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This pocket-size drawing journal is packed with just as much clever, creative fun as the original bestselling 642 Things to Draw. All 642 drawing prompts inside invite doodlers to draw teeny tiny things-from 'a keyhole' and 'a marble' to 'an atom' and 'your house, from space.' Sure to keep creative folks inspired on the go, or wherever the doodle bug strikes!

A welcoming drawing guide for creating beautiful worlds and wondrous wildlife from bestselling artist Johanna Basford.<br/><br/>Through her bestselling coloring books and distinctive illustrations, Johanna Basford's beautiful forests, ocean depths, and hidden magical kingdoms have enchanted millions of people around the world. In this lovely and accessible guide, she shares the fun, simple, no-skills-needed secrets to creating your own wondrous realms through fanciful, expressive line drawing. <br/><br/>With step-by-step exercises, inspiring prompts, and still plenty of pages to color, you'll be free to let your creativity run wild. How to Draw Inky Wonderlands invites you to develop your personal drawing style and master creating marvelous creatures and landscapes using only the pen or pencil in your hand and the wildest reaches of your imagination.

RE:FORM is the book on Swedish crafts for the 21st century. It is a book that takes the pulse of crafts in Sweden today with its focus on the rising generation. Nine authors ranging from art and design historians, economists and journalists to designers and artists give their views about the state of Swedish crafts, about how they can find a new platform in the constantly shifting world of art and design.

Stadens ljud omtalas ofta i termer av buller, vilket brukar beteckna "oönskat ljud". Men buller är inte bara buller, utan är alltid något mer än sig självt. Betydelsen av begreppet buller kan således utvidgas till att på samma gång behandlas som "oönskat" och "önskat". Det mesta av den forskning som behandlar ljud och ljudmiljö är defensiv i den meningen att man söker utveckla metoder för hur ljuden kan reduceras. Samtidigt finns det förvånansvärt lite kunskap om stadens ljud ur ett "offensivt" perspektiv, dvs, hur man kan designa - eller ljudsätta - den fysiska miljön. Björn Hellström vill med sin bok Noise Design genomlysa ljuden ur en konstruktiv och kreativ synvinkel, vilket innefattar ljuden som förmedlare av kvalitativ information. I boken finns en ordlista, med ca tvåhundra begrepp, som klarlägger och exemplifierar ljudens komplexa sammanhang ur arkitektoniska, musikaliska, sociala, estetiska och perceptuella perspektiv. Boken - vars text är på engelska - innehåller även en CD-rom med ljudinspelningar, musikexempel och konst-/ljudinstallationer (för PC och Mac). Björn Hellström är arkitekt, ljudartist och forskare vid Arkitekturskolan, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm.

'Addictive ...a charter for wistfulness' Observer 'An enchanting rabbit hole of handmade houses' The New York Times 'The Bible of pared back, natural living' Der Spiegel 'Take a deep breath and let the inspiration sink in' GQ Cabin Porn began as an on-line project created by a group of friends to inspire their own home building. As they collected more photos, their site attracted thousands of submissions from other cabin builders and a passionate audience of more than ten million people. This book is an invitation to slow down, take a deep breath, and enjoy the beauty and serenity that happens when nature meets simple craft.

Valeria Montti Colque s vibrant work deals with issues of gender, power and transnationality. Montti Colque has a peculiar style that is both recognizable and alien. She builds up a world of her own by mixing influences from popular culture, such as hip hop and punk, with saints, devils, female icons and other mythical figures. Identity is central to Valeria Montti Colque s work. She explores identities with the help of characters that sym- bolize strength, love, grief, trauma and gender power structures. The Jokerita is a female Joker, an outsider that can be both dangerous and a jester. The Mountain is an- other character that represents different entities depend- ing on the context. The mountain itself is alive. It provides man with material and protection in the form of caves. The Menstruation mountain is sacred and symbolizes the eternal life cycle. Both the mountain and menstruation are essential to humans, but their powers have been relegated to oblivion or ignorance today. Valeria Montti Colque s work is about finding oneself as an individual in an increasingly mobile and global time. Valeria Montti Colque has shown her work nationally and internationally. She has received several artist s grants and she has participated in a large number of performanc- es, public artworks and workshops. Montti Colque has been represented at the office of the Swedish Minister of Culture. She raises questions about gender and ethnicity, national borders, life and death, and the perpetuation of heritage and traditions. Some of it I can recognise in myself. How can anyone deal with a multicultural legacy, and how does it affect the person I am today, the things we do together, building the society of today? says Sweden s Minister of Culture Alice Bah Kuhnke on the subject of Valeria Montti Colque s art in Sweden s biggest daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

When the subject of masterpieces is raised, most people think of old art in large museums, or of huge, crowded exhibitions displaying the work of famous masters. To contemporary artists, it seems, the masterpiece no longer has any meaning. It is dismissed as a somewhat comical, outmoded term, one that is inescapably bound up with the art market and publicity. Regardless of what is said in public, however, certain masterpieces continue to serve as benchmarks. These works have succeeded in placing themselves outside time: they continue to inspire and have therefore retained their relevance. In Masterpieces/Masterstrokes the Dutch art historian and art theoretician Frank Reijnders takes specific artworks in their concrete form as the point of departure for a number of theoretical considerations. The recurring question throughout the book is: what is it that makes certain works of art masterful in and of themselves.