History of design Books
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press No Words Posters: One Image is Enough
Book SynopsisMilani has selectively gathered a visual repertoire of nearly 200 posters by over 100 designers from around the world, that transcend the written word to deliver a unique perspective on social issues. No Words Posters is a collection of nearly 200 posters by over 100 designers from around the world. Milani has selectively gathered a visual repertoire of images that transcend the written word to deliver a unique perspective on social issues. ARMANDO MILANI is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and president of Milani Design, with offices located in Milan and Provence. His previously published books include: Double Life, From the Eye to the Heart: 50 logos/50 posters and 50 Poems of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and 50 Images of Armando Milani. In 2003, Milani's poster design War/Peace was selected for international distribution by the United Nations.
£31.50
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press George Giusti: The Idea Is the Heart of the
Book SynopsisA short introduction to the life and work of Italian-born designer, George Giusti, examining his eclectic aesthetic of refined Modernism. George Giusti, an Italian-born and educated designer, first established a professional practice in Switzerland and later, in the United States. Giusti's unique designs became widely praised covers for publications such as Fortune,Holiday, Modern Packaging, Graphis and Time. With multidisciplinary talents, Giusti also created sculptures, metalwork and designed several architectural projects reflecting his eclectic aesthetic of refined Modernism. This is the sixth title in the Graphic Design Archives Chapbook Series. This series celebrates the achievements of key design pioneers whose work is held in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at RIT Libraries. From the inaugural acquisition in 1986, RIT's holdings have grown to include the work of 36 significant American graphic designers, active from the 1920s to the 1950s. NED DREW heads the Graphic Design area at Rutgers University-Newark andis also a founding partner of the multidisciplinary design firm BRED, which is based in New York City. BRENDA McMANUS is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Pace University and founding partner and creative director of BRED.PAUL STERNBERGER, Associate Professor of Art History at Rutgers University-Newark, specializes in American Art and the History of Photography.
£16.14
Rutgers University Press Japan and American Children's Books: A Journey
Book SynopsisFor generations, children’s books provided American readers with their first impressions of Japan. Seemingly authoritative, and full of fascinating details about daily life in a distant land, these publications often presented a mixture of facts, stereotypes, and complete fabrications. This volume takes readers on a journey through nearly 200 years of American children’s books depicting Japanese culture, starting with the illustrated journal of a boy who accompanied Commodore Matthew Perry on his historic voyage in the 1850s. Along the way, it traces the important role that representations of Japan played in the evolution of children’s literature, including the early works of Edward Stratemeyer, who went on to create such iconic characters as Nancy Drew. It also considers how American children’s books about Japan have gradually become more realistic with more Japanese-American authors entering the field, and with texts grappling with such serious subjects as internment camps and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Drawing from the Library of Congress’s massive collection, Sybille A. Jagusch presents long passages from many different types of Japanese-themed children’s books and periodicals—including travelogues, histories, rare picture books, folktale collections, and boys’ adventure stories—to give readers a fascinating look at these striking texts. Published by Rutgers University Press, in association with the Library of Congress.Trade Review"An exciting story…informative, inspiring, and enjoyable all the way through." — Kyoko Matsuoka, Tokyo Children's Library "Jagusch’s book aptly illustrates many centuries of wondrous, enduring cultural narratives of Japan. In its shadows, it shows why many Japanese Americans fought especially hard during and after World War II to disassociate from such an 'un-American' standard at the time."