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For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis: Storm Thorgerson & Aubrey Powell Text by Nick Mason, Peter Blake, Paula Scher. Hipgnosis was the biggest and best graphic design firm for the biggest and best bands of the 60s and 70s. Formed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell in London in 1968 (with the addition of >>more
PictureBox
ISBN 9780981562216
US $45.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Hardback, 9.25 x 12.25 in. / 224 pgs / 450 color.
Pub Date: 12/01/2008 Active/In stock

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III Introduction by Alexander Sidorov. This final volume of previously unpublished drawings and photographs completes the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia trilogy. Danzig Baldaev's unparallelled ethnographic achievement, documenting more than 3,000 tattoo drawings, was made during >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780955006197
US $32.95 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Hardback, 5 x 8 in. / 400 pgs / 350 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Active/In stock

Mike Mills: Graphics Films Edited by Aaron Rose. Graphics Films is the first retrospective monograph on one of the hardest-working men in contemporary creative culture. For more than 15 years, Mike Mills' works in the fields of design and film have determined the >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862080750
US $49.95 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 12.75 in. / 176 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock

Reasons To Be Cheerful: The Life and Work of Barney Bubbles Foreword by Malcolm Garrett. Introduction by Billy Bragg. Text by Paul Gorman, Peter Saville. Described by The New York Times as "a hero to young designers," the British designer Barney Bubbles is one of the most mysterious but influential figures in the field of graphic design. Bubbles, who died >>more
Adelita Ltd.
ISBN 9780955201738
US $49.95 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 535 color / 65 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

Come Alive!: The Spirited Art of Sister Corita Text by Julie Ault, Daniel Berrigan. At 18, Corita Kent (1918-1986) entered the Roman Catholic order of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles, where she taught art and eventually ran the art department. After more than 30 >>more
Four Corners Books
ISBN 9780954502522
US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock

The L.A. Earthquake Sourcebook Edited by Judith Lewis, David L. Ulin. Introduction by Mariana Amatullo. Foreword by Richard Koshalek. Preface by Antonio R. Villaraigosa. Design by Stefan Sagmeister. This is the coolest earthquake-preparedness book ever published. Predicated on the assumption that the Big One is all but imminent, The L.A. Earthquake Sourcebook combines practical advice with compelling graphics--an essay advising the reader wha >>more
Designmatters at Art Center College of Design
ISBN 9780961870508
US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 344 pgs / 91 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

Bruno Munari: Il Disegno, Il Design Text by Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, Giulio Carlo Argan, Gloria Bianchino, Renato Nicolini. In 1979 the fanciful Italian artist and designer Bruno Munari donated part of his personal archive to the Center for the Study of Archives and Communication in Parma--a sort of encyclopedic collection of solutions for >>more
Edizioni Corraini
ISBN 9788875701604
US $65.00 CAN $78.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 248 pgs / 514 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock

Ezra Petronio and Suzanne Koller: Selected Works, Subjective Inventory Designing is the capacity to stop just in time, to express no less and no more than is necessary, to neither oversimplify nor make something more complex than it needs to be. It is stripping >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905829549
US $89.00 CAN $107.00 TRADE
Clothbound, 6.75 x 9 in. / 244 pgs / 717 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock

Peter Saville: Estate 1-127 Edited by Heike Munder. Text by Sean Snyder, Wolfgang Tilmans, Sarah Morris, Michael Bracewell. The now legendary cover designs for the Joy Division album Unknown Pleasures (1979) and the New Order single "Blue Monday" (1983) brought the Manchester graphic designer Peter Saville immediate international renown, with their somber yet >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905701661
US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8 x 10.5 in. / 272 pgs./ 240 color
Pub Date: 10/01/2007 Active/In stock

M/M (Paris): Inventory 2 M/M (Paris) is an influential partnership formed in 1992 by Paris-based designers Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak. Fusing a disciplined design ethic with Postpunk aesthetics and a unique collaborative and multidisciplinary approach, M/M (Paris) h >>more
Haunch of Venison
ISBN 9781905620302
US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5.75 x 9.5 in. / 320 pgs / 185 color / 97 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

