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Princeton Architectural Press Vintage Sudoku: 150 Puzzles
A lush, stylish Sudoku book for analog-obsessed problem-solvers. Pretty Sudoku is no longer a contradiction. This beautiful, portable Sudoku book features one hundred and fifty classic brain-teasers in a package you'd be proud to pull out of your bag at your favorite cafe.
£10.99
Princeton Architectural Press Dog Box: 100 Postcards by 10 Artists
Dog House is a playful set of 100 postcards in a unique format: featuring ten pieces of artwork each from ten talented artists, this collection contains a rich variety of mediums, styles and breeds. Terriers, goldendoodles, rottweilers, pugs and rescue mixes - this playful collection features one hundred canine-themed postcards illustrated by ten extraordinary artists: Dennis Bowers, Andrea Caceres, Holly Frean, Dylan Goldberger, Mia Johnson, Timo Kuilder, Wallace May, Mokshini, Sally Muir, and Giulia Sagramola. This whimsical box is the perfect gift for every pet parent, rescue advocate or dog-obsessed child.
£16.19
Princeton Architectural Press Otomi Journal: Embroidered Textile Art from Mexico
Celebrate the bold, modern, and colorful art of the Otomi in the Otomi Journal. Vibrant patterns leap off the page with fully embossed designs that mimic the raised texture of the traditional embroidery of the Otomi people, who are indigenous to central Mexico. Illustrations adorn the blue-lined pages of the Otomi Journal for a pop of inspiration as you write. The journal includes a historical description of Otomi embroidery, which is both a current trend and an enduring art form.
£15.29
Princeton Architectural Press Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest
“Posters for Change is the kind of project that the world needs right now.” – Shepard Fairey Make your voice heard with this collection of 50 tear-out posters created by designers from around the globe! This collection of posters is made for—and by—people who want to make their voices heard in a time of unprecedented political activism and resistance. Stand up for: • Animal Rights • Child Labor • Civil Rights • Climate Change and the Environment • Gun Control • Health Care Access • Immigration • LGBTQ and Gender Rights • Mass Incarceration • Public Arts • Voting Rights • Women’s Rights Proceeds will be donated to the following nonprofit organizations: Advocates for Human Rights, Border Angels, Honor the Earth, and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. A foreword by Avram Finkelstein, a designer for the AIDS art activist collective Gran Fury, looks at the crucial role of graphic activism in the current political climate.
£22.50
Princeton Architectural Press Animal Box Postcards: 100 Postcards by 10 Artists
Perfect gift for animal lovers (there?s a lot of them!); use to send sweet notes of friendship or pin for daily inspiration. 100 full-colour postcards, a 24-page booklet and 10 tabbed dividers.
£13.49
Princeton Architectural Press Grids & Guides (Black): A Notebook for Visual Thinkers
Featuring eight visually-stunning, imminently use-able graph paper designs repeating throughout the book and interspersed with engaging collections of info-graphics, charts and scientific curios to inform, delight and inspire. This journal is a must for anyone that needs to think in diagrams and patterns and also a great gift for those engineers, inventors, Dads and science buffs.
£12.59
Princeton Architectural Press Cat Box: 100 Postcards by 10 Artists
Cat Box is a colorful set of 100 postcards in a unique format: featuring ten pieces of artwork each from ten talented artists, this collection contains a rich variety of mediums, styles and feline personalities. Affectionate or aloof, active or sleepy, straightforward or mysterious - this whimsical box of one hundred cats features one hundred feline-themed postcards from ten artists working across the globe: Marie Afeldt, Yelena Bryksenkova, Bono Kim, Kathy Lam, Emma Morton, Miroco Machiko, Endre Penovac, Agathe Singer and Naomi Wilkinson. The box features something for every cat person: cats near houseplants, futuristic embroidered cats, block printed kitties, whimsical cats in dreamy colors, impossibly fluffy black cat. Cat Box is the perfect gift for every kitty lover.
