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For the Love of Letterpress: A Printing Handbook for Instructors and Students by Cathie Ruggie Saunders
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.29Winner - American Graphic Design Award, Graphic Design USA Conveying the authors' love of the letterpress process and product, this book presents the technical, historical, aesthetic and practical... -
Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office by Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler
Booksplease Price: £80.73Originally inspired by a progressive vision of a working environment without walls or hierarchies, the open plan office has since come to be associated with some of the most dehumanizing and... -
Mid-Century Modern Interiors: The Ideas that Shaped Interior Design in America Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand (Syracuse University, USA) 9781350045712
Booksplease Price: £30.98Mid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s to the 1960s in the United States was a key moment for... -
The Fashion Show by Gill Stark
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.25Take up your all-access pass to one of the most dynamic areas of the international fashion industry. Lavishly illustrated and packed with industry insights, The Fashion Show is the must-have guide to... -
Art Nouveau: Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation Dr Charlotte Ashby (Programme Director and Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck University of London, UK) 9781350061149
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.51Art Nouveau presents a new overview of the international Art Nouveau movement. Art Nouveau represented the search for a new style for a new age, a sense that the conditions of modernity called for... -
Malevich and Interwar Modernism: Russian Art and the International of the Square by Eva Forgacs
Booksplease Price: £111.35This book examines the legacy of international interwar modernism as a case of cultural transfer through the travels of a central motif: the square. The square was the most emblematic and widely... -
Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape by Wessie Ling
Booksplease Price: £32.38The transformation of China from a major site for clothing manufacture to an intensely fashion consuming society has been widely documented. Less has been written about the making of Chinese fashion... -
The Fashion Designer's Sketchbook: Inspiration, Design Development and Presentation by Sharon Rothman
Booksplease Price: £41.96The Fashion Designer's Sketchbook is a must-have resource for both fashion students and practising designers who wish to learn new ways of generating design ideas in order to create successful... -
New Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks by Zarida Zaman
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.95An invaluable resource for fashion students, teachers and designers, this book looks at research sketchbooks and the role they play in the research and design process. Demonstrating how ideas are... -
An Introduction to Service Design: Designing the Invisible by Lara Penin
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £33.98A comprehensive introduction to designing services according to the needs of the customer or participants, this book addresses a new and emerging field of design and the disciplines that feed and... -
Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads: Journeys between East and West, Past and Present by Sarah E. Braddock Clarke
Booksplease Price: £42.58With over 200 color illustrations, Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads examines in detail the eclectic iconography of the Byzantine period and its impact on design and creativity today. Through an... -
The Social Design Reader Elizabeth Resnick 9781350026056
Booksplease Price: £35.32The Social Design Reader explores the ways in which design can be a catalyst for social change. Bringing together key texts of the last fifty years, editor Elizabeth Resnick traces the emergence of... -
Representational Techniques for Architecture by Lorraine Farrelly
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19The techniques used to represent architectural design are examined in Representational Techniques for Architecture. A broad array of methodologies for developing architectural ideas are described,... -
Luxury and Visual Culture John Armitage 9781474246033
Booksplease Price: £34.55From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented rate even in the context of a global recession. But in contemporary... -
The Circus: A Visual History by Pascal Jacob
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.62Winner of 2019 British Book Design & Production Award for Scholarly, Academic & Reference Books This beautiful book charts the development of the circus as an art form around the world, from... -
Design and Digital Interfaces: Designing with Aesthetic and Ethical Awareness Ben Stopher (Royal College of Art and London College of Communication, UK) 9781350068278
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.83Are digital interfaces controlling more than we realise? Can designers take responsibility, and should they? From domestic appliances like Siri and Amazon Echo, to large scale Facebook... -
Basics Interactive Design: Interface Design by Dave Wood
Booksplease Price: £29.91If you want to design successful user interfaces then you need clear and effective visual communication. Interface Design will help you achieve this using a range of incisive case studies, interviews... -
Freak to Chic: 'Gay' Men in and out of Fashion after Oscar Wilde by Dominic Janes
Booksplease Price: £111.35In this unique intervention in the study of queer culture, Dominic Janes highlights that, under the gaze of social conservatism, 'gay' life was hiding in plain sight. Indeed, he argues that the... -
Corporate Patronage of Art and Architecture in the United States, Late 19th Century to the Present by Monica E. Jovanovich
Booksplease Price: £31.61This interdisciplinary collection of case studies rethinks corporate patronage in the United States and reveals the central role corporations have played in shaping American culture. The case studies... -