Russian Legends: Folk Tales and Fairy Tales Text by David Jackson, Patty Wageman, Ellen Rutten, Marija Valjaeva, Sijbolt Noorda. “The Magic Carpet” by Russian-born Victor Vasnetsov depicts a man placidly hovering on an oriental rug, flanked by three owls, above an eerie, moonlit landscape. Painted in 1880, it evidences the influence that Russian fairytales >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056626082
US $49.95 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9 x 11.75 in. / 240 pgs. / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

Paul Rand: Modernist Designer Edited by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo. Texts by Derek Birdsall, Ivan Chermayeff, Shigeo Fukuda, Milton Glaser, Diane Gromeala, Jessica Helfand, Steven Heller, Armin Hoffmann, Takenobu Igharashi, John Meada, Richard Sapper, Wolfgang Weingart and Massimo Vignelli. We know Paul Rand through the stunning advertising, editorial, publishing, institutional, identity, corporate and intellectual legacy he left behind. A major figure at the epicenter of twentieth-century design, his impact on modern communication practice >>more
Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC
ISBN 9781890761035
US $45.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 334 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2003 Active/In stock

Typography and Architecture: Amsterdam in Letters Photography by Maarten Helle. Text by Willem Ellenbroek. Featuring a representative and graphically striking sample of the incredible range of letters, names, words and proverbs to be found on Amsterdam buildings, Typography and Architecture: Amsterdam in Letters is a compilation of more than >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789078088257
US $37.50 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 6.75 in. / 192 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/06/2009 Active/In stock

Cover Art by H5: This Is the End Introduction by Adrian Shaughnessy. Text by Yorgo Tloupas, Alexis Bernier. Since the mid-1990s, the French design team H5 has produced numerous record covers and visuals for both small and large labels, developing its ethos in tandem with the development of French electronic music, particularly bands >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037640111
US $55.00 CAN $66.00 SDNR30
Pbk, 10.75 x 10.75 in. / 244 pgs / 194 color / 107 b&w / Vinyl Record.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/In stock

Wouldn't It Be Nice Text by Christian Brändle, Katya Garcia-Anton, Jean-Pierre Greff, Emily King. Writing about the New York-based design/publishing collective Dexter Sinister, Anthony Huberman once contextualized their practice as part of a "...contemporary condition of multiplicity, for a present moment that finds itself overcrowded with so many id >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905829242
US $42.00 CAN $50.00 FLAT40
Paperback, 9.25 x 11.75 in. / 300 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock

Notes From Russia: Hand-Made Street Notices Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Alexei Plutser-Samo. The world of Russian public notices is fascinating, bizarre and saturated in tragic-comedy: "An old woman. Left home and has not returned. Small, hunchbacked. Wears: a blue dress, red wool cardigan, a white handkerchief with >>more
Fuel Publishing
ISBN 9780955006173
US $32.95 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 5 x 8 in. / 192 pgs / 64 color / 125 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/01/2007 Active/In stock

Matthew Vescovo: Instructoart Lesson 1 Artwork by Matthew Vescovo. What is the most efficient way to get a pubic hair off a bar of soap? How much distance is required between two people when executing an air kiss? What body part follows the shoulder >>more
Instructoart Book Associates/Jorge Pinto Books Inc.
ISBN 9780974261508
US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE
Paperback, 11 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 32 color / 48 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Active/In stock

Dutch Resource: Collaborative Exercises in Graphic Design Essays by Paul Elliman and Maxine Kopsa. Eleven participants in the Dutch Werkplaats Typografie's design program recently asked an equal number of more accomplished graphic designers to join forces with them in collaborations destined for France's Chaumont Graphic Arts Festival. Dutch Resour >>more
Valiz/Werkplaats Typografie
ISBN 9789080818576
US $40.00 CAN $48.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 384 pgs / 200 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Active/Not available

Peron Willing!: Classic Peronist Graphics Edited by Guido Indij. Text by Guido Indij, Horacio González, Eduardo López, Daniel Santoro. Eva Peron (1919-1952) was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Often referred to as "Evita," she was never an officially elected political figure, but by her husband's second term >>more
La Marca Editora
ISBN 9789508891365
US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6 x 6 in. / 240 pgs / 700 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock

Anton Stankowski Edited by Ulrike Gauss. Essays by Karl Duschek, Hans Heinz Holz, Werner Meyer, Kassandra Nakas, Anne Reckert, Jàrg Strzebecher, Stephan von Wiese, Peter von Kornatzk and Usula Zeller. Anton Stankowski began his most serious work in the late 1920s, as a contemporary of the Zurich "Konkretes" who were also influenced by the Bauhaus. He was a decorative painter and printmaker, as well as >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775717434
US $80.00 CAN $96.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9.75 x 12.75 in. / 408 pgs / 681 color and 338 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/In stock

Bruno Munari: Original Xerographies A one-of-a-kind xerograph is the result of an image or object that is moved while the photocopy machine is in motion so that a new--impossible-to-replicate--image is produced. The resultant image is, then, not a copy >>more
Edizioni Corraini
ISBN 9788875701345
US $22.00 CAN $26.00 TRADE
Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 100 pgs / 14 color / 131 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock

ABC of De Designpolitie Text by Emily King, Louise Schouwenberg. The Dutch firm Designpolitie (Richard van der Laken and Pepijn Zurburg) is celebrated for its fresh, deceptively simple and direct approach to graphic design, which often implements bright color and sans-serif typeface in a lively >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789078088219
US $45.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Hardback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 480 pgs / 800 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Active/In stock

Bruno Munari: A Flower with Love Edizioni Corraini's Bruno Munari Workshop series focuses on a variety of creative tasks and skills that inspire the active involvement of adults and children alike--flower arranging, in this case. In A Flower with Love, the >>more
Edizioni Corraini
ISBN 9788875701369
US $22.00 CAN $26.00 TRADE
Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 68 pgs / 35 color / 8 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock

Label-Design.Be: Design in Belgium After 2000 Edited by Lise Coirier and Johan Valcke. Essay by Francis Smets. Interest in Belgian design--be it furniture, fashion, graphics or products--has exploded in the last five years. Label-Design.be, Design in Belgium After 2000 presents the recent work of some 130 jury-selected designers and showcases at least >>more
Stichting Kunstboek
ISBN 9789058561688
US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 336 pgs / 600 color.
Pub Date: 01/15/2006 Active/Awaiting stock

Jochen Stankowski: Signs Artwork by Jochen Stankowski. In this catalogue raisonné, all signs point to Jochen Stankowski as one of the most versatile contemporary practitioners of the graphic arts. He proves as accomplished as his famous uncle Anton Stankowski, with whom he >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883758718
US $75.00 CAN $90.00 SDNR30
Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 248 pgs / 1500 color.
Pub Date: 06/15/2005 Active/In stock

Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer's Perspective Artwork by Bruno Monguzzi. Edited by Maurice Berger, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo. >>more
Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC
ISBN 9781890761011
US $19.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 200 pgs / 80 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/1999 Active/Awaiting stock

Chris Johanson & Jo Jackson: Peaceable Kingdom Chris Johanson and Jo Jackson, artists, partners and owners of the amazing dog Raisin, here offer up recent graphic works. Both painters are known for their subversive, street-smart, from-the-gut imagery--painted on canvas or walls, installed >>more
Nieves
ISBN 9783905714371
US $20.00 CAN $24.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 32 pgs/ 16 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2008 Active/In stock

International Design Awards Survey of World Design Foreword and edited by Jamie M. Waugh. This year's International Design Awards honor the best new work in architecture, interior design, product design, graphics and fashion--as juried by over a dozen of the world's most significant design critics and editors, including Michael >>more
Asterisk Press
ISBN 9780981474106
US $30.00 CAN $36.00 TRADE
Paperback, 7.5 x 12 in. / 107 pgs / 107 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Active/In stock

Dokkaebi: Korean Motifs Edited by Sang-Soo Ahn. Essay by Young-Joo Yim. The Dokkaebi, Korean goblins who have soft spots for pretty girls and hedonistic feasts, thrive in folktales and as gargoyle-like ornamental totems. Throughout Korean history, they have been interpreted as evil spirits, bogeymen or ghosts >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803006578
US $49.50 CAN $59.00 FLAT40
Clothbound, 9 x 12 in. / 292 pgs / 132 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/In stock