— John Maeda, author of How to Speak Machine: Laws of Design for a Computational Age "A comprehensive, reliable, and fascinating guide to the ever-deepening reception of Japan and its people in the minds and imaginations of American children . . . a very readable and rewarding volume."— Martin Collcutt, author of Cultural Atlas of Japan "Japan in U.S. Children’s Books: 'A New World'" by Neely Tucker— Library of Congress blogTable of ContentsContents Foreword by Carla D. Hayden Introduction by J. Thomas Rimer Note to the Reader Prologue: Japan in Early Books for Children: From Comenius to Commodore Perry Part I From Early Children’s Books to the End of the Nineteenth Century 1 They Went to Japan: The Post-Perry Travelers and Their Stories for the Young 2 Fact and Fiction: Travelogues and Adventure Tales about Japan to the Turn of the Twentieth Century 3 Takejiro Hasegawa: The Foreigners’ Publisher 4 Japan in St. Nicholas Magazine 5 The Children’s Book Writers and Their Information Sources: From Marco Polo to Madame Chrysanthème Part II The Twentieth Century 6 Globetrotting in Children’s Books: From 1900 to World War II 7 Louise Seaman Bechtel: America’s First Children’s Book Editor and Her Books about Japan 8 The Post-World War II Years 9 Three Japanese American Journeys 10 Into the Twenty-First Century Appendix: The Gatekeepers: Leading American Children’s Librarians and Their Influence on Children’s Books about Japan Selected Bibliography and Further Reading Acknowledgments Notes Illustration Credits Index About the Author
£39.95
Rutgers University Press Japan and American Children's Books: A Journey
Book SynopsisFor generations, children’s books provided American readers with their first impressions of Japan. Seemingly authoritative, and full of fascinating details about daily life in a distant land, these publications often presented a mixture of facts, stereotypes, and complete fabrications. This volume takes readers on a journey through nearly 200 years of American children’s books depicting Japanese culture, starting with the illustrated journal of a boy who accompanied Commodore Matthew Perry on his historic voyage in the 1850s. Along the way, it traces the important role that representations of Japan played in the evolution of children’s literature, including the early works of Edward Stratemeyer, who went on to create such iconic characters as Nancy Drew. It also considers how American children’s books about Japan have gradually become more realistic with more Japanese-American authors entering the field, and with texts grappling with such serious subjects as internment camps and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Drawing from the Library of Congress’s massive collection, Sybille A. Jagusch presents long passages from many different types of Japanese-themed children’s books and periodicals—including travelogues, histories, rare picture books, folktale collections, and boys’ adventure stories—to give readers a fascinating look at these striking texts. Published by Rutgers University Press, in association with the Library of Congress.Trade Review"An exciting story…informative, inspiring, and enjoyable all the way through." — Kyoko Matsuoka, Tokyo Children's Library "Jagusch’s book aptly illustrates many centuries of wondrous, enduring cultural narratives of Japan. In its shadows, it shows why many Japanese Americans fought especially hard during and after World War II to disassociate from such an 'un-American' standard at the time."— John Maeda, author of How to Speak Machine: Laws of Design for a Computational Age "A comprehensive, reliable, and fascinating guide to the ever-deepening reception of Japan and its people in the minds and imaginations of American children . . . a very readable and rewarding volume."— Martin Collcutt, author of Cultural Atlas of Japan "Japan in U.S. Children’s Books: 'A New World'" by Neely Tucker— Library of Congress blogTable of ContentsContents Foreword by Carla D. Hayden Introduction by J. Thomas Rimer Note to the Reader Prologue: Japan in Early Books for Children: From Comenius to Commodore Perry Part I From Early Children’s Books to the End of the Nineteenth Century 1 They Went to Japan: The Post-Perry Travelers and Their Stories for the Young 2 Fact and Fiction: Travelogues and Adventure Tales about Japan to the Turn of the Twentieth Century 3 Takejiro Hasegawa: The Foreigners’ Publisher 4 Japan in St. Nicholas Magazine 5 The Children’s Book Writers and Their Information Sources: From Marco Polo to Madame Chrysanthème Part II The Twentieth Century 6 Globetrotting in Children’s Books: From 1900 to World War II 7 Louise Seaman Bechtel: America’s First Children’s Book Editor and Her Books about Japan 8 The Post-World War II Years 9 Three Japanese American Journeys 10 Into the Twenty-First Century Appendix: The Gatekeepers: Leading American Children’s Librarians and Their Influence on Children’s Books about Japan Selected Bibliography and Further Reading Acknowledgments Notes Illustration Credits Index About the Author
