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Plain Simple Useful: The Essence of Conran Style Sir Terence Conran 9781840916553
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40Terence Conran has always believed that objects - and surroundings - that are plain, simple and useful are the key to easy living. By being practical and performing well over time, they are as much... -
Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Media by Loic Tallon 9780759111219
Booksplease Price: £45.75The biggest trend in museum exhibit design today is the creative incorporation of technology. Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Media explores the potential of... -
Shibori: The Inventive Art Of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing by Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £31.85Potential for creating designs in textiles can be seen even in the physical properties of cloth. The simple fact that cloth tightly compressed into wrinkles or folds resists the penetration of dye is... -
California: Designing Freedom by Justin McGuirk
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.11This book examines California's enormous impact on contemporary design, from the counterculture of the 1960s to the tech culture of Silicon Valley. On a more expansive level, California: Designing... -
The Defocusing Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation: From Dark Solitons to Vortices and Vortex Rings by Panayotis G. Kevrekidis 9781611973938
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £84.42Bose-Einstein condensation is a phase transition in which a fraction of particles of a boson gas condenses into the same quantum state known as the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). This book, a broad... -
Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the Histories, Functions, and Aspirations of Museums Juilee Decker 9781538155721
Booksplease Price: £91.69This book explores the histories and functions of museums while also looking at the current standing of museums and their ongoing efforts toward relevance, resiliency, and future-proofing. Section I... -
Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the Histories, Functions, and Aspirations of Museums Juilee Decker 9781538155738
Booksplease Price: £41.09This book explores the histories and functions of museums while also looking at the current standing of museums and their ongoing efforts toward relevance, resiliency, and future-proofing. Section I... -
City/Art: The Urban Scene in Latin America by Rebecca Biron 9780822344704
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In City/Art, anthropologists, literary and cultural critics, a philosopher, and an architect explore how creative practices continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America. The contributors,... -
Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture by Justin McGuirk
Booksplease Price: £21.80What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and... -
City/Art: The Urban Scene in Latin America by Rebecca Biron 9780822344551
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90In City/Art, anthropologists, literary and cultural critics, a philosopher, and an architect explore how creative practices continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America. The contributors,... -
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City/Art: The Urban Scene in Latin America by Rebecca Biron 9780822344551 [USED COPY]
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £11.35In City/Art, anthropologists, literary and cultural critics, a philosopher, and an architect explore how creative practices continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America. The contributors,... -
Weaving: Structure and Substance by Ann Richards 9781785009297
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.93Weaving: Structure and Substance looks at weave design from several different perspectives, showing how resources, ideas and practical experience can come together in a creative process of designing... -
Curating Italian Fashion: Heritage, Industry, Institutions by Matteo Augello
Booksplease Price: £105.19Italy is a major player in the global fashion industry, yet little has been written about its contribution to fashion curation. This book explores the management, display and curation of Italian... -
How to Steal Fire: The Myths of Creativity Exposed, The Truths of Creativity Explained by Stephen Bayley
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04________'Promises to show readers how to think boldly and spark imaginative thought' (FT) ________Creativity is a powerful force. It drives innovation, boosts our economy and enables us to fulfil our... -
Curating Italian Fashion: Heritage, Industry, Institutions by Matteo Augello 9781350230811
Booksplease Price: £34.52Italy is a major player in the global fashion industry, yet little has been written about its contribution to fashion curation. This book explores the management, display and curation of Italian... -
Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary by Ronald Rael 9780520283947
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United... -
Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas by Roger Mavity
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The pitch is the absolute essence of modern business. Ideas are the most valuable commodity in the modern economy and it is human skill which develops them. However the skills of the pitch are not... -
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (3rd Edition, Revised and Expanded) by Ellen Lupton 9781797226828
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.98The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton-revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of... -
Contemporary Chinese Graphic Design Practice Yun Wang 9781350342286
Booksplease Price: £93.74Drawing from a rich body of archival documents, case studies and interviews, this book explores the ways in which graphic designers in China sought to establish graphic design as a profession and... -
Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries: Transnational Exchanges through Art, Architecture, and Design 1945-1985 by Harriet Atkinson
Booksplease Price: £105.96After World War II, museum and gallery exhibitions, industrial and trade fairs, biennials, triennials, festivals and world's fairs increasingly came to be used as locations for the exercise of "soft... -