Mute Magazine Introduction by Adrian Shaughnessy. Text by Simon Worthington, Damian Jaques, Pauline van Mourik Broekman. In the early 1990s, long before the Internet became an integral part of life, a handful of pioneering magazines took it upon themselves to imagine it into existence. Using fiction, interviews, speculative theory and experimental >>more
Eight Books
ISBN 9780955432224
US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 144 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock

Match Day: Official Football Programmes Edited by Paul Kelly and Bob Stanley. Introduction by Brian Glanville. This collection of covers of official UK football programs--in American, that's soccer programs--includes every league club active from the end of World War II to the start of the Premiership (1992), which comes to more >>more
Fuel Publishing
ISBN 9780955006142
US $55.00 CAN $66.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8.75 x 12.75 in. / 208 pgs / 360 color.
Pub Date: 10/15/2006 Active/In stock

Ki Ri Ki: Flip Book Edited by Santiago Melazzini, Guido Indij, Nicolás Risso. This season D.A.P. is pleased to announce eight new paperback flipbooks by La Marca, including the delightful Flying Bubble, Piece of Cake, Souped Up and Not Again, among others. Perennial bestsellers, these hand-held mini-movies make >>more
La Marca Editora
ISBN 9789508891457
US $5.99 CAN $7.00 SDNR50
Paperback, 4 x 2.25 in. / 128 pgs / 64 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/01/2007 Active/In stock

The Bauhaus at the Newsstand Text by Patrick Rössler. Between 1929 and 1943, an outstanding new lifestyle magazine called Die Neue Linie (“The New Line”) was published by Beyer Press in Leipzig. No other publication in this period was so consistent in bringing avant-garde >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783866782822
US $46.50 CAN $56.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.75 x 13.5 in. / 160 pgs / 163 color / 90 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Active/In stock

A Day in Buenos Aires: Flip Book By Santiago Melazzini. This season D.A.P. is pleased to announce eight new paperback flipbooks by La Marca, including the delightful Flying Bubble, Piece of Cake, Souped Up and Not Again, among others. Perennial bestsellers, these hand-held mini-movies make >>more
La Marca Editora
ISBN 9789508891549
US $6.99 CAN $8.00 SDNR50
Paperback, 4 x 2.25 in. / 150 pgs / 75 color.
Pub Date: 10/01/2007 Active/In stock

MVD: Montevideo Popular Graphics Edited by Guido Indij. In Montevideo Popular Graphics, Argentine photographer Guido Indij--responsible for several collections exploring South American graffiti--turns his eye towards Uruguay’s street culture: “I can’t believe the things I see when out walking the stree >>more
La Marca
ISBN 9789508891471
US $15.00 CAN $18.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6 x 6 in. / 120 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock

Left Wing Political Graphics Edited by Guido Indij. Text by Guido Indij, Horacio Tarcus, Norberto Chávez. This outstanding collection of vivid political graphics from Argentina's Left Wing spans decades of political struggle--from woodcuts to desktop publishing. Flags are raised, workers are lionized, headlines blare from La Favilla, L'Agigatore, L'Amico >>more
La Marca Editora
ISBN 9789508891501
US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6 x 6 in. / 240 pgs / 500 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock

Martí Guixé: Toy Weapons Artwork by Martí Guixé. Wreak havoc on your friends with everyday household objects! A regular on the design scene, Martí Guixé presents numerous ways to make weapons out of things that normally lie unnoticed in your home, just waiting >>more
Edizioni Corraini
ISBN 9788875700713
US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 8 x 11.5 in. / 14 pgs / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock

Designers Are Wankers By Lee McCormack. Interviews with Neville Brody, Karim Rashid, Piers Roberts, Paul Smith. The opening chapter of Lee McCormack's extremely engaging manifesto/how-to book on becoming an industrial designer begins, "Don't be a wanker! Embrace what it means to be a professional designer. Making the transition from design student >>more
About Face Publishing
ISBN 9780955096808
US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 220 pgs / 24 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock

Alessandro Mendini: Pulviscoli Edited by Silvana Annicchiarico. Among distinguished contemporary designers, Alessandro Mendini is perhaps most deserving of the overused title of Renaissance man. Painter, writer, architect, theorist, designer: his work in all these fields has influenced generations of other artists an >>more
Charta/Triennale di Milano
ISBN 9788881585380
US $45.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 6 x 6 in. / 488 pgs / 2382 color.
Pub Date: 10/15/2005 Active/In stock

