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The Story of the Design Museum
The essential guide to the story of London's acclaimed museum - from its origins in the 1980s to its pivotal move in 2016 London's Design Museum is entering an exciting...
Alec Cobbe: Designs for Historic Interiors
Alec Cobbe (b.1945) established his reputation as a conservator of Old Master paintings before specializing in the redecoration and rearrangement of historic interiors as homes for masterpieces. His list of...
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 ,...
Sonia Delaunay: The Life of an Artist
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This is the story of a woman who played a significant role in the avant-garde of Paris in the 1920s. A working woman, wife and mother, Sonia Delauney was married...
Twentieth Century Design
The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace. The Coca-Cola bottle and the McDonald's logo are known all over the world,...
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...
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...
Modernism: Modernist Design 1880-1940
Six major design styles during 1880 - 1940 form the basis of the Modernist Movement which embraces a diverse range of the decorative and applied and graphic arts. Starting with...
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...
Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)
The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years since its creation. Baskerville is a transitional design, poised between the first metal types...
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...
Painted Travels: Portraits of Remarkable Places
Author: SJ AxelbyFormat: Hardback, 195mm x 252mm, 840g, 192 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023An armchair discovery tour of truly remarkable places, captured in SJ Axelby's inimitable watercolours. This follow-up...
Objects of Desire: Design and Society Since 1750
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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...
Starck
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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...