Non-Fiction Books

A sourcebook of 1980s fashion print, this edition showcases prints from a design period that is having a major revival. Covering the whole of this ...

The celebrity tattoo artist takes fans on a tour through his life and art, combining captivating vignettes and stories with more than one hundred c...

More than 450 stunning photographes taken on expeditions to the South and North Poles with descriptions of the explorations and biographies of the ...

A must for letterpress enthusiasts and graphic designers, this is a covetable showcase of Alan Kitching's fount collection. Each page has been ca...

In a world where `smart' objects can talk to each other and a gun can be printed with a desktop 3D printer, the conditions for contemporary design ...

In 2011, adhering to his mentor Henri Cartier-Bresson's mantra to `photograph the truth', animation filmmaker Ishu Patel embarks on a photographic...

The Young British Artists (YBAs) stormed on to the contemporary art scene in 1988 with their attention-grabbing, ironic art. They exploded art-worl...

Here is an authoritative and beautiful overview of the graphic art produced by artists, illustrators and writers who have used the typewriter as a ...

The Best 80s Movies is the ultimate guide to all things retro, taking you on a nostaligic trip through the 80s. The aim is to review all your favou...

Step inside the world of the talented art departments who, led by Academy Award (R)-winning production designer Stuart Craig, were responsible for ...

This inspiring sketchbook, part of the 20 Ways series from Quarry Books, designed to offer artists, designers, and doodlers a fun and sophisticated...

Beginning with Filoli, the century-old, forward-looking estate situated just south of San Francisco, and closing with The Park, the first public ga...

This new book brings together 100 images that represent the idea of active resistance. Inspired by Vivienne Westwood's manifesto (which was first p...

Screenprinting has never been so popular and the water-based process is the best way to do it. This practical and inspirational resource book expla...

By the time of the great Paris Exhibition of 1925, the idea that an interior and its furnishing should form a complete design - a 'total look' - do...

Art Deco buildings, with their highly ornate facades and dramatic forms, are a vital part of our surroundings. This wide-ranging exploration of Art...

Principles, practice and techniques: here is the ultimate coursebook on designing ceramics with confidence. Focusing on design themes and principle...

Rudolf Wittkower deplored specialiation. For him, it was the fact that art communicated experience which made it a rewarding study, and nothing fas...

`Kemp is a natural storyteller... This book leads you on a journey through the life, work and legacy of one of history's most intriguing figures.' ...

Japanese houses today have to contend with unique factors that condition their design, from tiny plots in crowded urban contexts to ever-present se...

Min explores the current rebirth of simplicity in graphic design. As creatives enter into a new phase of minimalism, taking contemporary design in ...

Available for the first time in paperback, this is a revised and updated edition of Jens Hoffmann's survey of groundbreaking exhibitions since 1989...

Here is a an overview of the exceptional work produced and championed by over fifty of the leading illustrators, printmakers and designers from the...

Today, for the first time in history, more than half the world's population lives in cities and most of these cities are in Asia. Here are the chal...

Cinema: The Whole Story takes a close look at the key time periods, genres and key works in world cinema. It places the burgeoning world of cinema ...

Featuring designs by some of the most prominent graphic designers and artists at work in the world today, Green Patriot Posters has grown out of t...

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

Design: The Whole Story takes a close look at the key developments, movements and practitioners of design around the world, from the beginnings ...

The visual exploration of India's decorative genius presented here focuses on architecture - forts, palaces, havelis or mansions, tombs, temple and...

Looking at works from a range of different artists and their various approaches, this book examines the process and practice of drawing, showcasin...

William Wegman is a world-renowned American artist whose paintings, photographs, videos and drawings have been exhibited in museums and galleries i...

PhotoBox presents a collection of 250 photographs by 200 of the world's most prominent photographers, ranging from legendary masters to contempo...

This new and expanded edition of the hugely successful Image Makers, Image Takers explores how celebrated contemporary photographers work, and how ...

This is a volume of living history - the history of our times, as seen by the photographers who captured it. It is the most comprehensive anthology...

The latest instalment in the Manufacturing Guides series, this book is targeted at students and professionals who create graphics or packaging for ...

David Hockney is possibly the world's most popular living painter, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. Here are...

In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities seized an astonishing hoard of more than 1,400 pain...

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the yo...

Numerous designers have pioneered cutting-edge garments and collections throughout the evolution of fashion. But all too often a lack of obvious fi...

In Why You Can Build It Like That, John Zukowsky examines buildings from the past half century or so that pushed the boundaries of what was archite...

About the Author Patrick Marber was born in London in 1964. He began his career as a writer in 1986. He co-wrote and appeared in a number of radio...

For fifty years, pop music was created and consumed like this: you heard a record on the radio, or read about it in a music paper; you bought it on...

Pierre Boulez was appointed to the College de France in 1976, with the chair devoted to 'Invention, technique and language in Music', and he held h...

Robert Heinecken (1931-2006) was a pioneer in the postwar Los Angeles art scene who described himself as a para-photographer because his work stood...

Published in conjunction with a major exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with the Menil Collection, Houst...

Peter Baker's authoritative history of the Obama presidency is the first complete account that will stand the test of time. Baker takes the measure...

`Slightly insane and wonderfully surreal' - Martin Parr Rimaldas Viksraitis's images of abandonment in deepest rural Lithuania mix reportage and vo...

The Book of Durrow is among the earliest surviving decorated manuscripts in north-western Europe, dating to the late seventh century AD. A masterpi...