Albe Steiner Text by Anna Steiner. Contributions by Lica Steiner. The career of Milanese graphic designer Albe Steiner was a continual exercise in resisting academic conceptions and refining design to its bare essentials. In 1940, Steiner founded the studio graphica foto with his soon-to-be wife, >>more
Edizioni Corraini
ISBN 9788875700560
US $34.00 CAN $41.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8 x 5.5 in. / 158 pgs / 152 color / 56 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock

Speechless: A Dictionary of Argentine Gestures Edited by Guido Indij. If you've ever given anyone two thumbs up--or the finger, reminded them of the time by touching your wrist, or called them crazy by twirling a finger next to your ear, you'll appreciate the wealth >>more
La Marca Editora
ISBN 9789508891518
US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6 x 6 in. / 240 pgs / 300 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock

Volver: Flip Book A performance by Carlos Gardel. This season D.A.P. is pleased to announce seven new paperback flipbooks by La Marca, as well as an eighth special edition flipbook that comes with its own mini-CD attached to the cover, suitable for use >>more
La Marca Editora
ISBN 9789508891525
US $9.95 CAN $12.00 SDNR50
Paperback, 4 x 2.25 in. / 128 pgs / 64 b&w/ CD-ROM.
Pub Date: 06/01/2007 Active/In stock

Think Again: A Brief History Of Outrage Artwork by David John Attyah, S.A. Bachman. WELCOME TO AMERICA -- WASH OUR DISHES, CLEAN OUR CLOTHES, NOW GO HOME. / INCOME GAP - AN AMERICAN CLASSIC / YOUR BODY IS ALSO A PLAYGROUND / WHAT IF A STRAIGHT MAN GOT BASHED >>more
Politicizing Pictures Press
ISBN 9780974303093
US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE
Paperback, 10.5 x 9.5 in. / 48 pgs / 52 color.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Active/In stock

Günter Jacki: Looking for Transmission Foreword by Kurt Weidemann. "Good design is beholden to a constant longing for beauty, shuns accommodation to fashion and temporary effects, and searches for enduring, basic 'rightness.'" So says Günter Jacki, the influential German Professor of design communication. Though >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803032034
US $42.00 CAN $50.00 FLAT40
Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 700 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2007 Active/In stock

Mediokilo Artwork by HB Design Studio. What's black and white and red and weighs just half a kilo? Mediokilo, the compact compendium of icons and vignettes from HB Design Studio in Buenos Aires. Icons for the sun, the tragicomedy, a hammer, >>more
La Marca Editora
ISBN 9789872018610
US $19.90 CAN $24.00 TRADE
Paperback, 4.75 x 6.5 in. / 256 pgs / 256 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/02/2004 Active/In stock

Hasta La Victoria, Stencil! Edited by Guido Indij. “The need to break on through and create interference in this world we're living in calls for action. It feels good to be here, now and for ever... Let's get out on the streets! To >>more
La Marca Editora
ISBN 9789508890856
US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6 x 6 in. / 340 pgs / 720 color.
Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock

Graphic Europe Edited by Ziggy Hanaor. Graphic Europe is a guidebook to 31 cities in 31 different European countries, written and illustrated by graphic designers living in those cites. Offering a fresh twist on the conventional guidebook format, it lists places >>more
Cicada Books
ISBN 9780956205308
US $29.99 CAN $36.00 TRADE
Flexi, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 288 pgs / 370 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Active/Awaiting stock

Takaaki Matsumoto: Design Over the course of a 30-year career, graphic designer Takaaki Matsumoto has created award-winning publications for clients that include artists, museums, educational institutions and retailers. In and Out of Design showcases projects-ranging from >>more
Acadia Summer Arts Program
ISBN 9780979764233
US $30.00 CAN $36.00 TRADE
Clth, 7 x 9.25 in. / 184 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 06/30/2010 Active/In stock

