Although loft living once meant converting old industrial warehouses, today it has evolved into a style and approach for modern living spaces. This new volume in the Good Ideas series provides more than fifty new examples of contemporary lofts from around the world, ranging from remodeled industrial buildings to old farmhouses and garages transformed for today's lifestyle. With 800 photographs, New Lofts is an incredible value for anyone who dreams of owning or living in a loft.

Lofts 2: Good Ideas

Arts & Photography

Campos, Cristian

Architecture

Harper Paperbacks

Product designers are faced with the challenge of designing merchandise, which is not only functional and easy to use, but attractive and eye-catching to the consumer. Product Design Now showcases the best products designed in recent years -- with a special focus on electronics -- categorized by size: small, medium, large, and extra large. Emphasizing the design process step-by-step, this book shows all of the creative work-from handmade drawings and sketches to diagrams and computer renderings -- that go into the development of a product before it hits the assembly line.
With beautiful images of innovative and cutting edge product design, this book is a perfect resource for consumers and designers alike.

Product Design Now

History & Criticism

Harper

Supermarkets are changing. Gone are the days of boxy, frozen warehouses stacked high with package goods. Today's supermarkets can be inviting or theatrical, artfully urban or charmingly rural. An informative guide to the fast-changing world of modern supermarket architecture, New Supermarket Design is a sumptuous, visual tour of the most groundbreaking innovations in the field.
From the American Midwest to the streets of Tokyo, this beautiful book collects 40 of the most revolutionary ideas in store design, product arrangement, and thematic conception. New Supermarket Design features work from some of the most renowned architects on the international scene, clearly explained and accompanied by stunning full-color illustrations.

New Supermarket Design

Discover the world of plastic. That inexpensive, flexible, resilient, and soft-ignored material enters the limelight in this book of plastic furniture, lighting, architecture, and everyday objects.
This book showcases the work of dozens of international designers who take plastic seriously. No longer just used for objects of practicality, each of the varied projects included puts a new spin on how plastic works. From fruit baskets and penholders to bookshelves, lamps, and full rooms, the work featured in this book heralds a new age of plastic. Filled cover to cover with gorgeous color photography, Plastic is a valuable reference and source of inspiration for professionals, students, and design-lovers alike.

Plastic

The Big Book of Bags, Tags, and Labels is a fully illustrated design showcase of the most eye-catching fashion labels, shopping bags, and tags from around the world. In this new entry in the Big Book series, design writer Christian Campos, editor-in-chief of H Magazine, offers ideas and inspiration for bag, tag, and label designers trying to marry name recognition and branding with unique design.

The Big Book of Bags, Tags, and Labels

Graphic Design

Product Design Now: Renderings, the exciting follow-up to the highly successful Product Design Now, looks at the best-designed products since the last edition, with an emphasis on electronics and digital devices.
In Product Design Now: Renderings every product featured includes the designer’s original sketches. This new edition to the acclaimed series is perfect for design students and teachers; experienced designers looking to keep up with the latest product designs and most successful product design strategies; and consumers interested in the most contemporary, functional, and attractive product designs today, particularly in the fields of electronic and digital products.

Product Design Now: Renderings

Decorative Arts & Design

This example-packed overview of contemporary Japanese illustration showcases the works of 100 of Japan's most successful and exciting artists and designers. The images embrace a huge range of styles, from traditional to futuristic, from classic ukiyo-e prints to the worlds of manga and anime. Some look towards urban street culture or build their own surreal dreamscapes, while others revisit a playful world of childhood innocence or explore darker realms of violence and terror. The book also includes ten interviews in which the illustrators discuss their work and what inspires them. The range of amazing images and subjects in this book is hugely memorable, an exciting journey to the utterly idiosyncratic but wonderful world of the Japanese sensibility.

Japanese Illustration Now

Thames&Hudson

Brimming with visual inspiration and sage advice, this stunning book introduces 100 manga artists, who share their work, their influences, and practical tips in words and images. There are dozens of books that can teach you how to draw manga, and just as many that talk about manga and its origins--1,000 Ideas by 100 Manga Artists is the only book that treats manga as a philosophy to be explored. In its pages, 100 manga "philosophers"--artists, cartoonists, and illustrators who have been influenced by manga--are asked 20 questions about their work, career, and relationship with manga. Each artists chooses 10 questions to answer in both words and pictures. Along with an abundance of illustrations, sketches, and photographs, find a limitless range of artistic styles, hidden humor, irony, and wisdom in replies to questions like: <ul> <li>Where do the ideas for your drawings come from? How do you do your research?</li> <li>How do you make your drawings come to life?</li> <li>Who are your favorite illustrators? Are you trying to follow in their footsteps?</li> <li>What good habits should a comic illustrator have?</li> <li>Manga: Is it art?</li> <li>What advice would you give to a novice illustrator?</li> </ul> Whether you are a beginning manga artist looking for guidance, an established illustrator looking for new inspiration, or a manga fan who wants to learn about the craft and its artists, 1,000 Ideas by 100 Manga Artists offers a rich resource.

1000 Ideas by 100 Manga Artists

Chartwell Books

1001 Ideas para el hogar/1001 Ideas for Living (Spanish Edition)

Reference

Parragon, Inc.

Graffiti and street art used to be a sure sign of a neighborhood’s neglect. Even though it is still a countercultural art form, its role has grown: it enlivens public space, provides social commentary, and adds humor and color to the urban and suburban landscape. 
1,000 Ideas for Graffiti and Street Art is a showcase of urban art suitable for artists of any medium, designers, and other creative artists looking for urban-style inspiration for their visual work. A visual catalog, it is both a practical, inspirational handbook and a coffee-table conversation piece. Graffiti and street artists—rebellious and non-rebellious alike—will relish the opportunity to have so many ideas for color play, illustration, and wild expressions at their fingertips. 
Inside you’ll find:
-1,000 photographs of graffiti and other types of urban art, with captions that feature location (city, state, country) artist name (if known). 
-Artwork sorted into categories such as letterforms, stencils, portraits, murals, nature, tags, throw-ups, pieces, and productions 
-Urban art glossary, basic aerosol painting and street art techniques, and more

1,000 Ideas for Graffiti and Street Art: Murals, Tags, and More from Artists Around the World (1000 Series)

Rockport Publishers

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