How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari insisted that design be beautiful, functional and accessible, and this enligh...(展开全部)

In the fall of 1957 the University of California Press expanded Arnheim's 1933 book "Film" by four essays and brought that landmark work back into print as "Film as Art". Now nearly fifty years after that re-edition, this book continues to occupy an important place in the literature of film. Arnheim's method, provocative in this age of technological wizardry, was to focus on th...(展开全部)

Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature.

Alain de Botton is the bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and Religion for Atheists in addition to other works of fiction and essays. In 2008 he founded The School of Life, dedicated to a new vision of education. His work has been reviewed in The Times, The Guardian, The Economist among many others and he has appeared on BBC Radio 4, Question Time and Newsnig...(展开全部)

奧托·艾舍（Otl Aicher，1922年5月13日－1991年9月1日），生於烏爾姆，1991年9月1日逝於拜揚邦鈞茲堡。艾舍在一個堅決與納粹極權對立的環境中長大。讀小學時，與偉納紹爾（Werner Scholl）為同校同學。之後認識漢斯和蘇菲，他們是偉納的弟妹。為一位天主教信徒，青少年時期，他因為拒絕加入希特勒少年隊，而於1937年被逮捕，且被禁止參加1941年的高中畢業考試。（但二戰結束後，學校補頒給他高中畢業文憑）。1941年被徵召入伍，納粹黨欲提供他當軍官的機會，但被他拒絕。服役期間，他拒絕了所有可能升遷的機會，且由於受傷，得以不被派上戰場。 1943年，當漢斯和蘇菲兩兄妹因參與白玫瑰反抗納粹運動而被處決時，他協助了紹爾一家人。1945年他自軍中逃亡，和紹爾一家人躲在巴登符騰堡邦艾瓦廷恩。1946年，進入慕尼黑造型藝術學院學習雕刻，隔年在...(展开全部)

Product Description Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design' - Dieter Rams. Dieter Rams' life and work are indelibly linked to his thoughts about how people live, and how they can live better. Products he designed in the 1960s are still being produced and sold today - only one demonstration of the streng...(展开全部)

奧托·艾舍（Otl Aicher，1922年5月13日－1991年9月1日），生於烏爾姆，1991年9月1日逝於拜揚邦鈞茲堡。艾舍在一個堅決與納粹極權對立的環境中長大。讀小學時，與偉納紹爾（Werner Scholl）為同校同學。之後認識漢斯和蘇菲，他們是偉納的弟妹。為一位天主教信徒，青少年時期，他因為拒絕加入希特勒少年隊，而於1937年被逮捕，且被禁止參加1941年的高中畢業考試。（但二戰結束後，學校補頒給他高中畢業文憑）。1941年被徵召入伍，納粹黨欲提供他當軍官的機會，但被他拒絕。服役期間，他拒絕了所有可能升遷的機會，且由於受傷，得以不被派上戰場。 1943年，當漢斯和蘇菲兩兄妹因參與白玫瑰反抗納粹運動而被處決時，他協助了紹爾一家人。1945年他自軍中逃亡，和紹爾一家人躲在巴登符騰堡邦艾瓦廷恩。1946年，進入慕尼黑造型藝術學院學習雕刻，隔年在...(展开全部)

Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately, the choices made by designers are understood here as choices about the kind...(展开全部)

This richly illustrated book provides an anthology and summation of the work of one of the world’s leading historians of Chinese painting and calligraphy. Wen Fong helped create the field of East Asian art history during a distinguished five-decade career at Princeton University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Few if any writers in English have such a broad knowledge of the...(展开全部)