Industrial / Commercial Art & Design

Logos form an essential part of brand identity - the allow people to quickly and easily identify and connect with a brand, its products and service...

Architectural, industrial, and graphic design in the United States from the 1950s through to the 1970s - generally known as mid-century modern - is...

Scholars have argued that postmodernism is dead and that we are entering into a new era that some have labelled altermodernism, digimodernism, perf...

A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400. The medieval age saw an extraordinary burst of color - from illumina...

A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity covers the period 3000 BCE to 500 CE. Although the smooth, white marbles of Classical sculpture and archit...

The 18th century saw the height of court culture in Europe as well as the beginnings of its demise with conflicts such as the American and French R...

The 16th and 17th centuries in Europe witnessed a significant paradigm shift. Rooted in medieval beliefs and preoccupations, the exploration so cha...

Originally published in 1937 and reprinted as a fourth edition in paperback in 1979, this is a history of dress in England from the Norman Conquest...

Originally published in 1958, this book deals with the details of dress formal and informal from the time of Charles II to the end of the eightee...

What do designers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and politicians have in common? They want to shape the future. But how can you make the future that ...

Dee-Ceased is no ordinary comic book. Its literally three books in one. Part comic book, part chapter book, and part history lesson. Youll get all ...

Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire ...

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small qua...

During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from gr...

Over the last century there has been a complete transformation of the fashion system. The unitary top-down fashion cycle has been replaced by the p...

The first book from the AD100 interior designer renowned for joyful, vibrant, intensely personal homes imbued with art, pattern, and craftsmanship ...