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  TITOLO:Torso,
T-Shirt Graphics Exposed
EDITORE: Daniel Eckler
USCITA: September 2010
FORMATO: 24 × 28 cm
INFO: 224 Pages, full color, flexocover
LINGUA: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-309-3
PREZZO: €43,00

Show me your t-shirts and I’ll tell you who you are. Today’s t-shirts are projection screens for styles, thoughts, and attitudes; they are wearable calling cards. Wearers and designers of t-shirts define themselves through the featured visual codes and messages and are constantly trying to outdo each other when it comes to who has the most original ideas.
Torso presents t-shirts whose motifs not only function as a means of personal communication, but also reflect and increasingly influence the complete spectrum of modern graphic design. As the first book to focus on t-shirts created by the most innovative and style-setting brands, it is the definitive guide to t-shirt culture.
Torso was compiled by Daniel Eckler, founder and editor-in-chief of Formatmag.com, one of the world’s most popular and influential publications dedicated to streetwear, street art, and alternative lifestyles.
 
 

  TITOLO: Los Logos 5
Compass
EDITORE: R. Klanten, A. Mollard
USCITA: August 2010
FORMATO: 21 x 26 cm
INFO: 408 Pages, full color, hardcover
LINGUA: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-320-8
PREZZO: €57,00

Like its predecessors, this fifth edition in the Los Logos series offers a definitive overview of current developments and advancements in logo design with the high-quality selection of up-to-the-minute work that readers have come to expect. But with a larger format and more text features, the focus of this book has been further sharpened from a comprehensive documentation to a competent classification of prevailing tendencies in design.
Los Logos 5: Compass aims to be not only an archive of current design, but to educate designers and clients about which approaches make the best fit for a given project–an issue that is especially important in a challenging economy in which innovation and identity are essential.
 
 

  TITOLO: Papercraft
Design and Art with Paper
EDITORE: R. Klanten, B. Meyer
USCITA: September 2009
FORMATO: 24 x 30 cm
INFO: 256 pages, full color, hardcover, incl. DVD
LINGUA: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-251-5
PREZZO: €44,00

Papercraft is an extensive survey on the insatiable trend of innovative art and design work crafted from paper. It explores the astounding possibilities of paper and gathers the most extraordinary creations – from small objects and figures to large-scale art installations and urban interventions as well as three-dimensional graphic sculptures from a vast spectrum of artistic disciplines ranging from character design, urban art, fine art, graphic design, illustration, fashion, animation and film. The book also includes a DVD with fun DIY printable templates for creating your own paper characters and toys as well as a curated selection of the best stop-motion animations.
 
 

  TITOLO: Papercraft 2
Design and Art with Paper
EDITORE: R. Klanten, B. Meyer
USCITA: March 2011
FORMATO: 24 x 30 cm
INFO: 256 pages, full color, hardcover, incl. DVD
LINGUA: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-333-8
PREZZO: €59,00

With an unparalleled collection of new and groundbreaking projects, Papercraft 2 is an inspiring up-to-the-minute survey of current developments in contemporary design with paper. In addition to more outstanding 3D graphic design, illustration, complex spatial installations, objets d'art, and motion design, the book and free included bonus DVD present work from an even broader range of creative disciplines including scenography, fashion design, and advertising, which have discovered the versatility of this basic material in the last few years. Clearly advancing the handicraft used in earlier pieces, these are setting prevailing trends and inspiring the future evolution of work with paper to even greater creative heights.
 
 

  TITOLO:Playful Type 2
Ephemeral Lettering and Illustrative Fonts
 EDITORE: J. Middendorp, R. Klanten, H. Hellige
USCITA: October 2010
FORMATO: 24 x 28 cm
INFO: 224 Pages, full cover, hardcover
LINGUA: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-318-5
PREZZO: €57,00

Playful Type 2 examines how designers are using a variety of techniques to produce typography and lettering in a range of innovative styles. It not only features high-quality type design and diverse applications for original lettering, but also insightful texts and interviews with leading typographers that explore current developments. This book is a timely investigation of how designers are trying to find solutions to counter the fact that more and more messages are being communicated in plain text on digital platforms such as cell phones. It documents the innovative, more personal lettering techniques that today's designers are developing by hand that not only simply present content, but also enrich it creatively.
 
 

  TITOLO:The Beautiful
 Illustrations for Fashion and Style
EDITORE: Anneke Krull
USCITA: September 2010
FORMATO: 23 × 29 cm
INFO: 224 Pages, full color, flexocover
LINGUA: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-321-5
PREZZO: €57,00

 Illustration is one of today’s fastest growing creative disciplines. Its versatility has made it a key visual element in fashion, lifestyle, editorial design, and advertising. Illustrations depict and enrich content in magazines and other publications. They help advertisers to address target audiences more precisely. Illustration appears more and more frequently in fashion and packaging design, and the combination of illustration and photography has resulted in a new, more complex visual language. The Beautiful presents the work of 100 of today’s trendiest and most promising illustrators in the areas of fashion, lifestyle, editorial design, and commercial illustration.
 
 

  TITOLO:The Design Hotels™ Book
Edition 2011
EDITORE: Design Hotels™
USCITA: February 2011
FORMATO: 23 x 32.5 cm
INFO: 432 pages, full color, hardcover
LINGUA: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-340-6
PREZZO: €59,00

The new edition of The Design Hotels™ Book is a comprehensive overview of the most original design hotels worldwide. By presenting 200 spectacular hotels, including 47 properties that are new for 2011, the book provides insight into trends and developments in hospitality design. With its images of striking architecture and interior design, this opulent hardcover brings the experience of staying in a Design Hotels™ property to life.
 
 

  TITOLO:The Modernist
EDITORE: R. Klanten, H. Hellige
USCITA: April 2011
FORMATO: 24 x 28 cm
INFO:192 pages, full color, softcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-344-4
PREZZO:€46,00

 Today's designers and illustrators are synthesizing the best elements from past eras of graphic design to create a new visual language with a reduced and rational approach. The Modernist documents this uniquely contemporary, yet timeless aesthetic that is built upon the rediscovery and seamless melding of classical type elements and collage of the 1950s, the geometric patterns and graphic elements of the 1960s and 1970s, and the vector graphics and computer-aided montage of the 1990s. With its fresh perspective on the legacy of past craftsmanship and quality in outstanding current work, The Modernist expands our understanding of what modern graphic design can be. More Info about "The Modernist"
After going through an eclectic, baroque, and iconic phase, today's design is again taking its visual cues from functionalism and pragmatism. Young graphic designers and illustrators are working in a way that is influenced by the principles of classic modernism. They avoid excess or exaggeration to create enduring work of the highest quality.