New Design Books
Print And Pattern 2
$39.95 – Paperback book / Laurence King
Patterns are everywhere, an antidote to gloomy economic times, we see them creeping over shop fronts, packaging design, clothes and home accessories. Who wants mass-produced minimalism when you can have patterns with per... Buy or find out more →
Just My Type
$24.99 – Paperback book / Profile
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Twentieth Century Pattern Design
$69.99 – Hardcover book / Mitchell Beazley
Pattern design flourished throughout the 20th century. From Art Nouveau at the end of the 19th century to computer-generated digital images at the turn of the Millennium, each new generation had their own distinctive app... Buy or find out more →
Paris Underground
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The delectable follow up to "Transit Maps of the World"- with a French twist A word-of-mouth sensation, "Transit Maps of the World" garnered rave reviews and offered delicious eye-candy to the many who devoured its lusci... Buy or find out more →
Graphic Design: Australian Style Manual
$74.95 – Paperback book / Mcgraw Hill
An invaluable resource that covers the foundations of graphic design with a unique Australian/New Zealand perspective. The theory and thought behind graphic design in an Australian and New Zealand context is covered, giv... Buy or find out more →
Lettering A Reference Manual Of Techniques
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Laurence King
Using a combination of explanatory text, step-by-step photographs and classic and contemporary examples, this unique survey brings together over 130 processes involved in creating lettering and applying it to surfaces. I... Buy or find out more →
Pattern & Ornament In The Arts Of India
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
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Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion And Sales Material
$59.95 – Paperback book / Abrams
Created to accompany an international traveling exhibition, 'Another Book about Promotion and Sales Material' explores the work of one of the worlds most famous graphic designersStefan Sagmeister. Divided into four secti... Buy or find out more →
Characters: Cultural Stories Revealed Through Typography
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
Characters presents a selection of stories about the signs seen around a city – in this case Melbourne – that have helped to shape its character and its intriguing history.
The places, experiences and stories are uni... Buy or find out more →
Japanese Illustration Now
$49.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
This extraordinary overview of contemporary Japanese illustration showcases the works of 100 of Japan’s most successful and exciting artists and designers.
The images embrace a huge range of styles, from traditional to... Buy or find out more →
Scandinavian Design Alternative Histories
$39.99 – Paperback book / A & C Black
Scandinavian design is still seen as democratic, functional and simple, its products exemplifying the same characteristics now as they have done since the 1950s. But both the essence and the history of Scandinavian desig... Buy or find out more →
The Toaster Project: Or A Heroic Attempt To Build A Simple Electric Appliance From Scratch
$29.95 – Paperback book / Princeton Archit. Pr
"Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster." So begins The Toaster Project, the author's nine-month-long journey from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where... Buy or find out more →
82 Modern Style Ideas To Create At Home
$34.99 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books
82: Modern Style Ideas to Create at Home is the new book from the team at the highly acclaimed Inside Out magazine. Inside Out provides inspiration to its readers with practical and beautiful projects and clear advice.
T... Buy or find out more →
Stitt Autobiographics
$89.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Stitt Autobiographics is a pictorial record of the 50-year professional life of graphic designer Alex Stitt, who has been the hand behind many aspects of Australia's culture since the 1950s, and has been described by Phi... Buy or find out more →
Inventing The Medium Principles Of Interaction Design As A Cultural Practice
$69.00 – Hardcover book / Mit Press
Digital artifacts from iPads to databases pervade our lives, and the design decisions that shape them affect how we think, act, communicate, and understand the world. But the pace of change has been so rapid that technic... Buy or find out more →
Sarah Illenberger
$47.50 – Hardcover book /
At the intersection of photography, art, and graphic design, Sarah Illenberger creates vivid imagesthat make stories come to life. The visual language of Sarah Illenberger is extremely effective at translating content, d... Buy or find out more →
Erratic Visual Impact In Current Design
$70.00 – Paperback book / Die Gestalten Verlag
Movement, tension, balance, and surprise are being increasingly explored in todays visual culture. More and more cutting-edge design, photography, and art depicts subjects that initially appear to be stable or to be symm... Buy or find out more →
Curves Thalen And Thalen
$125.00 – Hardcover book / Stichting Kunstboek
For ages silver ware has been the source of inspiraton for many an artist. The trade reached an unprecedented level thanks to religious silver ware. Unfortunately, orders dropped away in the course of the twentieth-centu... Buy or find out more →
Outdoor Types An Urban Alphabet Gift Edition With 100 Magnets
$35.00 – Paperback book / Ilex
In a homogenized world dominated by electronic and computerized type forms, author Simon Jennings takes a unique look at the real world, and presents over five hundred found letter forms through thoughtful photographs of... Buy or find out more →
Sustainism Is The New Modernism A Cultural Manifesto
