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Public landscapes are an integral part of city life. They not only add beauty to the city, but also maintain a harmony and balance between human and environment. This book contains the most recent representative works of numerous excellent designers from across the world. The spaces illustrated include parks, streets, squares, commercial spaces, educational spaces, and cultural spaces. It illustrates the most unique landscape designs from design concept to detailed description, from overall landscapes to partial features.

In architecture, a facade is the skin of a building. Eco-Friendly Building Facade demonstrates just how important this 'skin' is by illustrating its impact on energy efficiency. Sunlight, ventilation, low energy, noise minimisation, rainwater harvest, prefabricated components, flexibility, etc., all the environmental elements are taken into consideration in the design process and are illustrated here with sufficiently detailed images, drawings and articles.

This book, part of the Design Art of Villa series, collects high quality luxury villas and presents almost forty stunning interiors. All of the projects included in this book are the latest works of the world's best architects and designers. Using hundreds of sublime photographs, and engaging texts, Villa Design Ideas illustrates how a luxury villa is designed and completed, and will provide inspiration to a great number of design enthusiasts. There is also a wealth of floor plans, diagrams, sketches and first-hand text materials from design agencies.

Gathering representative works from mature and experienced design studios and designersaround the world. As the second edition of the 70 Ideas From Global Best Interior Design II series, this book continues to presents a large number of high-quality projects to readers, with diverse cultures and styles. Reading the book, travelling the world, grasping the design trends in Eurasia, North America, South America, Australia, Southeast Asia and experiencing the unique cultural.This is a beautiful compilation of a hand-picked selection of interior architecture and design projects from around the world. With an attention to the overall character of a space, down to the details that breathe life into the skin of a building or space, it provides its reader with an enjoyable insight into each project.

Philip Kotler, the father of modern marketing, once said, "An impressive brand brings intangible assets such as brand premiums and value-added, which are based on the impression of the brand in the minds of consumers." The book starts from the typeface, graphics and colour scheme, breaking down the LOGO to analyse the design process. Commonly used techniques are listed, teaching you how to design an excellent LOGO.Divided into five chapters, this book not only introduces the importance of LOGO design, principles and the conventional process, but also provides an in-depth analysis of the typeface and graphic design in LOGO. The book contains more than 70 excellent case studies from different industries, including some classic cases with detailed design ideas. From knowledge to practice, from explanations to cases, this is a good understanding, comprehensive and practical design guide.

Paper Art III contains the wonderful works of dedicated paper artists from all over the world since 2018, exploring the infinite possibilities of paper, an ancient and common material in daily life, allowing people to rediscover the breathtaking beauty of the ordinary and perceive the survival and growth of paper in art. The exquisite paper cutting, spectacular paper sculpture, collision of photography and paper art techniques... each piece of paper artwork will be cohesive in the work of the artist's time and effort to present the full extent of the work.In addition to existing as pure artwork, this book also shows how paper art can be used in a variety of applications. From house decoration to window decoration, to large-scale public space decoration, etc., these cases give readers the opportunity to understand and feel how the artist creates a rich sense of space, enhances environmental aesthetics, and even changes the urban temperament by changing the colour and shape of the paper.

Angels from Infinity: The Sculptures of Chi Wing Lo explores and interprets Chi Wing Lo’s sculpture art. His works remind us that art is, among other things, an invitation to change the rhythms of our lives, to sense another order of temporality—slower, closer to the non-temporal, perhaps without ever reaching it. These material enigmas contain the power to slow down thought, bringing it to a standstill in an idea of origin. Situated between the celerity of vision and the inherent immobility of their position in space, his sculptures ask the eye to wait; and along with this arresting of the visual, they urge the mind to delve deeper.

Yang Bangsheng — a pioneer in the field of international interior design and founder of YANG & Associates Group — systematically summarises his design philosophy and practice for three decades, from his awakening in the fields of eastern Sichuan, to his expression of Eastern aesthetics on the global stage. It is a great work that fuses Eastern wisdom with contemporary spirit. Centered on the concept of "shēng xī jìng gòu", or “Constructing Living Realms — Live, Rest, Position, Compose,” this book unfolds a design journey blending poetry and philosophy:Live—Seeking wisdom from landscapes, conversing with nature.Rest—Pursuing inner balance, achieving beauty within restraint.Position—Embracing vitality in space, revealing intangible beauty.Compose—Crafting humanistic scenes, creating enduring resonance.

The 10 principles of good design set out by Dieter Rams in 1995 has influenced and inspired a new generation of designers in search of the perfect balance between practicality, simplicity and aesthetics.What does good design mean in the 21st century? How have the 10 principles influenced modern design? In this book, established and emerging designers tell us how they understand and put these rules into practice thereby contributing to the definition of what good design in the 21st century means, according to the criteria defined by Rams.The book showcases contemporary products from around the globe; a host of work by iconic designers, such as NENDO, NERI & HU, LARA BOHINC and so on.

A breathtaking collection of the most innovative high-rise architecture in the world today.

Wood is a fundamental natural resource for building. Environmentally sustainable building is a worldwide trend. Wood is widely available and widely used, particularly in creating buildings that connect to the environment and have low energy consumption.This book brings together wooden houses of different styles from all over the world, featuring contrasting yet contemporary residential homes for a new age of environmentally responsible construction.

Packaging design involves a variety of elements. With a wide range of material and complicated processes, it is a multidimensional creative process. The book Pack Your Life III assembles a dizzying array of inspiring packaging design works from around the worlds.

ALEXCHOI design & Partners was founded in 1997 by Mr. Alex Choi. It is a multi-faceted design company dedicated to integrated disciplines of interior design. The company is closely affiliated with other design companies in the architectural, graphic and branding fields, strengthening their multi-disciplinary approach in design with function and passion. Their design approach has been well established among many prestigious clients including Hysan Group, Sun Hung Kai properties, Moet Hennessy Asia Pacific, Walt Disney (HK), BMW, A.S Watson Group, Philip Morris, China Telecom, 3 Mobile, broadway cinema, Aveda just to name a few who are constant and long-term corporate customers looking for consistent and successful retail design solutions. Exhibition design is also one of the company's strengths, which is proven by their award winning project - the China Mobile exhibition centre in Guangzhou. With decades of experience, they have earned their reputation as one of the most prominent interior design practices in Hong Kong.

Window display design plays a significant part in the retail industry, it translates trends that have emerged from all aspects of culture including art, fashion, architecture and theatre. This book focuses on analysing and understanding examples of contemporary window display design from various famous designers and special design companies internationally.

HOPSCA, composed of a great number of different functional spaces - hotels, offices, parks, shopping, convention centres and apartments - is a complex which is the periodic product of urban morphology evolution during the rapid process of modernisation and urbanisation, and has become the inevitable requirement of economic development. A term used to describe integrated developments in urban communities - where people live, work, play and shop in proximity - HOPSCA is emerging as an important piece in China's urbanisation puzzle. It combines urban activities such as office, residence, business, catering, conference, entertainment and so on in an organic way, and forms a complex of multifunction and high efficiency.This book brings together the excellent design concepts of many well-known design companies in recent years about the HOPSCA all around the world, many projects of which are underway. They will bring new breath and vitality to urban developments.

Comprehensive Examples of Landscape Classification is an in-depth reference guide to the varying types of landscape architecture and design, offering a complete overview of the subject.The book is divided into 18 chapters: road and street landscape, floor covering landscape, planting landscape, table and chair landscape, stair landscape, trestle and quay landscape, rail and fence, door landscape, artificial waterscape, natural water landscape, swimming pools, wall landscape, roof landscape, landscape construction, landscape architecture, lighting landscape, sculpture piece and professional facilities.

With sumptuous photography, this book illustrates magnificent palace-style traditional architecture, and colourful and glamorous interior design. Each project is unique in terms of the style of the villa, as well as the individual decorative details, but all reflect a respect for nature.

Contemporary office design is evolving, with clients looking for flexible and adaptive spaces, which meet the needs of the twenty first century workforce. Designers are pushing the boundaries of what it means to work in an office within an ever-connected global network. Intuitive environments are responding to and accommodating the dynamic working styles of the technologically savvy. Approaching office design from an holistic point of view is crucial in order to understand the company and the client; how they currently operate and how they wish to operate in the future. Spatial functionality is an important, if not the most important, aspect of a successful interior space. Establishing the look and feel of an office environment is a balance between function, form and aesthetic appeal.

Structural Packaging Art has it all wrapped up, literally! Presenting the most innovative and imaginative graphic designs and technical constructions using paper and cardboard to promote a range of products from snacks to stationery, to teabags and truffles.All are designed to create a unique identity and brand within a highly competitive consumer market, colourful and eye-catching, quirky and desirable these wrappings are about first impressions with the focus on presenting each item as a 'gift' to be purchased, then savoured and enjoyed as an essential feature of the whole product experience.

In the age of online shopping, how can physical stores attract shoppers, stimulate buying behaviour, and compete with their virtual rivals? Impressive visual merchandising design may tilt matters in their favour. Not only can it lure the customers across the threshold, but it also establishes and reinforces a unique brand image, anchoring the company in the customer's mind. Revolving around fashion, lifestyle and food stores, Fantastic Designs in the Store presents over 50 of the hottest and most exciting shop layouts from all over the world. It demonstrates how a shop's visual dimension influences customer psyche, drawing people in and inviting them to browse. Each project is presented with high-res images and sophisticated description, making this book both an aesthetic journey into the heart of commercial style, and a wonderful reference for designers. No matter whether you are a designer seeking inspiration or a shop manager looking for integrated visual design, this collection will serve you well.

Top Space & Art III includes work from some of the most respected names in contemporary architecture and design, and displays projects from all around the world. This book showcases examples of where structure meets graphic design, turning any venue into an outstanding and eye-catching space. Featuring interiors and exteriors of restaurants, shops, offices, exhibition spaces and public buildings.

Materials+: Creative Products focuses on original design ideas. It features wall clocks made from old vinyl records, comic books used as plant pots, vases made from sticks of dynamite, waste baskets constructed from sheets of recycled newspaper, lampshades made from eggshells, ornaments made from matchsticks; the materials used to make many of the products are not typically associated with the product, resulting in exceptionally creative designs. This innovative book offers access to many unique designs and is an excellent source of inspiration.