| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST  100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design takes a fresh look at Swiss typography and photo-graphics, posters, corporate image design, book design, journalism and typefaces over the past hundred years. With illuminating essays by prominent experts >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037783993
US $70.00 CAN $92.50 TRADE
Hbk, 12 x 8 in. / 350 pgs / 943 images.
Pub Date: 10/15/2014 Out of stock
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|  1001 Movie Posters
Edited by Tony Nourmand. Introduction by Christopher Frayling. Text by Alison Elangasinghe. The most comprehensive overview of movie posters ever published, 1001 Movie Posters is a definitive coffee-table volume from world authority on the art form, Tony Nourmand. Spanning more than a century of global imagery, the >>more
Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526938
US $95.00 CAN $137.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 640 pgs / 950 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/03/2024 In stock
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|  147 Backcovers
Edited by Peter Fischli, Hilar Stadler. Since 1987, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger has combined the advertisements for its gallery program with images of traditional Swiss life. The adverts, compiled here by Peter Fischli and Hilar Stadler, have appeared in Artforum and Kunstbulletin. >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960983514
US $59.95 CAN $79.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 10.25 x 10.25 in. / 300 pgs / 147 color.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 In stock
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|  The Typographische Monatsblätter is one of the most important journals to successfully disseminate the phenomenon of “Swiss typography” to an international audience. With more than 70 years in existence, the journal witnessed significant moments in the >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785386
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 12.5 in. / 276 pgs / 472 images.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 Out of stock
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|  A Cookbook of Invisible Writing, by Dutch artist, designer and teacher Amy Wu, is an introduction to analog steganography—a type of secret writing that is hidden in plain sight. This book serves as a starter >>more
Onomatopee
ISBN 9789491677953
US $35.00 CAN $49.95 TRADE
Spiral bound, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 Out of stock
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|  A New Program for Graphic Design
By David Reinfurt. Preface by Adam Michaels. Foreword by Ellen Lupton. A New Program for Graphic Design is the first communication-design textbook expressly of and for the 21st century. Three courses—Typography, Gestalt and Interface—provide the foundation of this book.
Through a series of in-depth historical case studies >>more
Inventory Press/D.A.P.
ISBN 9781941753217
US $25.00 CAN $34.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 40 color / 180 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/17/2019 In stock
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|  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 $60.00 TRADE
Hardback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 480 pgs / 800 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Out of stock
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|  Aeroflot: Fly Soviet
By Bruno Vandermueren. Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Despite the borders of the USSR being closed to the majority of its population, Soviet citizens were among the world’s most frequent flyers. Following the 1917 Revolution, Vladimir Lenin made the development of aviation a >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9781916218468
US $34.95 CAN $46.95 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 8 in. / 240 pgs / 225 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2021 In stock
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|  From the acclaimed authors of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedias and Soviet Space Dogs comes Alcohol, a glorious and exhaustive collection of previously unpublished Soviet anti-alcohol posters. The book includes examples from the 1960s through >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780993191152
US $32.95 CAN $43.95 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 8 in. / 248 pgs / 255 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/25/2017 In stock
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| Alex Wollner: Brasil Design Visual
Edited by Klaus Klemp, Julia Koch, Matthias Wagner K. Foreword by Antonio Grassi, Marta Suplicy, Matthias Wagner K. Text by Klaus Klemp, Julia Koch, Malou von Muralt, René Spitz, André Stolarski, Alexandre Wollner. Alexandre Wollner (born 1928) is one of the most important and successful graphic designers of the second half of the twentieth century. He played a prominent role in the artistic, cultural and economic foundation of >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803032140
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 10.5 x 10.25 in. / 324 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 05/31/2014 In stock
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|  Spanning the entirety of Alphonse Mucha’s prolific career, this handsome, affordable and concise overview examines the beloved artist’s oeuvre—from posters, jewelry, interior decoration, theater and product design to painting, book illustration, sculpture and photography—across six >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857232430
US $50.00 CAN $71.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 248 pgs / 256 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer
Edited by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. Foreword by Austin Kleon. Text by Myron Beasley, Kelly Walters. Detroit-based letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. is celebrated for his type-driven messages of social justice and Black power, emblazoned in rhythmically layered and boldly inked posters made for the masses. Citizen Printer tells Kennedy’s >>more
Letterform Archive Books
ISBN 9781736863381
US $60.00 CAN $86.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 292 pgs / 500 color.
Pub Date: 09/17/2024 In stock
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|  An Atlas of Agendas
Introduction by Freek Lomme, Brian Holmes. Panoramic in scope and conceptually both profound and accessible, this acclaimed volume is an atlas for an emancipatory new model of citizenship, from the local to the global.
For the last several years, the artist-duo Bureau >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083270654
US $35.00 CAN $50.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 270 pgs / 54 color / 54 duotone / 64 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 In stock
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|  Analog Algorithm
By Christoph Grünberger. Foreword by Paul McNeil. German illustrator and designer Christoph Grünberger's (born 1975) Analog Algorithm is a tool kit to create new forms using grid-based design, offering the reader techniques to develop new forms, fonts, logos and patterns. The concept >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785935
US $50.00 CAN $69.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 304 pgs / 55 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/23/2019 In stock
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|  Audio Erotica
By Jonny Trunk. Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Remember roller-skating while wearing your first Walkman? Or relaxing to easy listening in your pure white Philips lounge? Or playing chess on your JVC tabletop radio? All these scenarios can be found in the geeky >>more
FUEL
ISBN 9781739887810
US $34.95 CAN $49.95 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 8.75 in. / 240 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 04/16/2024 Out of stock
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|  Avant-garde and Propaganda
Foreword by Beatriz García Cossío, Oliva María Rubio. Text by Raquel Pelta Resano, Iveta Derkusova, Evgeny Dobrenko. Housed in a printed slipcase, Avant-garde and Propaganda compiles a selection of publications—photobooks and magazines, along with other related documents—demonstrating the great flowering of typography, photomontage and photobooks in the Soviet Union in the period >>more
La Fábrica
ISBN 9788417769178
US $60.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Slip, pbk, 8 x 12.5 in. / 416 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 01/21/2020 In stock
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|  Beauty Is in the Street
Edited by Johan Kugelberg, Philippe Vermès. In May 1968, thousands of workers and students took to the streets of Paris, provoking an unprecedented wave of strikes, walkouts and demonstrations. The confrontations between police and protesters led to a general strike of >>more
Four Corners Books
ISBN 9780956192837
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 200 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Out of stock
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|  Books by Ettore Sottsass
Edited by Giorgio Maffei, Bruno Tonini. Introduction by Barbara Radice. Text by Andrea Branzi, Michele De Lucchi, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Elio Fiorucci, Christoph Radl, Franco Raggi, Lea Vergine. Throughout his illustrious career in product design and architecture, Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) maintained a close relationship with printed matter, designing, authoring, illustrating and editing a great many avant-garde literary and design/architectural books and periodicals from >>more
Edizioni Corraini
ISBN 9788875702762
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 296 pgs / 417 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2011 In stock
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|  With their atmosphere of sociopolitical ferment, the 1980s also witnessed the appearance of a new aesthetic in Swiss graphic design, influenced by the punk aesthetic and first experiments with the Macintosh. Alternative cultural and political >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037780947
US $30.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 96 pgs / 100 images.
Pub Date: 01/31/2007 In stock
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|  Brian Roettinger: Reproductions
Edited by Brian Roettinger. Introduction by Aaron Rose. Los Angeles–based artist and two-time Grammy-nominated graphic designer Brian Roettinger is celebrated for the graphic design and art direction he has created for artists, architects and musicians such as No Age, Liars, Beach House and >>more
THE THING Quarterly
ISBN 9780984915057
US $60.00 CAN $79.00 TRADE
Boxed, Flexi, 6.5 x 9 in. / 412 pgs / 32 color / 384 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/24/2015 Out of stock
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|  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 $87.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 248 pgs / 514 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Out of stock
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|  Our current economic system could not exist without the number systems, coins, banknotes, documents, advertisements, interfaces, typefaces and information graphics that graphic designers have helped to create. Even speculative design and social design play their >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789492095817
US $27.50 CAN $37.50 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 528 pgs / 600 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2021 In stock
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|  This volume examines the longstanding and fruitful relationship between Campari and the film industry. Tracing Campari’s long history as an enthusiastic and involved patron of cinema, the book details how the company’s support has served >>more
skira
ISBN 9788857245546
US $60.00 CAN $82.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 12 in. / 224 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2022 In stock
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|  Colors
Foreword by Francesco Bonami. Interviews with Luciano Benetton, Oliviero Toscani. Colors explores the very best of more than 20 years of the influential magazine of the same name, a quarterly Italian publication "about the rest of the world." Founded in 1991 by photographer Oliviero Toscani >>more
Damiani/Fabrica
ISBN 9788862084246
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 13.5 in. / 240 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/27/2015 Out of stock
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|  Come Alive!: The Spirited Art of Sister Corita
Text by Julie Ault, Daniel Berrigan. At 18, Corita Kent (1918-86) 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 $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 In stock
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|  Comix!
