This provides information on the lives and work of the most significant and most influential designers of our era. Selected from throughout the world by an international advisory board, they are the individuals who have done the most to shape the visual and tactile form of our everyday world. Designers from the fields of graphics, interiors, fashion, stage, film, houseware, textile and industrial design are included.

Interior design can be considered a discipline that ranks among the worlds of art, design, and architecture and provides the cognitive tools to operate innovatively within the spaces of the contemporary city that require regeneration. Emerging trends in design combine disciplines such as new aesthetic in the world of art, design in all its ramifications, interior design as a response to more than functional needs, and as the demand for qualitative and symbolic values to be added to contemporary environments. Cultural, Theoretical, and Innovative Approaches to Contemporary Interior Design is an essential reference source that approaches contemporary project development through a cultural and theoretical lens and aims to demonstrate that designing spaces, interiors, and the urban habitat are activities that have independent cultural foundations. Featuring research on topics such as contemporary space, mass housing, and flexible design, this book is ideally designed for interior designers, architects, academics, researchers, industry professionals, and students.

Highlights from Taschen's Fashion Now! series creating a comprehensive overview of fashion design around the world at the start of the 21st century

The Sourcebook of Contemporary Fashion Design is a cutting-edge anthology featuring established and emerging fashion designers from around the world. Included in these pages are the world’s most notable contemporary fashion designers—master couturiers and up-and-coming designers alike—revealing initial line drawings and sketches of their work, along with the inspiration behind their designs and finished runway shots. This gorgeous resource showcases a diverse range of contemporary fashion designers notable for their work in couture and ready-to-wear clothing.

This alphabetically-arranged reference resource provides "information on and assessment of fashion designers active during the period from 1945 to the present."--Page ix.

This volume offers an insight into the lives and works of the most influential designers of this era in one complete guide. Some of the designers included are Kenji Ejuan, frogdesign, Sori Yanagi and Herman Zapf.

This work covers graphic design trends and features the work of dozens of contemporary designers. It identifies and discusses the eclectic design styles of the 1980s, and thematically documents contemporary design, thus placing the achievements of these major designers in a meaningful context.