Graphic Arts

Many designs that appear in today's society will circulate and encounter audiences of many different cultures and languages. With communication comes responsibility; are designers aware of the meaning and impact of their work? An image or symbol that is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616559809Author Bethesda SoftworksFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Dark Horse ComicsPublisher Dark Horse ComicsWeight(grams) 2334g

A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks "A beautiful production: a typographic and calligraphic treat as treasurable as a rare magical text itself. Almost every page is filled with wonder."-Suzi...

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices. Three of the fields in which the Bauhaus generated immediately...

Henri Matisse described the Chapel of the Rosary, the chief labour of his final years, as the 'gathering together' of his lifetime's work. Although widely known as 'Matisse's Chapel', the building's remarkable 'modern' design and decoration emerged from...

In 1995, Welcome Books published the star of its "Art and Poetry" series, "Dance Me to the End of Love", a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen visualized through the warm, spirited paintings and collages of Henri Matisse. Now, for its 10-year...

In the late 1910s, in a Europe ravaged by World War I, Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen put the finishing touches on his illustrations of A Thousand and One Nights. The results are considered masterpieces of early 20th-century illustration: bursting with...

This updated, expanded and oversized inspirational resource for artists and designers working with colour presents more than 1,100 colour palettes, with light, bright, dark and muted varieties for each one, making it the most expansive palette selection...

The Sick Rose is a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. This stunning volume, combining detailed illustrations of afflicted patients from some of the world's rarest medical books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780677569Author Steven HellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 280g

A treasure trove of visual delights: examples of the sketchbooks of sixty international illustrators offer new insights into their artistic practice. Intimate and often unseen, the sketchbook means something different to each illustrator. It might be a...

This long-awaited monograph brings together fifty years of work and demonstrates how the interiors guru has drawn on a global range of influences for his designs as well as his furniture and fabric collections. John Stefanidis established his design...

One of many exhilarating artistic developments that took place during the early twentieth century, the fine art medium of collage emerged from the cubist gluing and pasting explorations of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. As a result of its...

Bungie presents the Destiny Grimoire Anthology, a must-have collectible lore compendium designed and assembled for Destiny's devoted and enlightened scholars and lore lovers, as well as fans of fantasy and science fiction storytelling. Until now, the...

In Drawing with a Tablet: Easy Techniques for Mastering Digital Drawing on Location, readers will learn step by step how to create amazing drawings while on the go. In the sixth volume of the Urban Sketching Handbook series, popular artist and workshop...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933492964Author Scott RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio Press

Drawings are the foundations of great fantasy art where concepts, thoughts, and inspirations first become an image. In Sketching from the Imagination: Fantasy, fifty talented traditional and digital artists have been chosen to share their sketchbook...

This comprehensive, beautiful book delves deep into the complex but fascinating story of our relationship with colour throughout human history. Colour is fundamental to our experience and understanding of the world. It crosses continents and cultures,...

The long-awaited third monograph on the work of the most important British designer of his generation, showcasing projects from the last thirty years of his career. Neville Brody's work sits at the intersections between graphic design, communication...

An entertaining, informative, and elegantly designed guide that makes understanding punctuation marks and symbols simple and fun. A rollicking linguistic ride for fans of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Just My Type. ...

Five years in the making, Pentagram: Living by Design is an in-depth survey of the group from its beginnings in 1970s London to its current status as one of the powerhouses of international design. Pentagram: Living by Design (two volumes) is the...

Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and medieval medicine. How did scribes choose to arrange the words and images on the page in each manuscript? How...

This compelling book takes the reader on a journey showing how each logo has come into being and the process revealing best practices for extending a logo into a complete brand identity system. Logos are becoming increasingly simple, to the point where...

Exam Board: SQALevel: N4/5Subject: Graphic Communication The National 4 & 5 Graphic Communication Course Notes provide comprehensive guidance for the entire CfE programme. Course Notes give a practical approach to help deliver the new...

From ancient Greek temples to twentieth-century towers, engineers have learned more about design from failure than success. The concept of error, according to the author, is central to the design process. As a way of explaining the enduring aspects of...

The automobile seems to be as popular now as it ever was. Posters of cars still adorn many a child's bedroom wall, and school exercise books are full of doodles of cars. This new edition of a very popular book takes those notebook sketches and teaches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789185639755Author Bjorn AlmqvistFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Dokument PressPublisher Dokument ForlagWeight(grams) 302g

In this visually captivating volume, a vibrant selection of loved and revered children's book illustrators reveals the secrets of their narrative techniques. Divided into a series of enchanting sections each created by individual illustrators, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576878477Author Jonathan ShawFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Protege of design legend Massimo Vignelli and partner in the New York office of the international design firm Pentagram, Michael Bierut has had one of the most varied careers of any living graphic designer. The projects he presents in this book...

In the mid- to late 1980s, rave culture developed. It influenced music, design, art, drugs, fashion, language and even the law. Originally emerging in the USA, it was refined in the UK by people who wanted to dance, party and express themselves in terms...

Is it your dream to make it as a creative? Imagine for one moment that there are no employers, no firms to send your CV to, no interviews to be had. How would you forge your own path? The most ingenious and driven designers have found ways of making...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040265Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Digital design plays a crucial role in how customers experience a brand. However, corporate websites and online shops are only part of interactive brand identity; complex user experiences closely interlink conception, design and technology, and integrate...

This title includes over 500 illustrations and easy-to-follow steps. It is targeted at the countless managa fans the world over who are irresistibly drawn to everything Kawaii and the cult of cute. From Hello Kitty to the huge array of Pokemon...

A comprehensive resource to understanding the hand-press printing of early books Studying Early Printed Books, 1450 - 1800 offers a guide to the fascinating process of how books were printed in the first centuries of the press and shows how the mechanics...

For more than 100 years, winter sports have been an integral part of the image of mountainous regions. Skiing in particular became the "in" activity for the rich and beautiful during the "roaring twenties". The sport was as much about competition as it...

In recent years, risography has captured the attention of printers and artists, especially in independent and selfpublishing circles, given the technical and visual qualities it offers. Vivid spot colors, warm finishes and occasional imperfections in...

'Big Type' explores graphic design and identity work where the emphasis is on typography. The visual landscape in which today's designers are contributing to is very cluttered and the digital world alone is so vast, that sometimes it feels hard to make...

Am I overthinking this? Probably. This is a book of questions with answers, over-answers, and many charts: Did I screw up? How do I achieve work-life balance? Am I eating too much cheese? Do I have too many plants? Like a conversation with your...