Contributions by Pascal Lefèvre, Bettina Richter. Located between art and popular culture, combining succinctly abbreviated textual and visual methods, the comic offers the ideal conditions for its appropriation by the poster. Using contemporary examples the exhibition explores the roots of the >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037780992
US $30.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 96 pgs / 100 images.
Pub Date: 01/31/2008 Out of stock
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|  Contemporary Iran
Edited by Bettina Richter. Text by Majid Abbasi, Maryam Razi. In the last two decades, Iranian poster design has achieved widespread admiration and distinction for its innovative explorations of type and typography, which have been notably accelerated by the implementation of new digital technologies. As >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037787304
US $25.00 CAN $36.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 134 color / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 In stock
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|  This book brings together the best of Japanese graphic poster design—from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics to the creation of the Issey Miyake logo, and from the Osaka Expo to the official poster for the Pan-Pacific >>more
skira
ISBN 9788857245782
US $70.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 11.5 in. / 500 pgs / 700 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2021 In stock
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|  Crack Up—Crack Down
Edited by Slavs and Tatars, Melissa Constantine. Text by Emily Apter, Melissa Constantine, David Crowley, Vid Simoniti, Metahaven, Mohammad Salemy, Raphael König & Arthur Fournier, Goran Vojnovic, et al. Published for the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, this volume—edited by Slavs and Tatars—gathers essays by Emily Apter on the micropolitics of memes, David Crowley on punk as dissimulation, Vid Simoniti on the cult >>more
Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867493883
US $30.00 CAN $42.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 124 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/21/2020 Out of stock
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|  Dafi Kühne is a Swiss designer who works with analog and digital ways to produce fresh and unique letterpress-printed posters. Using very different kinds of instruments, from a MacBook to a pantograph, for his compositions, >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785096
US $49.00 CAN $65.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 192 pgs / 182 images.
Pub Date: 01/25/2017 In stock
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|  In graphic design, instructions, city planning, and other creative disciplines, complex tasks related to orientation and disorientation are on the rise. Dis-/Orientation 2 is an academic investigation into phenomena, representations, and stagings of orientation and >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781586
US $20.00 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 6.5 in. / 384 pgs / 50 images.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 In stock
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|  Diagramming Modernity
Edited with text by Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales, Riccardo Boglione. Text by Juan Manuel Bonet, Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales, Riccardo Boglione, Marina Garone Gravier, Dafne Cruz Porchini. This massive publication offers the first comprehensive panorama of the Latin American illustrated book between the 1920s and 1940s, a period characterized by the rapid modernization of the region. The books reproduced here encapsulate this >>more
RM/Ediciones La Bahía
ISBN 9788417975791
US $65.00 CAN $89.00 SDNR40
Hbk, 9 x 12.25 in. / 876 pgs / 1500 color.
Pub Date: 10/03/2023 In stock
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|  Drafting Facilities
Edited with text by Markus Landert, Susanne Prinz, Hannes Brunner. Text by Hanno Depner, Daniela Domeisen, Lorena Jaume-Palasí, Henning Klodt, Warren Neidich, Astrid Staufer, Paolo Vitali. Models are among the most reliable tools for creatives. In this publication, specialists from architecture, art, philosophy, neuropsychology, climate science, economics and artificial intelligence reveal how they work with this tool and how it changes >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903439689
US $30.00 CAN $43.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4.5 x 7.25 in. / 240 pgs / 26 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2024 In stock
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|  Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots is the first publication to capture the enormous body of distinctive and visually ecstatic graphic design that emanated from California throughout most of the twentieth century. Edited and designed by >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781938922619
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Hbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 432 pgs / 275 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2014 Out of stock
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|  Ephemera
Edited with text by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel. Text by Anne-Katrin Rossberg, et al. This publication presents the wide-ranging graphic design holdings, spanning from the 18th century to the present day, of the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art (MAK), archived in the MAK Library and Works >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903131941
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 464 pgs / 600 color.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock
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|  The late 1970s and early 1980s was the golden age of British Citizens Band (CB) radio. Legal to own but illegal to operate, a CB radio and an antenna could connect you to other users >>more
Four Corners Books
ISBN 9781909829084
US $30.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 192 pgs / 380 color / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  Factory Photo-Books
Edited with text by Bart Sorgedrager. Text by Gerry Badger, Flip Bool, Mattie Boom, Frits Gierstberg, Martin Parr, Hans Schoots, Kim Timby, Thomas Wiegand. Massive industrial halls, dirty overalls, spinning gears and smoking chimneys: Factory Photo-Books: The Self-Representation of the Factory in Photographic Publications is the definitive overview of an extraordinary genre spanning from 1890 to 1987. From >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628703
US $99.00 CAN $141.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 506 pgs / 1800 color.
Pub Date: 03/26/2024 In stock
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|  Fleckhaus: Design, Revolt, Rainbow
Edited by Michael Buhrs, Petra Hesse. Text by Hans-Michael Koetzle, Carsten Wolff. Willy Fleckhaus (1925–83) was one of the most innovative and influential graphic designers in postwar Germany. He became internationally known for his groundbreaking work on the lifestyle magazine twen, his work for Edition Suhrkamp and >>more
Hartmann Books
ISBN 9783960700128
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 240 pgs / 660 color.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 Out of stock
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|  French New Wave
Edited by Tony Nourmand. Introduction by Christopher Frayling. Design by Graham Marsh. Text by Alison Elangasinghe. The French New Wave of the 1950s and 1960s is one of the most important movements in the history of film. Its fresh energy and vision changed the cinematic landscape, and its style has had >>more
Reel Art Press
ISBN 9780957261044
US $59.95 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 11.5 in. / 288 pgs / 250 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/03/2019 In stock
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|  Godless Utopia
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Roland Elliott Brown. “We’ve finished the earthly tsars and we’re coming for the heavenly ones!” Thus spoke the Soviet Union’s first atheist propagandists as they declared war on “the opium of the people” across the USSR. Soviet atheism >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780995745575
US $34.95 CAN $49.95 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 8 in. / 192 pgs / 190 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/08/2019 Out of stock
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|  Through interviews with more than 20 designers, Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age looks at the challenges and opportunities of the fast-changing world of creative coding within a growing community of designers opting to make >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083270692
US $30.00 CAN $43.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 480 pgs / 53 color / 6 duotone / 106 b&w / 8 tritone.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 Out of stock
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|  In this vivid and humorous monograph-meets-memoir, Los Angeles–based lettering supremo Michael Doret shares his top-secret tricks for making mere words into iconic words-as-images for clients such as Disney, Pixar, Time, Kiss, the Knicks and more. >>more
Letterform Archive Books
ISBN 9781736863329
US $60.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 10.75 in. / 328 pgs / 500 color / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/20/2024 In stock
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|  Numerous experimental works and performances for orchestra and chamber music receive their premiere at Musica Viva. From the start, Hartmann wanted to create a forum for the musical language of his times, and thus sought a >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959051415
US $36.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 176 pgs / 120 color / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 In stock
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|  A book to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Hangar Design Group, one of the most famous Italian advertising and communications agencies. Hangar Design Group is known for their brand, logo, bottle, lighting, shop, and >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857206288
US $65.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 512 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 09/20/2011 In stock
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|  Hannes Wettstein was one of the most innovative and influential designers in Switzerland. His products, furniture, and interior designs not only influence our everyday life, but also the way we understand design in the present >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037782651
US $85.00 CAN $112.50 TRADE
Hbk, 11.5 x 9 in. / 292 pgs / 662 images.
Pub Date: 12/05/2011 Out of stock
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|  The A-5 is understood as a growing archive of graphic design. In numerous illustrations, essays, and interviews, this book focuses on the outstanding personalities and important themes from the history of international graphic design. A5 >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781791
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 128 pgs / 187 images.
