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New Program for Graphic Design
ISBN: PB: 9781941753217, DAP, Inventory Press, September 2019
256 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm, 40 colour illus., 180 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "A New Program for Graphic Design" is the first communication-design textbook expressly of and for the 21st century. Three courses – Typography, Gestalt and Interface – provide the foundation of this book. Through a series...
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£22,00
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Poster Collection 31 Stop Motion
ISBN: PB: 9783037786017, Lars Muller Publishers, July 2019
96 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
The medium of the poster is distinguished by displaying messages combining images and text on a static, two-dimensional surface. Designers have, however, always toyed with extending the plane by adding a third dimension, whether spatial or temporal,...
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£20,00
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Max Lamb Exercises in Seating
ISBN: PB: 9780300233889, Yale University Press, May 2018
128 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 145 colour illus.
One of the most exciting designers working today, Max Lamb (b. 1980) has received international acclaim for his innovative experiments with materials, craft, and technology. Drawn to the form of the chair and its relationship to the human body, Lamb...
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£25,00
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Poster Collection 30 Self-Promotion
ISBN: PB: 9783037785584, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2018
192 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 323 illus.
Self-Promotion, the 30th edition of the Poster Collection series, features a compilation of posters the Museum fur Gestaltung in Zurich has commissioned over the years to promote their own exhibitions. Most of them were designed by Swiss designers, t...
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£27,00
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Donald Judd
ISBN: PB: 9780300228687, Yale University Press, September 2017
220 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 110 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
This pioneering, critically acclaimed book, originally published in 2010 and now available in paperback, is an authoritative and enlightening guide to a wide array of works by the great American artist Donald Judd (1928-1994). Showcasing the entire b...
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£35,00
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Poster Collection 29 Jorg Hamburger – Georg Stahelin
ISBN: PB: 9783037785362, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2017
96 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 101 illus.
"Jorg Hamburger – Georg Staehelin", the 29th edition of the "Poster Collection" series, is the first comprehensive tribute to the same-named Swiss designers. Connected by a passion for precision and detail, the two graduates of Allgemeine Gewerbeschu...
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£19,00
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Warm Covers A Scottish Textile Story
ISBN: PB: 9781908326904, Casemate, Sansom & Co, June 2016
176 pp., 27x21 cm, 120 illus.
An overview of Scotland's rich engagement with textiles beginning with the manufacture of linen, wool and cotton in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland once had a flourishing industry in textiles and related products, ranging from sewing...
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£25,00
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Unique by Design Contemporary Jewelry from the Donna Schneier Collection
ISBN: PB: 9780300208764, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2014
136 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 101 colour illus.
Studio jewellery dissolves the modern distinction between decorative and fine arts. The 60 pieces in this lively volume, collected by Donna Schneier and donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, were crested primarily from the early 1960s to the pre...
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£18,99
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Fashioning the Object Bless, Boudicca and the Sandra Backlund
ISBN: PB: 9780300179743, Yale University Press, A+D Series, May 2012
112 pp., 21.6x13.3 cm, 100 colour illus.
The newest volume in the "Art Institute of Chicago's successful A + D" series, "Fashioning the Object", invites readers to visit three of the most visionary design studios at work today: Bless, Boudicca, and Sandra Backlund. Fiercely independent and...
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Design and Truth
ISBN: PB: 9780300171310, Yale University Press, June 2011
224 pp., 20.3x14 cm, 5 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.
"If good design tells the truth", writes Robert Grudin in this path-breaking book on aesthetics and authority, "poor design tells a lie, a lie usually related... to the getting or abusing of power". From the ornate cathedrals of Renaissance Europe to...
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