José Guadalupe Posada Y la Hoja Volante Mexicana

With 400 pages, this reference work, published for the first time in this form, offers a comprehensive and informative look at the development of European, American and Japanense car design from 1947 to 2004. Past, present and future design trends are shown with examples of original photos from 370 series of vehicles and concept cars. A biographical overview of leading, international car designers is included. Book jacket.

La metáfora de la piel propone un viaje sensorial a través de las formas. En este, su segundo —muy esperado— libro, Andrea Saltzman desplaza la mirada hacia el borde: la piel entendida como metáfora, como órgano conector entre sujeto y mundo. En lugar de centrarse en el producto vestido, escindido del acontecer, el diseño pasa a enfocarse en las interacciones y referir a un espacio creativo entre el ser y su entorno. La piel como metáfora de materialidad alude a una multiplicidad de estrategias de adaptación e intercambio entre un cuerpo vivo y un contexto siempre cambiante. Y...

SPECIAL KINDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY. Fifty contemporary, cutting-edge photo-graphers open our eyes to the magical artificiality embraced by fashion photography today: chronicling the very processes of fashion, fashion photography is like fashion itself - it celebrates the immediate, the frivolous and the ephemeral. The striking images in this book playfully flirt with superficiality as readily as they take on the more established aesthetic conventions of art photography. Ingrained with paradox and contradiction fashion photography mirrors the moods and desired of the moment. And more:...

This lavishly illustrated volume examines, in over 400 pages, the best that flying has to offer, from grand airports to elegant stewardesses to the luxury of first-class cabins and private jets. With a historical over view from the development of the "flying boats" of the 1930s, to the opulence of a personal Learjet and the shear size of the Airbus A380 of the future. This stylish and informative book will interest those for whom flying is more than travel, but a passion and experience to be savoured in all of its elegance. Book jacket.