Supergraphics is a survey of the growing trend for graphic design on a monumental scale. At a time when graphic designers are increasingly concerned with the miniature, there is a counter swing in favor of the gigantic. All over the world, typography, illustration, and signage are appearing on buildings, public spaces, construction site hoardings, the reception areas of hip advertising agencies, commercial and retail interiors, hotels, clubs, and cultural venues. Supergraphics is the first book to chart this explosion.

Supergraphics: Graphic Design for Walls, Buildings & Spaces

Shaughnessy, Adrian

Laurence King Pub

Profiles fashion jewelers, offering insights into the working methods of a new generation of jewelers and showcasing skilled craftsmanship, unusual materials, and an often limited-edition approach.

Fashion Jewelry

Adams, Maia

Reference

This book provides an accessible introduction for architecture students to all aspects of architectural technology: structural physics, structural elements and forms, heating, lighting, environmental control, and computer modeling. It will also help students to integrate their design thinking with appropriate structural and environmental solutions.The book explains the relationships between physical phenomena, materials, building elements, and structural types using simple classification systems and real world examples. In addition, it explores current computer techniques for assisting students to predict the structural and environmental behavior of buildings. It also uses historical precedents to explain how the success of a technology is directly related to its cultural context. This second edition includes new sections on environmental design, Building Information Modeling (BIM), and two new case studies.Written by three experienced teachers, this book will be invaluable for those contemplating the study of architecture and for those already embarked on such a course.

Introduction to Architectural Technology

Arts & Photography

McLean,William

Silver, Peter

Architecture

First edition. With 265 illustrations of which 246 are in color. Fine. 160 pages. stiff paper wrappers.. 4to..

Railway Posters 1923-1947: From the Collection of the National Railway Museum, York, England

Cole, Beverley

Durack, Richard

A Miscellany of Objects from Sir John Soane's Museum

Miscellany of Objects from Sir John Soane's Museum

THORNTON, Peter

Caucasian Carpets &amp; Covers is the first book to offer a comprehensive view of nineteenth and twentieth century knotted pile rugs and flat-woven textiles from Caucasia in the light of recent research. Written by two acknowledged experts in the field, the text is securely based on original written and photographic sources, coupled with a systematic analysis of woven structures. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the consequent opening up of communication and trade between the West and the newly independent Caucasian republics has resulted in the release onto the market of previously little known items, in particular flat-weaves. This development calls for a re-evaluation of the subject of Caucasian weaving, a demand which this book seeks to answer. The authors suggest that utilitarian flat-woven covers and containers - many of them spectacularly graphic and colourful - are the true traditional products of Caucasia's weaving culture. This is a departure from previous books written in the West on Caucasian carpets, which have tended to concentrate either on pile-woven village rugs, or on tribal bags, covers and trappings made by nomads whose traditional range straddled the present political borders between Transcaucasia and northwest Persia. Further light is shed on the subject in the authors' documentation of Caucasian knotted pile rugs, which shows that many examples of the popular types which are often thought to be 'authentic' nineteenth century (or even eighteenth in some cases) village weavings, are in fact part of a well-organised commercial production for the Russian and Western markets, which began in the latter part of the nineteenth century and continued well into the first part of the twentieth.

Caucasian Carpets and Covers: The Weaving Culture

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Wright, Richard E.

Wertime, John T.

Crafts & Hobbies

Baluchi Woven Treasures

This book focuses on the rugs and trappings produced by the Baluchi people and neighbouring groups of nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes who live on the borders between Iran and Afghanistan. Written by Jeff W. Boucher, one of the world's leading Baluchi rug collectors, with illustrations of the best examples from his collection, this revised edition includes a new introduction by James Opie and makes this book widely available for the first time. The weavings of the Baluchi people are distinguished by their dark palette and soft, lustrous wool, and were made for the weaver's own use and for sale to external markets. The text provides a brief survey of the history of the Baluchi together with a clear overview of their woven products. This covers the different regions where the weavers are found, as well as discussing the varieties of design, function and dye. The illustrated examples show a range of distinct types of weaving, including rugs, pillows and bags, which mostly date from the mid- to late-nineteenth century. In addition, a small number of the weavings illustrated are often described as Baluchi, though they are actually made by neighbouring ethnic groups. Each colour plate is accompanied by a detailed description that examines the design and manufacture of the weave as well as providing a technical analysis.

Boucher, Jeff W.

History & Criticism

This volume brings together the range of patterns and motifs used in antique textiles in the East and West. It examines the treatment of similar patterns - floral, pictorial, tree and leaf patterns, crosses and so on - by weavers of different origins. Each chapter takes a theme out of which a number of patterns have sprung, and begins with an exploratory text on the interpretations of the theme by various weavers. The captions describe the weavers' techniques and their use of pattern and colour.

Carpet and Textile Patterns

Purdon, Nicholas

A History of Western Architecture

Surveying Western architecture from its classical origins, the author aims to show architectural history as a living continuity rather than a museum of neatly labelled styles. The validity of the classical language of architecture as the connecting thread of the Western tradition is emphasized. This edition of the study includes a section entititled "Architecture for the Millennium" which discusses both hi-tech architecture, such as that by Foster and also Rogers with hybrid, postmodernist expressions such as the National Theatre in Barcelona by Ricardo Bofill. The need for architectural scholarship to respond to a continuing historical legacy is discussed in the preface.

WATKIN, David

Visual Arts in the Twentieth Century

This work examines the historical, social and intellectual contexts that have underlain individual creativity. With a chronological structure, it allows the reader to find affinities between aproaches to 20th-century art normally regarded as separate, such as Pop Art and Conceptualism. Front Cover

LUCIE-SMITH, Edward

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