L'illustrateur Aurélien Débat a conçu un jeu de tampons pour imaginer une ville à partir de formes simples. Vingt-deux tampons de bois représentant des éléments d'architecture sont accompagnés de deux encreurs, un jaune et un bleu. Le tout est présenté dans une boîte qui s'ouvre comme une boîte d'allumettes.
Tout ce qu'il faut pour créer des insectes originaux et colorés d'ocre et de gris dans une jolie boîte coulissante : des pattes, de jolies ailes, des corps rayés, des antennes courbes et des petits pois de coccinelle sur 25 tampons de bois.
Après le succès de Stampville, Stamp Garden et Stamp Bugs, la série des boîtes de tampons en bois nous propose cette fois-ci de créer un monde marin fait de poissons aux formes loufoques, d'algues, d'étoiles de mer et de coraux, le tout avec un encreur rouge et un encreur bleu.
Un puzzle de 1000 pièces pour reconstituer le rêve de tout rat de bibliothèque : une immense librairie pleine de lecteurs enthousiastes, avec des rayons thématiques, des amoureux au rayon poésie, des détectives en herbe au rayon polar et des libraires de bon conseil au milieu.
Ellen Lupton, figure renommée du graphisme, rédige ici un guide de carrière féministe, inclusif en termes de genre et d'origine pour les jeunes graphistes en quête d'information sur la meilleure façon de naviguer dans le domaine du graphisme professionnel, qui connaît encore aujourd'hui d'importantes discriminations. La graphiste y présente des profils atypiques et inspirants du monde du design, raconte des anecdotes et établit des connections entre le monde du travail et une pensée inclusive afin de guider les jeunes diplômé(e)s de tous horizons et leur donner toutes leurs chances.
La coupe est, avec le plan et l'élévation, une des techniques de représentation des bâtiments. Dans ce manuel, les architectes américains Lewis, Tsurumaki et Lewis théorisent 7 catégories de dessins de coupe en les illustrant de bâtiments emblématiques de l'architecture du 20e siècle.
Cette série de dessins réalisés par 33 maîtres contemporains du cartoon célèbre et critique avec humour le monde littéraire des salons, libraires et bibliothèques. On y découvre les travaux d'illustrateurs comme Sam Gross, Roz Chast, Arnie Levin, Danny Shanahan, Peter Steiner, Mick Stevens, Nick Downes, Liza Donnelly, Bob Mankoff, et Michael Maslin, certains dessins étant inédits, et d'autres ayant déjà connu le succès dans les pages du New Yorker.
The most extensive collection of nature printing ever assembled, featuring 43 different printing techniques.
Hailed as the earliest precursor to photography, nature printing is the practice of using impressions from the surface of a natural object such as leaves, flowering plants, ferns, seaweed, snakes and more to produce an image. The Zucker Collection is the most extensive collection of nature prints ever assembled, with more than 13,000 images across 120 rare and seminal works, including journals, published books, unique manuscripts, American Currency, and instructional texts related to nature printing from 1733 to 1902.
For the first time, readers will be able to see these nature prints presented side by side, enabling unique comparisons while creating a visually stunning journey through the developments over a 150 year period in printing methods including photography with examples of cyanotypes. Capturing Nature is the ultimate guide to Nature Printing, and a beautiful reference work for scholars, artists, designers, botanists and anyone interested in nature, botanical illustration and printing.
An insider's look at art museums and how they shape the ways we view art, through the eyes of the architects who design them.
Architects and art lovers everywhere will enjoy this remarkable collection of interviews from sixteen of the world's most celebrated, thoughtful, and innovative architects who have designed many of the world's greatest museums. Spanning generations, geographies, and methods of architectural practice, these architects share the complex and fascinating process of creating spaces for art. Building Culture includes interviews with:??
Frank Gehry, who reveals how a half-century of dialogue with the visual arts influenced his revolutionary Guggenheim Bilbao?.
Kulapat Yantrasast, who describes his rethinking of exhibition design and how it expands the presentation of work in venerable institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he is currently redesigning the galleries for the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas?.
Walter Hood, whose long interest in improvisational techniques in music informed his design for outdoor performance spaces in the Oakland Museum?.
Elizabeth Diller, whose conception of the Shed in New York City's Hudson Yards was influenced by decades of work in conceptual and performance art.
Esteemed architects who have designed, renovated, or created galleries for MoMA, the New Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York; the National Gallery and the Tate Modern in London; the Pérez Art Museum Miami; the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa in Japan; the Museum of West African Art (currently under construction) in Nigeria; and many others. ?
This lively compendium reveals intensely varied architectural philosophies from a diverse group of established and up-and-coming professionals. Engaging personal recollections of relationships with artists and curators, along with 80 captivating images, provide further insight into the design process and timeless inspiration for architecture students, artists, museum professionals, and anyone fascinated by architectural design, public space, and museum culture.
A love letter to the shop by beloved bookseller Peter Miller. For the past forty-five years Peter Miller has run his bookshop in Seattle. He has also written three books about his love of the meal, from cooking (Lunch at the Shop, Five Ways to Cook Asparagus) to cleaning up (How to Wash the Dishes). Along the way, he has written for Food 52 and Post Alley (a Seattle-based writers'' collective). In Shopkeeping, Miller writes for the first time about his other love: "There is a tradition of shopkeeping, a tradition of codes, etiquette and customs. For the most part, it is an oral history, passed along, person to person. You learn to be a retailer - not by going to college, but by going to work. You learn from people who have learned how to run a shop." In ten chapters, Miller crafts his stories from the bookshop floor with wry humor and skillful storytelling that will have readers laughing out loud. Along the way, he sends out a plea that only small shops can really characterize our towns and cities, making them unique, special, and worth visiting and living near.
