May 11,2008
外文書展推介:FASHION DESIGNERS AT HOME
副標題:The Private Spaces of 21 Makers of Style作者:MARIE BARILLER
出版社:THAMES & HUDSON LTD
ISBN:9780500513965
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Is dressing a home the same as dressing a body? Fashion Designers At Home attempts to answer that question, looking inside the homes of more than twenty of today's hottest fashion designers and revealing them to be incredibly talented interior designers as well.
Author Marie Bariller precedes each interview with a brief biographical note summarizing the designer's career and signature style on the runway. Through Guillaume de Laubier's photographs and the designers' own words, the tone and decor of each home is revealed, providing a unique look into its owner's personality and aesthetic approach.
Perfect for both the fashion and interior design enthusiast, Fashion Designers At Home shows that the talents behind the world's most fashion-forward clothing and accessories - artists who place so much importance upon the choice of a cut, the nuances of a colour, and the feel of a certain material - have also created some of the world's most lavish and intriguing interiors.
外文書展推介: A YEAR IN ART: A TREASURE A DAY
作者:Elizabeth Armstrong出版社:PRESTEL
ISBN:9783791338781
出版日期:2007年10月
定價:655 書展期間會員價:557
1950s West Coast style exuded cool from the smooth, hypnotic strains of a Miles Davis riff Richard Neutra's elegant, modernist residences the hard-edged paintings of Helen Lundeberg and Karl Benjamin. This richly illustrated volume casts a fresh eye on Fifties West Coast style with illuminating commentary from a variety of perspectives. Designed to echo the period it celebrates, this catalogue explores modernist innovations in art, architecture, design, film and music. Prominent cultural critics write on an array of topics - Thomas Hine about the culture of cool Elizabeth Smith on domestic aspects of the period's architecture Francis Colpitt on hard-edged abstract painting Dave Hickey on jazz Bruce Jenkins on the crossover between animation and experimental film. The result is a multi-faceted exploration of the 1950s West Coast zeitgeist in all its colour, creativity, and cool.
外文書展推介: COSTUME WORLDWIDE
作者:Melissa Leventon出版社:Thames & Hudson Ltd
ISBN:9780500287019
出版日期:2007年8月
定價:352 書展期間會員價:300 "Costume Worldwide" combines the studies of two classic 19th-century illustrators, Auguste Racinet and Friedrich Hottenroth, alongside an illuminating modern text. Their works are presented first by chronology and then by subject, so that illustrators, historians and students alike can choose to follow the path of fashion through the centuries, or study in detail the contrasting styles of individual clothing and accessories. With an authoritative narrative from a leading expert in the history of costume, extraordinary contemporary quotes that reveal the impact in its day, detailed annotation and an extensive glossary, the book provides a magnificent study of the rich vocabulary of clothes through the ages.
外文書展推介: FACE OF FASHION
主編:Bright, Susan
出版社:Aperture
ISBN:9781597110396
出版日期:2007年3月
定價:545 書展期間會員價:463
Grunge, SM, gender-bending, and general decadence are the themes of the fashion photos lovingly displayed in full-page color plates in this oversized volume (10x12"). Among the photographers whose work is presented are Mert Alas, Marcus Piggott, Corinne Day, Steven Klein, and Paolo Roversi. The volume was published to accompany an exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the U.K. in 2007. Distributed by Distributed Art Publishers. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
April 25,2008
外文書展推介:AGI :GRAPHIC DESIGN SINCE 1950

編者:Ben Bos/Elly Bos
Hardcover: 800 pages
出版社r: Thames & Hudson (October 29, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0500513422
ISBN-13: 978-0500513422
Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.6 x 2.4 inches
售價﹕633 書展期間會員價:538
This incomparable Who’s Who in the world of graphic design will be an essential addition to all designers’ libraries.
The Alliance Graphique Internationale – the AGI – is an élite club. Since its inception in 1951, its members have been collectively responsible for the identity design of most of the world’s top corporations and institutions as well as for countless examples of globally known packaging, publications, illustration and posters.
This lavishly illustrated reference presents biographies of almost every AGI member to date, including such luminaries as Alan Fletcher, Josef Müller-Brockman, Adrian Frutiger, Milton Glaser, Stefan Sagmeister, Cassandre, Dick Bruna, Bruno Munari and Irma Boom, accompanied by reproductions of their best – and often iconic – work.
Also included are over thirty essays by some of the most prominent AGI members who consider the history of recent graphic design and its present developments, and also present a thorough history of the AGI itself: its worldwide meetings, congresses, seminars, exhibitions and publications.
外文書展推介:SIGNAGE SYSTEMS AND INFORMATION GRAPHICS

