Industrial / Commercial Art & Design

What is design? What are the main design disciplines, and how do they interrelate? How does design theory and context help you improve your studio ...

"Carter’s new book, DesignedUp, is a useful guide for the modern design practitioner who sits at the intersection of the IT consultancy and agency ...

"Carter’s new book, DesignedUp, is a useful guide for the modern design practitioner who sits at the intersection of the IT consultancy and agency ...

This book develops a new framework for describing the structure of multimodal documents: how language, image, layout and other modes of communicati...

This book examines the materiality of writing. It adopts a multimodal approach to argue that writing as we know it is only a small part of the myri...

Appreciation of the works by the German artist couple Annelies and Fred Stelzig from Besigheim in the discipline of art made for architecture has b...

Robert Seymour and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture is the first book-length study of the original illustrator of Dickens’s Pickwick Papers. Discus...

This title was first published in 2002. To date, studies explaining decorative practice in the early modernist period have largely overlooked the w...

Written by an author with over 30 years of working experience, this book takes a practical, thorough look at the duties and skills of art directors...

This book explores the broad territory of design anthropology, covering key approaches, ways of working and areas of debate and tension. It underst...

This book explores the broad territory of design anthropology, covering key approaches, ways of working and areas of debate and tension. It underst...

Sustainability is normally considered to be about choices for the future being limited by decisions made in the present, and is frequently portraye...

What might the digital revolution we’re currently living through mean for conventional paper books? Is there a future for the long-form text at all...

John McConnell's list of collaborators includes many household names - Boots, Faber & Faber, Halfords, Clarks, John Lewis. The man behind the...

Three unassailable facts will strike you as soon as you start to read The Future of Innovation: ¢ One: innovation is the new mantra; whether you'...

Design History has become a complex and wide-ranging discipline. It now examines artefacts from conception to development, production, mediation, a...

Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, this book delves into the rich world of Ghanaian fashion, demonstrating how, over time, loca...

This compelling book takes the reader on a journey showing how each logo has come into being and the process revealing best practices for extending...

"Jeet Heer more thoroughly and widely understands comics history and the perplexing binomial life of the cartoonist better than anyone who's not on...

The sketching stage is integral to any piece of art - it forms the foundations that everything else balances on. Sketches can often provide interes...

Roughly fifteen years after Gutenberg printed the first substantial book in Mainz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what has been universa...

Probably no book designer of the twentieth century has had more written about him, his work, or his life than Bruce Rogers. He was, as his primary ...

From Griffith Observatory and the Getty Museum to the Hollywood Bowl and Rodeo Drive, All the Buildings in Los Angeles allows readers to experience...

This is a superb celebration of 70-plus of the finest-looking books ever to have seen the light of day. Artists' books always contain art, and the ...

Gary Kwok is the founder of Gary K Limited. Within the competitive floral arena of Hong Kong her brand is synonymous with excellence, superior craf...

A laugh-out-loud, feel-good novel from Top 100 bestelling author of Worn Out Wife Seeks New Life!She's hit the big time... hasn't she?Personal shop...

Today, the book and type designer Frederic Warde is chiefly remembered for his collaboration with Stanley Morison, (designer of the Times New Roman...

The Maintenant series, established in 2008, explores themes of politics, humanity, philosophy, and current concerns from an antiwar, anarchic (and ...

Comic empires is a unique collection of new research exploring the relationship between imperialism and political cartoons, caricature, and satiric...

'Pure joy. Happy, generous, funny, kind, wise and full of fresh air. An absolutely wonderful book.’ – Jeremy Vine'Engaging, entertaining and enligh...

Heidi Kumao: Real and Imagined documents and contextualizes narrative fabric works and animations from Kumao’s 2020 solo exhibition at the Universi...

The most up-to-date manual for using Adobe's gold standard photo workflow software Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic For Dummies is the perfect com...

In this rich examination of gender fluidity in contemporary fashion design, Judith Beyer develops an emerging new theoretical framework for underst...

The most comprehensive overview of advertising design strategies on the market today! This unique, comprehensive overview of advertising design str...

Explore the A to Z of modern advertising.Graphis Advertising 2025 From Issey Miyake's architectural style to Netflix key art, this comprehensive vo...

Designing for Playful Engagement in Museums is filled with creative fodder for practitioners who wish to make more memorable and engaging experienc...

Visionaries of Creative ExcellenceExplore the minds of industry legends like David Carson, Jeff Goodby, Rich Silverstein, and Lindsay Siu in The Gr...

The greatest designer of French lighting, Robert Mathieu, is still little known to the general public today due to the rarity of his pieces on the ...

Dialectic seeks to publish scholarship, analytical study and criticism that will enlighten and inform a diverse audience of design educators engage...