Inspiring books for the summer
Inspiration, creativity
Would you like to awaken your creativity, give in to intuition, walk your own path? Krista Kosonen鈥檚 Finding One鈥檚 Own Way in Design guides you to find your own path. Asta Raami鈥檚 Intuition Unleashed teaches you how to strengthen your intuition. Laura Isoniemi鈥檚 The Patterned Mind teaches you creative methods.
Getting creative
Are you ready to get creative and make your own prints? Contemporary Colour Methods is the perfect guide book for textile printing. 厂测惫盲辫补颈苍辞 teaches you the techniques of intaglio printmaking, Monipuolinen serigrafia is your guide to silk screen printing, or is wood your chosen material? Then check out the Art and Craft of Woodblock printmaking.
Dive in and fall in love
Non fiction books open doors to new and interesting worlds. Saara Cantell鈥檚 L盲hikuvan lumo 鈥 ohjaajan ja n盲yttelij盲n yhteisty枚 is a book for all cinephiles. Merja Salo鈥檚 Muodin ikuistajat is a fantastic photography book that chronicles Finnish fashion photography. Harald Arnkil鈥檚 Colours in the visual world gives you all the answers about colour, even the ones you didn鈥檛 know to ask.
Aesthetics and Visuality
Would you like to get to know visual culture? Data Visualization Handbook teaches you how data can be turned into an interesting image. Aesthetics as Space digs into how modern aesthetics influences our everyday decisions. Visuaalinen kuluttaminen opens up new perspectives on understanding consumers and the choices we make in a visual world.
Deep dive into the history of Finnish design
What better time than the long summer break to find inspiration from the past? Take a journey to the history of Finnish industrial design with Finnish Design 鈥 a concise history. A shorter story of the history of modern design is introduced in Ornamentti ja kuutio. Designkuplia- suomalaisen muotoilun ilmi枚it盲 asks the question how Finnish design is marketed outside of Finland?
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