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The Local Project Book 10
The Local Project · 2024
Showcasing the very best of architecture and design from Australia and New Zealand, The Local Project: 10 is a stunning collection of homes from some of the most renown architects practicing today. <br> <br> <br> <br> Featuring 23 homes from across Australia and New Zealand, the homes selected represent a curated selection of architecture and design, featuring new work from both leading and emerging local architects and designers. Compiling the highlights from the first 10 issues of The Local Project magazine in a single book of 500+ pages, this beautiful collection offers a concentrated insight into the very best architecture and design of Australia and New Zealand.<br> <br> <br> <br> Projects include Waterview by John Wardle Architects, Cabbage Tree House by Peter Stutchbury Architecture, Redwood by Chenchow Little, Waiheke House by Cheshire Architects, La Scala by Richards & Spence, Bunkeren by James Stockwell Architect and many more.<br> <br> <br> <br> A must-buy for any design enthusiast, The Local Project: 10 is the perfect self purchase or gift buy.
Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958-1987
Richard B. Woodward · 2017
<p>Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself. <b>Created in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation</b>, this book features hundreds of these instant photos.<br> <br> Portraits of celebrities such as <b>Mick Jagger</b>, <b>Alfred Hitchcock</b>, <b>Jack Nicholson</b>, <b>Yves Saint Laurent</b>, <b>Pelé</b>, <b>Debbie Harry</b> are included alongside images of Warhol's entourage and high life, landscapes, and still lifes from Cabbage Patch dolls to the iconic soup cans. Often raw and impromptu, the Polaroids document Warhol's era like Instagram captures our own, offering a unique record of the life, world, and vision behind the Pop Art maestro and modernist giant.<br> <br> © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.</p>
Stone
William Hall · 2019
<p><b><i>Stone</i> is a fascinating, fresh and insightful global tour of the world's oldest and most beautiful building material</b></p><p>Featuring more than 170 structures, from prehistory through to today, the book includes an incredible range of buildings: awe-inspiring Neolithic monuments and the epic Pyramids of Giza feature alongside the work of twentieth-century icons, from Mies van der Rohe's seminal Barcelona Pavilion to Marcel Breuer's daring Met building in New York.</p><p>There are also projects by the world's best contemporary architects, from Snøhetta's angular Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo to Kengo Kuma's sculptural Chokkura Plaza in Japan and David Chipperfield's geometric Museo Jumex in Mexico City.</p><p>Arranged to promote comparison and discussion, each project includes an extended caption providing a perceptive commentary on the building.</p> <p>An elegant and informative visual exploration, Stone demonstrates the remarkable variety of creative and innovative structures the material has inspired around the world.</p>
Surfer Magazine 1960-2020
Grant Ellis · 2022
<b>Over its six decades in print (1960-2020) the legendary <i>Surfer</i> magazine was considered to be the bible of surfing and surf culture. This carefully curated anthology, showcasing the best covers and interior pages serves as a quintessential reference guide to the history of surfing, surf style and design.</b><br><br>Founded in 1960 by surfer, artist, and filmmaker John Severson, <i>Surfer</i> was the longest continuously published surf magazine, referred to as “the bible of the sport.” <i>Surfer</i> was firmly established as the sport’s leading voice, serving as a template for a small but growing number of surf magazines around the world. Featuring a mix of travel articles, contest reporting, surf spot profiles, big wave pictorials, and surfer interviews, <i>Surfer </i>worked with the world’s best photographers, writers, and graphic designers. This voluminous anthology features the most time-less, inspirational, and historically significant covers and interior pages from the magazine’s extensive archive and depicts the chronological progression of the sport, the gear, the style, and the world’s top surfers throughout the decades, from Mickey Dora to Kelly Slater and Laird Hamilton. <br> <br> This is the perfect book for those who surf or spend time in the ocean and for anyone interested in a historical reference guide to modern day surfing and its highly influential style and subculture.<br>
