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The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois offered a view into the lives of black Americans, conveying a literal and figurative representation of "the color line." From advances in education to the lingerin ...Show more
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How W.E.B. Du Bois combined photographs and infographics to communicate the everyday realities of Black lives and the inequities of race in AmericaAt the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologist and activist W.E.B. Du Bois presented an exhibit representing the progress of African Americans since ...Show more
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Equal parts design inspiration and travelogue, this book highlights the rapidly growing adaptive reuse movement Cool Is Everywhere is a photographic survey of the adaptive reuse design movement in America's coolest cities. Michel Arnaud has been studying the spread of urban life into smaller towns for y ...Show more
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Everything is a Project This new issue of Inventario continues the magazine's journey through the culture of the project, moving freely from architecture to art to design. Vol. 11 is dedicated to a collection of mechanical fans that - based on an idea from Bruno Munari - are 'making air visib ...Show more
Category: Design | Series: About the Workshop Series
ABOUT WORKSHOP The books in the new "workshop" series describe different methods of learning, from educational activities to explanatory pamphlets to poetic play. The illuminating, gentle genius of Bruno Munari offers basic instructions and plenty of stimuli, suggestions, and illustrative pictures to ge ...Show more
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È possibile percepire, riconoscere ed apprezzare la bellezza anche tramite il tatto? Se lo sguardo non c'è più, o non c'è mai stato, cosa succede? La fruizione della bellezza è persa per sempre o possiamo ritrovarla in un altro modo? Il volume esplora tutta la ricchezz ...Show more
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A behind-the-scenes look at the extraordinary and meticulous design of graphic objects for film sets Although graphic props such as invitations, letters, tickets, and packaging are rarely seen close-up by a cinema audience, they are designed in painstaking detail. Dublin-based designer Annie Atkins invi ...Show more
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First published in Italy in 1956, Bruno Munari's In the Darkness of the Night tells the tale of an interconnected, intimate yet expansive journey across three settings--in the darkness, through a meadow, and into a mysterious cave--through a spellbinding combination of paper stocks, transparencies, cuto ...Show more
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In Drawing the Sun, Bruno Munari suggests: "When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ballpoint pens--you can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking a ...Show more
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A visual delight, and a designer's dream-the decorative details of great European paintings transformed into beautiful two-dimensional patterns Richly embroidered robes. Intricate lace collars. Elaborately laid floor tiles. Delicately carved and modeled cornices and capitals. These are among the detail ...Show more
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How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari i ...Show more
Category: Design | Series: Artistry
In The Art of Map Illustration, five well-known artists take you on a journey through their unique techniques to map making with a range of media, including pen and ink, watercolour, and mixed media, plus tips and advice for working digitally.Each artist provides a brief overview of their recommended to ...Show more