Pub Date: 09/29/2009 In stock
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|  Hard Werken: One for All
Edited with text by Ian Horton, Bettina Furnée. Text by Russ Bestley, Max Bruinsma, Tony Credland, Frits Gierstberg, Noor Mertens. Hard Werken: One for All is the first major publication on the work of the Rotterdam and Los Angeles–based experimental design group Hard Werken. Hard Werken formed in the late 1970s with an underground magazine >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789492095176
US $49.95 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Flexi, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 482 pgs / 1,300 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock
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|  Politicians are omnipresent in our society. How they present themselves depends on historical context as well as on the prevailing form of government and cultural environment. Vital components of political work are image building, political >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781517
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 192 pgs / 120 images.
Pub Date: 01/31/2009 Out of stock
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|  Helmut Schmid: Typography
Edited with text by Kiyonori Muroga, Nicole Schmid. The Austrian typographer and graphic designer Helmut Schmid (1942–2018) was acknowledged globally as a master of his craft. Schmid put his own spin on Emil Ruder's teachings while remaining faithful to his principles of clarity, >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037787397
US $60.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 240 pgs / 535 color.
Pub Date: 12/05/2023 In stock
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|  Help!
Text by Sønke Gau, Katharina Schlieben. Thanks to their social effectiveness, posters have always been an ideal vehicle for addressing global and urgent ethical appeals to the populace. This publication presents international posters since 1980 that urge us to take responsibility >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781746
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 96 pgs / 120 images.
Pub Date: 01/31/2009 Out of stock
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|  Helvetica
Edited by Lars Müller. Helvetica is a sans-serif typeface. It is simple and clean, and commonly seen in advertising, signage, and literature. The R has a curved leg, and the i and j have square dots. The Q has >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037780466
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 4.75 x 6.25 in. / 256 pgs / 400 images.
Pub Date: 11/15/2002 In stock
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|  Marking the centenary of his birth, the Poster Collection series devotes its latest edition to the popular Swiss poster designer Herbert Leupin. Primarily conceiving posters for consumer goods, for many years Leupin created advertising for >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785065
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 90 images.
Pub Date: 08/25/2016 In stock
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|  How Many Female Type Designers Do You Know?
Edited with text by Yulia Popova. Interviews with Gayaneh Bagdasaryan, Veronika Burian, Maria Doreuli, Louise Fili, Martina Flor, Loraine Furter, Jenna Gesse, Golnar Kat Rahmani, Indra Kupferschmid, Briar Levit, Zuzana Licko, Ana Regidor, Fiona Ross, Carol Wahler. This important new book surveys the past and present of women working in typography. The first section looks at the statistics, data and an overview of the field apropos of gender, supplemented with biographies of >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148321
US $25.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Hbk, 4.5 x 8 in. / 320 pgs / 95 color / 78 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 Out of stock
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|  How Posters Work
By Ellen Lupton. Text by Caitlin Condell, Gail Davidson, Ellen Lupton. With its unique focus on visual language, Ellen Lupton's How Posters Work is more than another poster book. Rather than provide a history of the genre or a compilation of collectibles, the book is organized >>more
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9780910503822
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 05/26/2015 Out of stock
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|  Hugo Puttaert: Think in Colour
Text by Hugo Puttaert, Steven Cleeren, Rick Poynor. Visionandfactory, established in 1990, has long played a prominent role in the Belgian and international graphic design scene. From its foundation, the studio has established a reputation for a rich culture of experimentation, an innovative >>more
MER. Paper Kunsthalle
ISBN 9789491775185
US $60.00 CAN $79.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 369 pgs / 300 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2014 In stock
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|  Image Factories
Edited with text by Helena Doudova, Stephanie Jacobs, Patrick Rössler. Text by Bernd Stiegler, Otto Neurath, Vilém Flusser. At the beginning of the 20th century, an unprecedented volume of information began circulating in the mass media, calling for the development of new visualization tactics to organize it all. The abundance of news and >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959051798
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 144 pgs / 64 color / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock
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|  In Series
Text by Fabian Wurm. Posters lend themselves perfectly to serial display. The mediation of the message and of the identity of the advertiser is supported by the effects of ecognition. However in contemporary advertising campaigns this awareness is only >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037782668
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 6.5 in. / 96 pgs / 203 images.
Pub Date: 10/19/2011 In stock
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|  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 $40.00 TRADE
Paperback, 7.5 x 12 in. / 107 pgs / 107 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Out of stock
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|  Italian Tin Signs
Edited by Dario Cimorelli, Michele Gabbani, Marco Gusmeroli, Pier Luigi Longarini Exploring the world of chromolithographed tin boxes—usually decorated for advertising purposes—is like taking a journey to a different time and place, where even simple, everyday objects were adorned with endless variety, imagination and creativity. Italian >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836638918
US $65.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 800 color.
Pub Date: 10/23/2018 In stock
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|  Japan–Nippon
Foreword by Bettina Richter. Posters circulated in Japan simultaneously with the country’s swift reconstruction and economic revival after the Second World War. If the first generation of poster designers was mostly guided by western modernism, searching for a universal >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784228
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 112 pgs / 137 images.
Pub Date: 04/25/2014 Out of stock
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|  In Jasper Morrison's collection of pictures, the icons of design history meet up with the unassuming objects of everyday life. Every picture tells a story and creates a new one in juxtaposition with its neighbor >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037782071
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE
Pbk, 4.5 x 6 in. / 112 pgs / 104 images.
Pub Date: 09/15/2011 In stock
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|  Just what is it that catches the eye, and why? What’s the significance of a broken flowerpot, a pair of identical tables side by side, a garden hose wrapped around an old car wheel? In >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784235
US $29.00 CAN $39.50 TRADE
Hbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 37 images.
Pub Date: 06/25/2014 In stock
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|  Josef Muller-Brockmann
Text by Catherine de Smet. Contributions by Lars Müller. Josef Müller-Brockmann’s graphics left a lasting mark on Swiss visual communication from the 1950s onward. His posters demonstrate how a sober, formally reduced language works best for conveying a universal, timeless message. Poster campaigns for >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037783924
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Pbk, 9.5 x 6.5 in. / 96 pgs / 114 images.
Pub Date: 02/27/2014 In stock
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|  This illustrated essay traces the history of one of the leading exponents of Swiss Graphic Design in the 1950s and 1960s. Josef Müller-Brockmann’s posters have become world famous for their ability to convey information with >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784686
US $39.00 CAN $52.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 264 pgs / 396 images.
Pub Date: 11/30/2015 Out of stock
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|  In 1980, the Swiss Federal Railways contracted one of their country’s leading graphic designers, Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914–96), to overhaul the design of their train stations’ signage, a project that resulted in a “visual information system” >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786109
US $50.00 CAN $69.95 TRADE
Pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 222 pgs / 324 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/08/2019 Out of stock
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|  Jurriaan Schrofer 1926-1990
By Frederike Huygen. Edited by Jaap van Triest, Karel Martens. The Dutch designer and polymath Jurriaan Schrofer (1926–1990) was one of the defining figures in European graphic design in the 1950s–70s. Working across all genres, from public relations brochures to interior design, and from magazines >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789078088707
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 424 pgs / 1100 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2014 In stock
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|  Jörg Hamburger – Georg Staehelin, the 29th edition of the Poster Collection series, is the first comprehensive tribute to the same-named Swiss designers. Connected by a passion for precision and detail, the two graduates of >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785362
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 101 color.
Pub Date: 01/23/2018 In stock
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|  In devising a concept for the Abbildungen exhibition, Konstantin Grcic thought back to one of his earliest designs, an additional pedestal for a sculpture by Constantin Brancusi. This became the leitmotif of his staging of >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785058
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 432 pgs / 336 images.
Pub Date: 10/24/2016 In stock
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|  Sutnar’s brilliant structural systems for clarifying otherwise dense industrial data placed him in the pantheon of Modernist pioneers and made him one of the visionaries of what is today called “information design.” Visual Design in >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784242
US $79.00 CAN $106.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 12.5 in. / 188 pgs / 378 images.
