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.

"El divertimento y la exploración que genera la moda son aprovechados al máximo en Simple chic. Sus páginas profesan algo así como una contagiosa libertad". Rocío Arias Hofman En este libro, Gloria Saldarriaga —la it girl por excelencia— comparte su visión poco convencional sobre el arte, la moda y el buen vivir. Ilustrado por la talentosísima Natalia Swarz, es un auténtico manual que, de la A a la Z, celebra la belleza de todos los días sin parafernalia y con mucho humor.

Un mensaje gráfico no es un producto espontáneo que aparece por inspiración, con una forma acabada y completa, en la mente de su autor. Todo mensaje gráfico responde a un proceso de reflexión, estrategia y toma de decisiones que afecta tanto al significado que quiere transmitirse como a la forma de expresarlo visualmente. Con el fin de sistematizar la complejidad de este proceso de ideación, Rosa Llop explora en este libro aquellos parámetros o principios semióticos y gráficos que entran en juego a la hora de desarrollar un proyecto gráfico. Para ello toma como objeto de análisis...

Chronicling the birth of haute couture and haute cuisine, this illustrated account documents how the young, charismatic, and attractive King Louis XIV—the first man to wear silk stockings, high heels, and cover himself entirely with diamonds—played a major role in the origin of French style. This detailed analysis combines historical research with fanciful anecdotes in order to describe how the French established standards of sophistication, style, and elegance that today's international chefs, famous hairstylists, distinguished cafés, and elegant hotspots still aspire to meet. Una...

SPECIAL KINDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Fifty contemporary, cutting-edge photo-graphers open our eyes to the magical artificiality embraced by fashion photography today: chronicling the very processes of fashion, fashion photography is like fashion itself - it celebrates the immediate, the frivolous and the ephemeral. The striking images in this book playfully flirt with superficiality as readily as they take on the more established aesthetic conventions of art photography. Ingrained with paradox and contradiction fashion photography mirrors the moods and desired of the moment. And more:...