$45.00 – Paperback book / Distributed Art Pub
Michiel Schwarz and Joost Elffers' Sustainism Is the New Modernism declares the dawn of a new cultural era, as we transition from modernity to sustainity--towards a world that is more connected, more localist, more digit... Buy or find out more →
Dymaxion Car Buckminster Fuller
$120.00 – Hardcover book / Ivory Press
In 1933, the visionary architect, engineer and designer Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) built a car that was at that time the world's most fuel-efficient car. The Dymaxion Car ran on 35 miles per gallon, while every other... Buy or find out more →
Parisian Interiors Bold Elegant Refined
$80.00 – Hardcover book / Flammarion
Bursting with color and dramatic focal points, these exceptional interiors offer exclusive access into the homes of Paris' finest art and antiques aficionados. The magic of Paris is distinctly captured in its interiors: ... Buy or find out more →
Green Design
$65.00 – Paperback book / Braun Publishing
Sustainability has become one of the most important words and objectives in the last years. The modern society gains to live more conscious and to leave only a small footprint on earth. Eco-friendly and eco-friendly prod... Buy or find out more →
Fanzines
$39.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
This is a high-impact visual presentation of the most interesting fanzines ever produced. Ephemeral and irreplaceable, many have been lost to all but a few passionate collectors.
Fanzines have been one of the liveliest f... Buy or find out more →
Graphic Arts
$99.00 – Hardcover book / Frechmann Kolon Gmbh
The story and history of the development of Graphic arts from the end of the 19th century through to its many applications in film, animation and forms of media . Many artists chose graphic production. Among them are Mag... Buy or find out more →
Home Love: 100 Inspiring Ideas For Creating Beautiful Rooms
$55.00 – Hardcover book / Lantern Books
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Graphic Inside The Sketchbooks Of The Worlds Great Graphic Designers
$49.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
In this new book from one of the great authorities on graphic design, some 100 of the worlds leading graphic designers open up their private sketchbooks, giving the reader an unparalleled insight into their creative deve... Buy or find out more →
History Of Modern Design Second Edition
$75.00 – Paperback book / Laurence King
Surveying applied arts and industrial design from the 18th century to the present day, this book explores the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing, and the technological, social and commercial context in... Buy or find out more →
Food Design XL
$85.00 – Hardcover book / Springer Verlag
Why are pizzas round, and why are fish fingers rectangular? Why do we cut a cake one way and bread another way? "Food Design", which was published in 2005, gave the first answers to these questions. Now the dedicated aut... Buy or find out more →
Ideaology The Designers Journey Turning Ideas Into Inspired Designs
$49.99 – Paperback book / Rockport Books
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3 D Typography
$80.00 – Hardcover book / Mark Batty Publisher
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Woman As Design
$79.99 – Hardcover book / Hodder Headline
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Vintage Stripe 200
$30.00 – Paperback book / Seigensha
Stripes are a primitive decorative motif found throughout the world since ancient times, and adapted for use in medieval Europe and Japan, for example. Later, marine stripe fabrics for casual clothing found great popular... Buy or find out more →
Drainspotting
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Mark Batty Publisher
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The Melbourne Design Guide 2009/2010
$40.00 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
Offering an insight to the inner workings of Melbourne’s design community, this little big book is the friend you’ve always wanted to have. Lovingly compiled after many months of research, the new Melbourne Design Gu... Buy or find out more →
Kings Way: The Beginnings of Australian Graffiti: Melbourne 1983–93
$64.99$0.00 – Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press
A quarter of a century ago, the New York City hip-hop phenomenon left its mark on Australian walls-a graffiti-writing culture was born.
In a barrage of blinding colour, cryptic words and bombed out train carriages, Kings... Buy or find out more →
Ghobad Shiva A Selection Of Graphic Works
$25.50 – Paperback book / Nazar
A celebrated graphic designer with a distinct Iranian flavour, Ghobad Shiva's works are sought by museums and collectors across the world. This pocket-edition serves as an introduction to a distinct and impressive collec... Buy or find out more →
Classic Design In The World
$23.50 – Paperback book / Seigensha
An encyclopaedic collection of some 3,200 designs and patterns from all ages and cultures is presented here. It contains designs and patterns composed of animal, plant and human motifs found on clothing, chinaware, wall ... Buy or find out more →
Vintage Check 200
$30.00 – Paperback book / Seigensha
Lattice weave patterns, also known as plaid, have a long history that can be traced through older cultures, but were popularised in western fashion circles at the beginning of the 19th century. Now Tartan checks and Burb... Buy or find out more →
One Thousand New Eco Designs And Where To Find Them
$55.00 – Paperback book / Laurence King Publishing
As we become only too aware of the damage man has caused to the planet, more of us want to furnish and decorate our homes with products that do not harm the environment. But being sensitive to the environment does not me... Buy or find out more →
True Crime Detective Magazines
$90.00 – Hardcover book / Taschen
Gun-toting femme fatales caught in the action!
