Diccionario visual de diseño gráfico

What are mandalas? They are concentric, harmonious, balanced designs. Working with them generates internal harmony, concentration, focus, and internal peace. Whether designs have their roots in Hinduism, Buddhism, Celtic art, or modern art, they all share the qualities that make them invaluable for self-healing. Working with mandalas helps boost self-knowledge and concentration, as well as flexibility in emotion, thought, and action. ¿Por qué hablamos de "mandalas"?, quizás porque hemos heredado el término de la sabiduría de la antigua India. Y con este término nos referimos a diseños...

100 years of evolution prove it: motorboats are more than just nice toys. Based on more than 300 original images drawn from archives and sales broschures, this book offers a unique insight at motorboat design and lifestyle from the early racers to classic mahagony runabouts, from fast offshores to the newest motoryachts. With a biographical overview of the diverse personalities behind the scenes of motor boating. Book jacket.

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 ...

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.