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Brazil (BFI Film Classics)
As seen in:Director: Terry Gilliam
Paul McAuley traces Brazil’s production and critical reception, analyses its retro-futuristic imagery and inventive sequences, and unpicks the narrative’s intricate web of accident, coincidence and allusion.
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Breuer
As seen in:Designer: Marcel Breuer
The most comprehensive book on architect and designer Marcel Breuer (1902-1981)
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David Hicks: A Life of Design
As seen in:Designer: David Hicks
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Written by his son Ashley Hicks, “David Hicks: a life of design” is a richly-illustrated survey of the designer’s career. David Hicks was the designer behind the bold patterned hexagonal patterned carpet in Kubrick’s The Shining.
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Mid-Century Modern Complete
This definitive survey of one of the most popular, collectable and dynamic periods of international design offers a rich overview of all aspects of the subject.
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Room To Dream
Director: David Lynch
David Lynch – co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films such as Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive – opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the friendships he has made along the way and the struggles he has faced – sometimes successful, sometimes not – to bring his projects to fruition.
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Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
In Typeset in the Future, blogger and designer Dave Addey invites sci-fi movie fans on a journey through seven genre-defining classics, discovering how they create compelling visions of the future through typography and design.