Why is design a strategic business value? In the 2nd volume of the red dot design yearbook, the annual explains their standpoint of good design in accordance to design value, which also goes hand in hand with the respective company's economic goals and its growth. With innovative products featured for a sophisticated lifestyle in the digital age, categories from sports, automobiles, to even interesting jewellery and accessories.

The red dot award:product design is one of the largest design competitions known worldwide for recognizing oustanding design quality and talents all around the world.

Hailing the best of contemporary design, the year's winners of the prestigious red dot design awards have been compiled into a thick, hardcover compendium of the latest forms and answers to the challenges of our time. With comprehensive background infomation, extensive interviews with the designers and essays peppered with detailed illustrations, the 'Living' volume features products created for the art of living and to accompany a global lifestyle of the future.

With categories spanning from Architecture to Living rooms to even Tableware, this book offers the latest overview in current innovations and trends and of course, exhibits the best in product design.

Never Sleep is published by Dress Code, a design studio owned by Andre Andreeve and G. Dan Covert. The book chronicles the lives of Andre and Dan as they meet in college and accomplish their first piece of design work, score a dream job at MTV, only to leave it and start up a studio of their own. Laid out diary-style with beautiful typography, peppered with essays from professors and industry professionals alike and of course, not forgetting a showcase of student and client work. This read offers a genuine first-hand look at the transition from the life of a design student to a design professional.

Never Sleep also explores a new meaning of what success could mean to the reader through the sharing of the authors progression into the design field with a honest experience real to any young designer. This is a must-read for any creative looking for a real insight into the up and downs of the design profession.

Fed up with teeny-little city guide books that don't seem to divulge enough infomation? One of the latest offerings from giant publisher TASCHEN, comes Taschen's New York, which promises to deliver in a solid, hardcover book, filled with rich photographs of interiors of hotels, shops and restaurants.

Edited by Angelika Taschen, who knows New York like no other, her first-hand insider's knowledge include various expedition trips to secret, unknown restaurants, cosy neighborhood delis, fanatstic shopping trips to Soho and Tribeca's stylish boutiques, and hotels both uptown and downtown.