£107.20
Birkhauser Sterne, Federn, Quasten / Stars, Feathers,
Book SynopsisFelice Rix-Ueno studied under Josef Hoffmann, a co-founder of the Wiener Werkstätte (1903–1932). Inspired by the Japanese formal language, she formed her own style, which was expressed in particularly imaginative fabric and wallpaper patterns, fashion and home accessories, and wall paintings. After her marriage to the Japanese architect Isaburo Ueno, she moved to Japan in 1926. There they created joint works that received much attention, such as the Star Bar in Kyoto, which was shown in the famous exhibition Modern Architecture in New York’s MoMa in 1932. Felice Rix-Ueno, who was already prominently represented in the successful MAK exhibition Women Artists of the Wiener Werkstätte, is given a substantial monographic treatment for the first time outside Japan with this catalog. Important artist of the Wiener Werkstätte and beyond Fabric patterns, wallpapers, fashion and home accessories, commercial graphics, and wall paintings Large exhibition at the MAK Vienna, 22 Nov 2023–21 Apr 2024
£32.30
Aschendorff Verlag Modische Raubzuge: Von Luxus, Lust Und Leid. 1800
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Bohlau Verlag Aubrey Beardsleys Rezeption des 18. Jahrhunderts
Book SynopsisIn ihrem Buch widmet sich Lisa Hecht einem bisher weitestgehend vernachlassigten Aspekt im Werk des englischen Zeichners und Autors Aubrey Beardsley: der im 19. Jahrhundert weit verbreiteten Begeisterung fur das Ancien Regime. So ist Beardsleys Umgang mit Referenzen und Quellen des englischen und franzosischen 18. Jahrhunderts einer selbstreflexiven und (selbst)-parodistischen Haltung verpflichtet. Neben einer Einfuhrung in die Rokoko-Rezeption in Frankreich und England werden die betrachteten Werke in den kulturellen Rahmen der 1890er Jahre eingeordnet. Nicht nur im Werk Beardsleys oszilliert die Hinwendung zum Rokoko zwischen Rechtfertigungsgestus und subversivem Habitus wie sich zeigen lasst. Die Publikation richtet den Fokus auf die Analyse ausgewahlter Beispiele und auf fruchtbare Bildvergleiche, die Beardsleys Wahlverwandtschaft zu realen und fiktiven Figuren des 18. Jahrhunderts offenbaren. Des Weiteren werden kulturelle Kontinuitaten etwa auf der Ebene des erotischen oder exotischen Bildes sichtbar, welche zwei nur scheinbar disparate Epochen verbinden.
£60.93
Bohlau Verlag Wahlplakate der Spitzenkandidaten der Parteien:
Book SynopsisWie präsentieren sich die konkurrierenden Parteien in den Wahlkämpfen der wechselvollen Jahrzehnte zwischen 1949 und 1987? In allen Kampagnen ist das Medium Plakat omnipräsent, das von Porträts des jeweiligen Spitzenkandidaten dominiert wird. Auf der Basis umfangreicher Archivrecherchen weist die Autorin nach, dass die Gestaltungsstile zwischen dem Corporate Design der Parteien und den für einzelne Kandidaten entwickelten, individuellen Mustern changieren. Ob sich dabei Trends der jeweils aktuellen Konsumwerbung abbilden oder welche Reflexe aus Tradition und zeitgenössischen Wahlkämpfen in den USA wie Europa zu erkennen sind, beantwortet dieser politikhistorisch orientierte, bildwissenschaftliche Überblick über die visuelle Wahlkampfführung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland vor 1989.
£94.49
Bohlau Verlag The London Customs Accounts: 24 Henry VI
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£59.39
Bohlau Verlag Stoffwechsel: Mode Zwischen Globalisierung Und
Book SynopsisIn allen Regionen der globalisierten Welt vollziehen sich komplexe Prozesse von Gestaltung, Produktion, Distribution, Zirkulation und Konsum von Kleidung. Dabei entsteht keine internationale Mode jenseits der Orte, vielmehr sind ihr ethnische, kulturelle und geschlechtliche Codierungen eingewoben. Dies gilt ebenso fÃr die Kollektionen der Designer/innen wie fÃr die alltÃgliche Praxis des Stylings der Konsument/innen. Anhand vielfÃltiger Beispiele wird Mode hier als transkulturelles PhÃnomen zwischen Globalisierung und regionaler Verortung betrachtet. Die BeitrÃge gehen auch den Beziehungen von Kleidung, Popkultur und bildender Kunst sowie den Bedeutungsebenen von Mode und Modetheorien in Geschichte und Gegenwart nach.
