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By Its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design

By Its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design

by Ned Drew

We all know we're not supposed to judge books by their covers, but the truth is that we do just that nearly every time we walk into a bookstore or pull a book off a tightly packed shelf. It's really not something we should be ashamed about, for it reinforces something we sincerely believe: design matters. At its best, book cover design is an art that transcends the publisher's commercial imperatives to reflect... (more)

The Complete Book of Bookbinding

by Josep Cambras

Students, teachers, fine arts professionals, crafts aficionados, art historians, restorers, and bibliophiles: the list of people who will appreciate the beauty of this extraordinary summary of bookbinding techniques is endless. Written by a professor of bookbinding at the Escola d'Arts i Oficis in Barcelona, it provides a precise, systematic, and fully illustrated approach to the craft. Everything is covered in... (more)

The Elements of Typographic Style

by Robert Bringhurst

Renowned typographer and poet Robert Bringhurst brings clarity to the art of typography with this masterful style guide. Combining the practical, theoretical, and historical, this edition is completely updated, with a thorough exploration of the newest innovations in intelligent font technology, and is a must-have for graphic artists, editors, or anyone working with the printed page using digital or traditional... (more)

The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design (Classic Typography Series)

The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design (Classic Typography Series)

by Jan Tschichold, Hajo Hadeler

Text: English (translation) Original Language: German

Griffin and Sabine Trilogy: Book 2

Sabine's Notebook

In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Continues

by Nick Bantock

Created by Griffin to ease his loneliness, his imaginary lover Sabine takes on a haunting independent existence, leaving him beautifully strange postcards, letters, and a sketchbook diary, all of which are included in this sequel to Griffin & Sabine . 100,000 first printing.

Faeries (25th Anniversary Edition)

by Brian Froud, David Larkin, Alan Lee

It has been 25 years since Brian Froud and Alan Lee created the delightful, imaginative, and surprising Faeries-a book that quickly became a massive international bestseller and went on to sell more than a million copies. Readers continue to offer praise: "This is the most influential book I have ever read." "This book is-where are the words to describe it? Magnificent / Fabulous / Beautiful / Moving / Terrifying... (more)

Graphic Design Cookbook: Mix & Match Recipes for Faster, Better Layouts

Graphic Design Cookbook: Mix & Match Recipes for Faster, Better Layouts

by Leonard Koren

With 100,000 copies sold, Graphic Design Cookbook is one of the most useful all-purpose resources for designers and anyone who wants to create a dynamic layout for magazines, newsletters, books, posters, and other media. Now released with a fresh new cover, its more than a thousand line drawings illustrate effective design devices, type treatments, spatial solutions, and pictorial presentations, allowing... (more)

The Art Book

by Adam Butler, Susan Stirling, Claire Van Cleave

Winner of the Illustrated Book of the Year award in 1994, The Art Book has become a publishing phenomenon and a well-known event in the art book world. Reduced in size, making it light and highly portable, this new mini edition presents the same easy-to-use alphabetical guide to 500 of the world's greatest painters and sculptors. 500 color illustrations.

Griffin and Sabine Trilogy: Book 1

Griffin and Sabine

by Nick Bantock

Griffin: It's good to get in touch with you at last. Could I have one of your fish postcards? I think you were right -- the wine glass has more impact than the cup. --Sabine But Griffin had never met a woman named Sabine. How did she know him? How did she know his artwork? Who is she? Thus begins the strange and intriguing correspondence of Griffin and Sabine. And since each letter must be pulled from its own... (more)

Überall und neben dir

by Hans-Joachim Gelberg

Using Type RightPhilip Brady

Using Type Right

by Philip Brady

Type in Place: A Thumbnail Approach to Creative Type PlacementRichard Emery

Type in Place: A Thumbnail Approach to Creative Type Placement

by Richard Emery

Type in Place provides the tools to solve type arrangement problems and express the perfect visual message. Type in Place presents a variety of type block sizes and shapes on 11 acetates (overprint and reverse) to facilitate image selection, using five common page sizes for layout. there are more than 800,000 type and placement combinations. Designers get the chance to experiment with combinations of overprint,... (more)

