Notions of authenticity lie at the heart of many questions about heritage and identity in the built environment. These questions are most pertinent when buildings have been destroyed in disaster or war, and the built fabric is being reconstructed to reinstate traditional or historic appearances in place ...
In this long-awaited follow up to the enormously popular informal, designer, writer and engineer Cecil Balmond invites readers into his creative process as he documents his most innovative projects in art, architecture and bridge design.
James Stirling and Michael Wilford realised a significant body of work during their partnership. Considered one of the most important international architectural practices of the twentieth century, Stirling and Wilford made an exceptional contribution to contemporary architecture. Young, radical and ...
Ahrends, Burton and Koralek (ABK) was established in London in 1961 by three young AA graduates, Peter Ahrends, Richard Burton and Paul Koralek. By the 1970s, ABK was known as one of the most creative and versatile of Britain's younger practices, its workload ranging from college buildings in Oxford ...
In 1833, the Select Committee for Public Walks was introduced so that `the provision of parks would lead to a better use of Sundays and the replacement of the debasing pleasures.' Music was seen as an important moral influence and `musical cultivation ... the safest and surest method of popular culture', and ...
Design in Italy has always reflected the national identity of the Italians themselves: sexy, stylish, and innovative, and with more than a touch of audacity. No other country takes design so seriously, nor treats its leading practitioners with such reverence. This is an overview of the past two centuries in Italian design and manufacturing.
Business cards have changed. Once they were designed almost as an afterthought, and made to match the letterhead and envelope.
The new business card is a business tool, but only if it stands out. The business card that is given to someone must impact. It must connect the card with the person, and ...
Sustainability has emerged as a central issue for contemporary societies and for the world community as a whole. Furthermore, many of the social and environmental concerns that are embodied in the term 'sustainability' are directly or indirectly related to design. Designers help to define our human made ...
Designers are used to working for clients, but there is nothing better than when the client is oneself. Graphic and product designers, who are skilled with the tools and masters aesthetics, are now in the forefront of this growing entrepreneur movement. Whether personal or collective, drive is the common ...
Add color and depth to these 31 original symmetrical patterns, each an unusual combination of swirling forms. Then put on the enclosed 3-D glasses and watch them spring to life. Previously published as Abstracts Coloring Book.
DED Associates are from Sheffield in the English Midlands. The extremely depressing industrial surroundings seem to have fueled an extremely contrasting, colorful and funky school of graphic designers. Travel Sickness features both their recent works for music companies as well as shows 50% of freshly ...
Explores and assesses the phenomenon of the contemporary metropolis. Touching on the historical context of humanity's earliest settlements in ancient world, this work looks ahead to creative, forward-thinking and possibly fanciful notions of the city, such as biospheres, space stations and virtual realities.