Pub Date: 10/27/2015 In stock
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|  Lex Reitsma: 196 Posters for De Nederlandse Opera
Chronicling the history of the De Nederlandse Opera house, this publication documents the graphic design of Lex Reitsma (born 1958) for operas at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Alongside 196 posters, Reitsma's work also includes >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462081499
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 56 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 04/28/2015 Out of stock
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|  Max Bill
Edited by Manuel Fontán del Junco, María Toledo. Text by Karin Gimmi, Jakob Bill, Manuel Fontán del Junco, Neus Moyano, Fernando Marzá, María Amalia García, Gillermo Zuaznabar. A true Renaissance man with a clear, unified aesthetic vision, the Swiss artist, designer, architect and writer Max Bill combined the virtues of homo faber and homo ludens throughout his intensely productive career, launching the >>more
Fundación Juan March
ISBN 9788470756320
US $34.95 CAN $45.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 10.5 in. / 352 pgs / 170 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/23/2016 In stock
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|  Metahaven
Edited with text by Vinca Kruk, Daniel van der Velden, Karen Archey. Text by Eugene Ostashevsky, Brian Kuan Wood. This book offers a fresh perspective on the popular and acclaimed Amsterdam-based design/art collective Metahaven. Densely illustrated, and very recognizably designed by Metahaven, it is the only survey of its work currently available. Led by >>more
Koenig Books
ISBN 9783960983620
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE
Pbk, 8.25 x 12 in. / 200 pgs / 100 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock
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|  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 $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 12.75 in. / 176 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Out of stock
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|  Minimal Film tells the stories of the movies we all know and love—from Alien to Rain Man, Star Wars to Psycho, E.T. to Ghost—through the often comically concise pictographic language of Shortology.
Something of an internet >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857239675
US $35.00 CAN $49.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 12.5 in. / 256 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock
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|  Otto Neurath’s famous Modern Man in the Making, first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1939, captures and describes the state of the world in the 1930s by using text and figurative illustrations. From 1925 >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786765
US $65.00 CAN $84.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 50 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/16/2024 In stock
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|  Money
Edited by Prill Vieceli Cremers. This is a book about the pictures on banknotes: pictures of political subject-matter, historical milestones, distinguished personages, status symbols, and landscapes. Banknotes are mini-posters proclaiming an idealized world. Money is a mystery: monetary value seeks a visual correlative. Euro bills, >>more
Edition Patrick Frey
ISBN 9783905929911
US $60.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 13 in. / 256 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 05/01/2016 In stock
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|  Neubau Forst Catalogue is the 432-page print catalogue of a digital collection of tree silhouettes and sculptures seen at different seasons. Working by hand, the Neubau designers digitally removed the trees from their original Berlin >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784358
US $70.00 CAN $92.50 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 432 pgs / 765 images.
Pub Date: 11/17/2014 In stock
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|  Neue Grafik, the “International Review of graphic design and related subjects,” was initiated by designer Josef Müller-Brockmann and published in eighteen issues between 1958 and 1965 by an editorial collective consisting of him, Richard Paul >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784112
US $300.00 CAN $400.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 9.75 x 11 in. / 1232 pgs / 1000 images.
Pub Date: 02/18/2015 In stock
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|  Notes on Book Design
Edited with text by Amanda-Li Kollberg, Siri Lee Lindskrog. Afterword by Prem Krishnamurthy. This volume gathers a collection of 50 texts on book design written by designers Siri Lee Lindskrog and Amanda-Li Kollberg of Berlin-based graphic and type design studio Formal Settings. The texts are based on a >>more
Onomatopee
ISBN 9789493148963
US $23.00 CAN $34.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 330 pgs / 136 color / 194 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/18/2024 In stock
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|  On Display
Text by Catherine Flood, Hettie Judah. On Display is a large-format collection of highlights from the Hayward Gallery's archive of exhibition posters. Acting as a who's who of contemporary British design and art, this compilation includes work by some of Britain's >>more
Hayward Gallery Publishing
ISBN 9781853323263
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Pbk, 11.75 x 16.5 in. / 112 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 03/24/2015 In stock
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|  Only on Saturday: The Wood Type Prints of Jack Stauffacher
Edited with text by Chuck Byrne. Text by Kristina Bell, John D. Berry, Chuck Bigelow, Matthew Carter, Stephen Coles, Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Jim Faris, Nathan Garland, Dennis Letbetter, Staci Steinberger, Michael Taylor, Pino Trogu. Created in his off-hours on the weekend and in part inspired by the modern artists of his day, Jack Stauffacher’s exquisite prints demonstrate what wood type can do when released from its role in traditional >>more
Letterform Archive Books
ISBN 9780998318066
US $70.00 CAN $95.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 10 x 14 in. / 224 pgs / 425 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/18/2023 In stock
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|  Otto Baumberger (1889–1961) was one of the first Swiss graphic artists to have a career that responds to the occupational title of “poster designer”. However, his desire to be recognized as an artist as well >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781296
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 96 pgs / 120 images.
Pub Date: 01/31/2008 In stock
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|  Pansy Beat was a short-lived fanzine published by Michael Economy in New York from 1989 to 1990, totaling five quarterly issues. Each issue’s 50-some black-and-white pages documented the exuberant downtown gay and drag club scene >>more
KrimsKrams Island LLC
ISBN 9780692953099
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Hbk, 6 x 9 in. / 416 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/24/2018 Out of stock
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|  Whatever became of the myth of Switzerland? Is Switzerland really a beatific island, or does this “paradise on Earth” betray fault lines? What is connoted by the name “Switzerland”? As displayed in tourism posters, chocolate >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037782057
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 96 pgs / 120 images.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Out of stock
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|  Peter Arnell: Projects 1980–2020
Edited by Studio Peter Arnell. Graphic design by Liyuan Tong. Text by Peter Arnell, Frank Gehry, Peter Lindbergh, Michel Marriott, Tristan Thom, Tom Brady, André Leon Talley. Throughout his forty-plus-year career, Peter Arnell has built an unparalleled reputation creating groundbreaking, boundary-averse work for many of the world’s most well-known brands. His unique interdisciplinary approach to brand building unites graphic design, industrial design, >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775746670
US $170.00 CAN $240.00 TRADE
Slip, clth, 2 vols, 12 x 8.5 in. / 848 pgs / 2600 color.
Pub Date: 02/07/2023 In stock
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|  The A-5 is understood as a growing archive of graphic design. In numerous illustrations, essays, and interviews, this book focuses on the outstanding personalities and important themes from the history of international graphic design. A5 >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781807
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.75 x 8 in. / 96 pgs / 103 images.
Pub Date: 09/29/2009 In stock
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|  The effective interplay of photography, graphic arts, and typography marks the beginning of modern graphic design. Illuminated here are eight selected approaches that both engage with tradition and consciously distinguish themselves from it in order >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781289
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 96 pgs / 120 images.
Pub Date: 01/31/2008 In stock
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|  Photo-Montage in Print
Edited by Jindrich Toman. Photomontage was pioneered as a technique in central Europe in the 1910s, where it flourished as an art form through the end of World War II. While German artists such as John Heartfield, Max Ernst >>more
Kant
ISBN 9788086970929
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 376 pgs / 412 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 In stock
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|  Poster No. 524
Edited by Rianne Petter, Rene Put. Text by Jeroen Boomgaard, Jouke Kleerebezem. Taking 523 posters found in the streets, graphic designers René Put (1962) and Rianne Petter (1975) carefully studied and deconstructed their composition, investigating and isolating certain elements and reassembling them into a brand new poster. >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789078088592
US $33.95 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Flexi, 9 x 12.5 in. / 176 pgs / 120 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2013 Out of stock
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|  Posters: Eat & Drink in Italian Advertising
Edited by Mario Piazza, Alessandro Bellenda. This book offers the opportunity to delight in the graphic creativity of the advertising of Italy's major food producers, including Cinzano spumante, Perugina chocolate, Saiwa biscuits and Voiello pasta, as well as campaigns launched by >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836630561
US $65.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 11/24/2015 In stock
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|  Posters: Speed in Italian Advertising 1890–1955
Edited by Dario Cimorelli, Anna Villari. Posters: Speed in Italian Advertising 1890–1955 collects the graphic evidence of a fundamental truth of the early 20th century: Europe found itself moving, all of a sudden, at a new speed. Modernity was aggressive, self-assured >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836632978
US $65.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 190 color.
Pub Date: 09/27/2016 In stock
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|  In Process Music, Virginia-based author Kenneth FitzGerald provides deep readings of print-media artifacts and activities, often through the lens of music. Employing a range of narrative voices, the works combine academic rigor with the accessibility >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148772
US $20.00 CAN $28.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 324 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/15/2022 In stock
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|  Questions?
