Princeton Architectural Press

As a technique for quickly and inexpensively reproducing shapes and images, stencils have been used by artists and craftspeople for centuries. This playful and unique kit contains four stencils housed in a clear pocket on the back of the workbook: geometric shapes (2), ornamental...

Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative career handbook for designers that we've all been waiting for. Written collaboratively by a diverse team of authors, the book opens with critical essays that rethink design principles and practices through theories of feminism, racism, inclusion, and...

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...

100 cards with category dividers in box Punch line. Political statement. Conversation piece. Souvenir. From the campaign trail to the concert tour, the button badge occupies a fascinating place in popular culture.This delightful box contains 100 colourful postcards featuring more than 300 badges -...

50 cards with category dividers in linen-covered box Fifty Type Specimens is a collection of postcards with stunning images of typography, for inspiration, correspondence, or display. The cards feature classic letterforms, pages from specimen books, and crops of gorgeous letters presented in a box...

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...

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...

In the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600 refugees, aid workers, politicians, activists, doctors, and local authorities in twenty-three countries around the world. A handful...

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...

Thinking with Type is a straightforward primer that presents practical information about typographic design that can be immediately applied within the context of design history and theory. It is divided into three sections - letter, text, grid - each accompanied by an essay explaining...

Digital Design Theory bridges the gap between the discourse of print design and interactive experience by examining the impact of computation on the field of design. As graphic design moves from the creation of closed, static objects to the development of open, interactive frameworks,...

Rare & Collectible It Is Beautiful...Then Gone presents the celebrated graphic design work of Martin Venezky (b. 1957). This unconventional monograph includes both influential commercial work for the Sundance Film Festival, Reebok, and Speak and Open magazines among others. It also features new graphic...

In the fall of 2007, Lebbeus Woods, long admired for his visionary architecture and mastery of drawing, began a blog. Part forum and part public journal, the eclectic mixof articles, drawings, anecdotes, poetry, interviews, and photographic essays explored topics ranging from architectural theory and criticism to...

As we continue to embrace a world where the lines between the physical and digital are increasingly blurred, we are beginning to see a maturing vision for architecture that actively participates in our lives. Our architectural environments are becoming so inextricably tied to our...

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. Following extensive research, an exhibition, and a conference at MIT's Media Lab, this groundbreaking collection presents fifty-two essays by seventy-four authors...

Photographer Robert Burley has traveled the world documenting the abandonment and destruction of film-based photography, namely, the factories where film was produced and the labs that developed it. The atmospheric large-format photographs transport viewers to rarely seen sites where the alchemy of the photographic...

The question of infrastructure pervades global cities, especially those whose populations have grown and shrunk in the wake of evolving social, political, and economic shifts. The Center for Advanced Urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology explores this issue in Scaling Infrastructure, bringing together...

The ubiquitous plastic coffee cup lid combines indentations, protrusions, tabs, and score lines that can be pinched, pulled, pushed, punctured, and tucked to create an opening to sip from while also keeping a piping-hot liquid in its place. Louise Harpman and Scott Specht have...