Industrial / Commercial Art & Design

This is a study of a distinctive brand of modernism that first emerged in late nineteenth-century Germany and remained influential throughout the i...

Fashion is fascination, cult, protection and adornment. We experience it daily on our own bodies and we notice it in our surroundings. The manifest...

In this book Pierre Assouline reveals the life and art of Tintin's Belgian creator, Georges Prosper Remi, better known as 'Hergé'. Assouline has ha...

"We seek to inform as well as to celebrate. The best posters about American workers and the jobs at which they labor make up a visually fascinating...

Why don't people take more notice of bollards? How often do they stop to look at a coal-hole cover? Why are pub signs largely ignored and Royal War...

From pulp comics to Maus, the story of the growth of comics in American culture

Star Wars, Batman, 007, The Terminator, Master of Kung Fu, Catwoman-illustrator and graphic novelist Paul Gulacy has built his reputation on these ...

A stunning new volume which presents 120 pieces by 50 leading jewellery designers from the 1960s and '70s, including works by John Donald, Arthur K...

Basil Gogos changed the face of classic horror with his film monster portrait art. Like a bizarro-world Norman Rockwell, he created magazine covers...

The Erotic. The Valorous. The Furious. The Terror-stricken. The Pathetic. The Comic. The Disgusting. The Marvellous. The Peaceful. According to the...

Basketball shoe, tennis shoe, trainer or sneaker, regardless of the name, they have influenced the way we live, and the way we dress, since the ear...

Today, it seems more urgent than ever to focus more attention in design on the common good. This is because we are faced with the consequences of a...

Covering 2001 to today, Designing Retail Experience in the 21st Century presents readers with a critical, cross-disciplinary perspective on retail ...

A visually rich guide that can help aspiring and experienced artists master the stunning yet often complex techniques used to create dazzling water...

Prop Building for Beginners outlines the basic concepts of prop building by featuring step-by-step instructions to create twenty of the most common...

Everybody can be creative. But how do you get people to release their innate creativity? The Characters of Creativity has all the answers. This boo...

Covering 2001 to today, Designing Retail Experience in the 21st Century presents readers with a critical, cross-disciplinary perspective on retail ...

In My Shoes by Tamara Mellon, tells the Jimmy Choo founder's jaw-dropping account of her life in the fashion business.'Wonderfully bling' Sunday Ti...

Exhibiting Craft and Design: Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm, 1930–present investigates the ways that craft and design objects were collected...

Contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to privilege the visi...

"David Mellor ...was the outstanding British flatware designer of the last century and a remarkable man who ... understood, and insisted upon, the ...

What is fashion? What is fashionable? Who decides what is in? What is out? Why is it green one year, and blue the next? Why is one little black dre...

F.H.K Henrion was one of a distinguished group of graphic designers - refugees from Europe just prior to World War II, who brought cutting-edge con...

Developing Your Design Process is your primary source for acquiring knowledge of how and why you design. It will help you understand how architects...

The story of Japanese design, told through works selected from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Japanese designers' special a...

The Bridge is a new look at an old subject, the influence of art & design from the 1st millennium to the 21st century. It is carefully explored...

A new title in the Design series and an excellent introduction to the life and work of this versatile Russian artist. Alexander Mikhailovich Rodche...

The Design series is the winner of the Brand/Series Identity Category at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2009, judges said: "A series...

Jan Le Witt and George Him were a comparative rarity, a graphic design duo; signing their work as 'Lewitt-Him' they brought an innovative use of co...

"Quite simply the most fascinating record of a ‘[fashion] victim’ one could hope for." The Spectator This captivating study reproduces arguably the...