Edited by David Bennewith, Sereina Rothenberger. Here, designers Marietta Eugster and Manuel Krebs (Norm) from Switzerland, Wayne Daly and Veronica Ditting from the UK, Elisabeth Klement & Laura Pappa and Vinca Kruk (Metahaven) from the Netherlands, Monika Maus from Germany, Boy >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052818
US $25.00 CAN $34.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 496 pgs / 32 color / 240 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/17/2019 In stock
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|  Re-Designing the East
Edited by Iris Dressler, Hans D. Christ. Text by Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler, et al. How do graphic designers respond to sudden, sweeping political change? Re-Designing the East looks at how politicized graphic design practices in Eastern Europe, South and Eastern Asia have evolved since the 1980s, with particular emphasis >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775734660
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 265 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2013 Out of stock
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|  Resolution
Edited by Laurens Otto. Text by Jonas Beerts, Doris Boerman, Caszimir Cleutjens, Tanguy De Donder, David Denil, Elias Heuninck, Kyveli Lignou-Tsamantani, Lev Manovich, Giacomo Mercuriali, William J. Mitchell, belit sag, Alvy Ray Smith. Examining the pixel from a technical, ethical, artistic and economic perspective, with essays from visual artists, engineers, art historians, computer scientists and designers, this first issue of Resolution will be of great interest to graphic-design >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148192
US $12.00 CAN $17.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 10.5 in. / 96 pgs / 24 color / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2020 In stock
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|  idea is a renowned Japanese magazine on international graphic art and typography. Its 333th edition lent 226 pages to Emil Ruder, showcasing his work, influence and legacy in the world of typography and beyond. It >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785416
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 226 pgs / 310 color.
Pub Date: 03/27/2018 In stock
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|  Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III
Introduction by Alexander Sidorov. This volume of 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 a lifetime working as a prison guard. His >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780955006197
US $32.95 CAN $43.95 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 8 in. / 400 pgs / 350 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/01/2008 In stock
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|  Russian Criminal Tattoos and Playing Cards
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Varlam Shalamov. Introduction by Raul Kaasik. Text by Arkady Bronnikov. This book reveals the importance of playing cards in Russian criminal culture. The handmade decks are beautiful works of art in their own right. Prohibited by the prison authorities, they are constructed from innocuous materials >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780993191121
US $32.50 CAN $42.50 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 8 in. / 272 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 10/23/2018 Out of stock
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|  Sam Is Not My Uncle
Text by Alfons González. Uncle Sam with his hands cut off; the head of the Statue of Liberty impaled on a bayonet; a trash can decorated with the Stars and Stripes: these are some of the striking images with >>more
RM
ISBN 9788416282685
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 120 pgs / 92 color.
Pub Date: 09/27/2016 In stock
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|  See Red Women's Workshop
Foreword by Sheila Rowbotham. Text by Prudence Stevenson, Susan Mackie, Anne Robinson, Jess Baines. A feminist silkscreen poster collective founded in London in 1974 by three former art students, the See Red Women’s Workshop grew out of a shared desire to combat sexist images of women and to create >>more
Four Corners Books
ISBN 9781909829077
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Pbk, 8.75 x 12.25 in. / 184 pgs / 90 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2017 In stock
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|  Separate Cinema: The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art
Edited by John Duke Kisch, Tony Nourmand. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Text by John Duke Kisch, Peter Doggett. Afterword by Spike Lee. This magnificent volume is a celebration of the first 100 years of black film poster art. A visual feast, these images recount the diverse and historic journey of the black film industry from the earliest >>more
Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526068
US $49.95 CAN $73.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 320 pgs / 270 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/06/2014 In stock
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|  Can one visualize peace? Are there signs, symbols, and images that present a positive image of peace as opposed to receiving their meanings in opposition to war? Over several years of research, the Design2context Institute >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037782439
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 6.5 in. / 600 pgs / 1762 images.
Pub Date: 12/31/2012 In stock
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|  Songs for Modern Japan
Text by Kendall H. Brown, Anne Nishimura Morse, Hiromu Nagahara. Japanese society underwent a whirlwind of change during the first half of the 20th century, a time period marked by rapid modernization. While Western influences catalyzed an increasingly rapacious appetite for consumer goods, new sounds >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468973
US $40.00 CAN $58.00 TRADE
Flexi, 8.25 x 11 in. / 232 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 07/30/2024 In stock
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|  Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Film Pitch Book
Interview by Claudia Gould. Austrian-born, New York-based graphic designer, typographer and artist Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962) often tests and transgresses the boundary between art and design, through his imaginative implementation of typography. The Happy Film Pitch Book both documents >>more
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
ISBN 9780884541257
US $20.00 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Pbk, 2.75 x 4 in. / 244 pgs / 60 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 In stock
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|  Stop Motion
Edited by Bettina Richter. Text by Ellen Lupton. The medium of the poster, by definition, combines images and text on a static, two-dimensional surface. But designers have always toyed with adding a third dimension, whether spatial or temporal, in order to capture and >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786017
US $25.00 CAN $34.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 Out of stock
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|  Organized into chapters that explore the many ways to express dissent (RESIST!, VOTE!, STRIKE!, TEACH! and LOVE!), Strikethrough presents more than 120 signs, posters, publications and ephemera in vivid imagery and incisive prose. From the >>more
Letterform Archive Books
ISBN 9781736863305
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 280 pgs / 500 color.
Pub Date: 10/18/2022 In stock
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|  Sven Tillack: Exploriso
Text by Daniel Martin Feige, Jo Frenken, Sven Tillack. The boom in the number of small, independent publishing houses over the past 15 years has led to a revival of risography. Artists and designers from all over the world have installed a “Riso” in >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959053044
US $35.00 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 184 pgs / 32 color / 101 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/13/2021 Out of stock
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|  Compiling approximately 50 of Austrian anarchist writer and editor Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn’s (1887–1945) definitions, reflections and aphorisms, this abecedarium provokes and delights in equal measure. Müller-Guttenbrunn wrote prolifically and in a variety of genres, but he >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903796560
US $25.00 CAN $34.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 112 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 09/21/2021 Out of stock
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|  In the age of ubiquitous design, why shouldn't sex be designed as well? The Archisutra, expanding the meaning of the term "graphic" design, runs with that notion. The Archisutra presents architectural designer Miguel Bolivar's erotic >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960984306
US $14.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE
Hbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 128 pgs / 54 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock
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|  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 $62.50 TRADE
Pbk, 9.75 x 13.5 in. / 160 pgs / 163 color / 90 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Out of stock
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|  The Book Design of Josef Capek: Seeing The Book
Text by Alena Pomajzlová. Josef Capek (1887-1945) was one of Czech modernism's most formative protagonists. The artist first studied weaving before finding his métier as both a painter and designer. During a short stint in Paris, he befriended the >>more
Kant
ISBN 9788074370144
US $80.00 CAN $107.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 328 pgs / 790 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 In stock
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|  From 1928 to 1930, Tokyo publisher Ars issued The Complete Commercial Artist: a fully illustrated journal of commercial design for both commercial retail spaces and print design. Featuring countless original designs, its 24 volumes were >>more
Letterform Archive Books
ISBN 9781736863343
US $60.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7.5 x 10.5 in. / 432 pgs / 300 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/12/2024 In stock
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|  A collection of ads selected by the Art Directors Club Italia. Advertising provides clues on the mood of the time and place it appears. Creative Austerity investigates the relationships between economic austerity and the media, >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857217741
US $85.00 CAN $105.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 328 pgs / 381 color.
Pub Date: 10/08/2013 In stock
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|  In 1969, shortly after moving to Detroit with wife and partner Lorraine Nybakken, Fredy Perlman and a group of kindred spirits purchased a printing press from a Chicago dealer, transported it, in parts, back to >>more
Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753255
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 100 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/19/2019 Out of stock
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|  The history of posters is rich in variations on the hand. In consumer posters, a hand presents desirable products. But the hand can also take the form of a symbolically charged gesture in the political >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784778
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 120 images.
Pub Date: 11/25/2015 Out of stock
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|  The Magic of Things explores a former advertising strategy of Swiss product posters in which banal, everyday objects—butter, a sewing machine, or shoes—are presented as desirable objects enticing us to buy. Free from any further >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037782583
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 6.5 in. / 96 pgs / 127 images.
Pub Date: 10/25/2012 In stock
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|  The Music Library
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Jerry Dammers. Text by Jonny Trunk. The first edition of The Music Library, published in 2005 and now out of print, brought together the designs of more than 325 record sleeves and relevant information about these rare and elusive albums. Quickly >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780993191138
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 10 in. / 248 pgs / 635 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock
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|  Originally published in 1973, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog is a seminal survey of the second-wave feminist effort across the US. Edited by Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie in just five months, The New Woman’s >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9781732098671
US $30.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Pbk, 10.5 x 14.25 in. / 210 pgs / 403 duotone.
