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Web design: Music sites ENThe internet has become a major player in today’s music market, especially thanks to online sales from sources such as iTunes; while most web music sales sites boast around 40,000 songs, iTunes offers over 1.3 million—with 25,000 new songs being added each month. From online purchasing to great artist sites like Gorillaz, Lenny Kravitz, and Iggy Pop to recording companies, labels, ringtone sites, online radios, and…
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Web Design: Navigation ENThis addition to our popular Web Design series focuses on very carefully crafted navigation systems, where usability and narrative are taken in consideration in the development of the website. Featuring over 90 projects from more than 20 countries, as well as case studies on outstanding work by the world’s leading studios such as Fahrenheit, Clusta, and Sequence, this collection illustrates the ingenious solutions…
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Julius Wiedemann Web Design: Portfolios ENWe've been trawling the web looking for the most interesting and well-designed portfolios - of designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, and motion graphic pros - to profile the creators working behind the scenes. The focus is not so much the work presented, but the way the portfolios are designed. Presentation, elegance, and style are key, and the individuals and studios featured in this guide represent the…
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Web Design: Studios 2 ENThe follow-up to our popular title Web Design: Studios, this new installments brings you more examples of the web's most outstanding design work. Working online means working from every place you can imagine. The coolest design studios from over 28 countries are profiled herein, complete with examples of recent work, contact information, list of awards, and client list. If you are a web designer, marketing manager…
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Web Design: Video Sites ENThis is our selection of contemporary award-winning video campaigns and websites. The YouTube phenomenon is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the presence and importance of video on the web today. Everywhere you surf, videos abound; with increasing bandwidth speeds come more and more possibilities for the moving image to find its place in every nook and cranny of the web, whether to sell products or entertain…
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Manfred Heiting Weston ENFew photographers have created such a legacy as Edward Weston (1886–1958). After a decade of successfully making photographs with painterly soft-focus techniques, he became the driving figure behind a group of West Coast artists dubbed Group f/64, which pioneered the sharp, precise school of “Straight Photography.” With that stylistic leap, Weston’s career moved into high gear, creating photographs of extraordinary…
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What Great Paintings Say ENDid the Greek gods play tennis? What is the ambassador from the land of Alchemy telling us? What secrets are being told on the shores of the Island of Venus? What is a monk doing on the Ship of Fools? What Great Paintings Say has the answers to these and many other burning questions asked about the most important and famous paintings of all time. In two volumes, a selection of history’s greatest masterpieces is…
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Rainer Hagen, Rose-Marie Hagen What Great Paintings Say. Vol. I ENStarí majstri a detailné pohľady na ich obrazy, ktoré zrazu ožívajú a prezrádzajú svoje tajomstvá... Art as a living testimony of bygone times - Detailed explanations of the social and historical contexts of paintings... Did the Greek gods play tennis? What is the ambassador from the land of Alchemy telling us? What secrets are being told on the shores of the Island of Venus? And what is the monk doing on the…
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Rainer Hagen, Rose-Marie Hagen What Great Paintings Say. Vol. II ENStarí majstri a detailné pohľady na ich obrazy, ktoré zrazu ožívajú a prezrádzajú svoje tajomstvá... From ancient Egyptian papyrus scrolls to 20th century works: painting’s hidden secrets revealed What is Jesus doing beside Lake Geneva? What is a monk doing on the Ship of Fools? What Great Paintings Say has the answers to these and many other burning questions asked about the most important and famous…
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Rose-Marie Hagen, Rainer Hagen What Paintings Say ENThis important addition to our understanding of art history’s masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and all they reveal about a bygone time, place, and culture. Guiding our eye to the minutiae of subject and symbolism, authors Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen allow even the most familiar of pictures to come alive anew through…
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Wiener Werkstätte ENFounded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Fritz Waemdorfer, the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop) was a collective of architects and craftsmen which aimed at fusing architecture and interior design into a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art. Experimenting with various materials (gold, precious stones, and papier mâché, for example), the artists of the Wiener Werkstätte created buildings and objects…
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Sebastian Schütze William Blake: Dante's Divine ComedyWilliam Blake’s spectacular illustrations for “The Divine Comedy”. Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, representing, on a deeper level, the soul’s path towards…
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Maria Antonietta Terzoli, William Blake William Blake: The Drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy ENImagination ablaze: Dante, Blake, and epic visions of heaven and hell Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, TheDivine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, representing, on a deeper level, the soul's path towards…
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Willy Ronis ENProduced in close cooperation with Willy Ronis and featuring images from his archives, this book traces the career of one of France's most remarkable photographers, to whom, along with Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson, and Brassaï, we owe our romantic vision of France. In Ronis's photos of Paris, the city is inseparable from the working class men, women, and children who inhabit its streets and cafes. He once described his…
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Alexander Braun Winsor McCayLittle Nemo may be a diminutive hero of comic narrative, but he sure stands tall as one of the greatest voyagers of the 20th century. The master creation of Winsor McCay (1869-1934), this small and restless sleeper inspired ...
