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These easily portable, beautifully designed and lavishly produced books offer up the usual enticing selection of destinations, whether you are after a funky boutique hotel in a vibrant, up-and-coming area or a quietly luxurious stay in a well-heeled arrondissement. Whatever your taste, whatever your..

This lavishly illustrated book chronicles the remarkable history of anatomical illustration from the Renaissance to the digital 'Visible Human' project today. Its survey of five and a half centuries of meticulous visual description by anatomists and artists will be a welcome addition to the librarie..

Architects have always dreamed of shaping the future, of building Utopian worlds filled with seemingly impossible structures that break with the past to propel mankind far into the 21st century and beyond. This book reviews forty such visionary projects, encompassing the whole spectrum of the built ..

New territories of design and architecture in our cities.For millennia, architects and builders have attempted to rationalize cities into well-functioning and liveable places. While many aspects of a city evolve naturally, other facets result from human interventions and radical imagination. Fut..

This inspirational interiors book, the first in the series "New Country Style", redefines English country style for a growing international, design-savvy audience. A creative new generation of city-dwellers is seeking the country life, whether in the rolling hills of the Cotswolds, the Devon moorlan..

Mnemonics are defined quite simply as the art of assisting memory. They play an essential role in successful graphics, and "Sticky Graphics" provides an in-depth exploration of this unusual but fascinating area. Through incisive case studies and interviews, "Sticky Graphics" presents methods and sol..

For a Westerner, adapting one's name to fit the language of a foreign Western country is usually easy. Michel from Paris becomes Michael in London. Frances from Pittsburgh becomes Francesca in Venice. Adapting an English-language name into Japanese, however, presents a formidable set of challenges...

Lofts are no longer the sole domains of urbanites. They are becoming increasingly popular, but they pose their own set of challenges. In this hands-on book, loft expert and host of HGTV's Lofty Ideas Katherine Stone shares her style, wisdom, and trade secrets so that you can create a beautiful, liva..

Following on from "Packaging Prototypes 1", this title features a broad range of innovative and commercially successful pack closures. The way in which the product is opened or closed is one of the most important features of any packaging design and one which will often determine the success or fail..

The newest installment in Rockport's Architecture in Detail series, Colors looks at how colour plays a role in even the most upscale architectural designs. The series itself examines the role of details in contemporary architecture through the work of many emerging and established practitioners whos..

Certain visual images scream their message to us loud and clear: a stop sign, a skull and cross-bones, a handicapped parking sticker. The ability to take ideas and information and allow visuals that allow us to "read" them is perhaps the most basic and difficult skill of the graphic designer. This t..

Logos are among designers' most highly sought-after projects, but they are often one of the most difficult projects for a designer to nail. This book takes a look at those challenges - the logos that have truly pushed a designer's creativity and forced him or her to reach inside. The authors examine..