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Trabajar en equipo es algo enormemente gratificante, pero también enormemente complejo. Tras muchos años de experiencia en la facilitación de procesos de creación en grupo, el autor ha sintetizado en este libro una eficaz metodología que sirve de guía para evitar los habituales puntos ciegos, errores, desequilibrios y amenazas que pueden obstruir el proceso y bloquear al equipo. ¿Qué debemos saber para co-crear con eficacia y disfrute? ¿Qué figuras o fases de ideación en equipo se dan en un proyecto? ¿Cómo evitar problemas habituales como las actitudes muy críticas, el recelo hacia las nuevas ideas, el conformismo o la falta de motivación del equipo?

En la era de la imagen, el perfil de diseñador gráfico se ha convertido en uno de los más demandados entre los profesionales generadores de contenidos digitales.En estos tiempos digitales, el diseñador gráfico debe explorar las posibilidades creativas de cada medio y optimizar la composición gráfica para lograr una mejor comunicación visual. Aunque la mayoría de los proyectos de diseño gráfico se elaboran con herramientas digitales y programas de diseño, ello no implica necesariamente que estén bien preparados para su correcta difusión en pantallas digitales.A las competencias específicas del diseño gráfico tradicional es preciso añadir la creación de diseños optimizados para su difusión final en los nuevos medios y dispositivos digitales (sitios Web, redes sociales, smartphones, tablets, soportes publicitarios online, canales de marketing, etc.).Este libro aúna los conocimientos básicos de diseño gráfico tradicional con contenidos específicos para diseñar en la nueva era digital, como el uso de tipografía digital, el tratamiento informático del color, las técnicas de vectorización, la optimización de imágenes para la Web, el cálculo de la resolución más adecuada para cada medio, entre otros temas.Incluye, además, numerosos ejemplos a toda página de proyectos profesionales de diseño gráfico digital aplicados, con colaboraciones de renombrados diseñadores y de estudios de diseño gráfico de todo el mundo.

Robert and Cortney Novogratz, starts of the hit Bravo series 9 BY DESIGN, have been renovating and designing unique and hip homes for families for over ten years. Describing their signature style as a sophisticated but bohemian mix of high and low, new and old, they offer their realistic advice on how to create original, warm interiors with ease.

Studio DB, a Manhattan-based architecture and interiors firm headed by Britt and Damian Zunino, is inspired by contextual design and eclecticism—the resulting work embraces the juxtaposition of and tension between polished and playful, modern and traditional. Their projects incorporate a mix of materials, sculptural forms, and whimsical pattern and color, all anchored by a contemporary desire for domestic ease. Design details distinguish their work, with tactile materials interpreted in fresh ways. Examples include exquisite de Gournay wallpaper paired with suspended lamps in a variety of geometric forms and the terrazzo floor of a city foyer, incorporating massive chunks of stone slabs and smaller rocks from the client’s climbing adventures.

A fresh look at one of America’s best-known and beloved artists at a pivotal but little-known moment in his life that profoundly shaped both his art and career. Edward Hopper & Cape Ann tells the largely ignored but significant origin story of Edward Hopper’s years in and around Gloucester, Massachusetts—a period and place that imbued Hopper’s paintings with a clarity and purpose that had eluded his earlier work. This volume focuses on summers Hopper spent there in the 1920s, starting in 1923, when he first embraced watercolor during outdoor painting excursions on Cape Ann and discovered one of his favorite subjects: houses and vernacular architecture. The success of Hopper’s Gloucester watercolors transformed his work in all media and set the stage for his monumental career. Accompanying a major retrospective at the Cape Ann Museum, including an unprecedented loan of twenty-eight works from the Whitney Museum of American Art, this highly readable and beautifully illustrated volume reveals in great depth the lesser-known story about the influence of a young painter, Josephine Nivison, who became not only Hopper’s wife but also the most trusted force underlying his artistic confidence. Here she is recast as principal producer of Hopper’s distinctive style and his “brand” visionary from the time of their courtship until his death in 1967.

“The Tower is also present to the entire world... a universal symbol of Paris... from the Midwest to Australia, there is no journey to France which isn’t made, somehow, in the Tower’s name.” ― Roland Barthes When Gustave Eiffel completed his wrought iron tower on Paris’s Champ de Mars for the World’s Fair in 1889, he laid claim to the tallest structure in the world. Though the Chrysler Building would, 41 years later, scrape an even higher sky, the Eiffel Tower lost none of its lofty wonder: originally granted just a 20-year permit, the Tower became a permanent and mesmerizing fixture on the Parisian skyline. Commanding by day, twinkling by night, it has mesmerized Francophiles and lovers, writers, artists, and dreamers from all over the world, welcoming around seven million visitors every single year. Based on an original, limited edition folio by Gustave Eiffel himself, this fresh TASCHEN edition explores the concept and construction of this remarkable building. Step by step, one latticework layer after another, Eiffel’s iconic design evolves over double-page plates, meticulous drawings, and on-site photographs, including new images and even more historical context. The result is at once a gem of vintage architecture and a unique insight into the idea behind an icon.