Practical Guides | Techniques | Projects

Lucy Alexander & Timothy Meara Softcover with exposed spine binding | 19 x 2 x 24.6 cm | 256 pp Ilex Press | 2019 | 9781781575994 Explore and expand your creative skill set with Central Saint Martins Foundation. Guided by key lessons from college tutors, you'll learn...

Michael Atavar Softcover | 11.5 x 1.1 x 14.8 cm | 128 pp Kiosk Publishing | 2013 | 9780953107353 Looking At Art (With Your Eyes Closed) contains Michael Atavar's teaching from his three courses at Tate. The book helps you to build a relationship with...

Michael Atavar Softcover | 12 x 1.6 x 18 cm | 272 pp Kiosk Publishing | 2011 | 9780953107322 12 Rules of Creativity is a book of twelve practical steps that help to stimulate your creativity. Michael Atavar guides you through the basic principles...

Michael Atavar Softcover | 12 x 1.4 x 18 cm | 256 pp Kiosk Publishing | 2016 | 9780953107346  This book uses your unique creative power to generate new ideas, inspiring both you and those around you. Michael Atavar offers you twenty-four techniques for...

Demetrius Fordham Hardcover | 12.7 x 2.54 x 18.73 cm | 224 pp Ilex | 2015 | 9781781572696 Outpace the competition and put your photography skills to work with this enlighteninghard-working, no-nonsense guide to professional shooting in the real world. Passing on hard-earned lessons from his successful business, Demetrius Fordham shows how to...

Tristan Manco Softcover | 17.78 x 2.54 x 23.37 cm | 288 pp Thames & Hudson | 2020 | 9780500022856  Attention artists, activists, designers, typographers, provocateurs and all rebellious spirits! This is not just a practical handbook for making stencil art, but a guide to...

Peter Jenny Softcover | 10.5 x 1.6 x 14.7 cm | 216 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2012 | 9781616890568 The Artist's Eye shows how to see the world with fresh eyes and to discover art in everyday objects. An invitation to give fantasy...

Peter Jenny Softcover | 10.48 x 1.27 x 14.92 cm | 168 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2012 | 9781616890544 Drawing Techniques encourages you to think of drawing as a form of communication. Gesticulating, touching, feeling, doodling, and moving are just some of the actions...

Peter Jenny Softcover | 10.6 x 1.6 x 14.7 cm | 208 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2015 | 9781616893736 Unlearning to Draw looks to the art of children and outsider artists for inspiration, advocating a return to carefree, untrained drawing and a renewed focus on...

Rita Isaac Hardcover | 16.89 x 1.65 x 21.59 cm | 128 pp Laurence King | 2020 | 9781786275707  Acrylic is the second book in the popular 'Do More Art' series, which explores the myriad creative possibilities of working with acrylic. Discover everything from basic...

6a architects Softcover | 21.59 x 1.52 x 15.24 cm | 80 pp Park Books | 2015 | 9783038600077 You may have braved IKEA, where the promise of a brighter and better living space comes sealed in a cardboard box. But what do we lose...

Dana K. Gulling Hardcover | 25.72 x 3.18 x 29.85 cm | 352 pp Laurence King | 2018 | 9781786271334  Manufacturing Architecture is the first reference guide to customising repetitive manufacturing for architects. Clear diagrams, photographs, and narratives explain 20 of the most common manufacturing processes for typical building...

Mark Burry & Jane Burry Softcover | 23.5 x 21.7 cm | 272 pp Thanks & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500292495 Prototyping for Architects has four sections: an introduction that charts the rise of prototyping in design history, more specifically in architecture; an overview of techniques; a survey...

Juan Serra Lluch  Softcover | 17.65 x 2.03 x 21.46 cm | 192 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2019 | 9781616897949 As far back as the earliest Greek temples, colour has been an integral part of architecture but also one of its least understood...

Tanya Nagar Hardcover | 20.19 x 2.29 x 24.51 cm | 160 pp Ilex | 2019 | 9781781576427 The 50mm lens is for photography purists. It's cheap to buy, light to carry and gets amazing results. It also makes even the greatest photographers try just...

Betty Edwards  Softcover | 18.8 x 1.4 x 22.6 cm | 176 pp Souvenir Press | 2022 | 9781788167932 From the author of the world's most popular drawing instruction manual Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this new book helps you discover a...

Rob Ryan Softcover | 20.83 x 2.03 x 26.42 cm | 176 pp Thames & Hudson | 2018 | 9780500294185  Paper crafts are as old as paper itself, with a profusion of different techniques and traditions originating around the world. Paper is affordable, ephemeral and...

Kate Hodges Softcover | 16.76 x 2.16 x 21.59 cm | 176 pp Quadrille | 2021 | 9781787137189 Rock, Paper, Scissors is a collection of creative, fun, sense-stimulating things you can do with very simple materials: stones, paper and scissors. From land art to science experiments,...

Christine Medley Softcover | 21 x 0.8 x 27.4 cm | 140 pp Dover Publications | 2020 | 9780486837192 How To Print Anything On Everything offers 12 easy-to-follow projects demonstrate time-honoured printing techniques. An introduction to tools, materials and equipment is followed by chapters...

Joy Jolliffe Softcover | 18.4 x 1.3 x 24.1 cm | 144 pp Pavilion | 2016 | 9781910904886 Joy Jolliffe demonstrates that printing is a simple, effective way to make your mark on a multitude of surfaces from clothes to bedding. The book features chapters on...