Graphic Art category: 1709 books
Show Me a Story!
Why Picture Books Matter: Conversations with 21 of the World's Most Celebrated Illustrators
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
“Will inspire, inform, and delight those of any age who areengaged in—or by—the arts.” — The Horn Book
Renowned children’s literature authority Leonard S. Marcus speaks with twenty-one of the world’s most celebrated illustrators of picture books, asking about their childhood,...
by LaLonnie Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The Great Gatsby is that rare classic that inescapably defines the age from which it sprang: the Roaring '20s, an era of economic boom, stylish excess and above all an explosion of new and exciting fashions. This book chronicles the sparkling spectacle of Jazz Age fashion as it moves from the corseted...
by Jean Dawnay
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Jean Dawnay (now Princess George Galitzine) describes her rise from airline steward to the top of the modelling world in the late 1940s and ’50s. Photographed by greats such as John French and Cecil Beaton and working with Balmain, Carven, Lanvin, Pucci and Christian Dior, where she was a house...
by Bettina Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Bettina Ballard, Paris-based correspondent and later Fashion Editor for US Vogue, was at the centre of the fashion world from the 1930s to the ’50s and an intimate of Coco Chanel, Cristóbal Balenciaga and Elsa Schiaparelli. With journalistic flair, she captures the spirit of pre-war Paris, the...
by Carmel Snow
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Carmel Snow (1887 – 1961), the notorious publishing rival of Vogue editor Edna Woolman Chase, left Vogue in 1932 to become fashion editor, then editor of Harper's Bazaar. This vibrant memoir recalls the glamour and all-consuming work of her passionately conducted career. Determined and opinionated,...
by Helen O'Neil
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This deluxe edition of Helen ONeills award-winning book is a must for lovers of design. With stunning full-page prints of Florence Broadhursts distinctive fabric and wallpaper designs, together with gorgeous photographs of interiors from around the world using her amazing patterns, this is a beautiful...
Fifty Chairs That Changed the World
Design Museum Fifty
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about it? Fifty Chairs That Changed the World imparts that knowledge listing the top 50 chairs that have made a substantial impact in the world of British design today. From Thonet's...
Star Product Designers
Prototypes, Products, and Sketches from the World's Top Designers
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Includes 350 illustrations and full-color photographs
Star Product Designers offers an insider's look at the best product designers working today. With the goal of eliminating the need for instruction manuals, every designer in this book endeavors to create products that are user-friendly,...
by Ottilie Godfrey
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
This stylish introduction to vintage fashion showcases the key designs and styles of the main vintage eras of the 20th century. It will be an inspiration to vintage enthusiasts and general readers alike, including iconic designs, trends and styles from each decade. It also includes commentary on the...
The Occult vs. Fashion, the Path to Success
Emerging designers in the global fashion market
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The research made throughout this piece was executed with the intentions of and in efforts to explore the significance of taking an “interdisciplinary approach” when emerging into today’s global fashion marketplace. The interaction between the subject of fashion and the multitudes of different...
Modern Fashion Traditions
Negotiating Tradition and Modernity through Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Modern Fashion Traditions questions the dynamics of fashion systems and spaces of consumption outside the West. Too often, these fashion systems are studied as a mere and recent result of globalization and Western fashion influences, but this book draws on a wide range of non-Western case studies...
Traditional Interiors
Leta Austin Foster, Sallie Giordano & India Foster
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Leta Austin Foster is among House Beautiful’s most influential interior designers of the 20th century, and has been hailed by House and Garden as one of the “100 Greatest Interior Decorators.” Whether it’s a 19th-century Virginia family home or a modern South Florida country club, Foster believes...
Sifting the Trash
A History of Design Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
How product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill.
Product design criticism operates at the very brink of the landfill site, salvaging some products with praise but consigning others to its depths through condemnation or indifference....
The Creative Process Illustrated
How Advertising's Big Ideas Are Born
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Finally, answers to the question: How are big ideas born?
Creative directors, art directors and advertising copywriters are some of the great artists and thinkers of our time. Considering the scope and power of their influence in our culture, that's not such a crazy idea.
Take an intimate...