£16.19
Princeton Architectural Press Grids & Guides (Navy) Notebook: Navy
"There's a better option out there. I've tasted the fine wine and I can't go back… It is the Princeton Architectural Press Grids & Guides Notebook, and it is not like Other Notebooks." —The Strategist, NY Magazine The perfect notebook for creative thinkers: Much more than a standard grid notebook, Grids & Guides notebooks combine a variety of eight different grid patterns so you can find the perfect starting place for creative thinking. Forget your grid dot notebook and see what ideas emerge with a coordinate map grid, an isometric grid, a point grid, and more, made for sketches, lists, data, and dreams. Interspersed with infographics: Find inspiration in the cool infographics interspersed throughout the notebook. Unexpected and informative, the notebook includes 16 pages of charts, infographics, table, and other scientific resources, covering a wide range of topics, from weaving patterns and pulley systems to map projections and cell biology. A sleek cloth-covered hardcover that's highly portable: The Grids and Guides Navy notebook is the perfect size to throw in your backpack for a day hike, or to use as a lab notebook. The textured hardcover design is luxurious and sturdy. Creatives will love the versatility of the different grids, combined with the professional look of the cover. A great gift for designers, engineers, architects, and anyone in a creative industry.
£12.59
Princeton Architectural Press Paper + Goods: An Architect's Pencil Set: The Colors of Michael Graves
This striking colored pencil set from legendary architect Michael Graves’s firm contains twenty-four colored pencils in his richly sophisticated palette. The textured box has a lift-off lid and pulls out of a glossy die-cut sleeve showcasing a perfect grid of squares—a subtle nod to the designer’s penchant for designing windows in a grid. A folded enclosure features an inspiring essay on the use of color in the design process. Both minimal and elegant, the set reflects Graves’s aesthetic and the architects and designers who will savor it as a gift and use it in their work.
£17.99
Princeton Architectural Press The Julia Child Recipe Keeper: 24 Recipe Pockets & 6 Perforated Recipe Cards
A twist on the old-fashioned recipe tin, The Julia Child Recipe Keeper is made for the contemporary home cook; the spiral-bound book has thick cardstock pockets to store recipes torn out of magazines, jotted down after a meal with friends, or printed out from a favorite food site. Like its namesake, The Julia Child Recipe Keeper is a practical and stylish way to keep recipes that reflects the way that we live now: pages torn out of magazines, written down on pieces of paper from friends and family, and recipes saved from meal delivery services. Spiral bound for easy expansion and layflat, the Recipe Keeper also includes twelve perforated recipe cards, conversion charts, the iconic recipe for Beef Bourguinon, and a biography of the famed chef. The second title in a special collaboration with the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts and the Smithsonian, The Julia Child Recipe Keeper extends the legacy of this pioneering chef, television star and culinary icon. The package pays homage to her famed cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and includes images from her legendary cooking show-the perfect gift for every modern cook.
£22.99
Princeton Architectural Press Not Now
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Princeton Architectural Press What's the Rush?
In this reimagined picture-book version of Aesop's fable The Tortoise and the Hare, children will learn the importance of friendship, tolerance, and patience as they follow the adventures of Bunny and Turtle. Bunny and Turtle are the best of friends, but they are very different from each other! Bunny is all action, while Turtle is a thoughtful planner. When Bunny and Turtle decide to climb a mountain together, Bunny is eager to get going. But Turtle wants to take it slow and prepare for the trip. Will Bunny become impatient? Will Turtle's planning pay off? What's the Rush? warmly highlights the power of accepting differences in others, while also showing the importance of building strong friendships and the value of taking things slow and thinking ahead. This colorful, charming illustrated picture book is ideal for parents reading aloud to toddlers and young children, making it a perfect way to engage with kids about the virtue of patience.
£13.99
Princeton Architectural Press Wally the World's Greatest Piano Playing Wombat
Wally was the world's greatest piano-playing wombat-until he realized there was an even more talented piano-playing wombat in town! This funny picture book's bright colors and imaginative musical scenes teach children to have self-confidence when faced with competition. When Wally, the world's greatest piano-playing wombat, hears Wylie play, he becomes envious. Wally tries toe-tapping and ball-twirling as he plays piano, but every time Wally thinks he's one-upping the competition, he discovers Wylie can do all the same tricks. Although Wally is discouraged at first, he soon realizes that competing with Wylie inspires them both to play better. And finding a friend to share what you love? That's the best win of all. Both affirming and motivating, Wally's story will resonate with young readers as they learn how to deal with competition and to do what makes them happy-even when they're not the very best.
