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Pasta is delicious. There is no doubt about that. I mean, a gazillion Italians can’t be wrong. But who ever thought that pasta had geometric beauty?
This stunning new book combines recipes with exquisite black and white graphic design to showcase the lovely shapes that we eat every day. A great addition to any kitchen or design studio.

The Geometry of Pasta pairs over 100 authentic recipes from critically acclaimed chef, Jacob Kenedy, with award-winning designer Caz Hildebrands stunning black-and-white designs to reveal the science, history and philosophy behind spectacular pasta dishes from all over Italy. A stunning fusion of design and food, The Geometry of Pasta tells you everything you need to know about cooking and eating pasta like an Italian.

Another excellent vector art reference book

Neubau Modul is a practical tool that provides designers with over 2,000 editable and infinitely repeatable patterns. As with Neubau Welt, all of the work shown in this book can also be found as Adobe Illustrator and bitmap files on an included DVD that can be used on any platform. The DVD also contains the entire digital collection of patterns as a practical Swatch Library, enabling designers to immediately put them to use in any project in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

In 2005, dgv published the instant bestseller Neubau Welt, an encyclopedia of over twelve hundred pictograms of everyday objects by Stefan Gandl. Two years after its release dgv is proud to announce Neubau Modul, the newest project by the Neubau Team.

Neubau Modul gives designers a wide variety of patterns to use in their daily work. Previously, when designers needed patterned surfaces for their graphics, backgrounds, textures, wallpapers or moving images, they had to create them by hand. It was a time consuming process. Now, with Neubau Modul, designers have a practical tool that gives them access to the over 2,000 editable and infinitely repeatable patterns that the Neubau Team headed by Stefan Gandl and Christoph Grünberger have developed in three years work.

As with Neubau Welt, all of the work shown in the book Neubau Modul can also be found as Adobe Illustrator and bitmap files on an included DVD that can be used on any platform. The DVD also contains the entire digital collection of patterns as a practical Swatch Library, enabling designers to immediately put them to use in any project in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The Swatch Library makes it especially easy for designers to combine and edit the examples and to create new, completely scalable patterns within seconds.
As an added bonus, the DVD contains a headline font designed by Neubau.
The book also provides the user with an analogue instrument for making the best selection of patterns as efficiently as possible. With the included Modulmeter one can test combinations of patterns directly on the page.

Neubau Modul is a practical tool that makes designers every day work a bit easier. It is helpful in creating applications for a wide variety of disciplines that include illustration and architecture as well as web, communication, motion and textile design.

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