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Gustav Klimt
Skira Editore

Garth Lewis
Batsford

A rich resource for all designers and artists looking for inspiration and guidance on colour combinations. A huge range of combinations is provided, with full readings for both CMYK (for designers working in print) and RGB (for Web-based and other multi-media designers). As an accomplished colour theorist, the author looks at colour combinations through various elements of colour theory, from hues, values and chroma to working with concepts such as simultaneous contrast and perceptual transparency. The author has also generated an inspirational series of colour palettes taken from photographs of the world around us, depicting landscapes, urban subjects and everyday objects. The book also contains a selection of work from cutting-edge designers and artists who explain the use of colour in their work and offer exciting new palettes. The colour combinations are rendered as two- and three-colour graphics, stripe studies and more unstructured and complex compositions, all of which showcase the huge variety of effects that can be achieved with colour. This fascinating book reveals the true magic of colour and is an essential reference book for any designer and artist.

Louis Bou
Basheer Graphic Books

In a time defined by digital interaction, receiving a physical invitation can often feel like receiving a gift, especially when the invitation is as elaborate as those in U R Invited. Far from plain form letters on cardstock, these invitations are embossed, engraved and laser-cut, wrapped around bars of chocolate or records, and contain everything from seeds and masks to rice to be thrown at weddings. U R Invited beckons readers to join in celebrations all over the world with invitations for fashion and design events, restaurant openings, award ceremonies, and parties for occasions ranging from baptisms to birthday bacchanals represented. For these design-focused revelers, an invitation not only informs guests, but entices them with its depiction of the events theme and style. Whether sophisticated and modern or entrenched in a wild, colorful design aesthetic, the invitations of U R Invited are sure to inspire anticipation and excitement in anyone who opens its pages.

Marco Belpoliti, Gianluigi Ricuperati
Marcos y Marcos

Non passa settimana senza che sui giornali italiani, e stranieri, compaia un disegno di Saul Steinberg, così che gran parte dei lettori conoscono perfettamente il suo lavoro ma quasi mai il suo nome. Steinberg è un illustratore, uno dei più grandi, e tuttavia vige la convinzione che un illustratore sia meno di un artista: un artista incompiuto. Se poi il disegnatore lavora per quotidiani o riviste, il suo lavoro non è troppo considerato: vive sui margini dell'arte. Il nome di Saul Steinberg non figura in nessuna storia dell'arte. Questo numero di "Riga" vuole colmare dunque una eclatante lacuna, proponendo di leggere l'opera di Steinberg all'interno della storia dell'arte del Novecento, alla stregua di un suo significativo capitolo.

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Olfattorio

Frans Masereel
Gabriele Mazzotta Editore

Beba Marsano
Electa

L'advertising si è affermato come una delle più autonome e interessanti forme di arte visiva del XX secolo. Il volume di Beba Marsano offre ai lettori un "archivio" di situazioni artistiche e sociali delle varie nazioni e uno spaccato del Novecento attraverso la storia dei manifesti pubblicitari, specchi in cui troviamo riflessa l'immagine di un "come eravamo" che non manca di strappare un sorriso.

Adolfo Chiesa
Napoleone editore

Pepin van Roojen
Pepin Press

This volume presents a large selection of commercial illustrations and patterns from the 1930s. The focus is on designs which were painted or drawn, not on typographic composition.

Orio Vergani
Edizione Galleria Ponte Rosso

Gianfranco Bruno
s.e.

Gerald Scarfe
Hamish Hamilton