£13.99
Princeton Architectural Press Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens
The first book by one of the most in-demand photographers of our time, Holding Space shares one hundred stunning photographs of queer, inter-racial couples, with first-person text about their relationships in this current time period. After the May 2020 murder of George Floyd, and during the Covid pandemic, photographer Ryan Pfluger set out to capture queer, inter-racial couples across the US. It was (and is) a time of intense upheaval and reckoning and Ryan wanted to capture that in the lives and on the bodies of these friends and strangers. The photographs, and the people in them, can be startling in their vulnerability, playful in their poses, and tender to the core. The interviews produce a range of short, revealing stories about the couples.
£19.79
Princeton Architectural Press The Greening of America's Building Codes: Promises and Paradoxes
Environmental disasters and severe weather due to climate change, both triggered by human actions, have had an increasingly direct impact on our homes. But the way in which America builds its homes is part of the problem. This deeply researched history of sustainable design standards in building codes explores how public policy, standard-setting trade associations, and financial incentives influence the ways in which the construction of our homes impacts the environment. The Greening of America’s Building Codes investigates the regulations and economic incentives meant to control the environmental impact of contemporary construction practices as it analyzes the history of residential building codes. The book exposes how the socioeconomic and political forces that influenced early building code development continue to define the character of current building codes and, by extension, determine how we regulate environmental impact and define sustainability today. More relevant than ever, The Greening of America’s Building Codes is a valuable tool for architects, architecture students, builders, real estate developers, and homeowners who want to understand how public policy and their own day-to-day decisions impact the environment.
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Princeton Architectural Press Wild Design: The Architecture of Nature
Nature is the original architect, designing and building extraordinary structures through more than four billion years of evolution, and in response to the tremendous forces of the Earth. Wild Design celebrates wild design in the world of animals, plants, and other organisms, as well as in earth, stone, and water. This illustrated compendium explores structures as intricate as the microscopic glass" cases of jewel-like diatoms, as flamboyant as the festooned leks of bowerbirds, and as mysterious as the towering hoodoos of the Colorado Plateau. Bringing together art and science in lush illustrations and lively text, Wild Design is a great gift for anyone curious about the creative genius of the world around us."
£16.19
Princeton Architectural Press Pigology: The Ultimate Encyclopedia
Everything you wanted to know about pigs, including information on various pigs raised as pets, for food, and farm animals. Pigology is a playful and illuminating book that provides detailed information about all things pigs in five informative chapters. Discover the world of pigs, and read their ancient history, and an ancient mystery. There are sections about the different breeds and their characteristics, pigs and their relationship to humans. Another chapter talks about the different types of meat that comes from raising pigs for food.
£13.49
Princeton Architectural Press The ABC's of Triangle, Square, Circle: The Bauhaus and Design Theory
The Bauhaus, the legendary school in Dessau, Germany, transformed architecture and design around the world. This book broke new ground when first published in 1991 by introducing psychoanalysis, geometry, early childhood education, and popular culture into the standard political history of the Bauhaus. The ABC's of Triangle, Square, Circle also introduced two young designers, Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller, whose multidisciplinary approach changed the field of design writing and research. With a new preface by Lupton and Miller, this collection of visually and intellectually stimulating essays is a must-read for educators and students.