Antarctica, Art and Archive by Polly Gould
Booksplease Price: £77.67Antarctica, that icy wasteland and extreme environment at the ends of the earth, was - at the beginning of the 20th century - the last frontier of Victorian imperialism, a territory subjected to... -
Design Thinking for Visual Communication by Gavin Ambrose
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.40How do you start a design project? How can you generate ideas and concepts in response to a design brief? How do other designers do it? This book will answer all these questions and more. Now in... -
Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease by Carolyn A. Day
Booksplease Price: £33.43During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out... -
Fashion Sewing: Advanced Techniques by Connie Amaden-Crawford
Booksplease Price: £35.27Fashion Sewing: Advanced Techniques guides the reader through a range of intermediate and advanced skills, such as tailoring, sewing with knits, inserting linings and facings and how to sew a wide... -
Basics Graphic Design 03: Idea Generation by Mr Neil Leonard
Booksplease Price: £26.75Successful visual outcomes can only be arrived at through the generation of great ideas, driven by research that will ultimately provide the designer with a range of potential design solutions... -
Fashion Design: The Complete Guide John Hopkins (Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton, UK) 9781350116573
Booksplease Price: £30.98From the first sketch to handling a prototype, Fashion Design: The Complete Guide is an all-inclusive overview of the entire design process. This second edition begins with an exploration of fashion... -
Learning Vector Illustration with Adobe Illustrator: ...through videos, projects, and more by Jodi Staniunas Hopper
Booksplease Price: £34.52When you begin using vector illustration software it can be confusing and frustrating to even work out how to make a mark on the page - but this new hybrid approach to learning integrates tutorial... -
How to Read a Suit by Lydia Edwards
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.96Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of... -
Fashion, Society, and the First World War: International Perspectives Maude Bass-Krueger (Leiden University, the Netherlands) 9781350119864
Booksplease Price: £107.38This book is available open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. The historiography of the... -
Thinking: Objects: Contemporary Approaches to Product Design by Tim Parsons
Booksplease Price: £34.82Thinking: Objects: Contemporary Approaches to Product Design discusses influences on modern product design such as globalization, technology, the media and the need for a sustainable future, and... -
Materials, Practices and Politics of Shine in Modern Art and Popular Culture by AEnne Soell
Booksplease Price: £111.35Shine allures and awakens desire. As a phenomenon of perception shiny things and materials fascinate and tantalize. They are a formative element of material culture, promising luxury, social... -
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability: Creating Positive Change Through Design by Joshua Zeunert
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £38.78Winner of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) National Excellence Award (Research and Communication) 2017 Winner of the AILA VIC Excellence Award (Research and Communication)... -
Introduction to Modern Design by George H. Marcus
Booksplease Price: £46.65With some 280 colour illustrations, Introduction to Modern Design takes us on a visual survey of design from the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century to the Maker Movement of today. It... -
Becoming a Successful Illustrator by Derek Brazell
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £25.92Get ready to enter the working world of illustration with this freshly updated second edition of Brazell and Davies's Becoming a Successful Illustrator. This edition features even more 'Spotlight... -
Visual Merchandising for Fashion Sarah Bailey (London College of Fashion, UK) 9781350071599
Booksplease Price: £30.98Where do shoppers meet before heading out to browse the stores? Why might they go to a particular shop and not another? What first attracts them to a brand or garment? Visual merchandising is... -
Reconstruction: Architecture, Society and the Aftermath of the First World War by Neal Shasore
Booksplease Price: £106.03Commendation, the Colvin Prize 2023 (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain) Reconstruction explores the impact of the First World War on the built environment - examining the... -
World is Africa: Writings on Diaspora Art by Eddie Chambers
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54World is Africa brings together more than 30 important texts by Eddie Chambers, who for several decades has been an original and a critical voice within the field of African diaspora art history. The... -
Epica Book 30: Creative Communications by Epica Awards
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £59.72Beautifully illustrated with over 1000 colour images, the 30th edition of the Epica Book includes a flashback to some of the most remarkable winners from the past 30 years. In addition it showcases... -
Web and Digital for Graphic Designers by Neil Leonard
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.99Creative web design requires knowledge from across the design and technical realms, and it can seem like a daunting task working out where to get started. In this book the authors take you through... -
Black Designers in American Fashion by Elizabeth Way
Booksplease Price: £33.43From Elizabeth Keckly's designs as a freewoman for Abraham Lincoln's wife to flamboyant clothing showcased by Patrick Kelly in Paris, Black designers have made major contributions to American fashion... -
Setting Up a Successful Jewellery Business by Angie Boothroyd
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.99An updated edition of the best-selling handbook, this all-encompassing guide for jewellery entrepreneurs of all levels covers key lessons for setting up, running and growing a jewellery business. ...