Follows the evolution and devolution of this distinctly American genre from 1924 to 1969
At the height of the Jazz Age, when Prohibition was turning ordinary citizens into c... Buy or find out more →
Illustration Now Taschen 25
$0.00 – Hardcover book / Taschen
TASCHEN’s 25th anniversary - Special edition!
From magazines and newspapers to ads, websites, album covers, and even mobile phone wallpaper, illustration is a crucial element in visual communication today. With unlimit... Buy or find out more →
Redback Graphix
$39.95 – Paperback book / Nat Gallery Of Aust
Redback Graphix will bowl readers over with colour and edgy social comment. From 1979-94 design and screen printing studio Redback Graphix produced posters that combined witty graphics with eye-watering colours to give v... Buy or find out more →
Design Futuring Sustainability Ethics And New Practice
$39.95 – Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr
Design Futuring argues that ethical, political, social and ecological concerns now require a new type of practice which recognises design’s importance in overcoming a world made unsustainable. By using case studies in in... Buy or find out more →
Antique Packaging
$40.00 – Hardcover book / Index Publishing
A curious collection of boxes and packaging from past eras that have left an aesthetic mark on the present. Buy or find out more →
Clarice Cliff For Collectors
$55.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
The colorful and memorable ceramics produced by Clarice Cliff remain among the most popular designs of the Art Deco period. Aimed at collectors from novices to experts, this new guide is organized into three parts: key i... Buy or find out more →
Limited Edition
$135.00 – Hardcover book / Birkhauser
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Lord Of The Logos Designing The Metal Underworld
$95.00 – Paperback book / Die Gestalten Verlag
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Tres Logos
$85.00 – Paperback book / Die Gestalten Verlag
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John Warwicker The Floating World Ukiyo E
$115.00 – Paperback book / Steidl
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Japan Season By Season
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Abrams
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Illusive 3
$105.00 – Hardcover book / Die Gestalten Verlag
Illusive. Contemporary Illustration Part 3 follows in the footsteps of the bestselling Illusive and Illusive 2 books and continues to document the flourishing discipline of contemporary illustration. This definitive refe... Buy or find out more →
Regular Graphic Design Today
$112.00 – Hardcover book / Die Gestalten Verlag
Graphic design is in constant flux. In recent years, the digitalisation of media and the return of materials and personal identity have strongly influenced the development of graphic design and its adjoining disciplines.... Buy or find out more →
Eco Design Handbook Third Edition
$33.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
This fully updated and revised book remains the most comprehensive publication on the market today to catalogue and represent the vast array of ingenious green products available to the everyday consumer. Scrutinizing ev... Buy or find out more →
Design Revolution One Hundred Products That Are Changing Peoples Lives
$55.00 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
Featuring more than 100 contemporary design products and systems - safer baby bottles, a waterless washing machine, low-cost prosthetics for landmine victims, Braille-based building blocks for blind children, wheelchairs... Buy or find out more →
Faber And Faber: Eighty Years Of Book Cover Design
$49.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
An impassioned guide and love letter to the designers, artists and authors at the heart of Faber's design story.
Joseph Connolly - book collector, antiquarian dealer, and acclaimed novelist - has compiled an impassioned ... Buy or find out more →
The Sydney Design Guide 2008/2009
$35.00 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
The Sydney Design Guide goes beyond sun, sand and surf to introduce a metropolis that is home to a world-class creative community. Conceived for the intrepid traveller and the curious local alike, this funky little book ... Buy or find out more →
Sonora: Magic Market Mexico City
$49.00 – Flexi / Actar
A visual and graphic tour through the infamous magic market of Mexico City. Powders, soaps & invocations from 'dominating your man', 'shut your mouth', 'powerful garlic', 'come to me', 'diabolical invocation of satan... Buy or find out more →
Handmade In Melbourne
$29.95 – Paperback book / Geoff Slattery Publishing
The first edition of Handmade in Melbourne was published in 2006 to great success and acclaim from the artisan world and the general community. For this, the second edition of Handmade, we decided to not only increase th... Buy or find out more →