The venerable brick is one of the oldest and most sustainable building materials in the world. It is simple yet versatile, modest yet resilient, global in usage yet local in appearance....
This fully-illustrated history of the world’s best comic strip art, including Hy Eisman’s The Katzenjammer Kids, which debuted in 1897, Charles Schultz’s Peanuts (1950), Peyo&rsqu...
A revised edition of this popular history of design, updated to reflect innovations since the book's first publication in 2016.Design: The Whole Story takes a close look at the key deve...
This simply structured and highly original book analyses the palettes that have been used by designers in the creation of furnishing fabrics and wallpapers from the 15th century to the present. The...
Throughout the history of design, women have been overlooked or overshadowed, their work frequently sidelined or credited to their male peers. Women in Design offers a comprehensive introduction to...
Our lives are increasingly lived on screens, and every one of our electronic interactions is mediated by a designed interface, which can be buggy and incomprehensible or inviting and accessible. Li...
Featuring nineteen home-building and design strategies that are direct, original and often surprisingly simple, this inspirational sourcebook presents a mix of new technology and time-tested vernac...
The period between the mid 1940s and early 1970s was one of the most productive, creative and exciting eras for objects and furniture in the home. Post-war optimism, new modes of living, innovation...
A comprehensive look at hundreds of graphic worksThrough the turbulent passage of time, graphic design—with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea—has distilled the spirit of...
Polska to kraj pełen cudownych zakątków. Dzięki swemu położeniu pomiędzy Karpatami a Bałtykiem potrafi zachwycić różnorodnością. Nie brakuje w niej gór, lasów, urokliwyc...
Tu biło i bije serce Polski. Wawel – ponad tysiącletnia katedra i królewski zamek– góruje nad Krakowem, prastarą stolicą. To prawdziwy skarbiec najdawniejszych i nowszych ...
The Italian colour bible: a gorgeously illustrated exploration of colour and the modern gaze, from an award-winning designer'Fresh and exciting, like an unopened packet of coloured penc...
Celebrate the first decade of James Cameron's Avatar and the beginnings of an epic cinematic journey.Delve into the majestic world of Pandora and discover the incredible wealth of creat...
Since when did certain hand gestures become offensive? And why are scales a symbol of justice?For thousands of years, humans have communicated through a language of signs and symbols. F...
The world fell in love with Rachel Khoo through her cookbook and television show The Little Paris Kitchen, and immediately began to covet her Parisian lifestyle, fashion sense, and delicious recipe...
The evolution of style from antiquity to 1888Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet’s Le Costume historique was in its day the most wide-ranging and incis...
Albertus Seba’s unrivaled catalog of animals, insects, and “freaks of nature”The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century’s greatest natural history a...
A catalogue raisonné of “the painter’s painter”Manet called him “the greatest painter of all.” Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that...
Impossible staircases and startling ruins from Italy’s master engraverThe most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) made his name with etchi...
What’s Wrong in Tinseltown?The dark side of Los Angeles, 1920–1950In the years following World War I, Los Angeles was a city awakening to its darker side, transforming...