This Brutal World
Peter Chadwick · 2016
<p>A curated collection of some of the most powerful and awe-inspiring Brutalist architecture ever built</p><p>This Brutal World is a global survey of this compelling and much-admired style of architecture. It brings to light virtually unknown Brutalist architectural treasures from across the former eastern bloc and other far flung parts of the world.</p><p>It includes works by some of the best contemporary architects including Zaha Hadid and David Chipperfield as well as by some of the master architects of the 20th century including Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph and Marcel Breuer.</p>
Madrid
Miriam Querol · 2020
Con más de 150 espectaculares imágenes, este libro muestra un retrato gráfico excepcional de la ciudad de Madrid desde principios del siglo XIX hasta nuestros días, de la mano de los grandes nombres de la fotografía, a los que se suma un documentado ensayo a modo de prólogo del escritor Antonio Muñoz Molina. En sus palabras, "La belleza, en una ciudad como Madrid, está en lo que sucede en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, en la inflexión de una mirada o un gesto, en una armonía compositiva que solo ha llegado a existir porque la capta un fotógrafo, pero que de otro modo desaparecería sin huella. En Madrid casi no hay más paisaje que el paisaje humano, que es el territorio privilegiado de la fotografía".En las páginas de este libro se muestran las geniales fotografías de Alfonso, quizá el mayor cronista gráfico del Madrid de inicios del siglo XX; las imágenes prebélicas y de guerra de Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa y Gerda Taro; el retrato de la posguerra de William Klein, Francesc Català-Roca, Ramón Masats, Inge Morath o Cas Oorthyus; la incipiente sociedad del desarrollo que inmortalizaron fotógrafos de aquí y de fuera como Gianni Ferrari, Ferdinando Scianna o Joana Biarnés; las míticas imágenes de la Movida madrileña de Alberto García-Alix, Miguel Trillo, Ouka Leele o Pablo Pérez Mínguez; y el ambiente cultural, social y económico del siglo XXI desde la mirada de Cristina García Rodero, Alex Webb o Thomas Struth.
Ice Cold A Hip-hop Jewelry History
Vikki Tobak · 2022
<p>Whether it's diamond-encrusted grills, oversized "truck" style chains, bust-down Rolex and Patek Philippe watches or a Tiffany necklace, jewelry is a cornerstone of hip-hop culture. Glittering, blinged-out jewels are the shining statement of <b>a collective identity: unapologetic, charismatic, and street savvy</b>.<br> <br> <b>Spanning the history of hip-hop jewelry, from the 1980s to today</b>, Ice Cold: A Hip-Hop Jewelry History is a stunning compilation of storytelling and visuals. Hundreds of extraordinary images of every major hip-hop artist on record celebrate how "Ice" has become a proclamation of identity and self-expression.<br> <br> Starting with <b>Run-DMC's gold Adidas pendants</b> and Eric B. & Rakim's ostentatious dookie rope chains and Mercedes medallions, the jewelry then transforms from street style into a booming design culture. The hip-hop tradition of "show up and show out" reaches new heights with artists like <b>Pharrell Williams</b>, <b>Jay-Z</b>, <b>Gucci Mane,</b> and <b>Cardi B</b>, whose over-the-top pieces integrate unique pop culture references, unconventional materials, and enduring collaborations with artists like Takashi Murakami.<br> <br> Author Vikki Tobak reveals - in great detail - the work of pioneering jewelers such as Tito Caicedo of Manny's, Eddie Plein, and Jacob the Jeweler as well as newer artisans such as Avianne & Co., Ben Baller/IF & Co., Greg Yuna, Johnny Dang, Eliantte, and many more.<br> <br> Ice Cold is a treasure trove of dazzling, inspirational style, featuring the work of leading photographers, including Wolfgang Tillmans, Janette Beckman, Jamel Shabazz, Timothy White, Gillian Laub, David LaChapelle, Danny Clinch, Chris Buck, Mike Miller, Phil Knott, Raven B. Varona, Al Pereira, Albert Watson and many more.<br> <br> A foreword by hip-hop superstar <b>Slick Rick</b> and essays by <b>A$AP Ferg</b>, <b>LL COOL J,</b> <b>Kevin "Coach K' Lee</b> and <b>Pierre "P" Thomas</b> of Quality Control Music take us on personal journeys into their jewelry universe.<br> <br> Ice Cold goes beyond the ostentatious bling to reveal <b>a transformative story that is loud and proud.</b></p>
NASA Graphics Standards Manual
Jesse Reed, Hamish Smyth · 2015
