Arts / Design

Pantaloons and Power: A Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform in the United States

by Gayle V. Fischer

By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men's style of dress moved...

Decoration of Houses

by Alexandra Stoddard

Alexandra Stoddard continues her creative and insightful guidance by showing us how to make our homes a real expression of our true selves. Starting with the Fifteen Defining Principles of Interior Design, Stoddard...

Typography 33

by Type Directors Club

For over fifty years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competitions. Typography 33 is the only...

Illustrators 54

by The Society of Illustrators

This 54th edition of the Society of Illustrators Annual represents the very best work created throughout the year. These volumes have been collected and treasured for decades by those interested in the art of...

Fashion and Fetishism: Corsets, Tight Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture

by David Kunzie

From corsets to codpieces, stockings to stilettos and piercing to push-up bras, fashion and sex have always enjoyed a very close relationship. This new edition of David Kunzie's rich and revealing history of...

The Ice Palace That Melted Away: Restoring Civility and Other Lost Virtues to Everyday Life

by Bill Stumpf

With The Ice Palace That Melted Away, Bill Stumpf, the designer of the first ergonomic chair, addresses the symbiotic relationship between design and the way we live, the often deadening effect of technology,...

Scottish National Dress and Tartan

by Stuart Reid

Tartan is an enormously popular pattern in modern fashion and Scottish National Dress is recognised around the world. This book reveals the origin and development of tartans and Scottish national costume. Beginning...

Branding and Product Design: An Integrated Perspective

by Monika Hestad

Branding and design are moving closer together. Despite the strong link between famous brands and the products sold under their name, there is still a gap in understanding the relationship between product design...

Feng Shui: Seeing Is Believing: Essential Geomancy for Beginners and Skeptics

by Jampa Ludrup & Lama Zopa Rinpoche

In this pithy and practical handbook, Ven. Jampa Ludrup lays out the fundamentals of feng shui without any of the opaque mysticism that sometimes clouds the practice. “The aim of this book,” he writes, “is...

Design History: A Students' Handbook

by Dr Hazel Conway & Hazel Conway

Hazel Conway introduces the student new to the subject to different areas of design history and shows some of the ways in which it can be studied and some of its delights and difficulties. No background knowledge...

The illustrator's survival guide

by Amélia Giroux-Gagné & Nicolas Trost

Since its inception in 1983, Illustration Quebec (Quebec Association of illustrators) has developed numerous promotional tools for illustrators. It has also created documents regarding copyrights, contracts,...

Packaging Design: Successful Product Branding From Concept to Shelf

by Marianne R. Klimchuk & Sandra A. Krasovec

The fully updated single-source guide to creating successful packaging designs for consumer products

Now in full-color throughout, Packaging Design, Second Edition has been fully updated to secure its place as...

Pretty Patterns: Surface Design by 25 Contemporary Artists

by Various

This beautiful lookbook celebrates oodles of groundbreaking new talent in the world of pattern design, showcasing the gorgeous work of today's top indie artists, designers, and illustrators. Including surface...

Sustaining Cultural Development: Unified Systems and New Governance in Cultural Life

by Biljana Mickov & James Doyle

In Sustaining Cultural Development, Biljana Mickov and James Doyle argue that effective programmes to promote greater participation in cultural life require substantial investment in research and strategic planning....

Beyond Photoshop: Advanced techniques using Illustrator, Poser, Painter, and more

by Derek Lea

In his best-selling book Creative Photoshop, award-winning artist Derek Lea has already shown the digital art world how to create stunning, sophisticated works of art using Photoshop. Now, he goes one step further...

Illustrating Children's Books

by Martin Ursell

How do you go about illustrating a children's book? Where do the ideas come from? How do you illustrate a narrative? How do you get published? This beautiful book answers all these questions and more. With practical...

Decorative Games: Ornament, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742)

by Jean-Francois Bedard

This book features an extraordinary album of ornament designs by the French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742). For the first time, this publication reproduces in their initial state the embellishments...

This Is Service Design Thinking: Basics-Tools-Cases

by Stickdorn Marc & Schneider Jakob

This is Service Design Thinking introduces an inter-disciplinary approach to designing services. Service design is a bit of a buzzword these days and has gained a lot of interest from various fields. This book,...

The Anatomy of Type

by Stephen Coles

A visual treat for anyone who loves fonts and typographic design.

The Anatomy of Type explores one hundred traditional and modern typefaces in loving detail, with a full spread devoted to each entry. The full...

A History of English Costume

by , Iris Brooke

Miss Brooke is a well known as an authority on historical costume. In this single volume she covers a history of dress in England from earliest times. The book contains an ample text, four coloured plates, and...