Flower Fairies of the Summer (Flower Fairies Collection)

Flower Fairies of the Summer (Flower Fairies Collection)

by Cicely Mary Barker

Cicely Mary Barker's original Flower Fairies books, first published in the 1920s, have been known and loved by generations. Like the pre-Raphaelite painters whom she so admired, Barker believed in re-creating the beauty of nature in art and drawing from life. Her Flower Fairies watercolors have a unique combination of naturalism and fantasy that no imitators have matched. Each of Barker's four seasonal books... (more)

Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (1913-1916)

Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (1913-1916)

by Guillaume Apollinaire

A fully annotated, bilingual edition, Calligrammes is a key work not only in Apollinaire's own development but in the evolution of modern French poetry. Apollinaire--Roman by birth, Polish by name (Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitski), Parisian by choice--died at thirty-eight in 1918. Nevertheless, he became one of the leading figures in twentieth-century poetry, a transitional figure whose work at once echoes the... (more)

The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies

by Beatrix Potter

To celebrate Peter's birthday, Frederick Warne is publishing new editions of all 23 of Potter's original tales, which take the very first printings of Potter's works as their guide. The aim of these editions is to be as close as possible to Beatrix Potter's intentions while benefiting from modern printing and design techniques. The colors and details of the watercolors in the volumes are reproduced more... (more)

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit)

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit)

by Beatrix Potter, Sarah Toast

To celebrate Peter's birthday, Frederick Warne is publishing new editions of all 23 of Potter's original tales, which take the very first printings of Potter's works as their guide. The aim of these editions is to be as close as possible to Beatrix Potter's intentions while benefiting from modern printing and design techniques. The colors and details of the watercolors in the volumes are reproduced more... (more)

Pictorial Archive of Printer's Ornaments: from the Renaissance to the 20th Century (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

Pictorial Archive of Printer's Ornaments: from the Renaissance to the 20th Century (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

by Carol Belanger Grafton

,489 decorative ornaments for artists and craftspeople: headpieces, tailpieces, dingbats, lunettes, calligraphic and heraldic devices, etc., in Renaissance, Baroque, Victorian, Art Nouveau, and many other styles.

Designer's Guide to Color 1

by James Stockton

Take 90 basic colors, combine each in either ten or twenty different color schemes, and you have the basis for an extraordinary new design tool. With over 1,000 color combinations, this remarkable book takes the guesswork out of putting color together, provides new ideas for innovative color schemes, and more.

Love

by Gian Berto Vanni, Lowell A. Siff

This charming book will delight--and touch--all readers. Its sweet, heartbreaking story is told on pages of vibrant colors and uneven widths, pages with cut-outs and strip-ins, pages with peepholes--pages of all shapes and colorful varieties. This story is a simply one about a little girl. She has parents, naturally, but they went away when she was nine. And as she has no relatives to care for her, she is taken in... (more)

Letterwork

by J. Brody Neuenschwander

This text brings the interest of the graphic designer and the lettering artist together by detailing the potential of original "type" in graphic design. Designers are increasingly aware of the basic skills of their profession and the originality they can bring. Drawing on packaging, sinage, poster, layout and jacket designs for example, this book shows how professionals from around the world have commissioned,... (more)

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by Ned Drew

by Josep Cambras

by Robert Bringhurst

by Jan Tschichold, Hajo Hadeler

In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Continues

by Nick Bantock

by Brian Froud, David Larkin, Alan Lee

by Leonard Koren

by Adam Butler, Susan Stirling, Claire Van Cleave

by Nick Bantock

by Hans-Joachim Gelberg

by Philip Brady

by Richard Emery

by Cicely Mary Barker

by Guillaume Apollinaire

by Beatrix Potter

by Beatrix Potter, Sarah Toast

by Carol Belanger Grafton

by James Stockton

by Gian Berto Vanni, Lowell A. Siff

by J. Brody Neuenschwander