<p>The <i>NASA Graphics Standards Manual</i> by Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn is a futuristic vision for an agency at the cutting edge of science and exploration.<br> <br> The book features a foreword by Richard Danne, an essay by Christopher Bonanos, scans of the original manual (from Danne's personal copy), reproductions of the original NASA 35mm slide presentation, and scans of the 'Managers Guide', a follow up booklet distributed by NASA.<br> <br> <b>Specifications</b><br> CMYK + 5 Pantone® spot colors<br> Stochastic screen<br> 100 gsm Yupo Original and Perigord Matte 135 gsm papers<br> Case-bound with two-color silkscreen and soft touch lamination<br> Individually packaged in static shielding pouch</p>
Apollo VII - XVII
Floris Heyne, Joel Meter, Simon Phillipson, Delano Steenmeijer · 2018
<ul> <li><b>"If you're into space exploration, this stunning book is pretty much a must-have. It contains pretty much every legacy Apollo snap in one go, alongside some lesser-known pics that are just as spellbinding." -- Amy Glover, BuzzFeed.</b></li> </ul> <p>July 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing -- a milestone in the history of humankind. Today, the adventure, courage, and ground-breaking accomplishment behind the NASA Apollo missions remains as compelling as ever.</p> <p>This thrilling photo book features previously-unpublished photographs from the NASA archives, now meticulously digitized, captured by the Apollo astronauts during their missions. From some 27.000 NASA images, the book's authors have curated 225 of the most remarkable Apollo mission pictures, creating a uniquely vivid document of one of the most seminal events of the 20th century. Accompanying these extraordinary Apollo photographs are little-known insider facts and fascinating insights into the Apollo missions, including a detailed Foreword from NASA astronaut, Walter Cunningham.</p> <p>Not only a must-have book for fans of air and space travel, <b>Apollo VII - XVII</b> is a hit for anyone interested in photography, pop culture, and modern history.</p> <p>Authors <b>Floris Heyne, Joel Meter, Simon Phillipson,</b> and <b>Delano Steenmeijer</b> scoured the vast NASA photo archives to select the most outstanding photos of the Apollo missions. Walter Cunningham is a former Apollo astronaut, serving as Lunar Module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission, the first manned flight of the Apollo program that launched into orbit on the Saturn 1-B rocket.<br></p>
The NASA Archives. 45th Ed
Piers Bizony, Andrew Chaikin · 2023
<p>On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known as NASA, had evolved from modest research teams experimenting with small converted rockets into <b>one of the greatest technological and managerial enterprises ever known</b>, capable of sending people to the Moon aboard gigantic rockets and of dispatching robot explorers to Venus, Mars, and worlds far beyond. In spite of occasional, tragic setbacks in NASA's history, the Apollo lunar landing project remains <b>a byword for American ingenuity</b>; the winged space shuttles spearheaded the International Space Station and a dazzling array of astronomical satellites and robotic landers, and Earth observation programs have <b>transformed our understanding of the cosmos and our home world's fragile place within it</b>.<br> <br> Throughout NASA's 60-year history, images have played a central role. Who today is not familiar with the <b>Hubble Space Telescope</b>'s mesmerizing views of the universe or the pin-sharp panoramas of Mars from NASA's surface rovers? And who could forget the photographs of the first men walking on the Moon?<br> <br> This compact edition is derived from our XL edition, which was researched <b>in collaboration with NASA,</b> and gathers <b>hundreds of historic photographs</b> and <b>rare concept renderings</b>, scanned and remastered using the latest technology. Texts by science and technology journalist <b>Piers Bizony</b>, former NASA chief historian <b>Roger Launius</b>, and best-selling Apollo historian <b>Andrew Chaikin</b> round out this <b>comprehensive exploration of NASA</b>, from its earliest days to its <b>current development of new space systems for the future</b>.<br> <br> The NASA Archives is more than just a fascinating pictorial history of the U.S. space program. It is also <b>a profound meditation on why we choose to explore space and how we will carry on this grandest of all adventures in the years to come</b>.</p>
