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Furuya Korin QuickNotes
Furuya Korin was a Japanese designer and painter. His woodblock-printed books of textile designs, created in the first decade of the 20th century are represented here in our QuickNotes notecard...
Florentine - Multi QuickNotes
Historically, marbled paper has been used for decor projects from book-binding to wallpaper and everything in between. This Florentine collection is a mesmerising design, 4 images packaged in a beautiful...
Plum Village: An Artist's Journey
Discover the life-changing spiritual world of Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village in this poetic and inspired graphic memoir. This one-of-a-kind graphic novel is at once a touching memoir, a reflection...
Color Schemes for Flower Arrangement: A Practical Guide to Floral
Effective use of colour is important in floral arrangement design. This book illustrates how to make effective colour combinations in flower arrangement designs including wrapping paper or container. A first-of-its-kind...
Thom Browne.
Marking the 20th anniversary of the company's founding, this comprehensive monograph is the first book on Thom Browne. With a celebrity clientele including Cardi B, Michelle Obama, LeBron James, and...
Now is Better
Stefan Sagmeister's newest project encourages long-term thinking and reminds us that many things in the world are improving. Initially conceived in 2020 as the world entered pandemic lockdown, Stefan Sagmeister...
Braun: Designed to Keep
The definitive history of Braun - the pioneering German electronics brand that changed the face of modern design Since 1921, Braun has been shaping the way we live through timeless...
Don't Get a Job...Make a Job New Edition: Inventive career models for
Is it your dream to make it as a creative? Imagine for one moment that there are no employers, no firms to send your CV to, no interviews to be...
The Big Book Of Logos
David E. Carters "Big Book of Logos" series is nothing less than an international phenomenon. For the first volume, David E. Carter chose 2,500 logos currently in use, and produced...
Color Schemes for Flower Arrangement: A Practical Guide to Floral
Effective use of colour is important in floral arrangement design. This book illustrates how to make effective colour combinations in flower arrangement designs including wrapping paper or container. A first-of-its-kind...
Girl's Best Friends: Creative Jewelry Design
Creative jewelry design beyond luxury and pomp. Today, jewelry--whether glamorous, gothic, or minimalist--is en vogue. Jewelry goes back centuries and has been on the forefront of design many times throughout...
Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Talk to Me thrives on an important late 20th-century cultural development in design: a shift from the centrality...
The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies
Emerging from the world of commercial art and product styling, design has now become completely integrated into human life. Its marks are all around us, from the chairs we sit...
Soft Furnishings
Providing information about soft furnishings which is fundamental to design and is essential for those considering a career in interior decoration and design, this book enables students to acquire an...
Conran on Design
This personal view of design covers such areas as the household, clothing, food, travel, work and the outdoors, and discusses their role in contemporary culture.
60:Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future: Innovators Shaping Our
Artists, photographers, architects, fashion designers, product designers, street artists, graphic designers: all are helping to redefine our aesthetics, values and ideas about the future. Here, a group of international experts...
Make to Know: From Spaces of Uncertainty to Creative Discovery
Make to Know: From Spaces of Uncertainty to Creative Discovery will change the way you think about creativity. The book upends popular notions of innate artistic and visionary genius and...
Design For Society
In recent years the design industry has boomed, and has helped to create today's superficially more "caring" image. Yet the newsworthiness of design, this book argues, conceals an ignorance of...
Centered: People and Ideas Diversifying Design
A rich, inclusive, contemporary, and global look at design diversity, past and present, through essays, interviews, and images curated by design educator and advocate Kaleena Sales. As the design industry...
V&A Design Notebook: Victorian chartreuse
The V&A is home to 5,000 years of human ingenuity in art, design and performance. Among its treasures are notebooks, working sketches and pattern books from artists and designers of...
Centered: People and Ideas Diversifying Design
A rich, inclusive, contemporary, and global look at design diversity, past and present, through essays, interviews, and images curated by design educator and advocate Kaleena Sales. As the design industry...
