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The Codex Borgia
A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Considered by many scholars the finest extant Mexican codex and one of the most important original sources for the study of pre-Columbian religion, the Codex Borgia is a work of profound beauty, filled with strange and evocative images related to calendrical, cosmological, ritual, and divinatory matters....
Cartoon Character Animation with Maya
Mastering the Art of Exaggerated Animation
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Have you ever wanted to try your hand at cartoony computer animation? Then look no further… Cartoon Character Animation with Maya will help you create just that, guiding you through every step of the process including how to incorporate multiple limbs, smears, motion lines and staggers seamlessly...
by Tom Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
***NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*
“Witty and entertaining.”—Sarah Knight
“Laugh-out-loud.”—Steve Brusatte
AN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORY**
Modern humans have come a long way in the seventy thousand...
You Don't Look Fat, You Look Crazy
An Unapologetic Guide to Being Ambitchous
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
“Carpe diem, bitches.” —Ashley Longshore
Pour a glass of champagne, slip off your designer heels, pull up your big girl panties and enjoy pop-artist extraordinaire Ashley Longshore’s unapologetic, raw, and literally laugh-out-loud funny guide to living an “ambitchous” life.
For...
by Charles Bezerra
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
It is already clear that the creative principles we are using to guide our abstractions and to conceive the reality around us are obsolete and in urgent need of revision. Inspired by the holographic paradigm, as well as by some other concepts from quantum physics, this book suggests an alternative...
When Clothes Become Fashion
Design and Innovation Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on an intricate network of manufacture, marketing and retail.
Fashion is both medium and message...
Design Paradigms
Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1994
From ancient Greek temples to twentieth-century towers, engineers have learned more about design from failure than success. The concept of error, according to the author, is central to the design process. As a way of explaining the enduring aspects of engineering design, he relates stories of some...
by Mary Brooks Picken
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This vintage book contains an exhaustive dictionary of fashion terms, with instructions for pronunciation, brief explanations, and lists of synonyms. Timeless and comprehensive, “The Language Of Fashion Dictionary And Digest Of Fabric, Sewing And Dress” will be of utility to those involved in...
The Substance of Style
How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Whether it's sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a designer toaster, we make important decisions as consumers every day based on our sensory experience. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how Americans live and work. The twenty-first century...
Enchanted Objects
Innovation, Design, and the Future of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
In the tradition of Who Owns the Future, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs, improve our lives, and form “an ethereal interconnection of gadgets and human desires that...will pervade our lives in the very near future” (The Wall Street Journal).
We...
¿Cómo nacen los objetos?
Apuntes para una metodología proyectual
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2016
¿Cómo nacen los objetos? analiza el trayecto que un diseñador recorre desde que se enfrenta a un problema funcional hasta que logra la proyección y configuración de su solución material.
A partir de su experiencia como pedagogo y valiéndose de un rico repertorio de ejemplos e ilustraciones,...
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Tolstoy shares his views about the imprecision of general opinions on art, the time, effort, public funds, and public respect spent on art and artists. The difficulty of meaning in art, and especially what is good, useful art, art for the sake of which we might condone such sacrifices as are being offered at its shrine. So, what is art?
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture...
by Peter Mendelsund
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 9, 2015
¿Describió Tolstói a Ana Karenina? ¿Nos contó Melville alguna vez cuál era el aspecto de Ismael? ¿Cómo nos imaginamos el Londres de Dickens o el Dublín de Joyce?
Peter Mendelsund, uno de los mejores diseñadores de cubiertas de libros del mundo, ha escrito una exploración única del fenómeno de la lectura que nos revela hasta qué punto leer es un acto creativo.