Penguin Drop Caps: Middlemarch
George Eliot
Penguin Drop Caps collect twenty-six stunning hardcovers-one for each letter of the alphabet-featuring cover art by lettering superstar Jessica Hische.
It all begins with a letter. Penguin Drop Caps is a series of twenty-six collectable hardcover editions, each featuring a specially...
100 Best Bikes
Zahid Sardar
These are the best bikes to be found anywhere right now, giving every kind of cyclist an overview of what is out there.
Whether a BMXtreme or mountain bike enthusiast, a keen tourer or racer, a city commuter or courier, or simply fascinated with the constantly advancing mechanics and engineering of folding and other innovative bike...
100 Ideas That Changed Architecture
Richard Weston
This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped architecture. Entertainingly written by an expert on architecture, it provides a concise history of the subject, and offers a fascinating resource to dip into for the general reader.
Starting with the basic building 'components' of...
100 Ideas That Changed Art
Michael Bird
From the earliest cave paintings through to the internet and street art, this inspiring book chronicles the 100 most influential ideas that have shaped the world of art.
Arranged in broadly chronological order, it provides a unique and compelling take on the history of art. The book shows how developments in...
100 Ideas That Changed Fashion
Harriet Worsley
100 Ideas that Changed Fashion chronicles the most influential fashion ideas through which womenswear has evolved, offering a unique and engaging perspective on the subject.
Charting the movements, developments and ideas that transformed the way women dress, the book gives a...
100 Ideas That Changed Film
David Parkinson
This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped film since its inception. Entertaining and intelligent, it provides a very concise history and is a fascinating resource.
Arranged in a broadly chronological order to show the development of film, the ideas include innovative concepts, technologies,...
100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design
Steven Heller, Véronique Vienne
New in the "100 Ideas that Changed..." series, this book demonstrates how ideas influenced and defined graphic design, and how those ideas have manifested themselves in design objects.
The 100 entries, arranged broadly in chronological order, range from technical...
100 Ideas that Changed Photography
Mary Warner Marien
This compelling book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped photography from the invention of the daguerreotype in the early 19th century up to the digital revolution and beyond. Entertaining and intelligent, it is a fascinating resource to dip into.
Arranged in a broadly...
100 Visual Ideas, 1000 Great Ads
Joe la Pompe
In 100 Visual Ideas, 1000 Great Ads, the French blogger and undercover advertising expert Joe La Pompe exposes the not-so-secret visual recipes behind great ads.
La Pompe extracts the 100 most popular visual ideas and recurring subjects from the world of advertising. He then presents the ten best...
101 Essential Rock Records
Kill Your Idols
This volume is a tribute to the vinyl album and celebrates 101 of rock's most influential records, from The Beatles' 1963 debut Please Please Me - through the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks.
Alongside the big names Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac are lesser-known but highly influential...
12 Ideas for Visual Communication
Mechthild Waidmann, Stefan Waidmann, Eckard Jung
From the new generation of design educators in Germany who have inherited the mantle of the great Swiss designers and teachers, this exemplary textbook is a fine new tool for the libraries of professional graphic designers, design students and teachers.
The words explaining the fundamentals and...
36 Hours: USA & Canada, Southeast
The New York Times
Weekends on the road. This is the best of the American Southeast. The "New York Times" has been offering up dream weekends with practical itineraries in its popular weekly "36 Hours" column since 2002.
The many expert contributors have brought careful research, insider's knowledge, and a...
36 Hours: USA & Canada, Southwest & Rocky Mountains
The New York Times
Weekends on the road. This is the best of the American Southwest and Rocky Mountains. The "New York Times" has been offering up dream weekends with practical itineraries in its popular weekly "36 Hours" column since 2002.
The many expert...
36 Hours: USA & Canada, West Coast
The New York Times
Weekends on the road. This is the best of the American and Canadian West Coast. The "New York Times" has been offering up dream weekends with practical itineraries in its popular weekly "36 Hours" column since 2002.
The many expert contributors have brought careful research, insider's...
50 Years of D&AD
D&AD
The annual D&AD Awards honor outstanding creativity, originality, technical excellence, and innovation in design and advertising. Every year, thousands of entrants submit a host of crazy, beautiful, thought-provoking, sublime and, occasionally, winning entries.
Panels of rigorous judges debate, sometimes for days on end, to decide...
8vo: On the Outside
Mark Holt, Hamish Muir
Founded in London in 1984 by Mark Holt, Simon Johnston, and Hamish Muir, 8vo was one of the most influential design studios in the 1980s and continues to be significant in the design world today.
The studio used traditional, craft-based working methods but an experimental approach to design in order to anticipate the computer-aided aesthetic of the 90s. Octavo...
A Balloon For A Blunderbuss
Bob Gill, Alistair Reid
This lovingly restored 1960s children's classic takes design lovers of all ages on a fantastic journey via an imaginative and entertaining series of trades and swaps.
The trades start small, with a tiny butterfly, and end up including absolutely everything in the world, from straw hats to the stars in the sky. A Balloon for a...
A Coloring Book: Drawings By Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
It was 1953 when, not long after arriving in New York City, a young artist named Andy Warhol had begun to make his way in the world of commercial illustration.
As Arthur Edelman, his former employer, relates in his introductory note, in a hallway of the Empire State Building ‘stood a young man with...
A Graphic Cosmogony
Nobrow
It could not be said better than with the introductory words of acclaimed comics expert and organiser of Comica, Paul Gravett: ‘In the beginning…’
When it comes to the birth of comics, like the birth of the cosmos, it’s still open to speculation. The Book of Genesis might open with ‘In the beginning was the word’, but it seems...
A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days
Studio 3
One fateful rainy day, a bored kid asks his grandfather “what is graphic design?”
Starting with that innocent question, this activity book takes its readers on a charmingly illustrated and cleverly revealing whirlwind tour through this creative discipline’s milestone developments,...
A History of Visual Communication
Joseph Muller Brockmann
This book is a sequence of images that refers to the history and richness of visual communication. The partly new designed and revised publication was supplemented by one additional chapter.
The book establishes a reference to the past through contemporary works and the most recent technical means. The author...
A Map Of The World
Antonis Antoniou, R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, H. Hellige
Maps help us understand and navigate the world. For centuries, maps have become better, more refined, and more precise—there are no blind spots anymore.
While Google Maps and GPS systems have become our tools of choice for navigation, contemporary maps have evolved into platforms for...
A Persistence of Vision: Arnold Schwartzman
Schwartzman
Arnold Schwartzman's multi-disciplined life has encompassed working as an illustrator, graphic designer, advertising executive, magazine editor, art director, art gallery director, photographer, film-maker, author and educator.
He was awarded an Academy Award in 1982 for producing and directing a...
A Smile In The Mind
Beryl McAlhone, David Stuart
This book explores so-called 'witty thinking' - arguably the most entertaining area of graphic design. Witty thinking is playfulness with ideas, words playing against images, and unexpected connections prompting new insights. It is clever thinking. A Smile in the Mind analyses the intricate thought processes behind the apparently forward images. It shows how to...
A Type Primer
John Kane
This book provides a practical guide for the beginner presenting the basic principles and applications of typography with a series of exercises that reinforce the acquired knowledge.
The intent of this book is to bring the reader to the point where he or she can understand and demonstrate the basic principles of typography. According to...