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Wolfgang Tillmans Wolfgang Tillmans, truth study center ENIn his third TASCHEN book, celebrated artist photographer and winner of the 2000 Turner Prize Wolfgang Tillmans takes his exploration of the visible world to a new level. The title truth study center is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the paradox of our desire to find a universal truth and the impossibility of doing so. From evocative nude studies and candid personal portraits of Tony Blair to astronomical views of…
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Uta Grosenick Women Artists ENMany of the century's greatest artistic talents grace the pages of this tome, each artist represented by six pages of illustrations and photographs covering the various phases of her life and work, including biographical portraits and text. The media covered range from the standard painting, sculpture, and photography to concept art, performance, body art, video, feminist actions, installations, and interactive…
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Eric Kroll Wonderful World of Bill Ward EN“Ward’s women reek of glamour and glitz. The opera length gloves, the diamond earrings that dangle to the shoulders, the stiletto heels, the tight satin dresses, the pronounced cleavage... it's all there. It's the best eye candy money can buy.” —Eric Kroll Bill Ward’s long, prolific pin-up career began during World War II when he created a curvy distraction named Torchy for his fellow soldiers. His taste for…
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Philip Jodidio Wood ENThis title deals with nature's greatest resource. It covers modern wood architecture from Tierra del Fuego to North Cape. Wood is renewable and sustainable, solid and attractive. Wood can be bent and shaped to the most modern of designs. It is the material of the moment for contemporary architecture and this new volume allows readers to get a glimpse of the most exciting and dynamic new uses of wood in architecture…
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Wood Architecture Now! ENAs soon as the first men bravely moved out of their protective caves, they surely built protective structures out of wood. The ultimate renewable resource for architecture is thus the oldest, but also the most modern of materials. Thanks to computer-driven design and manufacturing techniques, wood can be cut and carved in the most astonishing new ways. Such innovative contributors to the work published in this…
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Wood Houses ENDrevo sa používa pri stavbách domov už tisíce rokov. Nechajte sa inšpirovať najzaujímavejšími a najkrajšími drevenými stavbami, netradičnými domami so zvláštnou, osobitou atmosférou. Na ich exteriéroch aj interiéroch sa podpísali architektov z celého sveta. V tejto publikácii nájdete rôzne druhy domov od malých chát cez bytovky, hotely, až po veľmi extravagantné domy a byty v korunách stromov.
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Glenn Hopp Woody Allen ENWoody Allen began his career writing jokes and scripts, then progressed to stand-up and acting, and finally wrote and directed his first film, Take the Money and Run, in 1969. Like many of the early films that made him famous, this was a screwball comedy that starred Allen as a hapless and self-demeaning schlemiel who bumbles his way through preposterous and hilarious situations. His first serious recognition as a…
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Helmut Newton Work/Dílo CZMódne fotografie, akty a portréty – to sú tri kategórie, do ktorých Newton rozdelil svoje dielo. Ale tak jednoduché to nie je: módna fotografia môže tiež byť portrétom alebo aktom a naopak. Táto kniha spolu s výstavou v berlínskej Neue Nationalgalerie predstavila Newtonovo dielo v celej šírke a oslávila 80. narodeniny tohto výnimočného fotografa, ktorý sa narodil v roku 1920 v Berlíne, hlavnom meste intelektuálnej a…
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Working Spaces ENThe idea of transforming the working area into an integrated part of the domestic space is now a familiar concept, and freelance professionals often opt to establish their office at home not only for financial reasons but also for the opportunity to work within a personalized space that is both attractive and comfortable. This book has gathered projects from around the world that represent the latest trends in…