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Home > Books 5 items Cars by Stephen Bayley The story of the car is the story of how the objects of industry became a medium of artistic expression. This book tells that story in a series of case studies which reveal national characteristics: American flair, German technical supremacy, French chic, gorgeous Italian sculpture, English antiquarianism, and Japanese ingenuity. This lavish and beautifully designed book is the gift book for all car enthusiasts and design aficionados. Terence Conran's Inspiration With his home as the starting point, the author explains what he sees, what he has seen, and what we should look for in good design. This is a part visual biography, part guided tour of just what has inspired Sir Terence Conran throughout his varied career. Design: Intelligence Made Visible - Terence Conran & Stephen Bayley Design is all around us, it is impossible to avoid. Everything that surrounds us has been designed - from the paperclip and the iPod, to our homes and the way we live. Design: Intelligence Made Visible is epic, opinionated, comprehensive in scope and forms the definitive statement on design for this century. Written by Stephen Bayley, one of the world's best known commentators on modern culture and Terence Conran, one of the world's leading designers and arbiters of taste, this book pays tribute to the leading names, movements, materials and processes and design of furniture, fashion, cars, graphics, products, signs and symbols. The Interior World of Tom Dixon This book describes a personal approach from Tom Dixon, who through 20 years of practising, has defined his own rules for categorising and describing different aspects of design. Divided into six chapters, the book delves into materials, processes and styles throughout history to the present, and gives an impression of what the future may look like. This is both a personal vision and a valuable resource of ideas. Banksy : Collection 1 Book A collection of 30 pieces of his famous works. His stencils feature striking and humourous images usually with an anti-war, anti-capitalist or anti-establishment message. Its a book of art, but cleverly, each page is also a postcard! After reading about him and admiring the clever work, you can tear along the perforations and you have fully functioning postcards! Have fun deciding which postcard to send to whom! And as a trendsetter, be the first to jump onto the new trend -- Revival of the humble Postcard! Everybody loves to receive a letter but nobody has the time to write and send them anymore. Lets bring back the small joys of receiving by writing 'mini letters' on the back of a postcard and sending to friends and family! VIVA LA POSTCARD! Set of 30 postcards, each with a different design 5 items |
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