This is a collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a different and iconic Penguin book jacket. From classics to crime, here are over seventy years of quintessentially British design in one box. In 1935 Allen Lane stood on a platform at Exeter railway station, looking for a good book for the journ...
The Croods takes us back to a previously undiscovered era known as the Croodacious period, when Mother Nature was still experimenting. Trying to find their evolutionary niche are The Croods family. The Art of The Croods traces the evolution of the comedy adventure movie with over 400 pieces of conce...
One of the most prolific and successful artists of the Golden Age of American Illustration, J. C. Leyendecker captivated audiences throughout the first half of the 20th century. Leyendecker is best known for his creation of the archetype of the fashionable American male with his advertisements for A...
Over the past 25 years, Pixar s team of artists, writers, and directors have shaped the world of contemporary animation with their feature films and shorts. From classics such as Toy Story and A Bug s Life to recent masterpieces such as Up, Toy Story 3, and Cars 2, this comprehensive collection offe...
Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington¡¯s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion¡¯s best-kept secret wer...
Designated as "degenerate" by the Nazis, Paul Klee (1879-1940) is today considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His works stand out for the variety in their forms of artistic expression. His Tunisian water-colours depicting landscape, architecture and, above all, the North ...
Concise, beautifully illustrated guide provides invaluable instruction on the art of pencil drawing. Topics include the basics of holding the pencil, applying different strokes, shading, perspective, and the rendering of different materials, as well as the finer points of pictorial composition and d...
Whether he's projecting holographs into a gallery space or inviting viewers to gaze at the sky through a hole in the roof, James Turrell is perpetually asking us to "go inside and greet the light" - evoking his Quaker upbringing. In fact, all of Turrell's work has been influenced by his life experie...
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[¿Ü¼] Vitamin D2 : New Perspectives in Drawing(Hardcover)
An up-to-the-minute survey of contemporary drawing featuring 115 artists from around the world, Vitamin D2 allows the reader to look at the medium in detail and study drawing's unique properties in relation to itself, to contemporary art and to the world at large. Phaidon's influential Vitamin serie...
The beautiful and bizarre imagery of this popular Polish surrealist is now collected in an elegantly designed treasury. 60 color illustrations. 10 photos.
The iF product design award was introduced in 1954 and is annually conferred by iF Industrie Forum Design of Hanover, Germany. Each year the iF award attracts more than 2000 entries from 37 countries, which are then judged by experts in the respective fields. The winner of each field receives a seal...
Nicolas ¡°Sparth¡± Bouvier, has been an active Artistic Director and Concept Designer for the gaming industry for over 15 years. In Structura 2, he delights us with what he has been imagining for the last three years since the release of his first best selling book, Structura. This visually stunning...
William T. Baker's work is inspired by the bounty of classical architecture found in the grand homes of the southern United States, particularly the state of Georgia. The hallmarks of his architecture are extraordinary attention to details of craftsmanship and construction, and a keen eye for scale ...
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[¿Ü¼] Vidal Sassoon : How One Man Changed the World with a Pair of Scissors(Hardcover)
A captivating look at the career of social and style revolutionary Vidal Sassoon. A visionary hairstylist who became a household name, Vidal Sassoon was an instrument of change during the cultural shifts of the 1960s. Inspired by Bauhaus architecture, Sassoon¡¯s career took off with the Nancy Kwan b...