Product Description: Playing off of what some see as the near-biblical intensity of Studio Job’s oeuvre, this monograph, their first, is titled The Book of Job. The lavish package resembles a traditional leather-bound bible featuring a number of custom-printing effects including raised bands on the spine of the hardcover case which is covered in imitation leather overlaid with a dense signature composition by Studio Job, gilded page edges, cloth markers, black-letter type, and letterpress elements that distinguish the book from the conventional treatment of design monographs...read more

Product Description: Karim Rashid is one of the most well-known international designers, and his work is known for being innovative, forward-looking, and strikingly relevant. From furniture to fashion to products for hip brands like Umbra and Method, Karim’s colorful projects have burst through the design community and into the mainstream...read more

Product Description: Among distinguished contemporary designers, Alessandro Mendini is perhaps most deserving of the overused title of Renaissance man. Painter, writer, architect, theorist, designer: his work in all these fields has influenced generations of other artists and craftsmen and delighted even those who don't know his name but have entered his spaces (like his stores for Alessi and Swatch), sipped from his espresso cups and rested in his chairs...read more

Product Description: Tomas Taveira's flamboyant architecture first emerged in Portugal in the 1970s and 80s, capturing the new found freedom of a nation following the end of dictatorship in 1974. His characteristic use of vibrant colour and experimental form has since fired the imagination of an international audience...read more

Product Description: "The nature of colour should change -no longer just a thin layer of change, but something that genuinely alters perception" -this stipulation of Rem Koolhaas is echoes by the world famous architects and designers Alessandro Mendini and Norman Foster...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Where is television going and what shall we, as viewers, be seeing in the future? These and other questions are addressed by the contributors to this book. Each author focuses on different aspects of television, approaching the topic from his or her own area of expertise...read more