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Princeton Architectural Press Natural Palettes: Inspiration from Plant-Based Color
Renowned natural dyer, artist, and educator Sasha Duerr envisions a new age of fresh, modern color palettes, drawing from our original source of inspiration and ingredients—the natural world around us. This innovative plant-based color-guide includes twenty-five palettes with five hundred natural color swatches, providing inspiration for sustainable fashion, textiles, fine art, floral design, food, medicine, gardening, interior design, and other creative disciplines. Bring the healing power of forest bathing into your home with a palette of spruce cones, pine needles, and balsam branches. Move past Pantone and embrace the natural balance of a pollinator palette with Hopi sunflower, red poppy, echinacea, and scabiosa. Duerr complements the palettes with short essays that provide useful information. She connects the colors with particular landscapes, the restorative qualities of medicinal plants, common garden flora, lifestyle experiences, food and floral waste, and the ecological benefits of using organic materials to create colors. You may never view color—or your plants—the same way again.
£19.79
Princeton Architectural Press Raptors: Portraits of Birds of Prey
This delightful and dramatic collection of portraits reveals birds of prey as we never experience them: intimate and up close, photographed in Traer Scotts signature style. Seventy spectacular color photos present twenty-five different species, from the familiar to the exotic and endangered: hawks, owls, falcons, a bald eagle, kestrels, a Mississippi Kite, a turkey vulture, and more. Joining their elders are a fluffy baby vulture and adorable baby and juvenile great horned owls. The birds in this remarkable collection emerge as personalities, not just types: wise and quizzical, graceful and enigmatic, serene and fiercely self-possessed. A personal introduction describes Scotts process and connection to the birds, and captions detail the characteristics and habits of these incredible winged creatures.
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Princeton Architectural Press Graphic Design: The New Basics, revised and expanded
"A longstanding excellent primer, in an equally excellent updated edition."—Print Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips's celebrated introduction to graphic design, available in a revised and updated edition. Graphic Design: The New Basics explains the key concepts of visual language that inform any work of design. A foundational graphic design book for students, Lupton and Phillips explore the formal elements of design through visual demonstrations and concise commentary. From logos to letterhead to complex website design, this is a graphic design book for everyone, no matter your design project or focus. Topics include: • Color • Texture • Rhythm and balance • Hierarchy • Layers • Grids • And much more! The new revised edition features new chapters on: • Visualizing data • Typography • Modes of representation • Gestalt principles Sixteen new pages of student and professional work covering such topics as working with grids and designing with color make this a course adoption favorite in any graphic design program and graphic design school. Graphic Design: The New Basics is an invaluable introduction to the field of graphic design from two accomplished designers and design educators.
£19.79
Princeton Architectural Press Meet the Artist Henri Matisse: Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse: Meet the Artist provides an overview of Matisse's artistic career, reflecting on each pivotal period, including sculpture, fauve paintings, his friendship w/ Picasso and his paper cut-outs. The Meet the Artist series is a whimsical exploration of famous artists through interactive pop-ups and lift-the-flaps, that will appeal to adults and children alike and is intended to teach children about their lives and careers.
£19.26
Princeton Architectural Press Manual of Section: Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis
"It has been a while since I devoured a book on architecture with as much pleasure. I love a good section and I love this book."—Aaron Betsky, Architect Magazine Award-winning architects Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis's essential guide to section. Section, along with plan and elevation, is one of the most important representational techniques of architectural design. Manual of Section is the first book to provide a framework to describe and evaluate this fundamental design process in architecture. Divided into seven categories of section based on extensive archival research: • Range is from simple one-story buildings to complex structures • Features stacked forms, fantastical shapes, internal holes, inclines, sheared planes, nested forms, or combinations of each • Includes sixty-three intricately detailed cross-section perspective drawings of many of the most significant structures in international architecture from the last one hundred years "A must-read for all designers associated with the built environment and should surely be on the library shelves of every architecture, urban design and interior design school...the intricate drawings provided by LTL are sure to inspire all those who have the privilege of cracking the spine of this amazing reference." —Spacing In addition to the incredible cross-section drawings, the book includes smart and accessible essays on the history and uses of section. Manual of Section has become a top architecture book for architecture students and professional architects.
£17.09
Princeton Architectural Press Woodcut Notecards
If there is, indeed, nothing lovelier than a tree, artist Bryan Nash Gill shows us why. In this collection of notecards, based on the book Woodcut, the arboreal rings come to life in exquisite detail, revealing the great beauty and power within each tree. The notecards are contained in a handsome keepsake box, with removable bellyband.
