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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...

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!...

Anyone who grew up holidaying on England's beaches is familiar with the distinctive features of these historic resorts - not the exclusive, paradisiacal haunts of the rich and famous, but the gritty, often rocky shores of the Atlantic and the Irish and North Seas,...

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...

This exceptional work is at once an astonishing journey across countries and continents, an immersive examination of a great artist’s work, and a moving and intimate memoir. At the age of 42, his father not long dead and his young sons growing fast, Toby...

This book brings together the strongest contemporary graphic design promoting sustainability and the fight against climate change. Featuring 50 tear-out posters by leading and emerging contemporary artists and designers including Paul Ellian, Shepard Fairey, DJ Spooky, Geoff McFetridge, James Victore and Vier5. Essays by...

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...

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...

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...

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has become a British institution, bringing the work of hundreds of artists to the public in the largest event of its kind in the world. The academy's archivist has compiled this collection of more than 70 posters designed to...

An alluring glimpse into magnificent Cornell-like boxes created by some of the world's leading architects and designers Inspired by the idea of the wunderkammer - "wonder-room" or "cabinet of curiosities" - that originated during the Renaissance. World-renowned architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien invited...

Every Saturday for the best part of a decade, thousands of people have turned to the pages of the The Independent newspaper to read Michael Glover's thoughts about a particular piece of art. Pithy, astute, erudite, often humorous, and always engaging, these enormously popular...

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...

This book is aimed at the studio printmaker. It covers many issues about ink, such as history, colour, inks for different forms of printmaking, specialist inks, environmental issues and recent developments in health and safety for the printmaker. There is no other book like...

The catalogue of the first comprehensive exhibition on the printmaking of the great French artist Henri Matisse.  The exhibition featured 63 prints from the collection of the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, with artworks bequeathed by Henri Matisse to his younger son Pierre (1900–1989), an...

Books are a meeting place. A sum of their many parts and artistic approaches. Form, concept, material and craft are bound together to create something rooted in its functionality, a process that often crosses over into the messier realm of art. Books. Art, Craft...

"Our attitude towards the business in the UK was 'Fuck Them All', they were all old men." Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham was the enfant terrible of Swinging Sixties London, the man who had crafted The Beatles’ antithesis. By 1965 he was a...

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...

The rise of digital photography is perhaps the most manifest legacy of the digital revolution in art. Through the use of sophisticated software and scanners, artists are able to enhance photographs, saturate them with colour, and create mesmerising effects. Focusing exclusively on digital photography...

This book is about taking an image - a drawing, painting, digital photograph, computer design or photocopy - and, using simple methods, turning it into a piece of textile art. The author takes you through a variety of techniques for creating the image, such...