Graphic Art Design category: 1547 books
Strange Material
Storytelling through Textiles
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Strange Material explores the relationship between handmade textiles and storytelling.Through text, the act of weaving a tale or dropping a thread takes on new meaning for those who previously have seen textiles-quilts, blankets, articles of clothing, and more-only as functional objects. This book showcases...
Blown Covers
New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Françoise Mouly takes us behind the scenes at the New Yorker and reveals how the magazine creates its signature covers commenting on the most urgent political and cultural events of the day. She shows the shocking and hilarious sketches that didn’t make the cut and explains how these are essential...
by William McLellan
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
THE TRUE STORY OF HOW ONE MAN OVERCAME HIS DEMONS AND UNLEASHED HIS CREATIVITY -- IN A FASCIST JAIL It's 1972. William is a creative boy in a dead-end job, his dream of becoming an artist fading fast. So when his best friend hatches a plan to fund a year's painting in Morocco, William leaps at the...
by Thomas Hope
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
From headdresses to sandals, from warrior's armor to priestess's robes, the authentic costumes of people from all walks of life in the Roman and Greek civilizations are here pictured comprehensively and clearly. Three hundred finely drawn, detailed engravings (containing over 700 illustrations) show...
Viva la Pizza!
The Art of the Pizza Box
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
“New Yorkers are particular about pizza, and no one has a more well-formed opinion than Scott Wiener.”
—Newsday
One of the world’s foremost pizza experts presents more than 100 weird and wild pizza box designs
Since the origins of to-go pizza, pizzerias and pizza chains have...
by Bruce Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In 1948, the world-renowned book designer Bruce Rogers wrote a brief text that documented and illustrated his creation of the Centaur typeface several decades earlier: The Centaur Types. The book was privately printed by Rogers himself under the name of his design studio, October House. This limited...
Experimental Fashion
Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award
Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style....
Painter 11 Creativity
Digital Artist's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Jeremy Sutton is one of the world's premier Painter artists (www.JeremySutton.com and www.PaintboxJ.com), and in this brand new edition of his best-selling Painter Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook, he shows you the methods and techniques he's developed over the years to perfect his art and earn...
Sloppy Craft
Postdisciplinarity and the Crafts
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Sloppy Craft: Postdisciplinarity and the Crafts brings together leading international artists and critics to explore the possibilities and limitations of the idea of 'sloppy craft' – craft that is messy or unfinished looking in its execution or appearance, or both. The contributors address 'sloppiness'...
by Debbie Millman
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Debbie Millman's illustrated essays and visual poems are part philosophy, part art, part deeply personal memoir exposing the universal triumphs and tribulations of being human. Her hand-lettered typography - sometimes tender, sometimes gritty, always breathtaking in its visceral candor - makes Self...
by Annie R. Rentoul, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Grenbry Outhwaite
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
A highly sought-after collectible, Fairyland features the exquisite illustrations of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, a noted artist of the early 20th century. Outhwaite excelled at the depiction of dainty sprites, and her whimsical visions are highlighted by images of kangaroos, koalas, kookaburras, and other...
Make Change!
Art to Inspire Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A joyful testament to our ability to rise to new challenges and shape the world for the better, Make Change! collects art celebrating inclusivity, love, and civic engagement in one compelling, petite hardcover volume. Filled to the brim with artwork from a diverse roster of celebrated illustrators...
The Digital Renaissance
Old-Master Techniques in Painter and Photoshop
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The Digital Renaissance teaches you how to translate the methods and skills found in traditional art to the digital medium. By covering fundamental painting principles and the basics of digital software, before moving into tutorials that break down key techniques, professional artist Carlyn Beccia...
Art in the Alphabet
A History of the Evolution of Hand Lettering
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This grand compilation presents more than 250 depictions of the alphabet's changing forms, from handsome Roman letters cut in marble and delicate English courthand to sixteenth-century Greek initials and modern styles inspired by Gothic, Japanese, and other forms of writing. In addition to its intriguing...