Non-Fiction Books

Building prototypes and models is an essential component of any design activity. Prototyping and Modelmaking for Product Design illustrates how...

The work of Guido Argentini has been evolving from his very first book, Silvereye, through the following four books until this latest project: Ero...

Liu Bolin is a chameleon. He covers himself with acrylic paints, blending in seamlessly with the landscape surrounding him and photographs the fini...

About the Author Ami Miyazaki is an editor for PIE Books. Product Description Just having the name of a business recognized in the market is not...

Living with Leonardo is a set of highly focused memoirs, a personal journey interwoven with historical research that encapsulates the author's rela...

Steven Holl celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of his landmark book Anchoring with Compression, a collection of thirty-five major projects from t...

For the past 25 years, the AIDS pandemic has inflicted excruciating pain upon humanity, having ravaged the lives of millions of people around the w...

Delft Design Guide provides an overview of the perspectives, models, approaches, and methods used in the bachelor's and master's curriculum of Indu...

Digital technology has irreversibly changed how we see, think and act. A staggering number of us spend as much as half our waking hours online. Rig...

Product Description CMF Design focuses on general key fundamental principles and processes of the use of colours, materials and finishes design as...

From the Inside Flap Night Fever 5 presents the best in hospitality design with over 100 international venues, including bijou bars, exclusive eat...

Product Description Influential Chinese photographer Zhang Hai’er presents seventy of his most defining works created between 1988 and the pr...

Night Fever 6 unveils outstanding and inspirational destinations that are setting the direction of contemporary hospitality design. Divided into ...

The modern workplace has evolved from a dehumanized cubicle landscape to space designed for intelligent human life. While utility and amenity are ...

Fashionary's classic sketchbook series has expanded once again; this time to include the world's first sketchbook for headwear designers. This d...

About the Author Headquartered in the heart of Asia, victionary connects creative talents and enthusiasts from all over the world through original...

No longer relegated solely to drab or muted earthtones, camouflage is undergoing a renaissance as designers experiment with new patterns and colour...

Materials have the power to affect human experiences and emotions by helping us build intimate connections with inanimate objects through touch and...

We all remember the first band we loved, that first gig. The giddy rush and the joy, but also the disparaging remarks about being 'such a fangirl'....

From graphite pencils and charcoals to soft pastels and crayons, the art of drawing encompasses a variety of mediums and techniques, all of which a...

This fantastic box set is perfect for music lovers everywhere! Packed with your very own harmonica, plus a 64-page playing guide with hints and tip...

Paul Gauguin achieved a high public profile during his lifetime, and was one of the first artists of his generation to achieve international recogn...

Leonardo da Vinci lived an itinerant life. Throughout his career - from its beginnings in the creative maelstrom of fifteenth-century Florence to h...

Packed full of musical and historical analysis centred on the Beatles at the peak of their popularity, The White Album takes a look at one of the g...

Paul Cezanne challenged convention and pioneered new possibilities in painting. He was remarkable for his ability to perceive and paint aspects of ...

During the past decade there has been a tremendous growth in daylighting analysis methods, allowing designers to meet ever higher standards. But in...

John Marciari tells the story of the monuments, artists and patrons of Renaissance Rome in this compelling book. In no other city is the ancient wo...

Francis Bacon was one of the giants dominating the artistic landscape of the mid-twentieth century, and served as the inspiration and launching poi...

In the history of twentieth century modernism, Henri Matisse is a calm and unstoppable revolution of creative genius. Trained originally in the Fr...

Cylinders, spheres and cubes are a small handful of shapes that can be defined by a single word. However, most shapes cannot be found in a dictiona...

There have been precious few truly revolutionary events in rock history: Elvis Presley's first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show... the release of...

Giles Deacon, Solve Sundsbo and Katie Grand explore their finest collaborations in this inspiring and unique book, illustrated with stunning photog...

In this lucid account, Stephanie Porras charts the fascinating story of art in northern Europe during the Renaissance period (ca. 1400-1570). She e...

The latest book based on the popular Print & Pattern blog, Print & Pattern: Nature celebrates beautiful surface designs, patterns and motif...

Timed for the 25th anniversary of the comic strip Mutts, The Art of Nothing celebrates the work of author and illustrator Patrick McDonnell Mooc...

The full story of the band, their key concerts and all their recordings. All accompanied by photographs and rare memorabilia. Spawned in the i...

Product Description Totally Awesome: The Greatest Cartoons of the Eighties is the ultimate guide to '80s cartoon nostalgia, featuring the art, toy...

'A promising young historian with a taste for the exotic.' Stephen Fry The Wonders is a radical new history of the Victorian age: meet the forgott...

Frank Lloyd Wright wasn't just an architect. He was a prophet, a poseur, a beloved teacher, a failed businessman. During his long, eventful life he...

Claude Monet is best known as a leader of the Impressionists, his paintings defining the style that triggered a revolution in art. During the eig...

Rembrandt is probably the most famous Dutch painter of the seventeenth century. His works are greatly loved today, but he was not always so well re...

'I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not.' David Beckham Author Simon Doonan has two passions in life: Fashion and Football. At one tim...

Andy Warhol, the iconic Pop artist, presented himself as the vacuous, dumb kid, famously saying, 'If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just l...

In 1956 Time magazine referred to Pollock as 'Jack the Dripper'. His iconic paintings stretch out with the generosity and scale of the landscape of...

Modern art begins with Goya. He was the first to create works of art for their own sake, and he lived in a time of incredible cultural and social d...

Intellectual, emotional, restless, dogged, loyal, selfish; Kandinsky was an artist - and a man - of contradictions. This genre-defying painter did...

Salvador Dali is one of the most popular artists in the world, known for his lavish lifestyle, gravity-defying moustache and bizarre art. This book...

This is the story of the last acrimonious days of the Beatles, a final chapter reconstructing for the first time the seismic events of 1969, the ye...