ECAL: Typeface as Program Edited by François Rappo. Text by Peter Bilak, Jürg Lehni, Erik Spiekermann. This publication continues the ECAL design series that was inaugurated with ECAL Graphic Design and ECAL Typography. Asking whether a computer program could be assigned the routine tasks of letter design, and whether novel forms >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037640722
US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 9.25 in. / 180 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/Not available

500 Pre-Columbian Designs from Argentina Edited by Alejandro Fiadone. At once an anthropology of Pre-Columbian pattern and a design sourcebook, 500 Pre-Columbian Designs from Argentina is Alejandro Eduardo Fiadone's compilation of the complex geometries of this region. A DVD containing full-color images of the >>more
La Marca Editora
ISBN 9789508891815
US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 6 in. / 132 pgs / 132 color / DVD.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Active/In stock

M+M: Collateral Profit Edited by Ludger Derenthal. Essays by Susanne Ehrenfried, Susanne Gaensheimer, Helmut Krausser, Susanne Meyer-Bser, Andreas Neumeister, Renate Puvogel, Bernhart Schwenk, Wolfgang Ullrich, Martina Weinhart, Ludger Derenthal, Susanne Ehrenfried, et al. M+M, a collaboration by German artists Mark Weis and Martin De Mattia, have more in common with The Matrix than with the famous candies. Their Baudrillard-based work in photography, video and conceptual art, surveyed here >>more
Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg
ISBN 9783936711493
US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9 x 10.75 in. / 208 pgs / 290 color / 22 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock

The Ganzfeld No. 3 Artwork by Michael Benson, Peter Blegvad, Blex Bolex, Paul Cox, Adam Dant, Ren»e French, Geoff McFetridge, Jim Nutt, Brian Ralph, Ron Regé, Jonathon Rosen, Karl Wirsum, Fred Tomaselli. Edited by Peter Buchanan-Smith, Rick Moody, Daniel Nadel, Andrea Codrington. Text by Alfred Hitchcock, Julie Lasky, Winfried Nubaummller, Lawrence Weschler. Tucked inside issue number 3 of The Ganzfeld, for your reading and looking pleasure, are humorous picture stories on color theory, milk, where we go when we die, and the lost genre of blank books. >>more
Monday Morning
ISBN 9780971367012
US $24.95 CAN $30.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8 x 9.75 in. / 208 pgs / 128 color / illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 04/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

Mexico: Stencil When the Mexican government attempted to violently quell the teacher’s union’s demonstrations in Oaxaca in June of 2006, artists were quick to protest. Graffiti covered government buildings, and both street and fine artists quickly formed >>more
Editorial RM
ISBN 9789689345015
US $19.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8.25 x 6 in. / 196 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of print/Not available

Armando Testa Introduction by Ida Gianelli. Essays by Jeffrey Deitch, Mauro Ferraresi, Giorgio Verzotti. Perhaps the most important artist in the history of Italian graphic design, Armando Testa has explored the most diverse languages of visual communication for over a half-century, inventing new ways of expressing ideas and designing >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881583126
US $40.00 CAN $48.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 200 color / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2001 Out of print/Not available

Sound Zero Foreword by Fabio De Luca. Introduction by Uwe Husslein. Text by Aaron Rose, Valerio Dehò. As the Velvet Underground put it, "I'll be your mirror, reflect what you are, in case you don't know." Sound Zero opens on the Velvet Underground's work with Warhol, and follows the close, even mimetic, >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788889431658
US $48.00 CAN $58.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 6.5 x 9 in. / 200 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Out of print/Not available

Our Daily Debates Edited by Linda van Deursen, Nina Støttrup Larsen. In this transcript of seven weeks worth of discussions, graphic design student Nina Støttrup Larsen and four fellow students debate the possibilities of their future profession. Topics range from “transparency,” to “naiveté” to “responsibility for >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9789086901005
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Paperback, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 96 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of print/Not available

Can I Make Everybody Happy? Edited by Noa Segal, Dag Henning Brandsaeter, Linda van Deursen. The Hard School Books series investigates contemporary issues in graphic design. This volume contains email discussions between a client and his or her graphic designer. A sample: “Email is to communication what junk food is >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9789086901036
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Paperback, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 64 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of print/Not available

