Covering a vast range of cutting-edge graphic design, with politically charged anti-commercial work placed side by side with Nike’s latest ads, this book presents a sweeping look at today’s most progressive graphic trends-from signage and packaging to branding and web-design.

The Best of Business Card Design series features an innovative collection of the most current and best work by top designers worldwide. Business card design is a very important and common area for the graphic design business, so it is little wonder that each installment in the series is recognized as a high quality resource that is eagerly anticipated by designers.

This is the one! The Brushstroke Handbook is your complete reference for mastering more than 50 fabulous strokes. Inside you'll find visual, step-by-step instruction divided into two sections that detail techniques for working with both round and flat brushes in acrylics. The lay-flat spiral binding makes it easy to quickly flip through and find the stroke you want, featuring a range of comma strokes, pressure strokes, fan strokes, teardrop strokes, scroll strokes and much more

A leading Japanese architect whose projects range from formal beginnings through Shondndai cultural centre and beyond to the sophistication of recent work which is an orchestra of practicality and elegance.

The explosive growth of multimedia data transmission has generated a critical need for efficient, high-capacity image databases, as well as powerful search engines to retrieve image data from them. This book brings together contributions by an international all-star team of innovators in the field who share their insights into all key aspects of image database and search engine construction. Readers get in-depth discussions of the entire range of crucial image database architecture, indexing and retrieval, transmission, display, and user interface issues. And, using examples from an array of disciplines, the authors present cutting-edge applications in medical imagery, multimedia communications, earth science, remote sensing, and other major application areas.

Fast jeder kennt die Theorien über die Hirnhälften; die Linke ist zuständig für Logik, die Rechte für Bilder und Gesamtheit und dieses Buch hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die "Übermacht" der Linken zu entkräften und die Fähigkeiten der Rechten zu wecken. Es enthält einige interessante Gedankenspiele, um den Konflikt zwischen diesen beiden aufzuzeigen, die einen gewissen Aha-Effenkt haben. Doch nun beginnt das Problem

Eloise Piper teaches fabric, modeling paste, and polymer clay doll-making with patterns included in her book. Eloise has put the book together from beginner to advanced with a lot of thought for the inexperienced doll-maker.
...fancy dolls, wig creating, sculpting facial features, decorating and dressing the doll. She even includes patterns for their tiny clothing! She gives embellishment ideas as well. Furthermore, Eloise has a very delightful style of writing that brings her dolls to life!

The ultimate fanbook for the online RPG- Lineage II. Includes many previously unpublished illustrations, as well as the storyline overview, character/monster art and equipment: tons of beautiful illustrations!