ISBN-13 978-0500513798
28.5 x 24.0 cm
PLC with Jacket
336pp
With over 500 illustrations in colour and black and white
First published 2007
出版社:Thames & Hudson
售價﹕616 書展期間會員價: 524
A signage system is much more than just a set of signposts and symbols … good signage design creates an identity and adds flair to any environment.
媒體推薦 (2008年3月好讀推薦):曾因路標設計不良而吃虧的讀者都會同意,號誌設計乃是一門大學問。圖像表達的訊息是否清楚?如何避免混淆或是困惑?這些問題的背後涉及圖像學、色彩學、心理學等學科。透過本書,可以看到世界各地如何設計從學校到交通號誌等圖像,設計者、交通專家、建築師、室內設計師若能受此書啟發,將是所有使用者之福。
一個國家的機場是否登上國際舞台,或許硬體設施相當重要,不過當中指引的標誌與設計更是讓甫到這個國家的外國人感受到這個國家透過機場的標誌的相關創意。其實不管是機場,大馬路上的斑馬線與紅綠燈,甚至交通號誌,都可以透過設計大玩創意。《Signage Systems and Information Graphics》蒐集了相當多國家的交通指示標誌與符號設計,這些標誌設計來自不同國家的有趣創意,有我們常見的斑馬線,以跳格子的方式呈現,或是我們機場的指示,以幽默的方式設計,當然實用與清楚指示是前提之一,有些更可以融合周邊的環境。不過可別小看這一方標誌,當一個國家對於隨處可見的標誌與指示,都能夠以幽默或是充滿設計感的設計來表現的話,可以預見的將來,這些由小累積的設計美學可以讓我們居住的都市可以每天漂亮一點。
外文書展推介:THE WAY WE LIVE WITH COLOR
作者﹕Stafford Cliff
Photographs by Gilles de Chabaneix
ISBN-13 978-0500513927
23.5 x 22.0 cm
PLC with Jacket
256pp
With over 400 colour illustrations
出版社:Thames & Hudson
First published 2008
售價﹕325 書展期間會員價:276
Colour directly affects our mood and wellbeing
This visually thrilling book showcases the telling use of colour, not only in interior design but also in natural and urban environments in a host of places and cultures.


In monochromes, white, black and neutral shades of grey are used for their own qualities or as backgrounds for splashes of colour. In the blues, colours are used to create a particular ‘feel’, and, combined with white, express a whole culture – that of the Mediterranean. Reds and pinks appear as the colours of luxury and fine living. Yellows and greens bring light into the interior. The feast is completed by a section on colours derived from natural materials.
Stafford Cliff was formerly Creative Director of the Conran Design Group in London. He is the author of many books, including The English Archive of Design and Decoration and The French Archive of Design and Decoration, both published by Thames & Hudson. The late Gilles de Chabaneix was one of France’s most prominent photographers of design and lifestyle, and his work appeared in all the leading style magazines, including Elle Décoration and Marie Claire. He was also the principal photographer of Thames & Hudson's Style books series.
外文書展推介:WAR POSTERS

作者﹕James Aulich
31.6 x 24.0 cm
PLC (no jacket)
256pp
329 illustrations, 303 in colour
出版社: Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13 978-0500251416
售價﹕$325 書展期間會員價: $276
The most eye-catching and iconic examples from the internationally renowned poster collection at the Imperial War Museum in London.
More than 300 superb full-colour illustrations of hard-hitting propaganda and groundbreaking graphic art encompass unforgettable images such as Alfred Leete’s “Your Country Needs You” as well as documentary photographs of posters in situ and additional material from the world of advertising.
Covering topics as diverse as advertising in World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, Germany and Occupied Europe in World War II, anti-nuclear campaigns and Vietnam, the book is comprehensive, accessible and an invaluable resource for anyone interested in history or graphic design.
James Aulich is a Reader in Visual Culture at the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design (MIRIAD) and organized the large international collaborative project entitled Posters in Eastern and Central Europe (PEACE). He has written several books on the history of posters and war in Europe and Vietnam.
外文書展推介:THE ARCHITECTURE OF PARKING
作者﹕Simon Henley
21.5 x 19.7 cm
PLC with Jacket
256pp568 illustrations, 227 in colourFirst published 2007
出版社: Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13 978-0500342374
售價﹕435 書展期間會員價: 370
‘A hymn to the true temples of the automobile age’ – J. G. Ballard in 'The Guardian
Housing the maximum number of cars in a well-designed space is one of the most challenging aspects of twentieth-century architecture, which has attracted a stellar array of architects.
From Louis Kahn to Rem Koolhaas, from Paul Rudolph to Zaha Hadid to Kengo Kuma, architects have used the parking garage as a scene of experimentation for innovating new ideas about materiality, form, structure and use that ultimately inform their buildings.
This is the first major international survey of parking garages ever published. Multi-levelled like a car park itself, the book presents visual essays, project spreads and case studies that feature ground-breaking historical and recent structures in photographs and drawings.
From the iconic Marina City towers in Chicago to the latest robotic technology at the Volkswagen Autotürme in Germany, the author shows how the form and function of the parking garage has been hugely influential not only on generations of architects but on popular culture, capturing the imagination of novelists, photographers and film-makers.
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April 24,2008
外文書展推介: FRESH MOVES﹕ NEW MOVING IMAGES FROM THE UK

作者﹕Laure Prouvost, Birgit Ludwig
頁數: 300 pages
出版社: Tank Publications Ltd (20 Aug 2007)
ISBN-13: 978-0955518102
售價﹕352
書展期間會員價:$300
Showcasing new film and video art and moving image work since 2003, tank.tv presents its first DVD anthology. This collection contains 24 pieces of mixed media work by 24 UK based artists, each under three minutes long, and reflects the creativity, innovation and wide variety of subject matter for which tank.tv has become known and respected. It also includes five new, specially commissioned conversation interviews between feted
curators and artists.