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You'll find 1000 bright ideas in this journey through 20th-century lighting design. Presented chronologically by decade, you'll find the most interesting electric lights, from Tiffany's beautiful leaded-glass shades to outlandish 1960s designs and the latest high-tech LED lamps.

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Presenting a wealth of new, bespoke imagery and building on the authors unrivalled level of expertise, 17th-Century Mens Dress Patterns is a definitive resource for costume designers, fashion historians and students.

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A large-scale publication dedicated to the 1950s as captured in the pages of American Vogue. This book is illustrated by fashion's greatest photographs of that period--the era when the magazine became the cultural force it is today.

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Reveals the decorative seams, refined stitching, voluptuous drapery, strict corseting and slashing and stamping that make up some of the garments in the V&A's superlative 19th-century fashion collection. This title gives the reader a unique opportunity to examine historical clothing that is often too fragile to be on display.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

The quest to affirm Americans' need for alcohol and tobacco is a tale of 100 years of advertising intended to seduce consumers to partake in these delicious vices. This catalogue of ads showcases the extensive and abundant campaigns and trends of drinking and smoking in the United States that, for better or worse, explore a vibrant chapter of advertising history.

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A unique insight into high-end 20th-century fashion explored through sumptuous detail photography of some of the most luxurious garments in the V&As collections, alongside precise line drawings and an authoritative text.

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The perfect addition to the 50 Ways to Wear series, this cute book makes it easy to accessorise any outfit.

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Every day there is something happening in the world of typography and graphic design - the most inspiring, trendsetting and enduring stories, events and works have been collected here to guide the reader to the highlights: 52 for 52 weeks, written by more than 40 experts.

(Paperback, Fourth edition)

Features numerous new drawings of street wear, active wear, bridal wear, swim wear and lingerie. In this title, breakdown drawings are shown for an even wider selection of garments and new croquis are included in a variety of poses reflecting contemporary attitudes and stances.

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The first book to tell the whole story of The Designers Republic--the design group that irrevocably changed the field of graphic communication.

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This book showcases an extensive collection of their intricately detailed, multi-layered stencil paintings, formed from various discarded materials.

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The first book to tell the story of the Soviet airline Aeroflot using never before seen ephemera advertising, brochures, tickets and promotional items

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"Aimee Song is a fashion icon, a sartorial star, the blogger behind Song of Style, and the author of Capture Your Style. Here she collects more than five hundred of her all-time favorite looks from around the world. Her style, favorite travel spots, and personal memories from the hottest destinations all over the globe..."--Publisher's website.

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Parallel title in Russian on title page and cover.

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(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

In the aughts, geekdom was the new rock'n'roll, Pokmon and PS2 kept the kids busy, a website called Amazon had just turned a profit and social media was beginning its bid for world domination. Savor a decade's worth of magazine ads for food, alcohol, travel, auto, fashion, and beauty, fed to a tech-hungry but increasingly anxious post 9/11 nation.

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Tracing 1940s America through advertising, this new hardcover collection edited by Jim Heimann follows the ads of the United States through the propaganda of war to the mass consumerism of peace. Through motorcars, cigarettes, lipsticks, and cans of Campbells soup, this is an entertaining and eye-opening survey of the fears, fads, and dreams...

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

This volume's engaging overview of advertisements evokes the nostalgic sentimentality of a bygone era, ranging from wartime to prosperity and optimism in American life over the course of the 1940s. The omnipresent advertising campaigns saturated a burgeoning consumerism, from fashion and food to beauty and beverage, and everything in between.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

A plethora of 1950s ads covering just about anything the dollar could buy, from Las Vegas vacations to cigarettes as healthy mood enhancers. More than a record of bygone products and campaigns, these colorful ads provide an evocative record of everyday American life when McCarthyism was rife and capitalism was king.