The Geometry of Type - The Anatomy of 100 Essential Typefaces by Stephen Coles
$35.00 AUD
Category: Graphic design
The Geometry of Type explores 100 traditional and modern typefaces in detail, with a full spread devoted to each entry. Characters from each typeface are enlarged and annotated to reveal key features, anatomical details, and the finer, often-overlooked elements of type design, which shows how these attr ...Show more
Design the Whole Story by Elizabeth Wilhide
$45.00 AUD
Category: Graphic design
Design: The Whole Story takes a close look at the key developments, movements and practitioners of design around the world, from the beginnings of industrial manufacturing to the present day. Organized chronologically, it locates design within its technological, cultural, economic, aesthetic and theoret ...Show more
Cut and Fold Paper Textures: Techniques for Surface Design
$39.99 AUD
Category: Graphic design
This book will show you inspirational ways in which paper can be used to create textured and relief surfaces. These techniques are mostly intuitive and easy to make, requiring no origami or paper engineering knowledge. There are 12 different techniques: Twisting narrow strips to make 'paper string', Wea ...Show more
Calligraphy: A Book of Contemporary Inspiration by Denise Lach
$35.00 AUD
Category: Graphic design
Calligraphy can be a very personal pathway to explore a multiplicity of design concepts. In this striking and original book, now available in paperback, images of the natural world are turned into a rich source of inspiration for a variety of calligraphy projects. Renowned calligrapher Denise Lach invit ...Show more
C'est La Vie!: The Wonderful World of Jean-Jacques Sempe by Jean-Jacques Sempe
$59.95 AUD
Category: Graphic design
The most extensive collection of cartoons by one of the world's best-loved illustrators.
Roy G. Biv: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Colour by Jude Stewart
$24.99 AUD
Category: Graphic design
Why is the sky blue? Why is pink for girls and blue for boys? Why do prisoners wear orange? And why can one colour have so many opposite meanings? If lobsters are a red emblem of privilege how is it that a red flag can also be the banner of Communism? Jude Stewart, a design expert and writer, digs into ...Show more
Andy Warhol - The Complete Commissioned Record Covers by Paul Marechal
$90.00 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
Count Basie, Tchaikovsky, Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed, Diana Ross, John Lennon and the Rolling Stones all had their music promoted by Andy Warhol's record covers. This stunning volume reproduces all of the album covers, front and back, that Warhol designed over four decades. Hundreds of additional context ...Show more
Alan Kitching's A-Z of Letterpress - Founts from the Typography Workshop by Alan Kitching
$35.00 AUD
Category: Graphic design
Each page has been carefully created by Alan Kitching in collaboration with Angus Hyland, making this book a work of typographic art in its own right. Presented as an A to Z, the individual letters are divided by full alphabets, giving the reader access to a large range of founts to reference in their o ...Show more
Colour Deconstructed by Tricia Guild
$59.95 AUD
Category: Graphic design
In 'Colour Deconstructed', Tricia Guild unlocks the secrets of her distinctive style. She focuses on colour as a starting point but, through careful dissection, looks at how other elements of a room come together.
Holy Fool: The pictures of Michael Leunig by Michael Leunig
$49.99 AUD
Category: Graphic design | Reading Level: General Adult
At the heart of Michael Leunig's work lies the idea of the holy fool - a character who does not conform to social norms of behaviour because of mental disability or as a deliberate choice, but is regarded as having a compensating divine blessing or inspiration. The holy fool is the protagonist in most o ...Show more
The Art of Cartooning & Illustration: Learn techniques for drawing and illustrating more than 100 cartoon characters, poses, and expressions by Maury Aaseng
$24.99 AUD
Category: Graphic design
From the scholarly cartoons of The New Yorker to the laugh-out-loud illustrations of the Sunday funnies, cartooning and animation have been popular artistic genres for myriad eras. In The Art of Cartooning & Illustration, aspiring cartoon artists will learn the basics of traditional cartooning and a ...Show more
The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher
$49.95 AUD
Category: Graphic design | Reading Level: good-very good
The Art of Looking Sideways is a primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination. It is an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, curious facts and useless information, oddities, serious science, jokes and memories, all conc ...Show more