£59.73
Bohlau Verlag Im Garten Der Gesundheit: Pflanzenbilder Zwischen
Book SynopsisEin prachtvolles KrÃuterbuch der FrÃhen Neuzeit umfassend vorgestellt
£80.99
Harrassowitz Codex Und Material
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£106.40
Harrassowitz The Story of Meshal Haqadmoni and Its Extant
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£65.55
Harrassowitz Selected Hebrew Manucripts from the Bavarian
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£237.50
Gebruder Mann Verlag Staatsaffare Bauhaus: Beitrage Zur
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£36.23
Prestel 500 Years, 100 Watches
Book SynopsisFrom two of the world's leading experts on watch collecting, this supremely elegant and informative selection of one hundred watches traces the timepiece's evolution as it highlights unusual, important, and beautifully crafted watches of the past half a millennium. For centuries people have been captivated by watches-whether for their technical precision, their unique design, or their historic importance. Each of the one hundred watches profiled in this elegant book stands out for one or more of these qualities. Organized chronologically and divided by century, the watches are presented in spacious, double-page spreads, featuring exquisite photography with engaging, incisive texts. Readers will discover examples of the earliest watch forms; an astonishing Elizabethan-era watch with astrolabic dial; an early 17th century watch encased in a single emerald; two of the earliest watches to incorporate the balance spring-a feature that revolutionized the portable timekeeper; and some of the first repeating and perpetual calendar watches. These are followed by the first lever watch, invented by Thomas Mudge; important precision watches; early 19th century enamel and automaton watches; highly complex watches by Breguet and Patek Philippe; Sir Winston Churchill's yellow gold World Time Victory watch; a Rolex wristwatch made to commemorate Indian Republic Day; an Omega Speedmaster that went into space; and a Roger Smith wristwatch completed in 2023. Featuring exquisitely reproduced photographs that are appearing for the first time together in book form, this historic collection will appeal to sophisticated collectors, amateur watch enthusiasts, and anyone with an interest in the art and science of horology.
£39.99
Prestel Graphic Design Bible: The Definitive Guide to
Book SynopsisThis concise, accessible, and thoroughly modern guide to contemporary and historical graphic design is a must-have for designers and creatives in every medium. As visually compelling as it is packed with information, this handbook to the fundamentals of graphic design covers the history and theory of graphic design from the past 150 years. Organized around broader subjects of history, theory, practice, typography and media, it dives into numerous specific topics- from Bauhaus to digital design; Gestalt theory to kitsch; social protest movements to social media. It explores the building blocks of design as well as leading-edge tools and techniques. Each topic is presented in eye-catching spreads that feature numerous illustrative examples, insightful quotations, and suggestions for further reading. Whether they're just starting out or looking to invigorate an established practice, graphic professionals and students of all stripes will find a bounty of information and inspiration in this essential guide.
£23.99
Taschen GmbH Jazz Covers. 40th Ed.
Book SynopsisPart design history, part trip down musical memory lane, this anthology of jazz album artwork is above all a treasure trove of creative and cultural inspiration. Spanning half a century, it assembles the most daring and dynamic jazz cover designs that helped make and shape not only a musical genre but also a particular way of experiencing life. From the 1940s through to the decline of LP production in the early 1990s, each chosen cover design is distinct in the way it complements the energy of the album’s music with its own visual rhythms of frame, line, text, and form. To satisfy even the most demanding of music geeks, each record cover is accompanied by a fact sheet listing performer and album name, art director, photographer, illustrator, year, label, and more.Trade Review“The quintessential coffee table book and the perfect conversation piece for relaxing with a friend over cocktails and listening to Ella Fitzgerald or Lady Day.” * Boston Spirit *“Anyone with a love for jazz or design should have this publication.” * complex.com *"A visual feast of 12-inch-square draughtsmanship and photography at its finest." * Artists & Illustrators *
£37.82
Taschen GmbH Funk & Soul Covers. 40th Ed.