The Music Library Designed and edited by Murray & Sorrell and Jonny Trunk. Foreword by Jerry Dammers. Library music--also known as source music and, occasionally, mood music--was first made for people who needed cheap, somewhat generic music as backgrounds for animations, low-budget advertisements, and television programs. Unavailable commercially to the >>more
Fuel Publishing
ISBN 9780955006111
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Hardcover, 10 x 8 in. / 208 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 11/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

Baumann & Baumann: The Abc Book Edited by Baumann & Baumann. A 26-letter book, a dictionary with pictures, a foreign language book, a surprise book, a fun-and-games book... The ABC Book, designed by Baumann & Baumann, presents the 26 letters of the alphabet in pictures--as an >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775791496
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Paperback, 8.5 x 8.5 in. / 64 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

Avant-Garde Graphics: 1918-34 Edited by Caroline Wetherilt, Roger Malbert and James Dalrymple. Essays by Lutz Becker and Richard Hollis. Avant-garde artists of the 1920s and 1930s discovered a new role, that of designers for the printing industry--what is today known as graphic design. As illustrated by the numerous stunning, high quality, color reproductions in >>more
Hayward Gallery
ISBN 9781853322389
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

Flyer’dam Edited by Fleur Kolk, Gyz La Riviere. Text by Mike van Gaasbeek, Geert Mul Collecting more than 2,000 fliers and posters for Rotterdam nightlife and cultural events, Flyer'dam reads like a catalogue raisonné for the design history of that city’s now-infamous clubbing-scene of the past 30 years--but without the >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9789086901074
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Paperback, 9.5 x 13 in. / 224 pgs / 1500 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of print/Not available

Talks About Money Edited by John Barclay, Linda van Deursen. This book is about what a graphic designer should, or could, earn--with texts based on a series of 2006-07 interviews with established and emerging freelance designers. Inside you will find a wide range of prices, >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9789086901012
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Paperback, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 304 pgs / 304 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of print/Not available

Mevis & Van Deursen Essay by Paul Elliman. Nothing about Dutch graphic design duo Mevis & van Deursen conforms to type. Praised for their innovative but clear presentation, they have designed everything from artist's books for Gabriel Orozco and Rineke Dijkstra to an >>more
Artimo
ISBN 9789085460312
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Paperback, 8 x 10.75 in. / 208 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

Marc Newson: Pop On/Pop Off Introduction by Sue An van der Zijpp. Marc Newson is one of the most accomplished and influential designers of his generation, having applied his funkily futuristic but technically rigorous approach to everything from a lounge chair to an airplane cabin, from a >>more
Artimo
ISBN 9789075380910
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Boxed, 7.75 x 7.75 in. / 50 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

Why Not Is The New No Way Edited by Linda van Deursen. Text by Tobias Krasenberg. This collection of interviews about the relationship between creative youth culture and the commercial world sheds new light on recent trends in hipster capitalism. Contributors include Mike Clark, Karl Grandin, Marco Sterk, Influenza, Best Company, >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9789086900992
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Paperback, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 88 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of print/Not available

The Ganzfeld No. 2 Edited by Daniel Nadel and Peter Buchanan Smith. Artists include: Edward Fella, Steven Guarnaccia, Red Grooms, Steven Heller, Maira Kalman, Gary Panter, Richard McGuire, Chris Ware. Comics aren't just for kids, and illustrations don't merely transpose text into image. Picture stories can do more than just tell a simple, illiterate narrative, and design, well, design infiltrates the visual aspects of nearly >>more
The Kaput Press
ISBN 9780971367005
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Paperback, 10 x 8.5 in. / 176 pgs / 80 color / 96 b&w
Pub Date: 01/02/2002 Out of print/Not available

ECAL: Typography Edited by Fran¡ois Rappo. Essay by Andr» Vladimir Heiz. Typography refers to both the design of letters and the distribution of those letters on a page--or, more recently, a screen. It is "the craft of endowing language with a durable visual form," as Robert >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9782940271764
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Out of print/Not available

Republik.Com Artwork by Ingo Gunther. >>more
Cantz
ISBN 9783893229482
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Paperback, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 170 pgs / 45 color / 20 b&w
Pub Date: 05/02/1999 Out of print/Not available

