Design

An authoritative resource for designers, typographers, signwriters, illustrators, pinstripers, and other creative professionalsNeed to produce some flyers? Want to draw up a logo for a band? Does your local speed shop need a T-shirt design? Don't...

This unique publication collects over 4,500 examples of custom lettering from the heyday of Art Deco and the experimental modernity of the Futurists—from geometric sans, elegant brush scripts, and heavy industrial serifs to hand-drawn...

A long overdue look at the famed fumetti work of Emanuele Taglietti, a legendary comic book cover artist known for his outrageous artwork In the course of his acclaimed career in the 1970s and 1980s, Emanuele Taglietti painted more than 500 covers for...

A new edition, fully illustrated in color, of one of the most widely read books on modern design Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work was first published in 1936. It remains as stimulating and challenging today as it was then. Pevsner saw Modernism as a...

By introducing the magic of "points of connection"—looking great by echoing your own innate characteristics in the clothes you wear—fashion professional Nancy Nix-Rice offers dozens of real-life examples that demonstrate how repeating ones...

Design for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In this edition, Victor Papanek examines the attempts by...

Travel the globe with 32 typographic prints inspired by the world’s greatest cities, all the way from Amsterdam to Zurich, with stops in Paris, Rio and Tokyo along the way. Perfect to pull out and frame. Also features quirky trivia on each city and a...

Featuring 30 highly original and stylish designs by cutting edge illustrator and renowned paper cut artist Poppy Chancellor, this book shows you how to transform a blank sheet of paper into a stunning work of art. Forget complicated step-by-step...

Imagine ‘stepping into someone else’s shoes’. Walking back in time a century ago, which shoes would they be? A pair of silk sensations costing thousands of pounds designed by Yantonnay of Paris or wooden clogs with metal cleats that spark on the cobbles...

A unique, modern overview of World War I, from the weapons to the men on the groundIt is 100 years since the start of WWI, and now, we have new ways of relating information, including infographics. This cutting edge work tells the story of the war in a...

Drawing on a range of original sources, this history vividly records the experiences of clothes selection during the interwar years, revealing the importance of dress codes to both men and women whether at home, work, or at...