Pub Date: 10/22/2019 Out of stock
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|  The Palace of Typographic Masonry
Edited with text by Richard Niessen. Text by Juan Luis Blanco, Matthijs van Boxtel, Tony Côme, Hansje van Halem, et al. The Palace of Typographic Masonry, an institute dedicated to the wealth and diversity of graphic languages from Arabic to Zapotec, is the brainchild of Dutch graphic designer Richard Niessen (born 1972). An imaginary institution, the >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052030
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Pbk, 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 252 pgs / 200 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/27/2018 In stock
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|  The Postcard Age
Text by Lynda Klich, Benjamin Weiss. Preface by Leonard A. Lauder. 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 >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467815
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Clth, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 295 pgs / 370 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Out of stock
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|  It includes the first bibliography of his works. Through his legendary imprint Edition Hansjörg Mayer, he issued publications by Dieter Rot, Richard Hamilton, Tom Phillips, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Eugen Gomringer, Dorothy Iannone, John Latham, Robert >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960981138
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 FLAT40
Flexi, 6.75 x 9 in. / 272 pgs / illustrated throughout / DVD.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock
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|  The Society of Signs: Pictograms, Signs of Life, Emojis
Text by Anja Dorn, Isabel Herda, Christine Litz, Philipp Nielsen, Michaela Stoffels, Maxim Weirich, Lukas R.A. Wilde. What are the broader aims and aspirations implied by the development of icons and emojis since the modernist era? What historical issues inform them? Do they expand our possibilities of expression or do they limit >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783753300450
US $59.95 CAN $81.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 272 pgs / 130 color / 74 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/15/2022 In stock
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|  The famous Italian designer Massimo Vignelli allows us a glimpse of his understanding of good design in this book, its rules and criteria. He uses numerous examples to convey applications in practice - from product >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037782255
US $25.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 112 pgs / 142 images.
Pub Date: 11/25/2015 In stock
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|  The Work of 75B
Text by Rens Muis, Pieter Vos. Founded by Robert Beckand, Rens Muis and Pieter Vos in 1997, the Rotterdam-based graphic design studio 75B has designed everything from Nike posters and museum logos to books, magazines, flyers, cards, exhibitions and full-scale architectural >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462080409
US $60.00 CAN $79.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 240 pgs / 2,000 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Out of stock
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|  Theory of Type Design, by internationally renowned Dutch graphic designer and typographer Gerard Unger (born 1942), is the first complete and accessible theory of the breathtakingly varied field of typography. "Of all designed objects letters >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462084407
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock
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|  Thonik: Why We Design
Edited with text by Nikki Gonnissen, Thomas Widdershoven. Text by Gert Staal, Aaron Betsky, Adrian Shaughnessy. In this book, Thonik—the Amsterdam-based design collective led by lauded designers Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven—proposes and addresses 11 personal reasons why they design. Why do we color, organize and form the world around us, >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785560
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 320 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 11/27/2018 In stock
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|  On the occasion of the centenary of the Triennale Milano, this book offers an invitation to look back over 100 years of the institution’s history through the 23 posters for its international exhibition. From Massimo >>more
Marsilio Arte
ISBN 9791254631591
US $35.00 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 13.25 in. / 184 pgs / 234 color.
Pub Date: 06/04/2024 Out of stock
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|  The publication brings together contemporary posters from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan that demonstrate that a new interest in the poster has been awakened as a result of the economic opening of the mainland. The >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037780787
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 64 pgs / 78 images.
Pub Date: 01/31/2006 In stock
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|  Typography
By Wolfgang Weingart. Since the 1970s Wolfgang Weingart has exerted a decisive influence on the international development of typography. In the late 1960s he instilled creativity and a desire for experimentation into the ossified Swiss typographical industry and >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784266
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Pbk, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 520 pgs / 450 images.
Pub Date: 07/25/2014 In stock
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|  Visual Coexistence
Edited with text by Ruedi Baur, Ulrike Felsing. Text by Sébastien Fasel, Fabienne Kilchör, Eva Lu?di Kong, Marco Maione, Roman Wilhelm. In a globalized world, Asian, Latin and Arabic characters and visual cultures appear side by side and woven together. The coexistence of different visual cultures is now part of our daily lives and a given >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786130
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 312 pgs / 150 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/18/2020 In stock
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|  Vorspannkino
Edited by Susanne Pfeffer. Text by Susanne Pfeffer, Daniel Kothenschulte, Alexander Zons. Vertigo, The Pink Panther and the James Bond films are just three examples of the many movies with outstanding opening title sequences. The art of combining words, image and sound to introduce a movie's theme >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865608765
US $44.95 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7.25 x 9.25 in. / 328 pgs / 168 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 In stock
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|  Walter Nikkels: Typography
Text by Wigger Bierma, Wouter Davidts, Suzanna Héman, Walter Nikkels, Lothar Baumgarten, Rudi Fuchs, et al. Walter Nikkels is a large-scale, copiously illustrated monograph on the work of this influential Dutch book designer and typographer (born 1940). Nikkels has designed and edited numerous books and catalogues, as well as bank notes, >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789078088547
US $60.00 CAN $79.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 528 pgs / 1,125 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2013 Out of stock
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|  Wanderland
Preface by Pierre-Alexis Dumas. Text by Bruno Gaudichon. Illustrations by Emmanuel Pierre. An unusual artist's book by French museum director Bruno Gaudichon, Wanderland recaptures the high-spirited dream logic of the exhibition it accompanies; both are centered around the theme of flânerie, the art of urban wandering. Created >>more
Actes Sud
ISBN 9782330049133
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11.5 x 6.25 in. / 56 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 12/29/2015 In stock
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|  We Are All ..... Now
By Daniel Tucker. Edited by Freek Lomme. Interview with Dan S. Wang. The title of this small book is inspired by a common rhetorical gesture—"we are all […]"—intended to implicate people in a given agenda. From the 1887 cry, "We Are All Socialists" to the 2022 rally >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083270647
US $20.00 CAN $29.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 81 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 In stock
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|  What Is Post-Branding?
Edited with text by Jason Grant, Oliver Vodeb. Brands aren’t just intruding on culture, they are our culture: they are the sponsored mechanisms for constructing and manipulating meaning and human identity. But should we cede such a fundamental human need to the market? >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083270678
US $25.00 CAN $36.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 264 pgs / 138 color / 29 duotone / 39 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 In stock
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|  White
By Kenya Hara. White is not a book about colors. It is rather Kenya Haras attempt to explore the essence of “White”, which he sees as being closely related to the origin of Japanese aesthetics – symbolizing simplicity >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781838
US $29.00 CAN $39.50 TRADE
Hbk, 5.5 x 7.75 in. / 80 pgs / 4 images.
Pub Date: 11/25/2009 In stock
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|  Wrappers Delight
By Jonny Trunk. Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Jarvis Cocker. Compiled by famed nostalgia enthusiast Jonny Trunk (owner of record label Trunk Records, and author of The Music Library, Own Label and Wobbly Sounds), and with a foreword by Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker, Wrappers Delight >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780995745599
US $32.95 CAN $45.95 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 8.75 in. / 240 pgs / 515 color.
Pub Date: 01/21/2020 Out of stock
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|  This publication highlights the era between 1948 and 1970 as a turning pont for Swiss graphic artists, especially those stationed in Milan, as well as other great moments in design history. Equipped with an education >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037780794
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 117 images.
Pub Date: 10/20/2006 Out of stock
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| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT  100 Movie Posters
Edited by Tony Nourmand. Introduction by Sir Christopher Frayling. For the first time, world vintage movie poster authority Tony Nourmand shares his personal selection of the 100 essential movie posters of all time. For 30 years, Nourmand has been instrumental in redefining 20th-century movie >>more
Reel Art Press
ISBN 9780957261082
US $49.95 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 192 pgs / 100 color / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/30/2013 Not available
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|  The Typographische Monatsblätter is one of the most important journals to successfully disseminate the phenomenon of “Swiss typography” to an international audience. With more than 70 years in existence, the journal witnessed significant moments in the >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037783344
US $65.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7.75 x 11.5 in. / 276 pgs / 472 images.
Pub Date: 11/25/2013 Not available
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|  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 $40.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8 x 5.5 in. / 158 pgs / 152 color / 56 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Not available
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|  An Atlas of Agendas is a political, social and economic atlas, informing the public about sociopolitical power structures and activating opportunities for the self and the commons.
