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Leonard Koren
WET, the Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, was published between 1976 and 1981, in Venice, California. WET was an experimental venue for up-and-coming writers, photographers, illustrators, and graphic designers. Nearly all…
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This is apared-down, demystified overview of the mental operations involved withcreating things aesthetic, i.e., art, design, and the like.It is adisarmingly clearheaded and unsentimental look at the creative process by…
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An updated version of the classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Every book about wabi-sabi is based on the paradigm introduced in the original edition…
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Twenty-plus years after the initial publication of Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Leonard Koren is back with further insights into this seminal aesthetic paradigm. An important book for…
From the author of Wabi-Sabi, on the intersection of beauty and design.
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Introduction – Determine what art is – Make something from nothing – Stand out in a noisy and distracted world – Get others to see things in very specific ways…
A quirky memoir of Leonard Koren, the artist responsible for creating cultural icons such as WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and the concept of wabi-sabi.
Leonard Koren,William Hall
Visual exploration of the aesthetics of concrete.
An intoxicating, illustrated guide to Japan’s ritual of hot-tub bathing.
Peter Goodman,Leonard Koren
From soft sell to hardball, from sweet persuasion to total war, these powerful bargaining tactics help you win every time.
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