Karl Gerstner: Review Of Seven Chapters Of Constructive Pictures, Etc. Introduction by Eugen Gomringer. As a visual designer, Karl Gerstner led the double life of a graphic designer who worked on commission and an artist who worked according to his own directives. In the realm of the constructive, Gerstner's >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775791519
US $65.00 CAN $78.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 256 pgs / 220 color / 270 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

I Heard They Ripped It Off Edited by Robin Ekemark, Brita Lindvall, Linda van Deursen. This volume from the Hard School Books series is a graphic design experiment surrounding the “what, where and when” of a T-shirt design by Experimental Jetset with the words John, Paul, Ringo, George on it. >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9789086900985
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Paperback, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 96 pgs / 96 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of print/Not available

Gunther Rambo Artwork by Gunter Rambow. Acknowledged father of contemporary European design, Gunter Rambow has influenced an entire generation of both commercial and non-commercial graphic artists. >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783893223459
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 311 pgs / 200 color
Pub Date: 05/02/1998 Out of print/Not available

37 Assignments Edited by Linda van Deursen. Text by Experimental Jetset, Indrek Sirkel, Julia Born, Patrick Coppens. This small text book contains 37 provocative graphic design assignments from the famed Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. By focusing only on the assignments, but not the results, it asks questions and gives answers at >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9789086901029
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Paperback, 4.5 x 7.5 in. / 200 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of print/Not available

365: Aiga Year In Design 22 Edited by Andrea Codrington. Essays by Darcy Cosper, Melissa Milgram, et al. AIGA medalists include Samuel Antupit and Paula Scher. Description: 365 is the American Institute of Graphic Art's annual presentation of the best in American design, and features cutting-edge projects that were selected by a jury of preeminent designers and design critics in 2001. >>more
AIGA
ISBN 9781884081026
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Hardcover, 10 x 10 in. / 496 pgs / 1200 color
Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Out of print/Not available

365: AIGA Year in Design 21 Edited by Andrea Codrington. Essays by Peter Hall, Steven Heller, Andrea Moed, Zahid Sardar, Alice Twernlow. 365 is the American Institute of Graphic Art's annual presentation of the best in American design, and features cutting-edge projects selected by a jury of pre-eminent designers and design specialists in the organization's Communication Graphic >>more
AIGA
ISBN 9781884081019
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Slipcased, 10 x 11.5 in. / 368 pgs / 1000 color
Pub Date: 05/02/2001 Out of print/Not available

Gunter Rambow 1960-96 Artwork by Gunter Rambow. >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783893228430
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 240 pgs / 85 color / 109 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/1997 Out of print/Not available

Richard Paul Lohse Edited by Richard Paul Lohse. Essays by Christoph Bignens, Vera Hausdorff, Hans Heinz Holz, Michael Lenz, Bela Stetzer, Jorg Sturzebecher. Richard Paul Lohse was a design pioneer in various fields for over fifty years. This catalogue raisonn», a project of the Richard Paul Lohse Foundation, is the first publication to show the complete works of >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775709910
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 312 pgs / 288 color / 197 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/02/2002 Out of print/Not available

In Alphabetical Order Edited by Stuart Bailey. Text by Paul Elliman, Anthony Froshaug, Melle Hammer, Robin Kinross, Norman Potter. This is a schizophrenic book. Between its covers are: a book about typography and graphic design, arranged around recent work from a single source and incubator, the Werkplaats Typografie (Typography Workshop/WT) in Arnheim, the Netherlands; >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056622725
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 16 color.
Pub Date: 03/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

Ecal: Graphic Design Fond of fonts? Then pick up this sourcebook for graphic design by one of the leading European art schools, the Öcole cantonale d'art de Lausanne. After seeing the posters, publishing work, and other typographic practices >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9782940271702
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 172 pgs / 140 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

Karl Gerstner: Visual Language Artwork by Karl Gerstner. Karl Gerstner is one of Switzerland's preeminent graphic designers. In 1959, he and Markus Kutter founded the agency Gerstner + Kutter, which later became Gerstner, Gredinger, and Kutter (GGK). Before long, the agency had become >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775790598
US $75.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9 x 11.75 in. / 256 pgs / 400 color / 200 b&w
Pub Date: 12/02/2001 Out of print/Not available

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