The French research and design group Bureau d´Études has >>more
Onomatopee
ISBN 9789491677977
US $50.00 CAN $69.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 270 pgs / 54 color / 54 duotone / 64 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 Not available
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|  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
ISBN 9783775717434
US $80.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9.75 x 12.75 in. / 408 pgs / 681 color and 338 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Not available
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|  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 Publishing
ISBN 9781853322389
US $30.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Not available
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|  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
ISBN 9783775791496
US $16.95 CAN $20.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8.5 x 8.5 in. / 64 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Not available
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|  Color Library
Edited by Maximage. Text by Emily King, Shirana Shahbazi, Manon Bruet, Franz Sigg. A collectible publication for graphic designers and creative entrepreneurs, Color Library is the outcome of one of the most talked-about projects of recent years in the graphic-design field. The Color Library project is a database >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037645277
US $49.95 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 7 x 9.5 in. / 280 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Not available
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|  Corporate Diversity
Edited by Andres Janser, Barbara Junod. The design studio of J. R. Geigy AG was the launching pad for one of the great periods of Swiss graphic design, in the 1950s and 1960s. The open-minded corporate culture of the chemical company >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781609
US $65.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 208 pgs / 385 images.
Pub Date: 03/16/2009 Not available
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|  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 $72.50 SDNR30
Pbk, 10.75 x 10.75 in. / 244 pgs / 194 color / 107 b&w / Vinyl Record.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Not available
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|  Czech Cubism and the Book
Edited by Jindrich Toman. Many avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century found an entirely unique expression in Czechoslovakia. Cubism was perhaps the supreme instance of this; as Czech art historian Miroslav Lamac famously commented, around 1912, "Prague became >>more
Kant
ISBN 9788086217673
US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 211 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Not available
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|  DGPH: The Ark Project
After the example of Noah, who saved the animal species in his ark for posterity, this volume, an "Illustrated Animal Bible by Artists from all over the World," aspires to rescue and house the animals >>more
IdN
ISBN 9789881847010
US $34.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Flexi, 7 x 8.5 in. / 240 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 06/30/2010 Not available
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|  Design Research Unit: 1942-72
Text by Michelle Cotton. In the same way that the Helvetica font graphically defined the New York City subway system, the Design Research Unit visually branded the London we know today in everything from its street signs to such >>more
Walther König, Köln/Koenig Books
ISBN 9783863350406
US $35.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 9.75 in. / 120 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/30/2012 Not available
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|  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 Not available
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|  Diagrammatic Writing is a poetic demonstration of the capacity of format to produce meaning. The articulation of the codex, as a space of semantically generative relations, has rarely (if ever) been subject to so highly focused and >>more
Onomatopee
ISBN 9789491677793
US $15.00 CAN $24.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 36 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/20/2018 Not available
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|  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 $60.00 FLAT40
Clothbound, 9 x 12 in. / 292 pgs / 132 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Not available
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|  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 Resource >>more
Valiz/Werkplaats Typografie
ISBN 9789080818576
US $40.00 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 384 pgs / 200 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Not available
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|  ECAL Graphic Design
Edited by Angelo Benedetto, Lionel Bovier, Vincent Devaud, Gilles Gavillet, Alexis Georgacopoulos. Text by Angelo Benedetto, Alexis Georgacopoulos, François Rappo. ECAL Graphic Design is a source book of graphic design by leading European art school, the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne, headed by Alexis Georgacopoulos. ECAL has evolved from a regional school in Switzerland to >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037644553
US $49.95 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 128 color.
Pub Date: 05/24/2016 Not available
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|  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 $40.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 9.25 in. / 180 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Not available
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|  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
US $29.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Not available
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|  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
US $30.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 172 pgs / 140 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Not available
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|  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 $117.50 TRADE
Clothbound, 6.75 x 9 in. / 244 pgs / 717 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Not available
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|  Francisco Díaz de León
Text by Francisco Diaz de León, Renata Blaisten. Francisco Díaz de León (1897-1975) looms large over the history of modern Mexican art: an outstanding engraver, illustrator, book designer, photographer, professor, founder of the Open-Air Painting School in Tlalpan and director of the School >>more
RM/Colección Andrés Blaisten
ISBN 9788493612368
US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 160 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2011 Not available
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|  Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age
Introduction with text by Demian Conrad. Text by Nicolas Nova, Rob van Leijsen, Dimitri Jeanottat, et al. Through a series of over 20 interviews with designers, this survey looks at the challenges and opportunities of the fast-changing world of creative coding and the ethos of devising one’s own design tools. >>more
Onomatopee projects
ISBN 9789493148680
US $30.00 CAN $41.50 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 480 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2022 Not available
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|  Graphis Annual: The Essential 1952-1986
Edited by Thierry D. Hausermann. From 1952 to 1986, the Swiss design powerhouse Graphis published a yearly volume under the title Graphis Annual, presenting a survey of graphic design work from the past year. Taken together, these 35 volumes highlight >>more
Idpure Editions
ISBN 9782839905992
US $65.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Not available
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|  Green Patriot Posters
Edited by Edward Morris, Dmitri Siegel. Text by Michael Bierut, Thomas L. Friedman, Steven Heller, Edward Morris, Dmitri Siegel, Morgan Clendaniel. This book brings together the strongest contemporary graphic design currently promoting sustainability and the fight against climate change. Collectively, essays by Michael Bierut, Steven Heller, Edward Morris and Dmitri Siegel look back in time to >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781935202240
US $30.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color / 50 tear-out posters.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Not available
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| Gunter Rambow 1960-96
Artwork by Gunter Rambow. >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783893228430
US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 240 pgs / 85 color / 109 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/1997 Not available
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|  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
ISBN 9783893223459
US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 311 pgs / 200 color
Pub Date: 05/02/1998 Not available
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|  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 $55.00 FLAT40
Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 700 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2007 Not available
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|  Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the 21st century through a series of detailed nonfictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence—they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and regulations around the >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785348
US $30.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / 987 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 Not available
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|  Holland on Paper
Text by Clifford S. Ackley. From the 1890s through the turn of the century, there was a flourishing of new, imaginative art and craft throughout Europe that we now know as Art Nouveau. The Netherlands experienced an inventive variant of >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467990
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 10.5 in. / 256 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 Not available
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| |  IdN 15th Anniversary Edition
Launched in 1994 by Laurence Ng, and morphing quickly from a "how-to" magazine tutoring its readership in the intricacies of new design technologym, into a "what to" magazine aiming to inspire and reflect the booming >>more
IdN
ISBN 9789889959197
US $59.95 CAN $70.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 7.75 in. / 452 pgs / illustrated throughout / DVD (NTSC only).
Pub Date: 07/31/2010 Not available
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|  IdN Extra 02: New York
Introduction by Victor M. Newman. What if anime had begun in America instead of Japan? What would an anime native to America look like? Here, IdN asks 50 artists and illustrators what the landcape of New York might look like >>more
IdN
ISBN 9789881847034
US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 132 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/28/2011 Not available
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|  IdN Extra 03: Society 6
Introduction by Justin Cooper. In this third special edition, IdN collaborates with Society6, one of the largest online platforms for up-and-coming designers, to showcase the talent of 58 young artists raised in the internet boom of the late twentieth >>more
IdN
ISBN 9789881847041
US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 148 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/28/2011 Not available
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|  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
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056622725
US $20.00 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 16 color.
Pub Date: 03/02/2003 Not available
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|  Jon Burgerman: Pens Are My Friends
Text by Harlan Levey, Peter Thaler, Lars Denicke. For the first time, British artist and illustrator Jon Burgerman's commercial, personal and collaborative works are collected together in this lavish and fun publication. Burgerman's brightly colored parades of monster faces and abstract glyphs have >>more
IdN
ISBN 9789889959142
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Hbk, 8.5 x 9 in. / 310 pgs / illustrated throughout / DVD (PAL).
