London: Ticktock, 2015. Softcover (Outsized). This 128 page pad is a must-have accessory for any young fashion enthusiast. With plenty of room to design outfits, handbags and whatever takes their fancy, this book provides the essential next step for children needing inspiration. Creative and inventive, the pad brings kids into... More about Draw and Create Your Own Fashion and Style (Design Pads
London: Thames & Hudson, 2006. Softcover. Outsized. Stock photo shown. This is a reprint of the 2001 original edition circa Edition Langlaude, Paris. More about Art Deco Textiles: The French Designers
Milan: Skira Editore SpA, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. The first book ever published to survey waste as a building material. Focusing on the projects, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the language and forms of a new architectural language and offers scientific and non-biased overviews to... More about The Landscape of Waste
San Francisco, California: Perfect Strangers, 2018. Softcover. Delve into our first issue to read about Korean dramas in Panama. Or English literature in Tehran. Or how an Argentinian-Thai couple work together to create locally-inspired desserts in Shanghai. Or how about a Turkish entrepreneur’s global vision for streaming movies? Or the..... More about Perfect Strangers (Issue One
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1991. Shin Kimura (photos). First Edition, 3rd printing. Hardcover (Outsized). More about Japan: The Art of Living (A Sourcebook of Japanese Style for the Western Home
New York: Allworth Press, 2009. First Edition. Paperback. Austin Howe is a creative director, writer, advocate, and cheerleader for design-but not a designer. Howe places immense value on curiosity and passion to help designers develop a point of view, a strong voice. He explores the creative process and conceptualization, and... More about Designers Don't Read
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1969. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More about Creative Planning of Educational Facilities
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982. Second Paperback Printing. Softcover. Design with Type was first published in 1952 and appeared in this multi–award-winning revised edition in 1967, which was the first Canadian work to be named Book of the Year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). Its author... More about Design With Type
Milan, Italy: Electa, 1999. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The world-famous Italian car designer studio celebrates its 80th anniversary. A new edition of this popular book produced in close collaboration with Pininfarina and its leading designers. From the thirties, Pininfarina has been an enormous influence on Italian car design. The... More about Pininfarina
New York: Doubleday & Co, 1988. Reprint. Paperback. Previously published as The Psychology of Everyday Things. The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible. The rules are simple: make things visible, exploit natural relationships that couple function and control, and make intelligent use of constraints. The... More about The Design of Everyday Things
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1964. Joseph Bourke Del Valle (book design). First Edition (presumed). Softcover. More about Modern Gardens and the Landscape
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990. First Edition. Softcover (oblong). Includes over 500 drawings filed with the United States Patent Office in the years 1930-1945. More about Great Inventions - Good Intentions: An Illustrated History of American Design Patents
New York: Van Norstrand Reinhold Company, 1975. Seventh Printing. Softcover. Since 1975, Architectural Graphics has been a bestselling classic that has introduced countless students of architecture and design to the fundamentals of graphic communication. Featuring Francis D.K. Ching's signature graphic style, it illustrates how to use graphic tools and drafting... More about Architectural Graphics
New York: Vintage Books, 1992. First Vintage Books Edition. Paperback. The perfect gift for engineers and curious minds: a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life. How did... More about To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1977. Reprint. Paperback (Oblong). Planning, lettering, mistakes to avoid, color, decoration, poster pictures to copy, commercial posters. More about Posters
Singapore: The Design Society, 2012. Design by H55. First edition (stated). Softcover. Initiated by H55’s Creative Director, Hanson Ho, and produced in collaboration with researcher-writer Justin Zhuang, INDEPENDENCE is the first book documenting the history of graphic design in Singapore since the 1960s. The cover features a black flag... More about Independence: The History of Graphic Design In Singapore Since the 1960s
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2003. First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Published in association with Women and War, a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London. More about Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1982. Ryo Hata (photos), Kinji Kuwata (line drawings). First Edition (stated). Hardcover (Outsized). More about A Japanese Touch For Your Home
Cincinnati: North Light Books, 1991. Reprint. Paperback. More about Type: Design, Color, Character & Use
London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2013. Reprinted, mini edition. Softcover. This is the first comprehensive survey of Modernist graphic design as it emerged in America in the period from 1920 and 1960 in various media—advertising, information design, brand identity, magazine design, book design, and posters. It examines the great works... More about American Modernism: Graphic Design 1920 to 1960
New York: Alfred Van Der Marck Editions, 1985. Thom Dower (designer), Pater Sato (cover painting). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A collection of more the 170 works once commissioned by Playboy and acquired as part of its permanent collection. Ray Bradbuy supplies the text. With art b the likes of... More about The Art of Playboy
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