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Where the grass really is greener: Eco-friendly building in the world today The most exciting new buildings in the world are now almost all environmentally aware, sustainable, and conceived to consume far less energy than ever before. That architecture is one of the major sources of greenhouse gases in the world makes this new trend all the more...

In June of 1938, Action Comics debuted with a new kind of comic book character on its cover: A costumed man with two identities, who possessed extraordinary strength and powers, a man able to protect the public when ordinary measures would not do. He was not the first super hero, but the Man of Steel would become the prototype for all super heroes...

Najwięksi gracze w bardzo konkurencyjnym środowisku ilustratorów. Wyselekcjonowani z serii "Illustration Now!" najważniejsi i odnoszący największe sukcesy ilustratorzy z całego świata. W swoim wprowadzeniu Steven Heller naświetla trudny proces zawężania puli 600 rysowników do 100 najbardziej znaczących. Ostatecznie w puli wybranych postaci znalazły...

Hard times, hard sellsAt the dawn of the 1930s, modernism started to influence the American advertising industry as waves from the European avant-garde movement made their way across the Atlantic. The trend of literal, uninspired print ads was shaken up by new stylized, symbolic, and even abstract advertisements that relied more on aesthetics than...

Along with Turner, no artist has sought more than Monet to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cézanne called "only an eye, but my God what an eye!" who stayed completely true to the principle of absolute fidelity to the visual sensation, painting directly from the object.It could be said that Monet reinvented...

The wild man of Hollywood Visual biographies of cinema's greatest stars Jack Nicholson was over thirty, and more than a decade into his acting career, when Easy Rider finally made him a star. His reputation as a rebellious anti-hero was furthered by three notorious confrontations in films of the 1970s: Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, and One...