Book SynopsisFollowing the success of Jazz Covers, this epic volume of groove assembles over 500 legendary covers from a golden era in Black music. Psychedelia meets Black Power, sexual liberation meets social conscience, and street portraiture meets fantastical comic art in this dazzling anthology of visualized funk and soul. Gathering both classic and rare covers, the collection celebrates each artwork’s ability to capture not only a buyer’s interest, but an entire musical mood. Browse through and discover the brilliant, the bold, the outlandish and the incredibly beautiful designs that fans rushed to get their hands on as the likes of Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Michael Jackson, and Prince changed the world with their unique and unforgettable sounds. Featuring interviews with key industry figures, Funk & Soul Covers also provides cultural context and design analysis for many of the chosen record covers.Trade Review“An essential record of the music, design and lifestyle of this era.” * Der Standard *“Iconic and long-forgotten album jackets… showing off the golden age of urban grooves.” * Boston Herald *“This is about as funky as a chicken with Ray-Bans watching Ferris Bueller while starring in a Rick James video.” * Record Collector *
£23.75
V&R unipress GmbH Remarque Revisited: Beiträge zu Erich Maria
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£42.99
JOVIS Verlag HerStories in Graphic Design: Dialoge,
Book SynopsisZweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Die Geschichte des Grafikdesigns ist weitgehend ohne Frauen geschrieben worden. Blickt man jedoch unter die Oberfläche dieser Erzählung, wird der Einfluss sichtbar, den Grafikdesignerinnen auf das Geschehen hatten: Sie bildeten eigene Traditionen, stellten dialogische Bezüge her, wurden Vorbilder, knüpften Netzwerke, erprobten sich in Selbstermächtigung. Gerda Breuer beleuchtet diesen Kampf um Professionalisierung und zeigt, auf welche kollektiven Formate Designerinnen zurückgriffen, um sichtbar zu werden und sich für die Belange von Frauen einzusetzen. Bekannte Grafikdesignerinnen wie Ljubow Popowa, Änne Koken, Ethel Reed oder Sarah Wyman Whitman spielten hierbei ebenso eine Rolle wie völlig unbekannte Kollektive. Breuer zeigt, dass deren bedeutende Beiträge in der Rezeptionsgeschichte verschwunden, abgewertet, ignoriert oder in den Hintergrund gedrängt wurden. Aufgrund der aktuellen Infragestellung des traditionellen Kanons ist die Integration solcher Beiträge in die Designgeschichte längst überfällig. Design von Katja Lis, DBF Designbüro Frankfurt
£41.65
Dr Ludwig Reichert Die, Vierzig Myrrhenbuschel Vom Leiden Christi':
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£212.80
Dr Ludwig Reichert Die Illuminierten Handschriften Franzosischer
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£469.80
Dr Ludwig Reichert Arbeiten an Welt- Und Selbstbild Im, Welschen
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£113.05
Pie International Co., Ltd. New Retro Illustrations: Retro Reimagined by a
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£20.00
Marsilio Pirelli: Thinking Ahead: 150 Years of Industry,
Book SynopsisCelebrating a century and a half of Italy’s iconic tire company This volume chronicles the history of the Milan-based tire manufacturer Pirelli, one of the most long-lived multinationals in Italian history. Drawing from the Pirelli foundation’s historical archive, it gathers photographs and written accounts that reflect the brand’s contributions to the fields of science, technology and academia.
£39.00
Set Margins' publications What Is Post-Branding?: How to Counter
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£18.00
Set Margins' publications Design Against Design: Cause and Consequence of a
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£20.70
Set Margins' publications Remaking the Crust of the Earth
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£14.25
Set Margins' Publications To Hold Your Heart in Your Teeth, Women's Work:
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£21.85
Amsterdam University Press Floral Culture and the Tudor and Stuart Courts
Book SynopsisAt court, flowers coloured, scented, adorned, sustained, nourished, and enthralled. These interdisciplinary essays engage with flowers as real, artificial, and represented objects across the Tudor and Stuart courts in gardens, literature, painting, interior furnishing, garments, and as jewels, medicine, and food. Situating this burgeoning floral culture within a European floral revolution of science, natural history, global trade, and colonial expansion, they reveal the court’s distinctive floral identity and history. If the rose operated as a particularly English lingua franca of royal power across two dynasties, this volume sheds light on an array of wild and garden flowers to offer an immersive picture of how the Tudor and Stuart courts lived and functioned, styled and displayed themselves through flowers. It contributes to a revival of interest in the early modern green world and provides a focused view of a court and court culture that used and revelled in blooms.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Table of Illustrations Introduction: Flowers and the Courts. - Susannah Lyon-Whaley. Flowering Spaces 1. The ‘greater delight’: Gardens, Plants, and Flowers and the Tudor and Early Stuart Court. - Paula Henderson. 2. Canopied with Flowers: Adorning Court Spaces with Floral Tapestries and Hangings. - Eleri Lynn. 3. ‘I have them in my garden growing’: Henry Dingley’s Life with Flowers in Sixteenth-Century Worcestershire. - Maria Hayward. Flowers and the Body 1. Flowers and Dress: Decorative, Dynastic, and Symbolic. - Susan North. 2. Blooming Fertility: Henrietta Maria and the Power of Plants as Iconography and Physic. - Erin Griffey. 3. A Taste for Flowers: Regenerating the Restoration Table. - Susannah Lyon-Whaley. Performing Flowers 1. ‘Fairy Bowers’ and ‘Precious Flowers’ in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Elizabethan Court Culture. - Bonnie Lander Johnson. 2. Flowers and Gift Culture at the Elizabethan Court. - Susan M. Cogan. 3. Painted Flowers in Later Seventeenth-Century English Portraits. - Diana Dethloff. Global Flowers 1. English Knots and French Parterres: English Floriculture in Continental Context. - Elizabeth Hyde. 2. The Orange and the Rose: Horticultural and Decorative Flowers at the English and Dutch Courts of William III and Mary II. - Amy Lim and Renske Ek. 3. Floral Culture in a New Imperial Era: Indian Textiles in English Courts and Commons c. 1560–1700. - Beverly Lemire. Index
