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Vendor:Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton
Softcover | 10.92 x 2.03 x 17.53 cm | 296 pp Cooper-Hewitt Museum | 2017 | 9781942303152 In September 2015 the world lost Phil Patton – prolific design writer, teacher and tantalising wordsmith. Patton’s insatiable curiosity, sense of humour and keen eye made for the...- £7.50
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Vendor:MIT Press
Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation
Charles Jencks & Nathan Silver Softcover | 18.26 x 1.63 x 25.55 cm | 256 pp MIT Press | 2013 | 9780262518444 The triumphant return of a book that gave us permission to throw out the rulebook, in activities ranging from play to architecture...- £15.00
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Bentwood and Beyond: Thonet and Modern Furniture Design
Hardcover | 24.89 x 3.05 x 31.75 cm | 304 pp Birkhäuser | 2020 | 9783035620474 The bentwood furniture developed by Michael Thonet made style history and served as the foundation of one of the world’s most successful furniture brands. At the end of the...- £30.00
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Vendor:MIT Press
Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism
Alice Twemlow Hardcover | 18.75 x 2.34 x 23.65 cm | 312 pp MIT Press | 2017 | 9780262035989 This book looks at how product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill. Product design criticism operates...- £12.50
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Vendor:Laurence King
The Little Book of Typographic Ornament
David Jury Hardcover | 16.5 x 3.2 x 21.3 cm | 240 pp | 700 illustrations Laurence King | 2015 | 9781780675893 This little book contains a beautiful and varied collection of typographic ornaments sourced from specimen books of type foundries, dating from 1700. David Jury...- £12.00
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Cork: In Architecture, Design, Fashion and Art
Guillaume Bounoure & Chloe Genevaux Hardcover | 19.81 x 2.03 x 27.43 cm | 176 pp Gingko Press | 2020 | 9783943330328 Cork: in Architecture, Design, Fashion, and Art showcases the fascinating ways cork can be incorporated in our lives. With sustainability at the forefront of every designer’s...- £25.00
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Vendor:MIT Press
Pretense Design: Surface Over Substance
Per Mollerup Hardcover | 16.03 x 1.88 x 26.19 cm | 224 pp MIT Press | 2019 | 9780262039482 PLEASE NOTE: This title has been remainder marked by the publisher - a small marker pen dot on one edge. See images. How some design appears...- £15.00
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Digital Design Theory: Readings from the Field
Helen Armstrong & Keetra Dean Dixon Softcover | 18.42 x 1.27 x 22.23 cm |152 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2016 | 9781616893088 Digital Design Theory bridges the gap between the discourse of print design and interactive experience by examining the impact of computation on the...- £13.00
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Design Dictionary: Perspectives on Design Terminology
Softcover | 17.86 x 3.81 x 22.48 cm | 472 pp Birkhäuser | 2008 | 9783764377397 This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorical foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested...- £25.00
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Infinite Suburbia
Alan Berger & Joel Kotkin Hardcover | 21.3 x 5.1 x 26 cm | 784 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2017 | 9781616895501 Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's year-long study of the future of suburban development....- £35.00
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Sculpting the Land: Landscape Design Influenced by Abstract Art (Non-mint)
Diana Armstrong Bell Hardcover | 24.13 x 1.78 x 27.31 cm | 144 pp Unicorn | 2019 | 9781912690466 Sculpting the Land, by award winning landscape architect Diana Armstrong Bell, is a homage to her unique interpretation of the possibilities of landscape design. A selection...- £8.00
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Vendor:V&A
Modern British Designers (V&A Pattern)
Samantha Erin Safer Hardcover | 12.7 x 1.27 x 17.78 cm | 80 pp V&A | 2012 | 9781851776818 Modern British Designers traces 50 years of creative genius and innovation in British design via the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Though spanning five decades,...- £5.00
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Fifty Shoes that Changed the World (Design Museum)
Hardcover | 15.88 x 2.22 x 21.59 cm | 112 pp Conran Octopus | 2009 | 9781840917376 Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about it? Fifty Shoes That...- £5.00
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Poul Gernes: I Cannot Do It Alone, Want to Join In?
Helle Brøns, Paul Smith, Hans Ulrich Obrist, et al. Softcover | 24.4 x 1 x 34.3 cm | 96 pp Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | 2017 | 9788792877680 This book documents the career of a pivotal figure of the Danish postwar avant-garde, Poul...- £12.50
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Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
Karen Kice Softcover | 21.6 x 13.7 x 1 cm | 88 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300210637 A bold, theoretical look at an emerging generation of architects, this volume is devoted to five contemporary practices-Bureau Spectacular, Erin Besler, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Formlessfinder,...- £7.00
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The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
Hardcover | 23.62 x 2.54 x 24.64 cm | 208 pp MFA Publications | 2012 | 9780878467693 Modernity took many forms in 1930s Japan, but in the tumultuous years before militarism pushed the country toward global aggression, it was most visibly associated with a...- £20.00
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William Addison Dwiggins: Stencilled Ornament and Illustration (Expanded Edition)
Hardcover | 17.78 x 1.27 x 26.04 cm | 112 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2015 | 9781616893750 This is a survey of work by one of the greatest book designers of all time, William Addison Dwiggins (1880-1955). The book illustrates Dwiggins's step-by-step method...- £10.00
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Outside the Box: Hand-Drawn Packaging from Around the World
Gail Anderson Softcover | 20.32 x 2.54 x 25.4 cm | 256 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2015 | 9781616893361 A book for designers, aspiring designers and followers of consumer trends, Outside the Box aims to be the first of its kind - a celebration...- £15.00
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Introduction to Three-Dimensional Design: Principles, Processes, and Projects
Softcover | 17.91 x 1.65 x 21.34 cm | 126 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2020 | 9781616899219 Introduction to Three-Dimensional Design is the first book to teach graphic design students the fundamentals of three-dimensional design through hands-on drawing and model projects. The book combines key concepts...- £15.00
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Flintstone Modernism: or The Crisis in Postwar American Culture
Jeffery Lieber Hardcover | 16.21 x 2.39 x 23.65 cm | 296 pp MIT Press | 2018 | 9780262037495 Ancient history, midcentury modernism, Cinemascope, humanism and monumentality, totalitarianism and democracy: transformations in American culture and architecture. In Flintstone Modernism, Jeffrey Lieber investigates transformations in postwar...- £20.00
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I haven't used this book yet, but as a novice oil painter, it will be very helpful in learning techniques used by the masters, albeit quite basic approaches and styles. It gives step-by-step guidance via illustrated tutorials, basic information such as equipment and the colours to use in each exercise areprovided. What could possibly go wrong?
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This is a comprehensive overview of works of art from earliest times until the late 20th century. It's immediately accessible to read and engaging. My only grumble is that many of the photos are small and in black and white. The text and the works themselves merit better treatment, but that would make this already weighty tome unmanageable and prohibitively expensive. I'm very pleased with this book and will enjoy it.
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