. Peter Thaler has built upon the success of "Pictoplasma", one of dgv’s best-selling titles of all time...read more

Product Description: The Ambivalence of Identity examines nation-building in Austria and uses the Austrian experience to explore the conceptual foundations of nationhood. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The attitudes of Norwegian-American intellectuals toward their native and their adopted society is explored in Norwegian Minds -- American Dreams. The concept of ethnicity is analyzed in the historical and political context of the immigrant experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)