Product Description: A fully comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the contemporary design landscape, 21st Century Design guides the reader through the often bewildering array of contemporary movements, styles and trends and identifying the most important designers working in the world today as well as the projects that are pivot-points for the future of design...read more

Product Description: The "Doing" book presents the best products made for a more activity- and lifestyle-oriented life. Included are products from the realms of outdoor, leisure, sports, fashion, lifestyle and entertainment technology, as well as watches, jewellery, garden furniture and tools, automobiles and all kind of transportation like motorbikes, wheel loader and accessories...read more

The dawn of the 21st century has witnessed an explosion of creativity in just about every field of design. This updated new edition of the popular 21st Century Design guides the reader through an often bewildering array of contemporary movements, styles, and trends.Intelligently and provocatively written, this large and attractive volume places the current scene in a historic framework, explores the cultural and economic forces shaping design now and for the future, identifies top designers and trends, and explains the vigorous artistic debates going on among the innovators in architecture, fashion, interiors, and product design.From the avant-garde to mass-market, 21st Century Design provides an accessible and engaging look at what’s happening today.  

Product Description: Great design is something that makes you pause and think. That’s because there is a pure concept behind that design. Without a strong concept, design is merely an arrangement of elements within the parameters of a given format, resulting in design that is purely decorative...read more

Product Description: Cool hunters are a new breed of trend watchers who travel the virtual world in a constant search for cutting edge designs. This phenomenon has spawned various websites showcasing their finds but now Cool Hunting brings them to your coffee table and bookshelf...read more

'From surface and into space is the overlying design trend these days. Graphic designers and urban artists are creating objects and interiors, moving into art galleries and museums worldwide. Designs, artworks and illustrations are emerging into the third-dimension increasingly featuring ornamental and sculptural objects. Hidden Track documents this movement introducing protagonists and their spaces that are taking visual culture out of the underground to the level of high culture'--P. [4] of cover.

Product Description: Minimalist is a term used by the media frequently, and often incorrectly, in a wide variety of contexts these days. In the opening chapters Franco Bertoni traces the origins and development of minimalism: from religious asceticism, through 18th century rationalism to the various current schools and modes...read more