Dostępność: na zamówienie To win loyal customers in this fiercely competitive market, it’s important to understand that high-quality package design is a vital element of a winning marketing strategy. "Pretty," "cute," and "fashionable" are buzzwords in the beauty and healthcare industry. This book presents some of the proven high-quality package designs in the field. The words "organic" and "sweets" are frequently used to entice the female demographic. A simple definition of the word "organic" describes ingredients sourced from nature. Earth tones and images from fruits, plants, the sea, and the sky are often utilized in packages to express the content of such products.
Dostępność: na zamówienie To win loyal customers in this fiercely competitive market, it’s important to understand that high-quality package design is a vital element of a winning marketing strategy. "Pretty," "cute," and "fashionable" are buzzwords in the beauty and healthcare industry. This book presents some of the proven high-quality package designs in the field. The words "organic" and "sweets" are frequently used to entice the female demographic. A simple definition of the word "organic" describes ingredients sourced from nature. Earth tones and images from fruits, plants, the sea, and the sky are often utilized in packages to express the content of such products. The customer receives the powerful message from the package design that nature equates to peace of mind and a sense of security. By using the "sweets" approach, packages and perfumes are made to resemble cakes and desserts. For example, the Sexy Girl hand and body cream comes in fruit punch, strawberry mille-feuille, and peach tart fragrances. The packaging incorporates visuals of mouth-watering sweets for each fragrance. The approach of using packaging design to appeal to women has become a successful ploy in stimulating discussion among women and attracting the attention of female consumers. Designers and creative professionals not only in the package and product design industry but also in other fields will find this book useful as a source of creative ideas for design.
Dostępność: na zamówienie Ultimate Spa is the definitive guide to the best spas in Asia. Highlighting spas in India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand, Bali, Malaysia, Taiwan and the Philippines, this book is both a showcase of the region's best spas and a comprehensive guide to their offerings. The first half of the book introduces the top spas in the region, giving useful tips regarding the facilities and different types of treatments to be experienced. The second half of the book focuses on the treatments themselves: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and the beauty and health secrets of Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.
Germany’s image in the world is defined by modern technology, high-quality craftsmanship and a passion for detail, characteristics that are also reflected in the built environment. German interior design embodies functionality, timelessness and an unembellished modernism. Contemporary design combines these concepts with a more emotional and playful attitude towards the task of interior composition.
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This book showcases recent developments and tendencies in the universe of fonts. Drawing on leading designers and typographers, it presents a wide selection of complete alphabets and their application on posters, logos, adverts, magazines, flyers and exhibitions.
Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or a vacation, we've done the hard work for you, from finding the best restaurants, bars and hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores and sites, and the most enticing architecture and design.
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This stimulating world hub contains a multitude of innovative restaurants, whose décor blends futuristic elements with influences from all around the globe. This lively dining metropolis boasts an array of hip restaurants unparalleled anywhere else. Restaurant design is pushed to the very limits, with a multitude of eye-catching themes and motifs.
Dostępność:na zamowienie As all book lovers know, a collection of books affords not only access to endless pleasure and knowledge, but also, when skilfully deployed around the home, the opportunity to create a myriad of different impressions. In this beautifully illustrated guide, self-confessed bibliophile Leslie Geddes-Brown offers inspirational solutions and practical tips on how to make the most of books in every room and forgotten nook of the house.
Harmony with the environment and conserving natural resources come up more frequently on the wish list for dream homes. From around the world, the 33 homes presented in this book show that glamour and green architecture can be ideally combined. The spectrum of approaches range from hi-tech energy- and resource-saving solutions and industrially prefabricated modules, to traditional building methods and local materials. Moreover, all of them successfully work with the climatic and geographical conditions of their surroundings. The spectacular experience of nature up close, comfort beyond compare, remarkable design, and a clean conscience all come together in Ecological Living.
Dostępność:na zamowienie Cool Restaurants a The Cookbook features highlights from the highly successful Cool Restaurants series, which has grown to encompass more than 30 cities across the globe. World-class cooking stars such as Jamie Oliver and Jean-Georges Vongerichten share their favorite recipes with easy-to-follow instructions. Now fans can recreate the deluxe dining experience of the top restaurants worldwide in the comfort of their very own homes. Become part of the gastronomic process as stunning photographs showcase the stars, their awardwinning restaurants a and their delectable masterpieces Each culinary celebrity imparts the true essence of these sumptuous dishes a what makes them special and how to get it just right.
Dostępność: na zamówienie Gustave Alexandre Eiffel (Dijon 1832-Paris 1923). This French civil engineer and constructor, is famous for the Eiffel Tower in Paris. He studied at the École Central des Arts et Manufactures, where he demonstrated his interest in metal construction, graduated in Chemical Engineering and in 1866 founded his own company. He directed the building of an iron railway bridge at Bordeaux and the design of the movable dome of the observatory at Nice. He finished his greatest project, the Eiffel Tower, in 1889, in time for the Centennial Exposition, causing commotion and amazement among the artists of the period and the world in general. His next large-scale project was the Panama Canal.
Dostępność:na zamowienie This book presents eight outstanding projects by prominent contemporary architects and designers: inspiring villas, apartments and penthouses, where design plays a key role.
After many were demolished or 'modernised' beyond recognition in the post-war period, terrace houses were rediscovered in the 1980s, as people moved back to the inner city. Period features were tenderly replaced but many of the buildings remained as they had originally been: small, dark and impractical for family living in the 21st century.
Dostępność:na zamowienie This book illustrates trends in contemporary living on the basis of around twenty projects carried out by leading architects and interior designers. The reports demonstrate that contemporary living nowadays calls for more than the harmonious integration of the latest designer furniture in a modern context. Whether it’s a new building or a renovation project, all of these clients, architects and interior specialists have worked to create a fascinating mix of volumes and perspective, of light and atmosphere, of materials, texture, shapes and colours.
101 Hotel Rooms showcases a wide variety of takes on the recurring theme of the hotel room. As our lives accelerate to keep pace with today's frantic world, the possibility of truly arriving at a destination grows in importance. Interior designers are faced with the challenge of creating rooms that allow an authentic stillness in the most inherently transient of interior spaces.
No wonder Miami and South Beach are model central. It's where the hot youngthings come to see and be seen. With its daytime emphasis on sun andspectacle, and lively nightlife once the sun goes down, there's alwayssomewhere to go. This hip metropolis has an array of destinationscombining Latin flair, Deco splendor, and quite a strong dash of Eurosophistication. This guide offers in-the-know advice that helps you chooseamong the many bars, restaurants, clubs and hotels.
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The "Architecture in Detail" series comprises books that focus on individual buildings noted for their exceptional character, innovative design or technical virtuosity. Each volume contains a text by a respected author, a sequence of colour and black-and-white photographs and a set of technical drawings and working details. One of the great works of Arts and Crafts architecture, the Glasgow School of Art is a synthesis of opposites: austere and delicate, dark and light, derivative yet innovative. While the towering outer wall seems to echo the Scottish baronial tradition and the exterior impression is one of imposing grandeur, the interior is a lively and complex set of spaces.
While computers have facilitated and enriched the ways in which architects can develop and present their ideas, there is also a growing lack of skills in other forms of image-making that was traditionally furnished through training in drawing and sketching. This book focuses on the exciting possibilities for representing the built environment with all the techniques – both ancient and modern – that are now available. Students today need to learn the following skills: how to draw using a range of media, the basic rules of making effective spatial images, how to read a drawing, and how to express ideas through appropriate media and forms of communication.