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50 Design Ideas You Really Need to Know
Featured in Dezeen's Top 10 Architecture and Design books of 2024 Master the design ideas that shape the world we live in today. In a series of 50 accessible essays,...
The Story of Aston Martin: A tribute to automotive excellence
The Story of Aston Martin is a compact and beautifully designed celebration of the iconic car manufacturer. With their stunning looks and powerful engineering, Aston Martin's cars have been synonymous...
Chromorama: How Colour Changed Our Way of Seeing
The Italian colour bible- a gorgeously illustrated exploration of colour and the modern gaze, from an award-winning designer Have you ever wondered why so many pencils are yellow? Why black...
50 Design Ideas You Really Need to Know
Author: John Jervis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Featured in Dezeen's Top 10 Architecture and Design books of 2024 Master the design ideas that shape the world we live...
Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960
From the Studebaker and the Slinky to the TWA terminal and paintings by Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, 1940 to 1960 was a compelling era for the arts in...
Japan Style
Japan style is an aesthetic recognizable to everyone: a beautifully displayed flower, an elegant piece of calligraphy, or a simple rock garden, yet it is also difficult to define. Written...
Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence - Understanding the Zen
Wabi sabi, the quintessential Japanese design aesthetic, is quickly gaining popularity around the world. Taken from the Japanese words wabi , which translates to less is more, and sabi ,...
Rock Posters of Jim Phillips
This retrospective brings insight into hundreds of stunning rock posters by Jim Phillips made over 40 years, from 1965 to 2005, and counting. Phillips tells his life story and how...
Cato Design
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Australian designer Ken Cato has gained notoriety as a leading figure on the visual communication scene today. His work is admired for its striking originality and dynamism, and has appeared...
The Total Package
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Creative Acts For Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in
A vibrantly-illustrated collection of captivating and practical models to help you bring creativity to any challenge you face, from Stanford University's world-renowned d.school What do they teach you at the...
Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion
An anarchic, intimate, lushly illustrated look at the clothes and lives of the Bloomsbury Group Why do we wear what we wear? To answer this question, we must go back...
Jonny Hannah: Greetings from Darktown: An Illustrator's Miscellany
The illustrator Jonny Hannah was born and bred in Scotland, and now lives by the sea in Southampton, but he also resides in Darktown a mysterious coastal town, not found...
John Sloan: Drawing on Illustration
The American realist artist John Sloan (1871-1951) is best known for his portrayals of daily life in early 20th-century New York and as a member of The Eight and the...
Brilliant Discourse: Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome
Sixteenth-century Roman presses turned out hundreds of technical treatises and learned discourses written in the vernacular. Covering topics as diverse as the cultivation of silkworms, the lives of the saints,...
Torn Posters
Jean-Pierre Vorlet's images are everywhere, taken all over the world but establishing common ground, transferable and translatable. In spite of a snatch of Italian or a word or two in...
Poetics of the Poster: The Rhetoric of Image-Text
This book sets out to explore the way, with the onset of a new and integral relationship between text and image, the modern poster is able to evolve distinctive persuasive...
Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch
This book focuses on the Ashburnham Pentateuch, an early medieval illuminated manuscript of the Old Testament whose pictures are among the earliest surviving and most extensive biblical illustrations. Dorothy Verkerk...
Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Comic Sans is one of the most used and most reviled typefaces of the digital age. How was it made? How...
Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years since its creation. Baskerville is...
Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Comic Sans is one of the most used and most reviled typefaces of the digital age. How was it made? How...
Transforming Type: New Directions in Kinetic Typography
Author: Barbara Brownie (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Transforming Type examines kinetic or moving type in a range of fields including film credits, television idents,...
Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 One of the most beautiful handcrafted typefaces in the world, Albertus is also one of the most enduring. The face of...