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Vendor:Victionary
Camo Mania: New disruptive patterns in design
Softcover | 19.05 x 2.29 x 25.15 cm | 256 pp Victionary | 2017 | 9789887774648 Camo Mania explores the how artists and designers redefine and reify the impacts of camouflage. Through experimentation with visual contrasts, imagery, composition, colour and shape, the once limited function of these patterns become...- £12.00
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Wallpaper: The Ultimate Guide
Charlotte Abrahams Hardcover | 24.26 x 3.25 x 30.38 cm | 256 pp The Overlook Press | 2010 | 9781590204344 This luxurious book explores contemporary wallpaper through three approaches to design - Architectural Illusions, Fabulous Florals and Pasted Pictures. Each section starts with 21st century examples,...- £15.00
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William Morris: Artist Craftsman Pioneer
Rosalind Ormiston & N. M. Wells Hardcover | 27.94 x 2.79 x 28.89 cm | 192 pp Flame Tree | 2019 | 9781787553194 This beautifully illustrated book offers a survey of William Morris' life and work alongside some of his finest decorative work. Morris possessed a multi-faceted...- £17.00
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Vendor:Monacelli Press
Marian Bantjes: I Wonder
Softcover | 16 x 3.81 x 24.26 cm | 224 pp Monacelli Press | 2018 | 9781580935197 From typographic illustrator Marian Bantjes, I Wonder offers new ways of thinking about art, design, beauty, and popular culture through elaborately crafted word pictures. Whether intricately hand-drawn...- £15.00
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Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Painting
Stephen Westfall, Lilly Wei & Rene Paul Barilleaux Hardcover | 21.84 x 2.03 x 30.23 cm | 144 pp East of Borneo | 2014 | 9780615864518 Beauty Reigns focuses on exoticism, exuberance and optimism in contemporary painting through the work of 13 emerging and mid-career abstract painters. Common characteristics include...- £7.50
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Over and Over: A Catalog of Hand-drawn Patterns
Michael Perry Softcover | 20.32 x 2.54 x 25.4 cm | 256 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2008 | 9781568987576 Pattern can be derived from many sources, if we remember to look closely. While patterns have been around forever, a tendency among contemporary designers...- £12.00
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Vendor:ACC
Claud Lovat Fraser: Design
Brian Webb & Peyton Skipwith Hardcover | 15.09 x 1.3 x 22.53 cm | 96pp ACC | 2011 | 9781851496631 Claud Lovat Fraser - universally known as Lovat - is one of the great unsung heroes of twentieth-century British design. During his short life of...- £5.00
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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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Digital Pioneers (V&A Pattern)
Douglas Dodds Hardcover | 12.7 x 1.21 x 17.78 cm | 80pp V&A | 2009 | 9781851775873 Digital Pioneers showcases the work of post-war designers and artists using new technology to create images of unexpected purity in their natural patterning, symmetry and order. Artists featured...- £5.00
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Novelty Patterns (V&A Pattern)
Valerie Mendes Hardcover | 12.7 x 1.27 x 17.78 cm | 66 pp V&A | 2010 | 9781851775897 Novelty Patterns showcases the innovative and fanciful decoration employed for lightweight fabrics made between the early 1920s and the late 1940s. The V&A Pattern series reveals the...- £5.00
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Modern Fabric: Twenty-Five Designers on Their Inspiration and Craft
Abby Gilchrist & Amelia Poole Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.22 x 26.04 cm | 256 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2020 | 9781616898373 Step inside the studios of today’s modern fabric design stars from around the world. From the bold florals of Kaffe Fassett to...- £15.00
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Vendor:Galison
Patterned Graphite Pencils (set of 8)
Galison 8 No.2 Graphite Pencils Eight round graphite pencils with white erasers Printed with geometric designs in multiple colours with gold foil. Graphite grade: US #2 (approximate to HB)- £5.00
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Vendor:Thames & Hudson
Cyclepedia: Wrapping Paper (10 sheets)
10 sheets | 12 tags Thames & Hudson | 2018 | 9780500420928 Book Dimensions: 25.2 x 0.5 x 34.2 cm Sheets unfold to 68 x 48 cm Ten sheets of wrapping paper bound as a book and perforated for easy removal. The patterns are...- £7.50
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Façades: A Visual Compendium of Modern Architectural Styles
Hardcover | 18.75 x 3.66 x 24.13 cm | 448 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791385174 This book presents the most remarkable, beautiful, and innovative contemporary building façades. A building's façade sets the aesthetic tone for its entire design while serving a variety of...- £12.50
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Christopher Dresser: Design Pioneer
Max Donnelly Hardcover | 18.03 x 2.03 x 19.81 cm | 144 pp Thames & Hudson | 2021 | 9780500480700 Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) is one of the most influential British designers of all time and he is widely regarded as Britain’s first independent industrial designer....- £8.50
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Vendor:Black & White Publishing
The Secret Life of Tartan: How a cloth shaped a nation
Vixy Rae Hardcover | 15.3 x 2.54 x 19.3 cm | 304 pp Black & White Publishing | 2023 | 9781785305207 Tartan is so much more than just a cloth. From its clan origins in the Scottish Highlands to the catwalks of Milan, London and...- £10.00
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Helpful guidance on techniques used by master painters
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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Fascinating and good comparative text and images
Fascinating and good comparative text and images.
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Excellent book, in depth text and plates that I haven't seen before, perfect!
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