Insectes, oiseaux, bombes, bus, outils, etc... la collection extraordinaire des inventaires dessinés par le génie autiste et artiste, Gregory L.Blackstock.
Cette jolie boîte réalisée avec le site Present & Correct présente 20 trombones (10 designs x2) dont les modèles s'inspirent de l'histoire de ce petit objet familier, avec des formes utilisées entre 1897 et 1930. L'enveloppe grise en carton épais contient un papier de soie avec les 10 modèles argentés et les 10 modèles cuivrés. L'emballage embossé en argenté et cuivré présente les 10 modèles différents, avec pour chacun, l'année de conception. Un objet à offrir aux fans de vintage et aux obsessionnels de la belle papeterie.
A Christmas-themed mix-and-match rubber stamp set for adults to create endless festive combinations.
Jingle Stamps is a jolly collection of twenty-two shapes and textures waiting to be mixed and matched into any festive Christmas scene you can dream up. Triangles become santa hats or, when stacked vertically, evergreen trees. Dots and squares become wrapped gifts. The pieces of a candle can be repurposed into a decorative ornament. An assortment of shapes and textures offer infinite combinations and endless fun.
The lives and work of diverse unsung heroes of design gathered in smart new book. Familiar histories of graphic design have placed women in the margins, their work unworthy of discussion and preservation. The good news is that with a little digging, we are confirming that women of many backgrounds and ethnicities have long been active in the profession: running presses in the British colonies, illustrating books in the studios of artistically cutting-edge Harlem, and drawing type in the drafting rooms of major type foundries. This collection of 15 fascinating illustratedessays reveals their stories, countering the history we?ve been fed and expanding the small canon of (overwhelmingly white) women in graphic design. Baseline Shift tells the stories of auteurs, champions of social justice, and the uncelebrated women who used design to make change, do business, and to make a living. It is essential reading for students and practitioners of graphic design as well as those with an interest in women?s history.
1000 pièces pour reconstituer un musée en pleine effervescence, avec des artistes solitaires, des étudiants en art, des enfants qui font des bêtises dans les allées et des couples de retraités, tous réunis pour l'amour de l'art.
The reader gallops through the story on the back of the unicorn, which will find shelter in the heart of a secret garden, a peaceful alcove where love is awaiting.
The Lady and the Unicorn is an adventure tale of love and magic. The Unicorn's horn was known to have supreme powers and was a prize possession. It could turn polluted lakes and streams into drinkable water for woodland creatures. Hunted by a Feudal Lord, the Unicorn escapes into a secret garden to find a young lady in the middle of the garden playing an organ. She turns a mirror towards the Unicorn, who is magically transformed into a knight. He immediately declares his love for the lady, who smiles at him.
The Unicorn Tapestries in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Cluny Museum in Paris, serves as the inspiration for the story. The book ends with information about the tapestries, that connects the illustrations to the reproductions of the tapestries in order to decipher the symbols and their meanings at the heart of the work. Kids and adults of all ages are sure to enjoy this beautifully illustrated and engaging story.
Long before Microsoft or Apple occupied their legendary corporate campuses, there was the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. Completed in 1956 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2014, this icon of midcentury design was celebrated modern architect Eero Saarinen''s (1910 - 1961) first major commission completed independent of his father, Eliel Saarinen, and its story offers a unique perspective on his work. Longtime GM designer Susan Skarsgard weaves a detailed insider''s account of the early days of General Motors, the initiation of the technical center project under Eliel Saarinen, its design and construction under Eero Saarinen, and the enthusiastic acclaim the campus received upon its opening. Many leading lights of midcentury modernism were involved in the project as design consultants or artists, including Harry Bertoia, Alexander Girard, Florence Knoll, and Alexander Calder. This lavishly illustrated account is a unique document of a landmark project, presented in photographs and architectural drawings, interviews, documents, and ephemera, many never before seen.
Une histoire visuelle et architecturale des jardins botaniques. Apparus pour la première fois au XVIIIe siècle sous la forme de structures simples conçues pour protéger les arbres fruitiers et autres plantes délicates des hivers européens rigoureux, ils se sont répandus à travers le continent européen, les Amériques et, finalement, à travers le monde. Préfacé par Richard Barley, directeur du Jardin de Kew a Londres, ce bel ouvrage, richement documenté présente des merveilles botaniques du monde entier.
Cet ouvrage propose la visite de 17 maisons contemporaines qui utilisent le bambou de manière contemporaine, un matériau à nouveau prisé pour sa légèreté et ses qualités écologiques.
Think big, design small. This is the rallying cry of a new generation of architects and artists who aim to improve the lives of city-dwellers through small-scale public design projects. Using the city as an open-source platform for ideas, these visionaries create "urban interventions" to address problems specific to urban life. Small Scale presents fifty ingenious yet simple projects ranging from the purely conceptual to the fully realized. From a bridge that curls up into itself when not in use, to a stacked rental car dispenser, to a bus-stop like shelter that uses bright lights to treat seasonal affective disorder in the winter, these projects energize our cities' leftover spaces and help us imagine the future of our urban infrastructure.
The projects in Small Scale are organized into three sections: those that provide practical services, those that share information, and those that simply delight. Each project is eminently achievable and most do not require many permits or much government oversight or tremendous use of natural resources; indeed, some suggest solutions to the larger problem of energy consumption. Designed by both well-known and up-and-coming architects and artists including Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Howeler + Yoon Architecture, Morphosis, Studio Olafur Eliasson, and many more, the projects in Small Scale reflect the promise of new ideas, new materials, and new technologies.