Pub Date: 06/30/2010 Not available
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|  This illustrated essay traces the history of one of the leading exponents of Swiss Graphic Design in the 1950s and 1960s. Josef Müller-Brockmann’s posters have become world famous for their ability to convey information with >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783906700892
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Pub Date: 02/02/2002 Not available
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|  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
ISBN 9783775791519
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 256 pgs / 220 color / 270 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Not available
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|  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
ISBN 9783775790598
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Hardcover, 9 x 11.75 in. / 256 pgs / 400 color / 200 b&w
Pub Date: 12/02/2001 Not available
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|  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 für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783936711493
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Hardcover, 9 x 10.75 in. / 208 pgs / 290 color / 22 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Not available
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|  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) has >>more
Haunch of Venison
ISBN 9781905620302
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Pbk, 5.75 x 9.5 in. / 320 pgs / 185 color / 97 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Not available
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|  Martin Szekely
Text by Elisabeth Lebovici. Martin Szekely (born 1956) is one of the most acclaimed designers of his generation, creating furniture and objects for museums, private collectors and small manufacturers, and working on major industrial projects with international companies such >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037640982
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Hbk, 12 x 12 in. / 252 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Not available
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|  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
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Hardcover, 8 x 11.5 in. / 14 pgs / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Not available
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|  Mati & The Music: 52 Record Covers 1955-2005
Text by Serge Bramly. The 1960s and 1970s offered many options for mind expansion: psychedelic drugs, Eastern meditation, sex--and the art of Mati Klarwein. Klarwein (1932–2002) was a major presence in the New York art scene, admired by everyone >>more
RM/Librairie 213
ISBN 9788492480197
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Hbk, 12 x 12 in. / 184 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Not available
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|  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
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Paperback, 11 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 32 color / 48 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Not available
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|  Mexico Illustrated 1920-1950
Text by Salvador Albiñana, Juan M. Bonet, Deborah Dorotinsky, Marina Garone. The most important study ever published on modern illustrated books in Mexico, Mexico Illustrated 1920-1950 explores the illustration and poster work of great Mexican artists from the first half of the twentieth century, offering a >>more
RM/Museo Valenciano de la ilustración y la modernidad
ISBN 9788492480876
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 240 color / 47 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2011 Not available
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|  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
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Paperback, 8.25 x 6 in. / 196 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Not available
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|  Mihály Biró: Pathos in Red
Edited by Peter Noever. Text by Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Michael Diers, Sebastian Hackenschmidt. The designer Mihály Biró (1886-1948) was the graphic voice of Soviet communism in Hungary. He joined the Social Democratic cause early in life, and between 1910 and 1920 designed some of the most widely admired >>more
Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869841571
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Flexi, 5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Not available
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|  Mira Cuba: The Cuban Poster Art from 1959
Edited by Luigino Bardellotti, Simona Biolcati, Ivo Boscariol. Introduction by Mario Piazza. Text by Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Pepe Menendez, Niko, Sara Vega, Reynaldo Gonzales, Olivio Martinez, Rafael Morante, Richard Frick. Many eras have passed in Cuba since Fidel Castro took office in 1959 after the Revolution, but the special character of the graphic art spawned in that chaotic, fertile moment has endured, as this volume >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836626991
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 06/30/2014 Not available
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|  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
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Paperback, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 144 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Not available
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|  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
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Hardcover, 5 x 8 in. / 192 pgs / 64 color / 125 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/01/2007 Not available
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|  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 $67.50 TRADE
Paperback, 8 x 10.5 in. / 272 pgs./ 240 color
Pub Date: 10/01/2007 Not available
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|  Poemotion
By Takahiro Kurashima. Poemotion is an interactive book-object. The abstract graphical patterns in this small volume are set in motion as soon as you move the attached special foil across them: moiré effects allow complex forms to develop, >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037782774
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 64 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/28/2012 Not available
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|  Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte
Text by Detlef Hilmer, Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Christian Witt-Doerring, Leonard A. Lauder. Founded in 1903 by architect Josef Hoffmann and designer Koloman Moser, the Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshops, gathered architects, artists and designers committed to making design excellence available to all. As a form, the postcard >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775727518
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Hbk, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 336 pgs / 1,115 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2011 Not available
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|  Posters: Advertising and Italian Fashion, 1890-1950
Text by Dario Cimorelli, Anna Villari. This fascinating, abundantly illustrated book delves into the evolution of Italian advertising and fashion posters, showing how social developments and economic expansion were reflected in commercial art. Advertising served as an ideal vehicle for fashion, >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836623433
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Clth, 9.5 x 11 in. / 238 pgs / 280 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2013 Not available
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|  Posters: Irony, Imagination and Eroticism in Advertising 1895-1960
Text by Dario Cimorelli. In the closing decade of the nineteenth century, the modern age invaded the city streets of Italy in the form of advertising posters. Bouquets of monkeys, elephants, masks, automobiles and elegantly--and sometimes scantily--clad ladies suddenly >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836622528
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Clth, 10 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Not available
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|  Posters: The Sea Voyage
Edited by Paolo Piccione. A continuation of Silvana Editoriale’s Posters series, this volume presents the most significant examples of advertising graphics produced by Italian shipping companies between 1885 and 1965. The graphics range from those produced for the first >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836627981
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Clth, 9.5 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 280 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2014 Not available
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|  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
ISBN 9780955201738
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 535 color / 65 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Not available
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| 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 Not available
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|  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
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 Not available
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|  Rock Paper Show: Flatstock Volume One
Edited by Geoff Peveto. Introduction by Clay Hayes. The first decade of the twenty-first century marked a highpoint at the intersection of graphic design and music. Against the backdrop of the digital music revolution, the rock poster has suddenly reemerged as an art >>more
Soundscreen Design
ISBN 9780984302802
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 312 pgs / 566 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Not available
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|  In an entertaining and straightforward way, Edo Smitshuijzen’s Signage Design Manual leads the reader step by step through the individual phases of signal design. More than nine hundred illustrations guide him or her through this >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037780961
US $59.90 CAN $78.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 10.25 in. / 456 pgs / 800 images.
Pub Date: 07/11/2007 Not available
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|  Slavs and Tatars Presents Molla Nasreddin
Edited by Slavs and Tatars. Published between 1906 and 1930, and with a readership that stretched from Morocco to Iran, Molla Nasreddin is perhaps the most important Muslim magazine of the twentieth century. Throughout its beautifully printed pages, issues of >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037642122
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 218 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2011 Not available
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|  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
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 9 in. / 200 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Not available
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|  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 simple logotypes >>more
Acadia Summer Arts Program
ISBN 9780979764233
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Clth, 7 x 9.25 in. / 184 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 06/30/2010 Not available
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|  The European Poster 1888-1938
Introduction by José Lebrero Stals. Text by Carlos Pérez, Dara Kiese, Luigi Cavadini, Anne-Marie Sauvage, Aymeric Perroy, Katalin Bakos. The modern poster dates back to around 1870, when color lithography had been sufficiently perfected to permit mass production. Artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec and Jules Chéret were quick to perceive and embrace the possibilities of >>more
Fundación Museo Picasso Málaga
ISBN 9788493842789
US $55.00 CAN $65.00 SDNR50
Boxed, 8.25 x 11.5 in. / 336 pgs / 200 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Not available
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|  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 Not available
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|  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
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Paperback, 8 x 9.75 in. / 208 pgs / 128 color / illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 04/02/2003 Not available
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|  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 what >>more
Designmatters at ArtCenter College of Design
ISBN 9780961870508
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Hbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 344 pgs / 91 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Not available
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|  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 public, this >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780955006111
US $57.00 CAN $70.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 132 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 11/15/2005 Not available
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|  The Way Beyond Art: Wide White Space
Edited and with interview by Jon Sueda. Foreword by Claire Fitzsimmons. Text by Rachel Berger, Claire Fitzsimmons, Eric Heiman, Emily McVarish, Jon Sueda. The Way Beyond Art: Wide White Space investigates graphic design’s evolving relationship with exhibition making and the work of both artists and curators. The exhibition context has long been a fertile area for graphic designers >>more
Wattis
ISBN 9780984960910
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 104 pgs / 38 color / 102 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2013 Not available
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|  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
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Paperback, 10.5 x 9.5 in. / 48 pgs / 52 color.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Not available
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|  Eighteen internationally reputed designers were interviewed by the editors Inge Gobert and Johan Van Looveren. All are active in the broad field of information design: interactive, editorial, and environmental design, data visualization, wayfinding, typography, cartography. >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784365
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Pbk, 8.5 x 11.5 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/25/2015 Not available
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|  Type Compass
Edited by Michael Brenner, Emilio Macchia. Foreword by Gerry Leonidas. Today’s graphic output makes use of a colossal number of fonts, compared to 20 years ago. So where is the evolution of type design headed? Type Compass answers these questions, showcasing designers from around the >>more
SHS Publishing
ISBN 9788890759499
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Hbk, 4.5 x 6.5 in. / 280 pgs / 188 duotone.
Pub Date: 08/31/2013 Not available
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|  Bridging between design, geopolitics, architecture, and branding, Metahaven's Uncorporate Identity defies easy categorization as a monograph. The book is organized as a sequence of five chapters, dealing with data havens and statehood, post-communist architecture, visual >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781692
US $75.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 608 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/01/2010 Not available
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|  Following the success of Sleeves of Desire, a second publication is now being devoted to the cover art of the label ECM, Edition of Contemporary Music, focusing above all on sleeve design from 1996 to >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781579
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10.75 in. / 448 pgs / 1260 images.
Pub Date: 01/03/2010 Not available
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|  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 identities, >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905829242
US $42.00 CAN $55.00 FLAT40
Paperback, 9.25 x 11.75 in. / 300 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Not available
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|  jochen stankowski
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 Not available
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