£13.49
Princeton Architectural Press The Sea Ranch: Fifty Years of Architecture, Landscape, Place, and Community on the Northern California Coast
One hundred miles north of San Francisco, the Sonoma County coast meets the Pacific Ocean in a magnificent display of nature. This is the location of the Sea Ranch, an area covering several thousand acres of large, open meadows and forested natural settings and interspersed with award-winning architecture. The ecologically inspired plan drawn up for the Sea Ranch in the mid-1960s caused a quiet revolution in architecture. Renowned landscape designer Lawrence Halprin's master plan incorporated a set of building guidelines that structured the visual, as well as physical, impact upon the landscape. Subsequent buildings by architects such as Joseph Esherick, Charles Willard Moore, Donlyn Lyndon, and William Turnbull have been recognized worldwide for their remarkable environmental sensitivity. This revised and updated edition of the now-classic monograph, the only one on the Sea Ranch, contains eleven additional projects and an updated account of the ongoing development process and land-management issues.
£49.50
Princeton Architectural Press Forever Home: The Inspiring Tales of Rescue Dogs
Traer Scott's new collection of 35 portraits of rescue dogs and their stories, featuring full-color close-up photographs of dogs and their riveting tales of rescue and adoption. In Forever Home, featuring 35 full-color close-up portraits, we meet dogs from around the country, and learn their unique stories. Most importantly, we see how the journey to forever isn't always a straight line, and along the way, we fall in love with the adorable dogs who've traveled this arduous path. A follow up to Shelter Dogs (Merrell) and Finding Home (PAP).
£16.07
Princeton Architectural Press Connected Notecards: Ten Flat Cards & Envelopes
In challenging times and joyful times, connectedness keeps us grounded and makes us more thoughtful about the ways we are linked. Connected Notecards features the meditative and interconnecting patterns of California artist Serena Mitnik-Miller. The soothing pastels and mesmerizing artwork make these contemplative cards perfect for reaching out to friends and loved ones nearby and far away. The set includes ten flat cards and envelopes in a Wibalin-covered keepsake box.
£13.49
Princeton Architectural Press The Quiet Crocodile Goes to the Beach
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Princeton Architectural Press The Writer Says
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Princeton Architectural Press Three Pianos: A Memoir
From beloved indie musician Andrew McMahon comes a searingly honest and beautifully written memoir about the challenges and triumphs of his life and career, as seen through the lens of his personal connection to three pianos. Andrew McMahon grew up in sunny Southern California as a child prodigy, learning to play piano and write songs at a very early age, stunning schoolmates and teachers alike with his gift for performing and his unique ability to emotionally connect with audiences. McMahon would go on to become the lead singer and songwriter for Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin, and to release his debut solo album, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, in 2014. But behind this seemingly optimistic and quintessentially American story of big dreams come true lies a backdrop of overwhelming challenges that McMahon has faced—from a childhood defined by his father's struggle with addiction to his very public battle with leukemia in 2005 at the age of twenty-three, as chronicled in the intensely personal documentary Dear Jack. Overcoming those odds, McMahon has found solace and hope in the things that matter most, including family, the healing power of music and the one instrument he's always turned to: his piano. Three Pianos takes readers on a beautifully rendered and bitter-sweet American journey, one filled with inspiration, heartbreak, and an unwavering commitment to shedding our past in order to create a better future.
£11.99
Princeton Architectural Press Barnaby Is Not Afraid of Anything
A sweet playful story of animal friendship and adventure that will ultimately help young readers overcome their fear of the unknown and being afraid of the dark. One evening, Barnaby and his two friends are out for a moonlight stroll in the woods where they live. Together they overcome their fear of a large moving shadow and discover it’s not a dinosaur, or a witch. It’s just a large bird with a knapsack. Confronting their fear and meeting it head on is a universal experience that every child can relate to, and the warm vibrant illustrations easily draw the reader into this sweet and simple narrative.
