Joaca tare!

Play Loud!
Language: English
edited by R. Klanten, M. Vasquez, H. Hellige, S. Ehmann

“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that”. Bill Shankly, Liverpool Football Club Manager.

Football (or Soccer as it is called in the US) is unquestionably THE most popular and celebrated sport worldwide. Children start kicking the ball around the streets and playgrounds at a young age, most of them dreaming of becoming charismatic football stars. Every four years, the globe goes football crazy over the most exclusive of competitions, the World Championships…

Serialize
Family Faces and Variety in Graphic Design
Language: English
edited by R. Klanten, M. Mischler, B. Brumnjak

Creating a range of designs with a recognizable and continual element is a standard requirement well observed by many designers. Serial design can be seen everywhere from magazine covers to posters, letterheads, brochures and CDs to advertising. They need to be recognizable but yet have a fresh appeal every time - this book examines how designers approach the topic and looks at the applications and solutions they use to create a series of designs.

Creating a family face is crucial in order to leave a lasting impression. This is done by enforcing familiarity and producing a general…


Dot Dot Dash!
Designer Toys, Action Figures and Character Art
Language: English
edited by R. Klanten, M. Huebner

Dot Dot Dash! is brought to you by the editors of Pictoplasma and Pictoplasma 2. Expanding on the widely popular subject of contemporary character design, this definitive volume showcases an up-to-date survey of the personalities and characters that have entered the third dimension.

Vinyl figures, plush dolls, designer toys and action figures can be seen as a new movement in contemporary design, art and popular culture. Interest for these three dimensional toys have surged, drawing on pop culture, graffiti and visual art. The new generation characters appear cute, cuddly and innocuous at first but are often elicit, subversive and political...


Tres Logos
Language: bilingual German/English
edited by R. Klanten, N. Bourquin, T. Geiger

Logo design is one of the most crucial and challenging tasks in graphic design. Seemingly simple, The Logo becomes the indispensable face of companies and conveys the identity and philosophy of brands.

Los Logos and Dos Logos documented this unceasing evolution. Expanding on the previous editions, Tres Logos demonstrates how influences from illustration and street art have become increasingly evident in logo design inspiring ornamental patterns with logos replacing the abstract tag. Additionally, companies are becoming more daring and exploiting their logos to identify their brand…


Object that Dreams
Language: English
by Zoren Gold & Minori

The Tokyo-based photography art duo Zoren Gold and Minori Murakami of Zoren & Minori translate their love for photography and art into spellbinding imagery by exploring free forms of photographic expression.

Their shared interest in ‘pushing the boundaries of photography’ has led them to experiment with combining photography, illustration, collage, graphic design and hand made props resulting in a formula that delights the senses. Zoren & Minori’s strength not only lies in the masterful conception of fantasy worlds depicting sirens in high fashion photo shoots, but also in their creation of sensual, seductive and illusive…


Influences
A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design
Language: English
by Anja Lutz, Anna Gerber
edited by A. Lutz, A. Gerber, R. Klanten, H. Hellige

Influences looks at who and what is influencing, provoking, inspiring and informing graphic designers’ working methods and research processes today. Two hundred of the best established and up-and-coming graphic designers around the world were asked about their influences. Their responses reveal the hidden catalysts that motivate and propel designers. The entries show the range of preparatory work and intensive research that forms the backbone of any creative project.

From Charles and Ray Eames to John Cage, teaching to yawning, money to plumbing, Braun Amplifier to the Brannock Devise…


Available titles at Carturesti:
1001 Nights - Ilustrated Fairy Tales from One Thousand and One Nights
All Allure
Andersen - The illustrated fairy tales of hans Christian Andersen
BLK/MRKT ONE
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Dot Dot Dash !- Designer Toys, Action Figures and Character Art
Illusive - Contemporary Illustration and its Context
INFLUENCES- A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design
Into the nature of Creatures and Wilderness
Introducing: Designs for Making a First Impression
Liber Pictorum. Sketchbook
Life of Buddha
Lingua Grafica. English edition
Lingua Universalis - Global wordless understanding
Lord of Mess (incl. CD-Rom)
Los Logos
Neubau Welt. (incl CD-ROM)
Object That Dreams
ON AIR - The Visual Messages and Global Language of MTV
Pictoplasma 2 - Contemporany Character Design
Pictoplasma.
Play Loud!
POE - Illustrated Tales of Mystery and Imagination
REMASTERED- Fifty-Five Contemporany Artists Revisit Old Masters
Romantik
Serialize - Family Faces and Variety in Graphic Design
Stickers!...from the first international sticker awards
The Creation- picture from the book of Genesis
The Creation Sketchbook
Tres Logos
Type One (Engl. version)- discipline and progress in typography
The Golden Years of Advertising. DVD-ROM