Playful Graphics

Playful Graphics
Author: Wang Shaoqiang
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-01-27
Genre: Commercial art
ISBN: 9788417412203

'Playful Graphics' presents a selection of outstanding graphic design projects produced to interact by designers from all over the world.

The Unexpected Houseplant

The Unexpected Houseplant
Author: Tovah Martin
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2012-08-28
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 160469243X

It's time for plant lovers to dust off their houseplants, update their image, and discover just how exciting, trendy, and crucial plants can be in the home. The Unexpected Houseplant, by renowned plant authority Tovah Martin, isn't your typical, old-fashioned, dowdy houseplant book. Martin's approach is revolutionary—picture brilliant spring bulbs by the bed, lush perennials brought in from the garden, quirky succulents in the kitchen, even flowering vines and small trees growing beside an easy chair. Martin brings an evangelist's zeal to the task of convincing homeowners that indoor plants aren't just a luxury—they're a necessity. In addition to design flair, houseplants clean indoor air, which can be up to ten times more polluted. Along with loads of visual inspiration, readers will learn how to make unusual selections, where to best position plants in the home, and valuable tips on watering, feeding, grooming, pruning, and troubleshooting, season by season.

Unexpected Pleasures

Unexpected Pleasures
Author: Deyan Sudjic
Publisher: Skira
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Artist-designed jewelry
ISBN: 9780847838141

'Unexpected Pleasures' is an important exhibition catalogue on the latest in contemporary jewellery from around the world.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles: Art & Design

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles: Art & Design
Author: Weta
Publisher: Harper Design
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-12-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780062200907

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles: Art & Design is a sumptuous celebration of the creative vision of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The book is packed with more than 1,000 images of concept artwork, photographs and development paintings by the artists working behind the scenes to bring Middle-earth to life, who each provide detailed and entertaining commentary that reveals the story behind the vision. As a bonus feature unique to this book, there is a special fold-out map printed in glow-in-the-dark ink and a giant four-page fold-out of Bilbo's contract. Complied by Weta Workshop senior concept designer Daniel Falconer, this is the first in a series of lavish hardcover books written and designed by the award-winning team at Weta, who are working closely with the production team to guarantee that these books will be bursting with insider information and stunning visual imagery.

Unconventional & Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar 1950-2000

Unconventional & Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar 1950-2000
Author: Roderick Kiracofe
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781617691232

Presents 150 quilts from the author's collection which were made during the second half of the twentieth century by anonymous quilters in the United States, along with a series of essays on quilt making as an art form.

The Unexpected Everything

The Unexpected Everything
Author: Morgan Matson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481404547

When a scandal surrounding her father upsets all her carefully laid plans for her future, Andie must learn to accept a new relationship with her father and to embrace a little chaos in her life.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Chronicles: Art & Design

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Chronicles: Art & Design
Author: Weta
Publisher: Harper Design
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-12-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780062265715

A stunning look at the creative process behind The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies—the third and final installment of one of the world's biggest motion picture franchises from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson. Working closely with the film's production staff, the award-winning team at WETA brings together more than 240 pages of spectacular four-color visuals, including hundreds of images of concept artwork, photographs, development paintings, and more created by the artists and designers working behind the scenes. Movie photography and finished imagery accompany the sketches and drawings, showing how the artists' vision was realized from design to final product. Chock full of insider stories, details, and insights, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Chronicles: Art & Design also includes a special bonus feature—a three-page fold-out sure to delight fans and become a treasured collectible.

Unexpected Findings

Unexpected Findings
Author: Michelle Mach
Publisher: Interweave Press
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2014
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781620336007

Give new life to your jewellery designs by using common jewellery findings in surprising ways. Readers will enjoy this book as it takes a completely new approach to working with jewellery findings by focusing on nontraditional uses for them: bead frames become connectors; toggle clasps become pendants; filigree can be rolled to create tube beads or bails; and so much more. Author Michelle Mach offers a thorough overview of the many different jewellery findings available, essential tools, and other materials, such as beads, wire, and cords and ribbons. Tips for modifying purchased findings with patinas, beads, hammering, painting, and other jewellery making techniques are also provided. Fifty jewellery projects showcase one or more findings used in a new or unusual way. The designs include necklaces, bracelets, and earrings, some of which can be taken apart and reassembled to become different pieces of jewellery. Basic jewellery making techniques, such as stringing, simple wirework, and basic metalwork, are also covered along with a thorough list of resources.|Readers will enjoy this book as it takes a completely new approach to working with jewellery findings by focusing on nontraditional uses for them: bead frames become connectors; toggle clasps become pendants; filigree can be rolled to create tube beads or bails; and so much more.

Unexpected Blessings

Unexpected Blessings
Author: Sandra Peoples
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2018-11-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493415980

Unexpected Blessings helps special-needs families move past the pain and confusion of their circumstances and slowly, firmly face the future with hope. Speaking honestly about struggles that accompany a variety of disabilities, Sandra Peoples shows readers how to · let go of false beliefs that hold them back · work through the cycles of grief · focus on self-care and healthy routines · understand disability based on what the Bible says · rebuild a strong faith foundation · create support systems for themselves and others Filled with real-life stories and hard-earned wisdom, this book shines a light on the possibilities and blessings that come when parents see their new purpose in life--which was God's purpose for them all along.

Speculative Everything

Speculative Everything
Author: Anthony Dunne
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2013-12-06
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0262019841

How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures. Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to imagine possible futures. This is not the usual sort of predicting or forecasting, spotting trends and extrapolating; these kinds of predictions have been proven wrong, again and again. Instead, Dunne and Raby pose “what if” questions that are intended to open debate and discussion about the kind of future people want (and do not want). Speculative Everything offers a tour through an emerging cultural landscape of design ideas, ideals, and approaches. Dunne and Raby cite examples from their own design and teaching and from other projects from fine art, design, architecture, cinema, and photography. They also draw on futurology, political theory, the philosophy of technology, and literary fiction. They show us, for example, ideas for a solar kitchen restaurant; a flypaper robotic clock; a menstruation machine; a cloud-seeding truck; a phantom-limb sensation recorder; and devices for food foraging that use the tools of synthetic biology. Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate more—about everything—reality will become more malleable. The ideas freed by speculative design increase the odds of achieving desirable futures.