INFOGRAPHICS DESIGN

Only the Tokyo-based design publisher BNN would create a book on how to spruce up boring graph-driven Power Point presentations. Infographics Design is an indispensable resource for designers, public relations personnel and anyone who needs to condense and convey statistical information in today’s information society. This beautifully illustrated compendium of infographics and data visualization is divided into five parts including Graphs and Charts, Maps, Pictograms, Motion Graphics and Interactive Graphics. Focusing on expressive methods for use with infographic and data visualization, it presents hundreds of creative designs from around the world. Each entry is referenced with a brief text on its intent and use. In the introduction, Takashi Murakami of Kartz Media Works, who runs the world’s largest infographic community website, Infogra.me, discusses how to create infographics and suggests some key points when creating these effective but engaging digital designs.

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IMPORT ANT ITALIAN GLASS

Selected Masterworks from a Private New York Collection

Sara Blumberg & Jim Oliviera (Eds.)

Over 25 years in the making, this collection tells the story of the rebirth of the art-glass industry in the late 19th through 20th centuries. Testament to the vision and dedication of the collectors, this assembly of rare, important and sometimes obscure pieces is exceptional in both quality and scope. Expertly photographed and documented by Wright, the collection features more than 200 works from the most renowned Italian manufacturers and designers, including the greatest collection of Barovier ever to come to market, including early Mosaico and Floreali vases, monumental works of the 1930s and 1940s and rare Tessere Polichrome vases of the 1960s. Works by Carlo Scarpa, Dino Martens, MVM Cappallin, Archimede Seguso, Giorgio Ferro, Thomaso Buzzi, Francesco Ferro e Figlio, Piero Fornasetti, Fratelli Toso, Paolo Venini and others. An invaluable record of this rich and creative time in Italian glass design and production.

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Japan Blue

100 Royalty Free JPEG Files

“Blue more vivid than indigo, bluer than indigo.” The old Japanese saying refers to a student who surpasses his teacher, but it originally meant that the blue produced by indigo dyes was lovelier than the color of the actual indigo leaves. Featured in BNN’s new pattern book is a CD of versatile and user friendly royalty-free jpegs filled with 100 gorgeous, resist-dyed indigo fabric designs. A treasure-chest of inspiration for designers and lovers of historic Japanese textiles.

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Japanese Traditional Stencil Design

100 royalty free jpeg files

Another rich Japanese decorative tradition now accessible on disc in royalty-free jpeg files. Ise paper stencils date back to at least the eighth century, and are used in dyeing fabrics, especially for kimonos. The designs are exquisite: delicate, complex, optically engrossing, subtle and rhythmic. A treasure-trove of fresh-looking, yet venerable, patterns.

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KEI

KEI’s Gallery

As soon as you see the cover of this rich, full-color book, you’ll recognize the big-eyed characters of manga artist Kei Toume, known simply as Kei. The winner of the prestigious Shika Prize in her early 20s, Kei is the creator of Hatsune-miku and Kagamine Rin Len. This is the first book ever of her paintings—with more than 150 color illustrations, including 26 that have never been published. The depth and beauty of Kei’s watercolor-like illustrations shows through in this overflowing gallery of her sprightly, mini-skirted characters, who always fix the viewer with their straightforward gaze.

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KOUBUTSU BOOK | MINERAL BOOK

Touch, Look, Understand: Minerals as Interior Objects

Following the format of 2013’s wildly popular Deco Room with Plants, this new inspiration packed how-to book from BNN, takes on our favorite tiny natural wonders—stones, rocks, geodes, crystals and more. Whether collected for their scientific taxonomies, new age properties, or just pure beauty, mineral structures and geologies offer something for everyone. Eight Japanese designers and industry creatives demonstrate endless ways to style and incorporate minerals throughout your home or office. They also explain how to care for, store and photograph minerals while providing a basic understanding of their form and makeup. Either large or small there are endless ways to display and style these beautiful crystalline forms so you too can share your brilliant decorating ideas on Pinterest!

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SHIRO KURAMATA AND HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

Works from the Absent Past

Selected objects by Shiro Kuramata, one of Japan’s most important 20th-century furniture designers, are elegantly presented together with a suite of photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto in this small but precious auction catalog. The pairing, including work from two of Kuramata’s most important commissions—Esprit House and Laputa Restaurant—and seven of Sugimoto’s Seascapes, highlights the artists’ aesthetic common ground. Each artist explored the temporal nature of light and time’s passage through his work. Kuramata was known for his use of industrial materials such as wire steel mesh and Lucite in his furnishings while Sugimoto, who was influenced by Duchamp, Dada and Surrealism, considers his photographs as a kind of time capsule, capturing the transience of life. A uniquely elegant publication celebrating two of the most creative minds of the 20th century, designed in collaboration with Tamotsu Yagi.

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ZAK KYES

Zak Kyes Working With…

Swiss-American “critical graphic designer” Zak Kyes is known for his thoughtful approach to design, especially with regard to collaboration. While billed as documenting Kyes’ first solo exhibition, this catalog from the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig is also a representation of the relationships formed by Kyes as he collaborates with his clients and partners, who include artists, architects, writers, curators, graphic designers and editors. Starting with curator Barbara Steiner, the small-format publication brings together a range of works by Kyes that have been expanded and enlivened by a host of collaborators, hence the book’s subtitle: Working With… .

Apart from studio projects, Kyes’ critical practice encompasses publishing, curating and creating sitespecific projects for and with art institutions. His work engages with publications as sites for debate and exchange rather than documentation. He currently teaches in the MA program at ECAL (L’École cantonale d’art de Lausanne) and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, where, since 2006, he has also been Art Director. Among Kyes’ many international exhibitions and awards, his London design studio Z.A.K. won the Inform Award for Conceptual Design in 2011 and has twice been awarded the prize for the Most Beautiful Swiss Book.

This publication features contributions and collaborations from Can Altay, Charles Arsène-Henry, Shumon Basar, Richard Birkett, Andrew Blauvelt, Edward Bottoms, Wayne Daly, Jesko Fezer, Joseph Grigely, Nikolaus Hirsch, Maria Lind, Markus Miessen, Michel Müller, Radim Peško and Barbara Steiner.

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Marbling Patterns

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Taken from the great European tradition of marbeling are100 contemporary marbling designs. From the traditional to the psychedelic, colors and patterns abound. There will definitely be a pattern that fits the need.

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Margeting: Inventing A Different Marketing Language

André Platteel

No, it’s not a typo: Margeting is an inspiring quest for new ways of looking at things, beginning on the ragged fringes of present-day marketing and moving out from there to unexplored worlds brimming with new concepts. This extensively illustrated and sophisticated book focuses on the new definitions of the relationship betweem brands and consumers. Author André Platteel also wrote Symbol Soup, a publication on visual language in contemporary culture. Margeting was awarded the Best Dutch Book Design 2003.

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