£13.99
Princeton Architectural Press In the Bookstore
Enter every reader''s dream bookstore in this fun puzzle where literary genres come to life as the pieces come together.Spot each literary reference in this 1000-piece puzzle teeming with bookish activity, but be careful not to get sucked into a mysterious void in horror or swept off your feet in romance. In the Bookstore is the perfect gift for bookworms, writers, poets, and anyone who has ever felt the thrill of stepping inside a beloved bookstore or getting lost in a great book.
£13.49
Princeton Architectural Press Orange Is an Apricot, Green Is a Tree Frog
A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year Orange Is an Apricot, Green Is a Tree Frog inspires young learners' curiosity in nature and language through the simple joy of connecting words and pictures through colors. Yellow looks like a daffodil and a dahlia, a lemon and a chick. Blue looks like a dragonfly and an iris, a blue tang and a bluebird. Pascale Estellon's wonderfully detailed gouache illustrations bring the many shades of red, orange, yellow, blue, green, black, and white to life and serve as a beginner's field guide to new words and new worlds. Children will expand their vocabulary and delight in seeing words they already know while learning the names of new animals, plants, and fruits and vegetables through their hues.
£13.99
Princeton Architectural Press The Women Who Changed Architecture: Women Who Changed Architecture
A visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary leaders. Marion Mahony Griffin passed the architectural licensure exam in 1898 and created exquisite drawings that buoyed the reputation of Frank Lloyd Wright. Her story is one of the many told in The Women Who Changed Architecture, which sets the record straight on the transformative impact women have made on architecture. With in-depth profiles and stunning images, this is the most comprehensive look at women in architecture around the world, from the nineteenth century to today. Discover contemporary leaders, like MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, spearheading sustainable design initiatives, reimagining cities as equitable spaces, and directing architecture schools. An essential read for architecture students, architects, and anyone interested in how buildings are created and the history behind them.
£31.50
Princeton Architectural Press Stamp Bugs: 25 Stamps and 2 Ink Pads
Bumblebees, dragonflies, fireflies, ladybugs, spiders! This sturdy matchbox-style box contains twenty-five wood-backed rubber stamps in an assortment of buggy shapes and textures. A veritable kit of bug parts—heads, bodies, antennae, legs — Stamp Bugs contains everything you need to create your favorite insects or invent new ones! The combinations are infinite.
£17.99
Princeton Architectural Press When I Am Big
A Walk in the Forest introduced the enormously talented Maria Dek, and When I Am Big is a beguiling follow up to her first success. Charming illustrations and text encourage young children to explore what they can do as they grow up. The adventurous child imagines “I will tie my shoes all by myself, make 3 knots with big bows”; to eat twenty pizzas in one sitting, or walk animals, eight at a time, while teaching them tricks. When I Am Big is also an unconventional counting book, as it goes all the way to twenty-five. The result is a book that nourishes a child’s curiosity, confidence, and delight in the world’s wonders.
£13.99
Princeton Architectural Press Emily Dickinson Notecards
12 notecards (4 quotes, 3 of each) and 12 envelopes (4 designs 3 of each)
£9.89
Princeton Architectural Press Walk in the Forest
A Walk in the Forest is a stunning invitation to discover the woods as a place for both imaginative play and contemplation: collect pinecones, feathers, or stones; follow the tracks of a deer; or listen to the chirping of birds and the whisper of trees. Build a shelter and play hide-and-seek. Pretend the woods are a jungle, or shout out loud to stir up the birds! The forest comes alive in all its mysterious glory in Maria Dek's charming watercolour images and poetic text.
