| GIFT GUIDES 2013
Gift IdeasDesign Book Gift Guide
Our selection of the best gift books on graphic design, product design, jewelry and the decorative arts, featuring new titles and classic volumes that belong on every designer's shelves |
| | NEW & CLASSIC DESIGN BOOKS: OUR GIFT RECOMMENDATIONSMFA PUBLICATIONS  In the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, email, Flickr and Facebook, all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the world, and billions of cards were bought, mailed and pasted into albums. Many famous artists turned to the new medium, but one of the great pleasures and enigmas of postcards is how some of the most beautiful and interesting examples were made by artists whose names we barely know. Drawing [more]
Clth, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 295 pgs / 370 color.
ISBN 9780878467815
Publication Date: 10/31/2012 GREGORY R. MILLER & CO./THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM  American studio furniture icon Wendell Castle is one of the most important, influential and celebrated designers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For more than 50 years, he has consistently pioneered new territory in design and beyond. His visionary constructions and distinctive stacked-laminate woodworking process cross the boundaries between sculpture, design and craft. Published on the occasion of Castle’s retrospective exhibition at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, this publication is the [more]
Hbk, 10 x 12 in. / 239 pgs / 200 color / 200 b&w.
ISBN 9780982681343
Publication Date: 11/30/2012 MFA PUBLICATIONS  Charming us with their whimsy and conjuring a warm domesticity, embroideries from the colonial era also astonish us with the high prices they bring at art auctions. A single work could take years to make, its materials could come from the other side of the world and its imagery could reflect its maker’s deepest beliefs and her family’s highest aspirations. Colonial women kept these accomplished works with them throughout their lives, [more]
Clth, 8 x 9.5 in. / 174 pgs / 80 color.
ISBN 9780878467785
Publication Date: 7/31/2012 CICADA BOOKS  Draw Me a House is a playbook for budding architects and anyone interested in the built environment. Illustrated by Thibaud Herem, it celebrates the primary delights of architecture, inviting people of all ages to color in, think about, doodle and engage with basic architectural elements. Both educational and entertaining, Draw Me a House takes the reader on a journey through architectural styles from Gothic church spires to contemporary eco-design, and out [more]
Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 1 color / 300 b&w.
ISBN 9780956205377
Publication Date: 5/31/2012 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK  During the 1920s, avant-garde Russian authors and artists worked with fervent dedication to create a new type of children’s literature, drawing on both the aesthetic innovations of the period and contemporary social and political philosophy to inspire and stimulate young minds. This whimsical children’s picture book is one of numerous remarkable collaborations between artist and illustrator Vladimir Lebedev and poet, translator and children’s writer Samuil Marshak, many of which are now [more]
Hbk, 6 x 7.5 in. / 12 pgs / 12 color.
ISBN 9780870708428
Publication Date: 8/31/2012 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK  In 1900, Swedish design reformer and social theorist Ellen Key published The Century of the Child, presaging the coming century as a period of intensified focus and progressive thinking around the rights, development and well-being of children. Taking inspiration from Key-and looking back through the twentieth century-this volume, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, examines individual and collective visions for the material world of children, from [more]
Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 264 pgs / illustrated throughout.
ISBN 9780870708268
Publication Date: 8/31/2012 CABINET BOOKS  Since its launch in late 2000, Cabinet magazine has become a touchstone for a certain approach to understanding culture, one that shuns orthodox distinctions--high/low, serious/humorous, professional/amateur--in favor of a commitment to the idea that all objects, practices and discourses can, if read against the grain, teach us something important about the world. Its hybrid sensibility merges the visually engaging style of an arts periodical, the exuberance of a fanzine and the [more]
Clth, 8.75 x 11 in. / 528 pgs / 339 color / 113 b&w.
ISBN 9781932698565
Publication Date: 12/31/2012 DAMIANI  From advertising and fashion to music and film, the psychedelic aesthetic defined the look of the 1960s. And yet neither the true scope of psychedelic art nor its key practitioners have ever been the subject of a thorough overview. Electrical Banana is the first definitive examination of the international language of psychedelia, focusing on the most important practitioners in their respective fields. Compiling hundreds of unseen images plus exclusive interviews and [more]
Pbk, 9.5 x 10.25 in. / 208 pgs / illustrated throughout.
ISBN 9788862082044
Publication Date: 2/29/2012 MODERNE KUNST NüRNBERG  In capturing and choreographing the ephemeral postures, gestures, facial expressions and clothes that compose our conceptions of beauty, fashion photography documents the evolution of culture itself and mirrors an era’s attitude toward life. Vanity Fair presents some 200 works of fashion photography from the F.C. Gundlach Collection, one of the most comprehensive private photography collections in the German-speaking world. Landmark photographs are set alongside unknown pictures, from the late 1920s through [more]
Pbk, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 256 pgs / 200 color.
ISBN 9783869842707
Publication Date: 4/30/2012 CICADA BOOKS  Abbey Hendrickson writes the highly trafficked blog Aesthetic Outburst, which documents her life in an old farmhouse in rural New York. In between DIY disasters, childcare catastrophes, book obsessions and cultural consumption, Abbey makes some fantastic and funky craft projects, which she sells through her online Etsy shop. You Are Awesome collects together 21 of her craft ideas from her blog and her 20 in 20” challenge (for which she made [more]
Hbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 80 pgs / 150 color.
ISBN 9781908714008
Publication Date: 10/31/2012 |
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