Allworth, February 2022. Paper Back. The Black Experience in Design spotlights teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens. Excluded from traditional design history and educational canons that heavily favor European modernist influences, the work and experiences of Black designers have been systematically overlooked in the profession..... More
Allworth Press, September 1998. Trade Paperback. This collection of essays, interviews, and course syllabi examines how changing professional standards in graphic design have revolutionized the way design is taught, learned, and practiced. Forty-two top designers and educators talk theory, offer proposals, and discuss a wide range of educational concerns, from..... More
The MIT Press, July 2003. Hardcover. The emergence of new media has stimulated debate about the power of the visual to dethrone the cultural prominence of textuality and print. Some scholars celebrate the proliferation of digital images, arguing that it suggests a return to a pictorial age when knowledge was..... More
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, July 2022. Oversized Hardcover. Signed on the half-title page by the editor, Thaisa Way. More
MIT Press (MA), February 1996. Oversize Softcover. "The Idea of Design" is an anthology of essays that addresses the nature and practice of product design and graphic design in the contemporary world. The essays, selected from volumes 4-9 of the international journal Design Issues, focus on three themes: reflection on..... More
Allworth Press, August 2002. Oversize Softcover. The most stimulating installment yet in the acclaimed Looking Closer series! This enthralling collection of essays assembles some of the most intriguing critical commentary published in professional and general interest design magazines from 1997 to 2000. Over thirty contributors, including Rick Poynor, Kathy McCoy..... More
Lars Müller Publishers, August 2004. Oversize Softcover. Straightforward photography, a restrained color scheme, simple texts set in a functional typeface: these are the formal elements that German graphic designer Michael Engelmann drew on to create an unmistakable pictorial language for posters. Engelmann came to advertising self-taught, with a background in..... More
powerHouse Books, October 2006. Hardcover. They've been called visionary by both Newsweek and Time, hailed as the ad world's most talked-about agency by USA Today, and dubbed the next big thing by Business 2.0. They launched the Mini car craze in America, took on Big Tobacco in the controversial Truth..... More
Barron's Educational Series, January 1978. Hardcover. Foxing on interior of dustjacket and endpages. Clean textblock. Jacket price punched out. Previous owner's name label on front free endpaper. More
Knoxville Museum of Art/Whitewalls, 2011. Soft Cover. Quarto. More
(Cooper-Hewitt Museum/Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, December 1988. Paper Back. The Courts and the Colonies offers a detailed account of a protracted dispute arising within a Hutterite colony in Manitoba, when the Schmiedeleut leaders attempted to force the departure of a group that had been excommunicated but would not..... More
Watson-Guptill Publications, July 2002. Oversize Softcover. Defining typography as the mechanical notation and arrangement of language, this illustrated text offers a broad introduction to typography's history and evolution and addresses practical aspects such as legibility, scale, and formatting. Baines and Haslam (both Central Saint Martins College of Art. More
Red Globe Press, May 2001. Trade Paperback. This text provides an accessible critical introduction to a variety of different analytic strategies for understanding the range of objects (paintings, sculpture, adverts, furniture, textiles, photography, fashion, etc.) that make up visual culture. Beginning with a discussion of what understanding can be taken..... More
Routledge, April 2005. Trade Paperback. What is the point of graphic design? Is it advertising or is it art? What purpose does it serve in our society and culture? Malcolm Barnard explores how meaning and identity are at the core of every graphic design project and argues that the role..... More
Verein Berliner Kunstler, January 2002. Paper Back. Two volumes in clear wrap-around mylar case. More
Ryland Peters & Small, September 2000. Oversized Hardcover. In recent years, mid-20th-century modern furniture, ceramics, glass, and textiles have become hugely popular among people who appreciate the stylish contribution that these pieces make to today's home. Modern Retro will inspire you to create a look that combines classics by such..... More
Watson-Guptill, January 1989. Hardcover. Following a brief review of basic terminology, this text for graphic designers concentrates on the decisions affecting type colour and texture and demonstrates how to get the best results. The author examines different ragged settings and explores the effects of altering typeface characters. Previous owner's name/phone..... More
RIBA Publishing, September 2020. Hardcover. Written by a leading proponent of biophilic design, this is the only practical guide to biophilic design principles for interior designers. Describing the key benefits, principles and processes of biophilic design, Nature Inside illustrates the implementation of biophilic design in interior design practice, across a...... More
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, May 2010. Hardcover. Why design now? As issues of ecology and sustainable living continue to gain in urgency and topicality, design has come to the forefront of the arts as the discipline best equipped to meet today's challenges. Designers around the world are rising to..... More
University of Pennsylvania Press, November 2004. Hardcover. In 1939, Vogue magazine invited commercial designer Raymond Loewy and eight of his contemporaries--including Walter Dorwin Teague, Egmont Arens, and Henry Dreyfuss--to design a dress for the Woman of the Future as part of its special issue promoting the New York World's Fair..... More
Schiffer Publishing, October 1998. Hardcover. The Arts & Crafts Movement had a profound effect on twentieth century design. It was a precursor to the minimalism of the day, yet imbued with a quiet eloquence based in careful, exquisite design. The natural materials, the subtlely organic forms began to shape living..... More
Chronicle Books (CA), August 2006. Paper Back. Made in Japanthese three simple words conjure playful wit, a delight in detail, formal elegance, and graphic energy. Author of Made in China, Reed Darmon has collected hundreds of images of everyday Japanese design and pop culture ephemera from the past century. Including..... More
Franco Maria Ricci, January 1972. First Edition. Cloth. (9-inces x 14-inches) Numbered & limited. #78/2000. In well worn cloth covered slipcase with one cracked corner. Book is in exquisite condition. The 2000 consisted of 1500 bound in black silk and 500 bound in leather. This copy is bound in black..... More
Thames & Hudson, April 1991. Trade Paperback. As is. Heavy, crossed out name in marker on the leading edge of the print block and half title page. More
Seven Dials, Castle & Company, December 2000. Paper Back. One of the world's leading maze designers displays his most spectacular and complex mazes, and reveals their powerful psychological secrets, mathematical structures, and how to solve them quickly. Over 150 illustrations, including 100 color photos, cover Greek minotaurs, Roman mosaic labyrinths..... More
