Description: Eiko Ishioka is one of the most influential designers of this century -- in the West now as much as in her native Japan. She has earned acclaim in many media -- advertising, product design, books, theater, film, and video -- and has won an Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony nomination, and a Cannes Film Festival Award. This sumptuous volume is the companion to her legendary first book, Eiko by Eiko, which was hailed as "the first book of the twenty-first century" upon its release in 1983.

Timed to coincide with her latest film project -- The Cell, starring Jennifer Lopez -- this book focuses on Eiko's notable design projects for the stage and screen of the last twenty years, including Brain Stoker's Dracula, M. Butterfly, and Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungen. Alongside the deeply charged images, Eiko shares for the first time her creative process and talks of her sometimes explosive collaborative efforts. She tells of the dynamic Francis Ford Coppola, the brilliant Paul Schrader, the skilled John Lithgow, the secretive David Copperfield, and the uncompromising Philip Glass. Then in turn, Coppola describes in a foreword what it is like to collaborate with this talented artist.

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