Practical Guides & Creative Development

Explore and expand your creative skill set with Central Saint Martins Foundation. Guided by key lessons from college tutors, you'll learn to expand your creative abilities and develop your own visual language. Exclusive projects from the world-class Central Saint Martins Foundation Diploma in Art and...

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 contemporary art, using the gallery as a conduit to feeling and includes 52 exercises (with plenty of tips...

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 of the creative process. How to begin, developing an original voice and working with creative blocks. From beginner to...

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 generating successful ideas. Across three sections, he gives you a practical toolkit that you can apply to your own...

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 snag the best internships and assistant roles, prepare an amazing portfolio, impressclients, and lay the groundwork for your own thriving...

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 an artistic path. Street-art expert Tristan Manco and the more than 100 artists in this book invite you to...

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 free play, this book will inspire you to find images in cloud formations, old stone walls, lettering and a piece...

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 the author takes as starting points for putting pen to paper. Following a short essay are twenty-two exercises, lasting...

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 the joys of making rather than on the end result. Author Peter Jenny encourages readers to use family...

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 painting techniques to more creative applications, such as pouring, marbling and working with acrylic spray paint and markers. Examples...

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 when big-box retailers rule the home furnishings marketplace―and, by extension, our homes? Wouldn’t it be more satisfying to...

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 components. Case studies from around the globe show how these processes can be customised in order to create variation, lower...

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 section featuring 30 projects, each presented through texts drawn from first-hand interviews, on-site photographs and drawings; and a...

As far back as the earliest Greek temples, colour has been an integral part of architecture but also one of its least understood elements. Colour theory is rarely taught in architecture schools, leaving architects to puzzle out the hows and whys of which colours...

Rare & Collectible 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 that little bit harder to frame the perfect image. As a result, it's the...

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 new way of drawing and problem solving.Betty Edwards reveals the role our dominant eye plays in how we perceive,...

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 easily manipulated, and has long inspired makers from humble folk crafters to fine artists and fashion designers. The book...

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, with a pinch of geology, and a sprinkling of magic, these easy-but-inspiring and thrifty activities will keep...

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 on establishing your own set of tools, creating with found and natural objects, customising stamps, designing your own custom...

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 block printing, stencils, transfer and open screen printing, and tips to guarantee perfect results every time!...