Arts

The coming of the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century witnessed unprecedented changes in society: rapid economic progress went hand-in-...

Product Description An essential resource to using contemporary typefaces for effective communication Type is the handwriting of the 21st century...

Afrobeats is a fast-growing genre, one that has carved out a distinct and powerful Black identity rooted within the African continent. The first b...

We have grown accustomed to two beliefs: the first, that only experts can be designers; the second, that our everyday activities are harming the na...

Product Description While information science draws distinctions between 'information', signals and data, artists from the 1960s to the present ha...

Product Description An amazing archive of New York City Transit Authority memorabilia provides a unique look at the city’s past. New York City Tr...

A tribute to the groundbreaking drag elders who helped pave the way for the queens of todayDrag has officially transcended the underground and expl...

'Clemmie writes about each piece of music with such energy and passion that you can't help but immediately want to stop what you're doing and seek ...

Product Description Some of the world’s greatest architects, including Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, have u...

Arcade Game Typography presents readers with a fascinating new world of typography - the pixel typeface. Video game designers of the 70s, 80s and 9...

From ancient and classical masterpieces to contemporary, cutting-edge buildings, architecture has defined our world throughout history. Drawing its...

Human beings have been transforming Mediterranean landscapes into art for at least thirty thousand years. Today's artists, sculptors, designers, ar...

Product Description Despite his posthumous fame as a painter of flowers, still-lifes, gardens, landscapes and city scenes, during his lifetime Vin...

This highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980, and has helped to shape a...

The sudden flurry of colour and rapid spread of busy prints is the result of the new ease of computer printing in fabric design. Pioneered by Brazi...

Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) is one of the most influential British designers of all time and he is widely regarded as Britain’s first independe...

Paul Gauguin created some of the most advanced art in a brilliant generation of artists - all of whom struggled against the stifling conformity of ...

There is nothing quite so satisfying as capturing a stunning wildlife photograph; a good one will reflect practice, patience, careful equipment cho...

With Art Nouveau there developed a new, international style under various names in the architecture and handicrafts from the 1880s onwards that sou...

Rodin's sculpture was in defiance of academic conventions but in later life he became a famous and widely respected figure. This work reappraises h...

Chaim Soutine was an eccentric both in life and on the canvas. His wild painting style inspired many younger artists and leaves no one who sees his...

What you see is very different from what you think you see... There's a lot going on behind the scenes when you like a photograph. Maybe somethin...

Product Description In Artists’ Homes, writer and photographer Tom Harford Thompson presents some thirty individual, eccentric houses and workspac...

When the original edition of this book was published, John Russell hailed it as a `massive contribution to our knowledge of one of the most fascina...

Bamboo has gained the name of "plant steel" in the field of construction. Since ancient times, it has been widely used in Asia and Latin America. F...

Nature as a work of art: birds in their habitat, spectacularly presented in their natural surroundings The award-winning Winged Prism photo series ...

Type Tells Tales focuses on typography that is integral to the message or story it is expressing. This is type that speaks - that is literally the ...

Speed, regulation and mass production defined the first Industrial Revolution, but we have entered a new era. Today's revolution has been driven by...

Product Description For more than 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photograp...

PEPIN is a series of thematic titles on various types of textile and dress - including unusual and overlooked styles. Each volume contains introduc...

Made in Dublin winner of Photography category in the British Design and Production Awards 'A singular new vision and an original contribution to t...

Sinan was the greatest architect of the Ottoman Golden Age of the sixteenth century - when the Ottoman Empire reached its zenith of power and magni...

Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) is one of the most importantrepresentatives of naive art. His paintings, characterizedby a pronounced exoticism and a ch...

This book presents the most remarkable, beautiful, and innovative contemporary building fa�ades. A building's fa�ade sets the aesthetic tone for it...

Clive Arrowsmith is one of the world's most celebrated fashion and celebrity photographers Clive Arrowsmith has photographed a who's who of celebri...

Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) is one of the most importantrepresentatives of naive art. His paintings, characterizedby a pronounced exoticism and a ch...