Boat Design

With 400 pages, this reference work, published for the first time in this form, offers a comprehensive and informative look at the development of European, American and Japanense car design from 1947 to 2004. Past, present and future design trends are shown with examples of original photos from 370 series of vehicles and concept cars. A biographical overview of leading, international car designers is included. Book jacket.

Autores como Mayr (1998) parten de considerar a las ciencias de la vida divididas en dos dominios generales de indagación: la biología funcional ocupada en estudiar experimentalmente las causas próximas que, actuando a nivel del organismo individual, nos explican cómo los fenómenos vitales se encadenan e integran en la constitución de esas estructuras; y la biología evolutiva, ocupada en reconstruir, básicamente por métodos comparativos e inferencias históricas, las causas remotas que, actuando a nivel de las poblaciones, nos explicarían por qué cada una de estas evolucionan o...

Personal y profano, y en ese difuso límite entre la santidad y lo diabólico que nos resulta tan atractivo como indistinguible, Elena Gallen traza un recorrido inédito de la mujer fatal. El relato histórico y cinematográfico se ha encargado durante siglos de culpabilizarnos por sentir fascinación por un estereotipo en el que de manera instintiva identificamos que se escondía el germen de nuestra libertad. Los evocadores trazos de Sara Herranz acompañan las reflexiones de Gallén e impregnan cada página de simbolismo y misterio.

This book explores the relation between modern design and the Belgian State. The ideology of modern design was closely linked to the utopian attempt of improving the everyday material world. Modernists had the universal belief that everyday spaces and objects affected their users in such a way that design practice could be a kind of political and social reform, or even a moral education. Modern design was however not only invested with these social aspirations, but knew also succes in political circles as an exponent for ideological positions, as a tool for political propaganda or as a marker ...

Latin American Graphic Design.- In this bilingual book Romulo Peralta Moya brings together 75 designers and design studios in Latin America. He does this through a general introductory study and a one by one country case, along with the collaboration of important curators and scholars in the field representing every country. Graphic design has progressively gained relevance in the field of communication of ideas, currently turning into a true source of persuasion, given that its goal is to influence people's way of thinking, inducing consumption and generating expectations. In addition, this...