£12.99
Princeton Architectural Press The Kaufmann Mercantile Guide: How to Split Wood, Shuck an Oyster, and Master Other Simple Pleasures
A trusty companion for the slow and thoughtful home and the inner utilitarian in us all, The Kaufmann Mercantile Guide: How to Split Wood, Shuck an Oyster and Master Other Simple Pleasures allows you to experience the singular satisfaction of doing it yourself. Each project, whether caring for cast iron or planting with the seasons, is supplemented with expert tips to inspire and empower. Organised into five sections—Kitchen, Outdoors, Home, Gardening, and Grooming—the comprehensive guide features detailed instructions and original artwork for tasks both simple, such as brewing the perfect cup of coffee and exploratory, such as fording a stream and reading the sky. Accompanying the how-tos are tried-and-true products selected from the Kaufmann Mercantile store that not only help one get the job done but are also a joy to use. As editors Alexandra Redgrave and Jessica Hundley describe in the introduction, "This book began out of a curiosity for how we grow, build, and craft the world around us. We discovered that there's an art to a simple task done well - it calls for consideration and creativity, the rolling up of sleeves, and the digging into of details. It means getting messy, and, perhaps, messing up. In our world of modern convenience, doing it yourself is immensely rewarding. And so, consider the book in your hands as a starting point. We hope you, like us, find inspiration in these pages to experiment, to investigate, to create, and to enlighten your everyday."
£17.99
Princeton Architectural Press Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife
In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson explains why we should welcome wildlife to our yards and provides foundational advice for doing so. Through personal narratives, profiles of home gardeners and interviews with scientists, the book applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own backyards.
£19.99
Princeton Architectural Press Woodcut Memory Game
£13.99
Princeton Architectural Press The Designer Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom
The Designer Says will resemble a dinner party, with a graphic designer from the eighteenth century sitting next to one practicing today, or two contemporary designers talk to each other, complimenting, competing, disagreeing, Occasionally, a critic will add his or her two cents to the mix.
£8.99
Princeton Architectural Press Thinking With Type 2nd Ed
"Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."—I Love Typography The best-selling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded second edition: Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. The book covers all typography essentials, from typefaces and type families, to kerning and tracking, to using a grid. Visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form, including what the rules are, and how to break them. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content with the latest information on: • style sheets for print and the web • the use of ornaments and captions • lining and non-lining numerals • the use of small caps and enlarged capitals • mixing typefaces • font formats and font licensing Plus, new eye-opening demonstrations of basic typography design with letters, helpful exercises, and dozens of additional illustrations. Thinking with Type is the typography book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. If you love font and lettering books, Ellen Lupton's guide reveals the way typefaces are constructed and how to use them most effectively.
£17.09
Princeton Architectural Press At the Farmers Market Puzzle
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Princeton Architectural Press Grids & Guides Orange: A Notebook for Visual Thinkers
The beloved Grids & Guides family gets a bold new addition with Grids & Guides Orange. Like its best-selling predecessors, this new orange edition is a stylish and durable notebook that features eight classic grid pages interspersed with eight engaging charts and infographics, on hazard symbols, chromosomes, human muscular systems, cetaceans, gears, world data, particle physics, and sound and hearing. Cloth-covered and handsome, this notebook makes a great gift for architects, designers, creatives, and left-brainers and right-brainers alike.
£13.49
Princeton Architectural Press Paper Flowers Cards and Envelopes the Art of Mary Delany
Each exquisite paper flower in this elegant collection blooms with extraordinary detail and color. Eighteenth-century British artist Mary Delany created each piece by cutting and layering tiny pieces of paper on black ink backgrounds. The fine shading and depth are as intricately detailed as a botanical illustration and scientifically accurate as well. Printed on thick, textured paper, the set features sunflowers, rhododendron, cornflower, water lilies, and more. Perfect for any occasion that warrants beauty and sophistication.
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Princeton Architectural Press Grids & Guides (Red) Notebook: A Notebook for Visual Thinkers
A new Grids & Guides “notebook for visual thinkers.” Like the original, this deluxe, cloth-covered Grids & Guides offers 144 pages of graph paper in eight designs (including two new designs!). Interspersed throughout are eight pages of informational diagrams. Encased in the same cloth-wrapped cover, this time in red.
£11.70
Princeton Architectural Press Flower Box Postcards: 100 Postcards by 10 artists
Sunflowers, roses, succulents, ferns, wildflowers — this rich bouquet of postcards features one hundred botanical postcards from ten celebrated artists from around the world. The colorful cards, in our popular postcard box format, are ideal for correspondence or display. A booklet about the artists highlights their creative processes, influences, and favorite houseplants.
£15.29