Since his Institut du Monde Arabe opened in Paris in 1987, French architect Jean Nouvel has designed many significant buildings throughout Europe. This volume features 25 built and forthcoming projects, including the Concert Hall in Lucerne, in text and colour illustrations.

Jean Nouvel The Elements of Architecture /anglais

Lloyd, Morgan Conway

Reference

Thames&Hudson

Another addition to Thames & Hudson's successful Architecture/Design series, this new book focuses on the Australian designer Marc Newson. Newson represents the generation of designers after Philippe Starck who show the same kind of versatility of talent - this adopted Londoner has tackled projects ranging from the lighting of the Sydney Opera House for the Olympics to the creation of restaurants and nightclubs in Tokyo. Newson's passion for design is grounded in a keen understanding of materials and processes. He's a design whiz-kid motivated by a hands-on approach: Newson is far more likely to learn by practice, by making an object, than by sitting behind a computer creating pleasing images of the form. His many imaginative works include an aluminium bicycle, a concept car for Ford, and an innovative Swiss watch. Later this year, Newson will unveil a line of furniture and housewares and will announce a major identity project for an international airline. The approachable, eager elegance of his style is suffused with an awareness of contemporary issues and values that allows Newson to surf through the current scene with ease.

Marc Newson

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

I'm the urban spaceman, baby, I could fly, I'm a supersonic guy I'm the urban spaceman, baby, I'm making out, I'm all about I wake up every morning with a smile upon my face My natural exuberance spills out all over the place I'm the urban spaceman, I'm intelligent and clean, Know what I mean? These words (from Neil Innes's hit lyric for the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band in 1968) could be describing the designer Marc Newson. Born in Sydney in 1964, and now with offices in Paris and London, Newson has flown supersonically (in a Mig 29 fighter aircraft) and has built a sky-high reputation for cool and original design, whether in furniture, interiors or products. His 021C concept car for Ford wowed the Tokyo Motor Show, Madonna shimmied around his Lockheed Lounge couch in her video Rain, and his restaurant in New York's famous Lever building opened in spring 2002. In moving from Sydney to London, via Paris and Tokyo, Marc Newson has brought with him the vivid excitement of Australian popular and beach culture, and refined and developed it through a passionate interest in materials and technology. The result is a body of work shot through with intelligence and wit, urbanity and color which has been delighting the design world for a decade, and is set to charm the rest of the world in the future. For Newson has made the magic transition from a craft designer working in the important but small world of specialist furniture and lighting such as Flos and Alessi, to working for major international industrial clients, such as Ford and Nike. And so unlike Innes's urban spaceman ('here comes the twist-- I don't exist') Marc Newson is here to stay.

Marc Newson (Universe Architecture Series)

Architecture

Universe Publishing

Not so much designers as story-tellers, mythmakers, fabulators and tellers of tales, Thomas Manss & Company, based in London and Berlin, combine wit, visual subtlety and a narrative approach to create identities, literature, websites and environmental graphics for a range of clients including the galleries Tate Modern and Tate Britain, architects Foster + Partners, loudspeaker manufacturer Bowers & Wilkins, the International Design Center in Berlin, and others in Britain and Germany as well as elsewhere in Europe, in Russia and the USA. The book is the tenth volume in the "rockets" series, a cutting edge series of accounts of the work of transmedia design agencies in Germany and around the world. A celebration of new initiatives, new approaches, new solutions.

Thomas Manss & Company

Avedition Gmbh,Csi

While technological change is generating an increasing number of virtual modes of communication, the exhibition stand remains a core element in the business, branding and marketing strategy of so many companies. The fifth edition of the International Trade Fair Annual brings together well-known and less well-known designers, working for well-known clients such as Audi, BMW, O2, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen, and for others less well-known ? united by the inspiration, intelligence and imagination needed to compete creatively in the international market for trade fair stand design. Conway Lloyd Morgan is Programme Leader in New Media Publishing at the University of Wales, Newport, and the author of numerous books and monographs on design and architecture.

Trade Fair Design Annual 2008/2009

Mitchell Mauk knew he wanted to be an exhibit designer when, at the age of 13, his parents took him to EXPO 70 in Osaka, Japan. Thirty-odd years on, and his design office in San Francisco has won a string of awards for its work, designing stands for Levi Strauss, Sony Playstation and Intel, as well as designing the launch of the new VW Beetle across America. His office also does identity graphics (including for the original Apple computer), packaging design and three dimensional design. The series editor for avedition rockets is Conway Lloyd Morgan, author of recent books on Philippe Starck, Marc Newson and Jean Nouvel, and editor of the International Trade Fair Annual.

Mauk Design

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