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Indeks: CENTURY OF MODERN DESIGN
One of the world’s most important collections of twentieth-century design—the Stewart Collection in Montreal—celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2010. The Stewart Collection incorporates iconic furniture, ceramics, textiles, posters, graphic art, jewelry, and everyday objects from the 1930s to today. This book presents items chronologically, highlighting contrasts and parallels between works including posters by Max Bill and an armchair by Frank Lloyd Wright.
One of the world’s most important collections of twentieth-century design—the Stewart Collection in Montreal—celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2010. The Stewart Collection incorporates iconic furniture, ceramics, textiles, posters, graphic art, jewelry, and everyday objects from the 1930s to today. This book presents items chronologically, highlighting contrasts and parallels between works including posters by Max Bill and an armchair by Frank Lloyd Wright. Each decade of the twentieth century is introduced by an essay giving the context that shaped the works, providing a history of modern design. Great designers, including lesser-known but highly influential figures, are presented alongside their signature creations that retain a prominent place in the design world today.
Eero Saarinen 1910-1961 Sculptural structures "Each age must create its own architecture out of its own technology and one which is expressive of its own Zeitgeist—the spirit of the time". - Eero Saarinen Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the 20th century`s great visionaries, both in the fields of furniture design (he created the ubiquitous Knoll "Tulip" chairs and tables, for example) and in architecture. Among his greatest accomplishments are monuments that shaped architecture in postwar America and became icons in themselves: Washington D.C.'s Dulles International Airport, the very sculptural and fluid TWA terminal at JFK Airport in New York, and the 630-foot high "Gateway to the West," the Arch of St. Louis.
Autor przebył całą Polskę od Słupska po Krosno i od Suwałk do Wałbrzycha, żeby poznać, jak żyje się dziś w miastach, które w 1999 roku utraciły status stolicy województwa. Poznał ich historię, rozmawiał z mieszkańcami.
Dostępność: na zamówienie "We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept." – Philippe Starck. Philippe Starck wants to bring love and happiness into your life by designing objects, environments, and appliances that will brighten your days. He spent his childhood under his father's drawing boards, sawing, cutting, gluing, and sanding, dismantling bikes, motorcycles and other objects.
Dostępność: na zamówienie Brochures: Making a Strong Impression contains a collection of 85 outstanding brochure designs that have proved to be more difficult to put together than most, pieces that have truly pushed the designer's creativity and forced them to reach inside. Each brochure is given one full spread showing the cover and several interiors, along with a valuable yet succinct amount of copy discussing the essence of the piece and the challenge of designing it. Unlike most books on brochures that either provide no context or give an abundant amount of unnecessary information, this book offers the reader an innovative collection of work paired with succinct descriptions that provide context in a format that readers can process quickly.
Książka opowiada o twórczości trzech architektów: Wacława Kłyszewskiego, Jerzego Mokrzyńskiego i Eugeniusza Wierzbickiego, zwanych "Tygrysami", którzy mimo ograniczeń swego czasu potrafili projektować budynki mające dziś swoje istotne miejsce w historii architektury. W 2013 roku słynny dworzec kolejowy w Katowicach autorstwa "Tygrysów", jeden z najlepszych przykładów współczesnej architektury polskiej, został rozebrany pod budowę wielkiego centrum handlowego.
Zmiany te, formułowane w rozporządzeniach dotyczących warunków technicznych budowlanych, charakterystyki energetycznej i świadectw charakterystyki energetycznej, czy planach mających na celu zwiększenie liczby budynków o niskim zużyciu energii, w znacznej mierze dotyczą kwestii poszanowania energii, w tym ciepła podczas eksploatacji budynków.
Dostępność: na zamówienie The world's sharpest creative minds are in high demand in the advertising world, because making effective ads takes a whole lot more than just marketing know-how. A great ad grabs the viewer’s attention and gets the point across in an original, surprising, funny, touching, or even shocking way. Because ads reflect global and regional mentalities, studying them is interesting not only for their selling points but also for what they have to say about their clients and target audiences. This mega-roundup of the world's best contemporary advertisements highlights the work of agencies in over 40 countries.
One of the world’s most important collections of twentieth-century design—the Stewart Collection in Montreal—celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2010. The Stewart Collection incorporates iconic furniture, ceramics, textiles, posters, graphic art, jewelry, and everyday objects from the 1930s to today. This book presents items chronologically, highlighting contrasts and parallels between works including posters by Max Bill and an armchair by Frank Lloyd Wright.