Readings Recommends: Design
Art Nouveau
$104.95 – Hard back / Prestel
This sumptuous volume explores key aspects of Art Nouveau--decorative arts, architecture, fashion, dance, advertising, and more--with an in-depth approach and stunning illustrations. The Art Nouveau movement became an in... Buy or find out more →
Windows On The War: Soviet Tass Posters At Home And Abroad 1941-1945
$79.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Windows on the War is a groundbreaking publication - the first in English to focus on posters designed by the Soviet Union's TASS News Agency to bolster support for the Soviet war effort. TASS posters were created by a l... Buy or find out more →
Touch Of Code Interactive Installations And Experiences
$105.00 – Hardcover book / Die Gestalten Verlag
Thanks to the omnipresence of computers, cell phones, gaming systems, and the internet, a broad audience has traded its past reservations against technology for an almost insatiable curiosity for all things technical. Ag... Buy or find out more →
Typography Sketchbooks
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
Selected by the world's most knowledgeable and well-connected graphic-design commentator, Steven Heller, this survey gets into the minds of designers who create typefaces, word-images and logos through their private sket... Buy or find out more →
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 →
Modernist
$85.00 – Hardcover book /
After going through an eclectic, baroque, and iconic phase, today s design is again taking its visual cues from functionalism and pragmatism. Young graphic designers and illustrators are working in a way that is influenc... Buy or find out more →
Street Fonts Graffiti Alphabets From Around The World
$39.95 – Paperback book / Thames And Hudson
Claudia Walde spent over two years collecting alphabets by 154 artists from 30 countries. Each artist received the same brief: to design all 26 letters of the Latin alphabet within the limits of a single page of the book... Buy or find out more →
Illustration On Advertising
$60.00 – Paperback book / Monsa
This is a book focusing on creativity, innovation and the search for new and original techniques applied to publicity, communications, marketing etc., assembles top creative professionals and leading agencies the world o... Buy or find out more →
Graphics Alive 2
$70.00 – Hardcover book / Victionary
This amazing new title reflects the true essence of the expression expect the unexpected. It's all about the things that enhance the space in which we live, things that infuse energy into the objects around us such as cl... Buy or find out more →
Amelias Anthology Of Illustration
$69.50 – Hardcover book /
Put together by Amelia Gregory, art director and publisher of Amelia's Magazine, Amelia's Anthology of Illustration is an illustration book with a difference. Intended to offer inspiration on many different levels it is ... 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 →
Design For A Living World
$85.00 – Paperback book / Assouline
The Nature Conservancy invited ten designers to create new objects from sustainable materials sourced from around the world. Wood, plants, wool and other organic materials were transformed into intriguing objects, reveal... Buy or find out more →
Sketch Book
$75.00 – Hardcover book / Rockport Books
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Sketchbooks The Hidden Art Of Designers Illustrators And Creatives
$49.95 – Paperback book / Laurence King
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Super Identity
$87.50 – Paperback book / All Rights Reserved
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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 →
Tangible High Touch Visuals
$130.00 – Hardcover book / Die Gestalten Verlag
Manifesting creative visions into material objects and spaces is one of the most prominent developments in contemporary design today. Tangible documents how designers are using the stylistic means of graphic design to im... 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 →
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 →
Diy Album Art Paper Bags And Office Supplies
$75.00 – Hardcover book / Mark Batty Publisher
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Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide To The Decorative Arts Of The 1920s And 1930s
$150.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
Straddling two World Wars and the Great Depression, ushering in the Jazz Age and the era of the automobile and skyscraper, fomenting in the great cities of Europe and America and shaping everything from the Golden Gate B... Buy or find out more →
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 →
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 →
Green Design
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Carlton Books
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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 →
20 Th Century Industrial Design
$29.95 – Paperback book / Seigensha
This wide-ranging collection brings together a fistful of graphic designs that were produced in the first half of the 20th century and deal with both industrial and product design. Hand-drawn, these images employ full li... Buy or find out more →
Independent Design Guide Innovative Products New Generation
$75.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
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Motion Blur Two + Dvd
$120.00 – Hardcover book / Laurence King Publishing
Onedotzero is a cross-media production company that runs an acclaimed international network of events. The onedotzero festival has become a global phenomenon, reaching over 60 cities worldwide and thousands of people. In... Buy or find out more →
Japan Style
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Tord Boontje
$130.00 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli
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Scandinavian Furniture
$120.00 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
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Little Bit Of France
$55.00 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli
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Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far
$39.95 – Paperback book / Abrams
There are lots of design books that are about design. Design books for designers. This isn't one of them - it's much more than that. The sheer richness of this book takes a while to take in - you will find new things eve... Buy or find out more →
Shaker Design Out Of This World
$129.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Reaching an apogee of 6,000 members in the years just before the Civil War, the Shaker movement was the most extensive, enduring, and successful utopian society ever established in America. Leaving Manchester, England, i... Buy or find out more →
Modern Dog 20 Years Of Poster Art
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Chronicle Books
Seattle-based design studio Modern Dog's heady mix of cheeky humor and punk rock aesthetics makes them unique among design firms and a hell of a lot of fun. Gathered here for the first time is their groundbreaking work i... Buy or find out more →
Formulas For Now
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
Imagine if the whole of life were reducible to a single formula. The results are not just unexpected but as weird and as wonderful as life itself. Many of the most creative and original minds of our time - more than a hu... Buy or find out more →
Inspiration: At Home With Design
$0.00 – Hardcover book / Hodder Headline
Design guru Terence Conran takes you on a tour of Barton Court, his Berkshire country home since 1977.
It’s also a site for his Habitat Design business, a factory and studio for producing commercial furniture, a laborato... Buy or find out more →
The Interior World Of Tom Dixon
$100.00$19.95 – Hardcover book / Hodder Headline
Designer Tom Dixon describes his personal approach to what design is and how it works in this thoughtful and (of course) attractive book. He delves into material, processes and styles throughout history to the present, w... Buy or find out more →
Over And Over A Catalogue Of Hand Drawn Patterns
$68.50$55.00 – Paperback book / Princeton Archit. Pr
Pattern can be derived from many sources, if we remember to look closely. While patterns have been around forever, there's a recent movement, a tendency among designers, to allow patterns to animate their work with color... Buy or find out more →
Hand Job A Catalog Of Type
$52.50 – Paperback book / Princeton Archit. Pr
In this digital age of computer-generated graphics and typography, it's refreshing to find typographers who still believe in working by hand. No longer relegated to designer's sketchbooks, hand-drawn type has emerged fro... 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 →