An international guide to award winning packaging design The field of package design never ceases to expand and innovate, making it one of the most vibrant, competitive, and fast-evolving areas in design today....

Les genies delaisses de l’impressionnisme C’est la vue d’un port, une scene experimentale aux touches imprecises, qui donna son nom a l’impressionnisme. Quand Impression, soleil levant de Claude Monet fut expose en avril 1874, les critiques se sont empares du nom de l’?...

Von Weimar in die Welt – Mythos Bauhaus In einem kurzen Zeitraum von nur vierzehn Jahren zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen veranderte die deutsche Kunst- und Gestaltungsschule Bauhaus das Antlitz der Moderne....

A monumental logo compilation: round two Following up on the best-selling Bibliotheca Universalis logo manual, this second volume focuses on corporate identity. In a globalized world, more and more symbols convey values such as trust, quality, or reliability....

The sky’s the limit with 50 ingenious tree houses around the world The idea of climbing a tree for shelter, or just to see the earth from another perspective, is as old as humanity....

More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designer. The particular curve of a backrest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the color of the entire artifact; each element reflects the stylistic consciousness of an era....

How Tiki became an American dream Urban islands and bamboo hideaways set the stage for a pop culture phenomenon like no other. In mid-century America, the imaginative appeal of Tiki penetrated fashion, music, eating, drinking, and architecture....

The wooden structures of the 21st century Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel. The truth is radically different....

At the intersection of the visual, graphic, and cinematic arts, film posters are a unique and thrilling record of a particular cultural Zeitgeist. This book brings together 250 posters from the Soviet Union of the 1920s and early 1930s to explore the energy and invention of this period, before Soviet Realism became the official art doctrine....

All known genera of the palm family in 240 exquisite illustrations On December 15, 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868), Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in a coffin covered with fresh palm leaves....

Packaging is a highly underrated art form. As the first thing a consumer sees when looking at a product, it can make or break a sale. Every year, the Pentawards celebrate the art of the package by recognizing the world\"s most groundbreaking and influential designs....

How the Farm Security Administration introduced America to Americans \\\"Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way....

In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany\"s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which they applied across media and practices from film to theater, and sculpture to ceramics....

Pierre-Auguste Renoir\"s (1841-1919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. Derived from our large-format volume, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work published to date, this compact edition examines the personal history and motivation behind the legend....

A photo tribute to our four-pawed friends In celebration of the world’s favorite animal, we bring you over 400 photographs of or about dogs....