£111.15
Valiz Graphic Design Is (...) Not Innocent
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£21.38
Onomatopee Empathy Revisited
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£20.90
Onomatopee Design Capital #1: The Circuit
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£9.50
Onomatopee Graphic Events: A Realist Account of Graphic
Book SynopsisGraphics have a way of living that is often awkward and unplanned. We see it when they are ripped from walls, littered on streets and faded in shop windows. We wouldn't say they are that way by design, however this everyday difference between graphics and their designs is underimagined in critical discourses. Graphic Events intensifies this difference in a montage of original essays and interviews that coax graphics into unfamiliar dialogues. Edited by James Dyer and Nick Deakin. Foreword by Alex Coles. With contributions from James Williams, Patrick Thomas, Fraser Muggeridge, DR. ME, Textbook Studio and Teal Triggs. Postscript by Johanna Drucker. BiosDr James Dyer is senior lecturer of Graphic Design at the University of Huddersfield. Nick Deakin is senior lecturer of Graphic Design at Leeds Arts University. Prof. Alex Coles is a design critic and Professor of Transdisciplinarity at the University of Huddersfield. Professor Johanna Drucker is the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information Studies at The University of California.
£18.70
Onomatopee Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a
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£16.20
Valiz Radical Fashion Exercises: A Workbook of Modes
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£22.50
Valiz Commons in Design
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£23.75
NUS Press Vietnam Documented: The British Library's Vietnamese Collection
Book SynopsisExplore Vietnam’s rich literary and graphic design history. Vietnam has a strong literary culture that dates back to Confucian influence and has remained important today. Using Vietnamese books, documents, and manuscripts from the collection of the British Library, Vietnam Documented gives a window into that heritage and represents key incidents in Vietnamese social, cultural, and political history. It also highlights the visual sophistication of Vietnamese design, drawing on Chinese and French models and socialist styles in art and design. An informative text by the long-time Keeper of the Vietnamese collection, Sud Chonchirdsin, introduces the book. Among the earliest documents in the Library's collection is a 17th-century royal letter to the English East India Company. Other highlights include a travel diary of a member of one of the last of Vietnam's tribute missions to the Imperial court in China (1880) and a beautifully illustrated manuscript of the classic Tale of KiÊ`u. The strength of the collection lies in materials collected during Vietnam's twentieth-century struggle for independence—including rare periodicals from North Vietnam—that show how artists were mobilized in wartime. This accessible, full-color introduction to an under-appreciated design heritage is a welcome view into a beautiful culture.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionThe formation of the Vietnamese collectionVietnamese manuscriptsVietnamese theatreFifty shades of Kiê`uMythical creatures in Vietnamese cultureVietnam and dragonsEarly dictionaries of Southeast Asian languagesClasses and costume in traditional Vietnamese societyVietnamese traditional marketsVietnam War artWomen and the Vietnam WarChildren in the Vietnam WarWar cartoons and propaganda from North VietnamAnniversary of the end of the Vietnam WarVietnamese collection milestone:Retroconversion of the card catalogueBibliography
£21.56
SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd BranD No.57: Four Legs of Self-Publishing
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£15.26
SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd BranD No.58: Tell Me White
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£15.26
SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd BranD No.54: Come and Wrestle: Designer VS. Hanzi
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£15.26
SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd BranD No.55: Come and Wrestle: Designer VS.
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£15.26
SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd BranD No.56: Bang! BranD Band-Design for Music
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£15.26
SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd Sketch Like a Pro
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£16.96
SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd Geometry Now!: Designing for Tomorrow
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£22.46
SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd Landing Guy Walks into Mengsha
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£22.46
SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd Hua Mulan
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