For the Love of Design

For the Love of Design
Author: Steven Heller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2022-11-08
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1621538109

Prolific author and co-chair of the MFA Design School of Visual Arts Steven Heller shares his love of design with the world through essays, interviews, and profiles. Design is a living. But to live passion is essential. For the Love of Design is an anthology of Steven Heller's essays that are underscored by the essence that makes designers do what they do, Whether it is to make the environ a better place or communicate important messages or simply enliven the quotidian world, design is everywhere and everything. It is a life force made and appreciated with love. The focus of the anthology is graphic design and typography but these disciplines impact so many other forms of design that it is impossible to ignore them. Through essays, interviews and profiles, Heller captures the essence of what makes artists into designers and what makes design and its makers tick. From the design director of the New York Times discussing how during the pandemic he created the most effective front pages to a collage artist talking about why cutting and pasting scraps of material into dynamic compositions, each story and narrative brings to light ambitions and aspirations they are couched in love for the thinking, making, and doing of design. For the Love of Design is here to show that graphic and other design activities are not just ways of making a living, but living a life.

Histoires érotiques. Le deuxième dix

Histoires érotiques. Le deuxième dix
Author: Vitaly Mushkin
Publisher: Litres
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-07-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 5041234744

Les dix dernières histoires du maître des romans érotiques de Vitaly Mushkin ont été publiées. Le second diffère des dix premiers non parce que c’est pire, c’est-à-dire qu’il prend la deuxième place. Et ce qui est écrit plus tard. Toutes les œuvres de l’auteur sont classées par ordre chronologique, telles qu’elles sont écrites. Par conséquent, la deuxième dix en qualité peut être meilleure que la première. Bien sûr, c’est à vous de juger, cher lecteur.

Danger in the Path of Chic

Danger in the Path of Chic
Author: Lucy Moyse Ferreira
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-12-02
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1350126292

During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached upon the glossy, idealistic world of fashion: from the curiously common appearance of dismembered heads in fashion illustration, to seemingly torturous techniques and devices advertised by beauty imagery, even extending to garments designed to look assaulted and destroyed. Danger in the Path of Chic brings this disturbing imagery to light for the first time, proposing new directions for historians of fashion, violence and culture in the interwar years. Concentrating on London, Paris and New York as fashion centres and political allies, the volume explores why horror manifested itself in this way, at this time, and in a sphere that is usually perceived as being built on fantasy and escape. In doing so, Danger in the Path of Chic situates fashion within the very real social, psychological, economic and political traumas of the period.

Luda

Luda
Author: Grant Morrison
Publisher: Del Rey
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593355318

A drag queen initiates her protégée into the magical arts in this phantasmagoric epic, the first novel from the legendary comics writer and New York Times bestselling author. “Grant Morrison is a modern mythmaker.”—Alex Segura, bestselling author of Secret Identity ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR Luci LaBang is a star: For decades this flamboyant drag artist has cast a spell over screen and stage. Now she’s the leading lady in a smash hit musical. But as time takes its toll, Luci fears her star is beginning to dim. When Luci’s co-star meets with a mysterious accident, a new ingenue shimmers onto the scene: Luda, whose fantastical beauty and sinister charm infatuate Luci immediately . . . and who bears a striking resemblance to Luci herself at a much younger age. Luda begs Luci to share the secrets of her stardom and to reveal the hidden tricks of her trade. For Luci LaBang is a mistress of the Glamour, a mysterious discipline that draws on sex, drugs, and the occult for its trancelike, transformative effects. But as Luci tutors her young protégée, their fellow actors and crew members begin meeting with untimely ends. Now Luci wonders if Luda has mastered the Glamour all too well . . . and exploited it to achieve her dark ambitions. What follows is an intoxicating descent into the demimonde of Gasglow, a fantastical city of dreams, and into the nightmarish heart of Luda herself: a femme fatale, a phenomenon, a monster, and, perhaps, the brightest star of them all.

