Allworth Press, October 2003. Trade Paperback. Design is one of the most powerful fields of study of our time. This anthology not only makes it immediately accessible to a vast audience, but also displays it in all its glory and humanity. It gives design an even better name.--Paola Antonelli, Curator..... More
Allworth Press, November 1994. Oversize Softcover. Looking Closer is a collection of the best contemporary writing about graphic design, including theoretical, practical, business-oriented, philosophical, and humorous essays. Selected by a prestigious editorial committee composed of Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Steven Heller, and DK Holland, the essays reflect on inspiration, ethics..... More
The Gardiner Museum Toronto Canada, January 2008. Soft Cover. More
Knoxville Museum of Art/Whitewalls, 2011. Soft Cover. Quarto. More
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2020. Hardcover. An Architectural Record Notable Book A fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet..... More
Picador, June 2021. Paper Back. An Architectural Record Notable Book A fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, in many ways, the indoor..... 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
B E S Pub Co, July 1978. Hardcover. All ex-library features: glued-down jacket with remnants of jacket wrap, pocket removal scars, stamped edges; else, a good, solid copy. More
Verein Berliner Kunstler, January 2002. Paper Back. Two volumes in clear wrap-around mylar case. More
Assouline, March 2002. Hardcover. Internationally renowned artist Bernar Venet continues to challenge himself with a wholly original, fresh collection of furniture. Although designed to satisfy a non-artistic, purely domestic need, furniture fits naturally into the range of Venet's creative activities. Using a blowtorch to cut thick sheets of laminated, crude..... 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
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
Thames & Hudson, September 2012. Oversize Softcover. This textbook combines an analysis of historical thinking about design with contemporary critical theory. Throughout, explanations are linked to visual concepts, so the book is useful for studio instruction as well as freestanding lecture courses on history or theory. Promoting rigorous thinking as..... 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
Pearson Prentice Hall, February 2008. Oversize Softcover. 'Graphic Design History' traces the social and cultural role of visual communication from prehistory to the present, connecting what designers do every day to a history of innovative graphic forms and effects. 'Graphic Design History' traces the social and cultural role of visual..... 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
Watson-Guptill Publications, January 1980. Hardcover. Light shelf wear, edge wear and a 5mm closed tear on the jacket. More
Gibbs Smith, April 2021. Hardcover. Patina style imbues Giannetti client homes in a variety of architectural styles. Steve Giannetti's architectural designs springboard from his image of ultimate beauty--a place where modern, classical and industrial elements merge to create a unique style with a modern sense of space and emotion drawn..... More
Scott & Daughter Publishing Co. Inc., January 2004. Oversized Hardcover. More
Little Brown and Company, January 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. By the author of Populuxe. This text explains how manufacturers play with the consumer's mind in an attempt to sell day-to-day products such as soap and breakfast cereal, each product sitting on a supermarket shelf having been carefully designed to promote..... More
David R Godine, July 2018. Hardcover. More
Dover Publications, August 1979. Oversize Softcover. Stained glass craftsmen can recreate the formal, chromatic elegance of the Victorians with this book of 96 authentic Victorian patterns. Well-known stained glass craftsman Ed Sibbert, Jr., has created these patterns from actual examples of Victorian work and adapted them to make the translation..... More