How To Be A Design Student (and How to Teach Them)
Designer, artist, and educator Mitch Goldstein's experience as student and teacher gives guidance and inspiration to help students get the most out of design school. Life as a design student...
Mediterranean Living
Taking a sunny look at settings along the Mediterranean, this volume surveys the region from many perspectives -- landscape, customs, cuisine, architecture, interior design -- adding up to a broad,...
Deep Color: The Shades That Shape Our Souls
Destined to become a classic, Deep Color explores how colour acts on our imagination, subconscious, and daily decisions. It helps readers unpack the colour-laden stimuli that come their way every...
Belgium is Design Design for Mankind
During autumn 2010, Design Vlaanderen (Flanders Design) will organise the 6th Design Triennial. This book focuses on the social importance of design in Belgium and investigates how design, via its...
Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival by Hiroshige 500-Piece Puzzle
Utagawa Hiroshige's block print Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival is striking and colourful example of his contemplative and peaceful, full colour block printing style, reproduced here for our 500-Piece Puzzle. A...
Miami Art Deco
A book reviewer once described Arnold Schwartzman as "a trufflehound with a Nikon," praising his passion and inquisitive eye. In Miami Art Deco, Schwartzman's sixth photographic book on Art Deco...
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
Whether it's horror at plastic littering the world's beaches, or despair at the melting of the polar ice caps, the world is gradually waking up to the impending climate disaster....
Worldwide Graphic Design Latin America
Worldwide Graphic Design presents contemporary graphic design from different parts of the world. Even through globalisation seems to have resulted in the different cultures and societies getting more alike, many...
Within Modern Offices
Within Modern Offices is a collection of some of the most strikingly designed offices, each with its own distinctive character and impeccable attention to detail. Rejecting cookie-cutter cubicles and workspaces,...
Latino-Grafico
Latin America is bursting with creativity. As economies in this region have prospered, the demand for work by local creative talent has grown. In this context, an aspiring generation of...
Brandon Birds Astonishing World
From Pop artist Brandon Bird, this activity book is bursting with pages of colouring, stickering and connect-the-dots fun! Featuring activities and portraits inspired by (and parodying) popular artists and televisions...
Design as Art
One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari has been the enfant terrible of Italian art and design for most of the twentieth century How do...
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...
Form Follows Technique: A Design Manifesto
Based on a series of lectures developed by noted furniture designer Richard Schultz, this brief, striking book lays out his design manifesto both challenging and adding to Louis Sullivan's credo...
Fast Company Innovation by Design: Creative Ideas That Transform the
Design has become a critical part of doing business in today's economy. Some of the most innovative companies in tech-Apple, Airbnb, Google, Tesla, and many more-have made human-centered design a...
Eleven Spring: A Celebration of Street Art
"Artists covered the interior walls with their latest, most ambitious efforts, transforming a casual auld-lang-syne get-together into a state-of-the-art statement that ranged from classic tagging to new adventures in papering,...
GamesMaster: The Oral History
The definitive history of the iconic '90s videogame TV show, written by host Dominik Diamond. GamesMaster: An Oral History charts the highs and lows of Channel 4's anarchic UK videogames...
Cast Iron Decoration:A World Survey: A World Survey
Cast iron flourished during the 19th century in an amazing variety of forms, often of extreme richness of design. This superb volume, now available again after some years out of...
GamesMaster: The Oral History
The definitive history of the iconic '90s videogame TV show, written by host Dominik Diamond. GamesMaster: An Oral History charts the highs and lows of Channel 4's anarchic UK videogames...
Surrealism and Design Now: From Dali to AI
Surrealism was one of the most influential cultural movements of the twentieth century. Subverting the dogmas of modernism and rationalism in art and literature, it also had a profound impact...
The Red Flame
One of fashion's most iconic redheads pens a moving coming-of-age story chronicling her professional and personal metamorphosis. At age eighteen, she took the fashion world by storm in a captivating...