The London Trilogy

The London Trilogy
Author: Edward St. Boniface
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 760
Release: 2013-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1783061251

This is a trilogy about three young men finding the fulfillment of their youthful ambitions, from the late 1980s onwards, in rock music and journalism, up to the present day and middle age. As middle age comes on, each must accept a wider responsibility for their past sins. Having either emigrated to or been born in London, all of them become caught up in tantalising opportunities in the capital to fulfill their ambitions of success and fame. Each of them also finds that success comes with an immense price for them personally, and private failures that unmercifully torment them. Their hopeful idealism and dreams become tainted by ruthlessness, opportunism and betrayal of their principles. As each character grows older, he realises he wants to redeem himself and somehow resolve the worst things he has perpetrated in his life – but true redemption requires genuine sacrifice; one even more intense and difficult than their hard-won successes of the past. It may be more than any of them can endure. All of this happens against the background of London’s fantastic, fabulous variety and wealth and exoticism, opportunity and glamour, corruption and poverty and loneliness and harshness. Its pitfalls, rewards and insatiable demands as a fast-moving cultural and media capital are a significant part of the novel’s tone, with an intensified sense of time and place. Edward St. Boniface takes inspiration from a wide range of authors, including Ray Bradbury, Mark Z. Danielewski and David Foster Wallace. The London Trilogy is a work of adult contemporary fiction that will appeal to fans of highbrow and literary novels, bildungsromans and satire.

Erotique Chic

Erotique Chic
Author: Thijs Demeulemeester
Publisher: Lannoo Publishers
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2017
Genre: ARCHITECTURE
ISBN: 9789401440561

Home is where the glam is. A sexy interior design book with glamorous, cinematic houses from the seventies, eighties, nineties and nillies. Houses with an erotic tension that make you fantasise. Houses that could just as well be a movie set. Houses that make you dream of a wild party rather than a cosy family breakfast. Houses where the shade of Hamilton still wanders around. All of them characteristic and iconic, and top of their architectural class, selected by Thijs Demeulemeester. AUTHOR: Thijs Demeulemeester is a Belgian lifestyle journalist, specialising in interiors, contemporary art and architecture. Athos Burez creates storytelling images with a mix of portraits, still lives and landscapes. He works with staged settings and suggests with huge imagination. Burez balances on the thin line between kitsch and classic. A combination of blurred photography and sharp images results in a perfect composition. Louise Mertens runs her own design studio in Antwerp. She focuses on visual concepts, creative & art direction, brand communication, artwork and design. Her attention to detail and the use of different materials and her interest in the mysterious are some of her trademarks. SELLING POINTS: * Delve into a sensual world of villainous style with these intriguing, sleek houses * This book, designed by Louise Mertens who is the sensation of the moment because of her work with theKardashians, offers a unique look inside glamorous and never before photographed houses. In cooperation with style photographer Athos Burez 260 colour illustrations

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Publisher: Odile Jacob
Total Pages: 371
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ISBN: 2738192203

Michel Tournier, Le Coq de Bruyère

Michel Tournier, Le Coq de Bruyère
Author: W. D. Redfern
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838636275

This book is a study of Michel Tournier's collection of short stories, Le Coq de bruyere, but it is also much more. Author Walter Redfern sees the stories as a microcosm of the whole fictional universe of Tournier, widely regarded as France's premier living writer.

La chasse au sexe. Attraper la fille nue

La chasse au sexe. Attraper la fille nue
Author: Vitaly Mushkin
Publisher: Litres
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2018-01-31
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 5040963904

Le personnage principal arrive sur une île sauvage avec l’océan Pacifique pour chasser les beautés locales. Mais attraper un natif nu n’est pas si facile. Ils courent tous bien et nagent. En outre, ne pas snooze concurrents, les chasseurs. Ils sont prêts à tout pour posséder la proie. Et quand le héros attrape quand même une fille nue, alors il a quelque chose de plus pour elle qu’une attraction sensuelle.