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Chromorama: How Colour Changed Our Way of Seeing by Riccardo Falcinelli
RRP: £22.00£16.02The Italian colour bible: a gorgeously illustrated exploration of colour and the modern gaze, from an award-winning designer'Fresh and exciting, like an unopened packet of coloured pencils. Countless thought-provoking facts to ponder over, beautifully... -
Celtic Pattern: Visual Rhythms of the Ancient Mind by Adam Tetlow 9781904263708
RRP: £6.95£4.69How do you draw Celtic knotwork? What are the secrets of keys? Are there tricks for drawing Celtic spirals? What do these mysterious patterns actually mean? Who drew them? Where did they come from? In this exquisite pocket book, author and artist Adam... -
Logo Design. Global Brands by Julius Wiedemann
RRP: £20.00£15.29Following up on the best-selling Bibliotheca Universalis logo manual, this second volume focuses on corporate identity. In a globalized world, more and more symbols convey values such as trust, quality, or reliability. This catalog comprehensively... -
Crafting: Transforming Materials & the Maker by Bernard Graves
RRP: £29.95£21.32In its far-ranging and comprehensive scope, Crafting: Transforming Materials & the Maker is at once both a manual and a manifesto for crafters and craft enthusiasts the world over. A must-have for any craft and educational library, it is a volume that... -
Illustration, Narrative and The Suffragette: An Illustrative Enquiry by Mireille Fauchon 9781350297524
£24.11Through an investigation of the Holloway prison writings of the suffragette Katie Gliddon, Mireille Fauchon explores illustration as a social research tool and creates within this book a model of practice-based enquiry. Illustrative methods and... -
Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter
RRP: £20.00£15.01'He makes us see a subject we thought we knew so well from a completely different angle; in writing that is deeply researched, but inviting, warm, and full of personality' Katy Hessel 'Charlie Porter is a magician' Olivia... -
Jazz Covers Joaquim Paulo 9783836585255
RRP: £50.00£33.39Part design history, part trip down musical memory lane, this anthology of jazz album artwork is above all a treasure trove of creative and cultural inspiration. Spanning half a century, it assembles the most daring and dynamic jazz cover designs that... -
Shipping Container by Craig Martin
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop... -
New Retro Illustrations: Retro Reimagined by a New Generation PIE International 9784756253477
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756253477Author PIE InternationalFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd. -
Designing in Dark Times by Virginia Tassinari
£16.77The architectural historian and critic Kenneth Frampton 'never recovered' from the force of Hannah Arendt's teaching at The New School in New York. The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein considers her the most perceptive political theorist and observer of... -
Vintage Fashion: Collecting and wearing designer classics by Emma Baxter-Wright
RRP: £20.00£14.35Foreword by Zandra Rhodes A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, Vintage Fashion shows you how to identify key designers, shapes, textiles, stitching, and other details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the... -
More More More by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
RRP: £20.00£13.03Let master of Maximalism Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tell you how to create and curate a space that you can truly love spending time in.Changing Rooms' flamboyant lead designer has made a great living out of being himself, having spent his entire career... -
Fritz Kahn. Infographics Pioneer Uta and Thilo von Debschitz 9783836590075
RRP: £30.00£22.55Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) was a German doctor, educator, popular science writer, and information graphics pioneer. Chased out of Germany by the Nazis, who banned and burned his books, Kahn emigrated to Palestine, then France, and finally the United States... -
Gucci: The Making of by Stefano Tonchi 9780847836796
RRP: £75.00£58.83An unprecedented publication showcasing Gucci as never before, including thought-provoking essays, commentaries, and authoritative anecdotes along with previously unpublished contemporary and archival photographs. Published in conjunction with the... -
Analogue: A Field Guide by Deyan Sudjic 9780711293014
RRP: £30.00£19.40The perfect antidote to your digital diet, this is a delightful exploration of analogue product design that crosses categories and generations, celebrating the timeless allure of the real and tactile over the merely virtual. Covering sound, vision,... -
500 Years, 100 Watches by Alexander Barter 9783791379753
RRP: £49.99£35.61From two of the world's leading experts on watch collecting, this supremely elegant and informative selection of one hundred watches traces the timepiece's evolution as it highlights unusual, important, and beautifully crafted watches of the past half a... -
Mid-Century Modern Graphic Design by Theo Inglis
RRP: £24.95£18.11A visual and comprehensive guide to a hugely popular graphic style. The distinctive aesthetic of mid-century design captured the post-war zeitgeist of energy and progress, and remains hugely popular today. In Mid-Century Modern Graphic Design Theo Inglis... -
Little Book of Burberry: The Story of the Iconic Fashion House by Darla-Jane Gilroy
RRP: £13.99£9.61From their heritage trenches and ubiquitous check to experimental red carpet looks, the House of Burberry is known worldwide for its covetable designs.Sophisticated, simple, and quintessentially British, Burberry is beloved for its remarkable ability to... -
Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield 9781399609302
RRP: £14.99£9.80Comic Sans is one of the most used and most reviled typefaces of the digital age. How was it made? How could it spawn a movement to ban it and yet still be so widely promoted by educators? What does its accidental creator make of its contentious and... -
Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig Ned Drew 9781933360485
RRP: £14.99£13.03This concise overview of the work of designer Alvin Lustig (1915-55) focuses on his book covers, vehicles for his bold graphic experimentation. Here is a colorful and well-researched representation of Alvin Lustig's book cover designs that were... -
Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs: American Women of the Late 19th Century by Lisa Hodgkins
RRP: £28.99£27.77In the last half of the 19th century, the women of America were beginning to develop their own sense of style. Although influenced by European fashions and the social and economic changes of the time, they made clothing choices based upon their personal... -
Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective by Elizabeth Otto & Patrick Roessler
RRP: £30.00£29.51Forty-five key women of the Bauhaus movement. Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective reclaims the other half of Bauhaus history, yielding a new understanding of the radical experiments in art and life undertaken at the Bauhaus and the innovations that... -
Curves: Flowers, Foliates & Flourishes in The Formal Decorative Arts by Lisa DeLong 9781904263883
RRP: £5.99£4.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904263883Author Lisa DeLongFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Wooden BooksPublisher Wooden Books -
Color Charts: A History by Anne Varichon 9780691255170
RRP: £45.00£37.72A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and stagedThe need to categorize and communicate color has mobilized practitioners and scholars for centuries. Color Charts... -
Modern Beauty by Gestalten
RRP: £35.00£25.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899558609Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
Chairs: 1,000 Masterpieces of Modern Design, 1800 to the Present Day by Charlotte Fiell
RRP: £35.00£24.83From Alvar Aalto to Marco Zanuso, Chairs introduces over 1,000 groundbreaking innovations by the world's greatest designers. Tracing the history of the modern chair from 1800 to the present day, revered experts Charlotte and Peter Fiell comprehensively... -
Decorative Art 70s by Charlotte & Peter Fiell
RRP: £30.00£21.95Published annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and ceramics. Since the publications went out of print, the... -
The Imaginary Museum: A Personal Tour of Contemporary Art featuring ghosts, nudity and disagreements by Ben Eastham
RRP: £7.99£5.41Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and filled with a series of bewildering art works, while he delivers a guide comprised of personal... -
Little Book of Paris Style: The fashion story of the iconic city by Alois Guinut
RRP: £12.99£7.88The epicentre of classic chic and the home of haute couture, Paris is the capital of elegance.From the iconic luxury of Chanel, Dior and Saint Laurent to the effortless sophistication of the typical Parisienne, the city's look is replicated the world... -
Moving Objects: A Cultural History of Emotive Design by Damon Taylor
RRP: £24.99£21.78Moving Objects deals with emotive design: designed objects that demand to be engaged with rather than simply used. If postmodernism depended upon ironic distance, and Critical Design is all about questions, then emotive design runs hotter than this,... -
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren
RRP: £24.99£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Massachusetts Book Award 2020.Book InformationISBN 9780735220003Author Sara HendrenFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher... -
The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism by Kyle Chayka 9781635572100
RRP: £18.99£15.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635572100Author Kyle ChaykaFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 412g -
Japanese Design: An Illustrated Guide to Art, Architecture and Aesthetics in Japan by Patricia J. Graham
RRP: £16.99£10.20"Graham has crafted a compact, jewel-like resource for all who seek to understand the sources, evolution, impact, and value of Japanese aesthetics and design principles in our modern world." -Dr. Jane Schall, Sanders Sosland Curator of Modern and... -
Great Designs: The World's Best Design Explored and Explained DK 9780241298817
RRP: £22.00£16.62A lavishly illustrated guide to the history of design, this book showcases more than 100 of the most groundbreaking and important design classics ever created - from the 1860s to the present.Discover the story of design and its evolution from the... -
Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £16.99£11.95* A Times and New Statesman Book of the Year ** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ** Illustrated with over 130 colour photographs and drawings *'A masterpiece.' Edmund de Waal'Commanding, intelligent, gripping.' The TimesFrom 1910 to 1930 Gropius was at the... -
Supreme: Downtown New York Skate Culture by Aaron Bondaroff
RRP: £45.00£34.21The first monograph on the iconic independent New York street fashion label Supreme. In April 1994, Supreme opened its doors on Lafayette Street in downtown Manhattan and became the home of New York City skate culture. Challenging the dominance of the... -
The Culture of Craft Peter Dormer 9780719046186
RRP: £14.99£11.12Peter Dormer presents a series of lively, clearly argued discussions about the relevance of handicraft in a world whose aesthetics and design are largely determined by technology. One of the key questions discussed in the book is what makes the... -
Architectures of Spatial Justice by Dana Cuff
RRP: £32.00£20.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545211Author Dana CuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered by Donald A. Norman 9780262548304
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548304Author Donald A. NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation by Ezio Manzini
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262028608Author Ezio ManziniFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm