Industrial / Commercial Art & Design

For decades, Marvel Comics' superhero group the Avengers have captured the imagination of millions, whether in comics, multi-billion dollar gros...

Almost immediately after his first appearance in comic books in June 1938, Superman began to be adapted to other media. The subsequent decades have...

Svelte and seductive, the Spine chair, shown on the cover of this book, is one of the most renowned objects in contemporary design. Its creator, An...

Mathieu Matégot was a leading French designer of the 1950s. This artist of Hungarian origin was highly productive over a period of some twenty year...

With the dramatic increase in popularity of fashion exhibitions over the past decade, this groundbreaking book provides a timely look at the ev...

An original account of the life and work of legendary designer Jan Tschichold and his role in the movement in Weimar Germany to create modern graph...

This breathtakingly detailed book presents dress patterns, construction details, embroidery and making instructions for fifteen garments and access...

Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz insisted good ol' Charlie Brown and his friends were neither great art nor significant. Yet Schulz's acclaimed...

The lowly placard, a quick and efficient device used to spread news or advertise goods, ascended to the level of a respected art form in the late 1...

`Political Snapshots begins with those Georgian satirists, notably Sayers, Gillray, Rowlandson, Newton and the Cruikshanks, whose work visually ill...

Brian Duffy has been poking fun at the Iowa caucuses for just about as long as theyve been a media circus, since the 1970s. Now, the longtime edito...

The detective genre has explored supernatural and paranormal themes throughout its colorful history. Stories of detectives investigating spirituali...

Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fought and afterward. Comparing these comics with...

Identified as the first designer of what would become known as Swedish Modern by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., K...

In The Illustrated World of Couture, Megan Hess brings to life fashions most important and intriguing art form, with fascinating insights and excep...

Over the years the motion picture industry has (sadly) gravitated to generating poorly cropped and heavily airbrushed posters that rely far too oft...

I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad. The name of William Heath Robinson has entered the national vocabulary as a by...

This collection of 200 posters from the archives of British Airways provides a stunning visual history of air travel from the earliest days to the ...

In Typeset in the Future, blogger and designer Dave Addey invites sci-fi movie fans on a journey through seven genre-defining classics, discovering...

Original ideas for tapestries in the techniques of double weave, inlay, and pattern weave are detailed in engaging text and illustrated by over 90 ...