BE OPEN Picks

Editors: gestalten & Ruth Lang

How can we build a sustainable future in a time of climate change and dwindling resources? As our spatial needs begin to evolve more rapidly, architects are exploring ingenious ways in which to reuse and recycle existing buildings; resulting in a stunning transformation of our existing urban fabric.

Building for Change collects the strategies of reuse together, demonstrating their power for change through groundbreaking projects from some of the world’s leading architects.

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A handy guide for professional graphic designers, students, and laypeople who incorporate graphic design into their job or small business. Packed with practical advice, this spirited collection of design dos and don’ts takes readers through 365 rules like knowing when to use a modular grid — and when to throw the grid out the window. All designers will appreciate tips and lessons from these accomplished authors, who draw on years of experience to help you create good design.

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In this invaluable beginner’s guide, professional artists show you how to draw, paint, and sketch digitally, at home or on the go. Packed full of expert tips, diverse projects, and inspirational artwork, it unlocks the secrets of this affordable, versatile, and highly intuitive software. Exploring the creative potential of layer masks, blend modes, and how to create your own custom brushes, leading artists from across the concept art and illustration industries share eye-opening step-by-step tutorials to enable you to confidently create your own digital masterpieces.

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Editors: gestalten & Creative Voyage

In Designing Brands, the Creative Voyage team provides a backstage view into eight studios who produce some of the world’s most captivating visual identities. Alongside these independent agencies’ greatest projects, the book features in-depth conversations with their leaders and collaborators. This select group of industry experts shares intimate details about their processes and the art of creating with rationality, thoughtfulness, and intuition.

Designing Brands is split into chapters—discovery, direction, typography, illustration, photography, design, digital, and physical—based on the essential elements of this creative practice. But at its heart, the book is about community and the designers, strategists, animators, illustrators, stylists, photographers, and tastemakers who combine forces to bring brand universes to life.

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Editors: gestalten & Professor Han Slawik

Container architecture has become an essential part of our twenty-first century surroundings, with it being used to create modular structures for pavilions, brand showrooms, retail premises, and even residential homes. Ten years after the first publication of Container Atlas, this eagerly anticipated follow-up charts how this movement has evolved into an essential part of today’s architectural vocabulary. Container Atlas serves as a practical and inspirational reference not only for architects and engineers, but also for all creatives eager to learn about the rich and diverse language of container architecture and modular building.

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Author: Iain Zaczek, Jude Welton and Caroline Bugler

This book gives an in-depth look at the history of the art form. In addition to that, it also discusses the works that have impacted the world via their own outstanding art concepts, from early history to the latter-day.

It shows each historical art when and how it started; it presents some stunning images and visual artifacts that surely everybody wants to know more about the “art that changed the world”. The illustrations give you thorough ideas of what the art looks like, allowing you to experience it by looking into a full clear image. The book itself is like an art historian who compiles it into a form of a book. This material also gives you a basic understanding of prehistory art, new directions and developments rolling out up to date.

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