Architecture & Design

A fresh edition of the sustainable design pioneer Victor Papanek's classic and ever-relevant book.

This sourcebook is a season-by-season appraisal of the fashions of the 1930s, with over 600 photos and illustrations. Includes analysis of the significance of the fashions, and the key designers and fashion houses.

From colourful birds and beautiful peonies to starry skies and dreamy sunsets, Anna teaches you how to master gouache in just five easy steps.

How to design the world: looking for the connections between things

Accessible and jargon-free guide to painting, including watercolour, oil and acrylic

Build your watercolour skills with confidence using this beginner-friendly workbook which includes 30 projects on removable watercolour paper.

Acclaimed watercolour artist Ann Blockley maps her personal journey into working, playing and creating with nature. From dislodging creative blocks and drawing inspiration for your work simply by being outside to incorporating natural materials into your art and making your own inks and paper.

Graffiti for Beginners is the fundamental guide for you to learn how to master the alphabet with style and finesse, letter by letter, until you are able to put together complicated words and messages, adding the coloring of your own choice.

Documenting in pictures the diverse period in fashion since 1900, this book covers high society, uniforms, sportswear, street wear and couture. It is suitable for everyone with an interest in fashion as well as students.

Learn from a master animator how to bring your cartoons to life through movement with Cartoon Animation with Preston Blair.

PALETTE--viction:ary's best-selling colour-themed series--has been one of the most sought-after references for designers around the world. In keeping up with the needs of digital-savvy creative practitioners today, the PALETTE mini series was launched at the end of 2019. Each mini edition is a redesigned version of its original with flip-friendly postcard-sized pages for convenience and includes new work for fresh inspiration. Following the first 4 titles under the series (Black & White, Multicolour, Gold & Silver, Neon), PALETTE mini 05: Pastel contains thoughtful design solutions and visual experiments that inspire with the variety of creative ways that the typically soft and soothing colour range can be featured - whether it is used as a single hue, a palette, or juxtaposed with contrasting tones.

Take a break from your stressful day-to-day sneaker hunting and amp up your creativity. In the Sneaker Coloring Book you can colour your most beloved shoe models in whichever way you want. You can relax your mind with some peaceful colouring fun, or get heads on creative adding that complex design you always wished for your favourite sneaker model. Whether you are an advanced sneaker head or just have the slightest interest in street fashion and sneakers, you can''t go wrong with the Sneaker Coloring Book!

Tadao Ando is one of the world's greatest living architects. This book provides an introduction to Ando's work, including private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces throughout Japan, and in France, Italy, Spain, and the USA.

A survey of modern architecture and its origins. This book also explores the effects of globalization on architecture, the rise annd rise of the celebrity architect, and the way in which practices worldwide have addressed such issues as sustainability and habitat.

Antoni Gaudi merged Orientalism, natural forms, and new materials into a unique Modernista aesthetic that put Barcelona on the global architecture map. With brand-new photography, plans and drawings by Gaudi himself, as well as an extensive appendix of all his works including furniture and unfinished projects, this XL book takes us through the...

Examines some seventy projects (concepts, prototypes and completed designs) that cover the fields of architecture, industrial processes, education, fine art, material engineering and bioengineering.

Indulge your inner hermit and check out this gorgeous collection of rustic cabins around the world. From an artist studio on the Suffolk coast in England to eco-home huts in the Western Ghats region of India, this is a showcase of architectural and eco-friendly innovation and endless inspiration for peaceful, low-impact living.

Now available again in a new format, this lavishly illustrated volume presents the iconic American -outsider- artist in a new critical light, locating him as a major figure in the history of contemporary art. The only book of its kind, Henry Darger offers an authoritative, balanced, and insightful look at an American master.

Combines six well-known books by George W Bridgman, a celebrated artist and lecturer, who taught figure and anatomy drawing for many years at New York City's Art Students League. This title features Bridgman's lessons and original sketches.

Gustav Klimt's art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. His fame, however, rests on his reputation as one of the greatest erotic painters and graphic artists of his time.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. His long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offer the human eye. This basic art album presents his work.

Pete Nelson, the worlds best-known treehouse designer and builder, wants to put readers in treeshis motto is, get er done, so you can BE in a TREE. His new book is a comprehensive source of inspiration and practical information about treehouse design and construction. To that end, he shares the basics of treehouse construction with his own recent projects as case studies. Using photographs taken especially for this project along with diagrams, he covers the selection and care of trees, and explains the fundamentals of building treehouse platforms. To ignite the imagination, Nelson presents 27 treehouses in the United States, Europe, and Africa. The book will be indispensible to anyone who aspires to have a treehouse, from the armchair dreamer, to the amateur builder, to the professional contractor.