Just as film, art, music, and literature have the power to move people, Sagmeister's innovative work--featured in this lavishly illustrated collection--shows that graphic design, too, can cut to the emotional quick. Includes text by design historian Hall and is annotated with Sagmeister's own writing.
In this guide to speaking and understanding Shakespeare's verse, Peter Hall uses his extensive directorial experience to help the reader and actor discover the clues within the text.
Just as film, art, music, and literature have the power to move people, Stefan Sagmeister's innovative work shows that graphic design, too, can cut to the emotional quick. His desire is to transform stale thinking, and Made You Look does just that.Compelling, honest, and intensely personal, Made You Look covers 20 years of Sagmeister's graphic design. With a text by design historian Peter Hall and annotated with Sagmeister's own writing, the book features images from the studio archive, as well as specific influences and reference points for his projects and ideas. Fully illustrated with a red PVC slipcase and silver-gilded pages, this monograph is a compilation of practically all the work Sagmeister and his studio ever designed up to 2001, even the bad stuff
Focusing on urban policy, this book explores the distinct characteristics of London in the 21st century compared to other urban areas in Britain. It delves into the city's unique social, cultural, and economic dynamics, providing insights into the challenges and opportunities that define contemporary London life. Through various perspectives, it seeks to understand the complexities of urban living and the implications for future development and policy-making in the capital.
The product of over a decade's research and writing, Peter Hall's magnum opus explores the history of cities and their role in the development of civilisation from the cultural crucibles of Athens in the sixth century BC to the city as freeway, Los Angeles. A major book which will stand alongside such successful works of popular scholarship as Simon Schama's Citizens, Rob Hughes The shock of the New Orlando Figes' A peoples tragedy.
Examining the challenges facing urban Britain, the author contrasts it with successful European models to identify key lessons. The analysis delves into urban planning, social issues, and policy decisions, highlighting what Britain can learn from its European counterparts to improve its urban environments.
First published in 1997, this volume constitutes a critical analysis of the contradictory portrayal of social workers, exploring how social workers make their work visible and justifiable through their talk and writing along with the language, explanation and analysis they use to explain their actions and assessments.
This guide to the correct pronunciation of German for native speakers of English begins with an introduction to the problems of modern German pronunciation and the concepts of phonetics. It then examines each aspect of pronunciation in turn and the conversational pronunciation of German. schovat popis
Chris McCabe playfully reclaims the inventive spirit of the founding text of Modernism; Ulysses. Tracing the same structure as the original, McCabe describes the events of the following day, 17th June 1904. Stephen Dedalus wakes up, hungover, with scores and debts to settle, unaware that Leopold Bloom is waking up in Eccles street with his own plans for him.“Friday’s children would be fattening like seals across the sand, on their way to class. Black liquorice teeth. Loving and giving under the whalefeed of the clouds. He had to teach.”Dedalus is shot through with cut and paste disruptions from the Digital Age. From ’80s Text Adventure gaming to Google maps and pop-ups. McCabe picks up the tradition of Laurence Sterne and B.S. Johnson, underpinning the paragraphs of his storytelling with concrete poetry.This novel is haunted (by Hamlet). This novel has a subconscious. This novel has therapy. This novel gives right of reply to Joyce’s self-portrait and questions the foundations of narrative storytelling. This truly is a hotly anticipated moment in Fiction.
This is the autobiography of a railway worker's son who rose to be one of the most powerful, outspoken and charismatic figures in European theatre. This book chronicles how, against the odds, the author achieved his ambition.
