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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.

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:...

El único libro específicamente destinado a los diseñadores de moda, que explica el comportamiento y las propiedades de los diferentes tejidos. Proporciona una combinación de información práctica y vocabulario industrial y examina visualmente los tipos genéricos de textiles. Analiza las características de las telas y muestra cómo sacar el máximo partido a los tejidos para ir más allá de los límites del diseño. El diseño queda determinado por el modo en el que funcionan las telas, así como por la manera en que se mueven, caen, la sensación que provocan y, por supuesto, el...