Historic House Museums: A Practical Handbook for Their Care, Preservation, and Management by Sherry Butcher-Younghans 9780195106602
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £29.06Historic house museums can be found in nearly every city in the United States and Canada. These are the homes of the earliest settlers, statesmen, frontiersmen, great writers, artists, architects,... -
Pitchers of American Life: Art Within Reach Ezra Shales 9781350386709
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.29Generously illustrated, and richly woven with personal memoir, Pitchers of American Life is a survey of pitchers, jugs, and drinking vessels, tracing their role as representative art and collective... -
Nike Football Boots Caleb Azumah Nelson 9781837291496
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £24.31The first book to chart the unprecedented history of Nike's iconic football boots, from the evolution of their design to the legendary stars who have worn them Football (or soccer) is surrounded by... -
Inside Art Direction: Interviews and Case Studies by Steven Brower
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £32.27Honorable Mention in the Foreword Indie Awards 2016 For many design students, the expectation is that they will one day reach the top of the ladder within a design studio or corporation and become... -
Chico & Rita by Fernando Trueba 9781906838294
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unite them, but their journey brings heartache and... -
Fashion and Ethics - Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty: v. II by Efrat Tseelon 9781783202133
RRP: £55.95Booksplease Price: £54.91Fashion and Ethics focuses on issues of power, social positioning and practices among creators, producers, practitioners, wearers and consumers of fashion. With a special emphasis on the moral fabric... -
In Private: Interior Design as Lifestyle in the 1970s Home Joanne Turney 9781350508071
Booksplease Price: £34.10The 1970s is often considered the period that design forgot. In Private sets out to challenge this view, offering a cultural history of domestic interior design in Britain and America over the course... -
The Art of Living by Stephen Bayley
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.41With all the wit, knowledge and wisdom of one of the UK's foremost cultural commentators, Stephen Bayley takes the reader on a satirical roller-coaster ride through the world of art and design in the... -
Smarter Homes: How Technology Will Change Your Home Life by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino 9781484233627
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.20Examine the history of smart homes, how technology shapes our lives, and ways you can think about the home when developing new products. This book presents the opportunities in the homespace that... -
Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects by Anthony Dunne
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £25.48The first book to be published on the work of their partnership (in 2001), Design Noir is the essential primary source for understanding the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings for Dunne &... -
Making Books with Kids: 25 Paper Projects to Fold, Sew, Paste, Pop, and Draw by Esther K. Smith
Booksplease Price: £18.19Spread the joy and craft of books in your family with Making Books with Kids. This inspiring collection features more than 25 creative, kid-friendly projects in design, illustration, paper... -
Pet Shop Boys Volume Chris Heath 9780500027479
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.90Marking the fortieth anniversary of Please, the duo's first album release, Pet Shop Boys Volume presents their entire visual output to date in a contemporary literary format. Pet Shop Boys - Neil... -
Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers by Ellen Lupton
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.29Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative career handbook for designers that we've all been waiting for. Written collaboratively by a diverse team of authors, the book opens with... -
With Intention to Build: The Unrealized Concepts, Ideas and Dreams of Moshe Safdie Michael J. Crosbie 9781864708493
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.69Moshe Safdie explains that probably more than half of his lifetime design work is unbuilt, and he considers his unbuilt work to be some of his most significant work. In this richly illustrated book,... -
Soviet Critical Design: Senezh Studio and the Communist Surround by Tom Cubbin
Booksplease Price: £33.10Soviet Critical Design is the first book to explore the socialist design practice of 'artistic projecteering', which was developed by the USSR's Senezh Experimental Studio in the 1960s. Tom Cubbin... -
Paula Hayes by Paula Hayes 9781580933292
Booksplease Price: £43.83Artist Paula Hayes is most famous for her exquisite, high-end art terrariums of organically shaped, handblown glass, but her affinity for all things green extends to full gardens as well. She has... -
Paula Scher: Works by Paula Scher 9780500297704
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £34.08The definitive visual record of the groundbreaking graphic designer and Pentagram partner, Paula Scher. Paula Scher is one of the most influential graphic designers in the world. Described as the... -
Design Thinking: Theory and Practice Eujin Pei 9781032767802
RRP: £86.99Booksplease Price: £76.23Design Thinking: Theory and Practice aims to provide readers with an in-depth understanding of design thinking by documenting the personal insights of professionals and practitioners from a wide... -
Envisioning Landscapes: The Transformative Environments of OJB OJB Landscape Architecture 9781580937412
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £24.31Visionary landscape architecture firm OJB reveals the guiding principles behind its award-winning work in this new, expanded edition of its debut monograph OJB Landscape Architecture challenges the... -
3D Printing Architecture: Workflows, Applications, and Trends by Carlos BAÑÓN 9789811583872
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.12This book investigates how architectural design advances as a result of the rapid developments in 3D Printing. As this technology become more powerful, faster and cheaper, novel workflows are...