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English / French / GermanGraphic reincarnationFound throughout India on posters, packaging, advertisements, and calendars, these colorful graphics and prints depict Indias vernacular culture through secular, religious, and even political scenes. Recently popularized by consumers the world over, this rich and surprising array of images has brought the likes of Krishna and Kali, Mahatma Gandhi and Baba Deep Singh to the homes, classrooms, and shrines of people across the diverse regions of India. Now TASCHEN brings them to you!

A directory of images and patterns that demonstrates the full scope of mosaics as an art form. It covers a wide range of geometric, organic and classical shapes. Written with the newcomer in mind, clear instruction in all aspects of the art is given.

To create her stunning coloured bobbin lace designs, award-winning lacemaker Sandi Woods often takes inspiration from the letters of the alphabet, shaping, manipulating and combining them to form organic, sinuous shapes. She likens the process to the game ''Chinese Whispers'' a pattern starts as a simple letter, but is developed further, often until the original form is barely recognizable. Sandi''s painterly use of coloured thread to suggest shape and form adds further beauty to her work. This fully illustrated book contains instructions for the exquisite ''Leafy Glade Alphabet''. Each letter has one basic template but two alternative designs, one using simple bobbin lace stitches, the other using more complex Milanese braids. Though each letter is worked in a different set of colours, all the colourways are interchangeable, and, of course, they can be worked in white. The book then goes on to include 24 more abstract designs, such as ''Chinese Seedling'' and ''Blackthorn Sprig'', all of which were originally developed from the letters of the alphabet. Comprehensive instructions are given for each pattern, including prickings, linear outlines, pin reference charts and full pin-by-pin directions.

Un prototipo es un coche diseñado para cambiar las reglas del juego, innovar, impactar, sorprender y pertenecer al futuro. Quizá no son prácticos para la vida real, pero forman parte de nuestros sueñ

Esta colección, presentada en diez volumenes lujosamente ilustrados, reúne los grandes hitos del mundo del automóvil: coches espectaculares, modelos de auténtico lujo, prototipos que despertaron pasiones, maquinas fantasticas, berlinas legendarias...., en suma, los coches mas fabulosos de todas las marcos y de todos los tiempos. Una obra inigualable, de facil y agradable consulta, que no debe faltar en la biblioteca de ningun aficionado al fascinante mundo del motor.

Its a new era of global character appeal. While playfully evading the limitations of commercial interests, cultural contexts and narrative intentions, contemporary character design has become the key player of visual communication worldwide. Since the beginning the Pictoplasma project has closely accompanied the character movement with publications, exhibitions, festivals and conferences. With the long awaited follow-up publication, The Character Encyclopaedia, Pictoplasma delivers an in-depth exploration of the latest tendencies in current character design and art, spanning from drawing, design and painting to its use in installations and sculpture. Pictoplasma not only creates the worlds first Encyclopaedia of figurative design - by cataloguing the characters as independent life-forms of their own right, the compilation enables to examine similarities and permutations of globally recurring motifs and styles. By sorting, clustering, cross-referencing and inter-linking the creations of a disparate scene of artists, the encyclopaedia creates a unique cartography of the latest generations populating the character universe.