Design, Industrial & commercial arts, illustration Books

When Louisa Pierce and Emily Ward design a home, their goal is to make it appear as though the person has lived there for a long time. As the designer for Hollywood powerhouses, supermodels, and rock stars like Brie Larson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dakota...

Twenty-plus years after the initial publication of Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Leonard Koren is back with further insights into this seminal aesthetic paradigm. An important book for art and design theorists, and other...

This elegant volume presents 44 outstanding Old Master paintings, primarily from the 17th and 18th centuries, that Jordan and Thomas Saunders III collected over the past 25 years. Included in the Saunders Collection are works by renowned Dutch, Flemish,...

Founded in New York City in 1870, The Lotos Club is one of the oldest literary and arts clubs in the United States. Lotos became known for its tradition of honouring outstanding men and women from all walks of life with testimonial 'State Dinners',...

Yves Saint Laurent's enduring impact on fashion and culture is explored through 70 of the fashion house's iconic pieces.Joining the house of Dior at the age of just 18, it was obvious that this fashion upstart had a glorious career ahead of him. Forged...

This timeless classic comic strip is beloved by fans of all ages, and continues to find new fans alike. The latest edition in Titan Comics hugely popular Peanuts Facsimile series sees the release of this, the 17th volume in the series. First published in...

A look at 100 inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture. Before the novel, the world of books was dominated by scientific tomes, religious tracts and histories of the victorious in war. There had...

A dazzling celebration of the clothes that made America’s favorite doll and the incredible woman behind them, timed to the movie release of Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and directed by Greta Gerwig. If you’ve ever had a...

An entertaining, informative, and elegantly designed guide that makes understanding punctuation marks and symbols simple and fun.A rollicking linguistic ride for fans of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Just My Type. What is the purpose of...

An artist’s record of the homes of 89 leading creatives from interior designers to ceramicists, antiques dealers, florists and chefs. SJ Axelby brings new life to interior portraiture, capturing in paint the favourite rooms of 89 leading creatives from...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE from director Ridley Scott, starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver.The sensational true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed that shook the Gucci dynasty, now fully updated with a new afterword. On March 27, 1995,...

Reversing into the Future: New Wave Graphics 1977–1990 is a unique and fascinating book of graphic design history curated from Andrew Krivine’s personal and vast collection of original posters, flyers, artworks and memorabilia from the golden age of...

100 Symbols That Changed The World looks at the genesis and adoption of the world’s most recognizable symbols. Universal symbols have been used as a form of communication from the Bronze Age, when the dynasties of ancient Egypt began the evolution of...

Immerse yourself in the Wizarding World with Harry Potter Crochet Wizardry, the deluxe guide to all things crochet from the iconic films. Featuring over 20 official patterns for toys, keepsakes, and costume replicas inspired by the Harry Potter...

A beautifully illustrated book featuring New Zealand Aotearoa's native birds, each with its very own collective noun. A tussock of takahe?A hoon of kaka?A whistling of whio?This beautifully illustrated book of collective noun names for our native birds...

A whimsical celebration of the colourful characteristics and playful personalities of our favourite feline friends, from the creators of Dogphabet and Plantphabet. Winning the heart of a feline is always worth the effort.These fur-midable hunters...

Introduction by Luca Dotti and Foreword by Giambattista ValliA gorgeous, sophisticated celebration of Audrey Hepburn’s lifelong connection to the City of Light, featuring all the places in Paris she loved most, illustrated with vivid photographs, and...

Welcome to Well-Dressed Dogs, a photographic collection of the world's most stylish pups, from the creative minds behind Dog Photog.Get ready to sit, stay and smile as you flip through pages filled with pooches of all shapes and sizes decked out in...

Make-up for You It’s time to let go of outdated beauty rules and expectations, and to discover empowering and exciting ways to express yourself. Welcome to the new beauty bible.Sophie Hannah is the queen of creative self-expression, whether it’s...

From the iconic stylist and fashion provocateur whose designs transformed culture – bringing the glitz of Studio 54 and the sophistication of Sex and the City to the mainstream – comes a playful yet intimate memoir of a life spent challenging conventions...

The definitive book on Minecraft's greatest creations. Minecraft is the global phenomenon inspiring people across the world to unleash their imaginations. Minecraft Master Builds showcases the creations that have taken the game to new levels, and...

A whimsical celebration of the colourful characteristics and playful personalities of our favourite canine companions, from the creators of Catphabet and Plantphabet. It's no secret that dogs are one of life's great joys.They come in all shapes and...

Fuelled by passion, nostalgia and perhaps eccentricity over necessity, Chris Haddon unveils often overlooked and garage-dwelling cars and introduces you to the worlds’ most classic cars and their owners. Some are immaculate, while some come with rust,...

For more than a century, Rolex has stood apart as the most legendary brand of watch in the world. A Rolex conveys many things: a luxury timepiece, a tool of power for movers and shakers and the symbol of passage into adulthood. New labels pop up, styles...

The compelling story behind a fascinating Australian legend - fashion designer Carla Zampatti. Carla Zampatti is an enduring Australian fashion icon. In 2015, in a remarkable feat of longevity, she celebrated the 50th anniversary of her fashion house in...

The one beauty book every girl and woman will have to have. Makeup by Liz Kelsh gives every woman and girl the tools they need to look fabulous.  Celebrated makeup artist and Max Factor Brand Ambassador Liz Kelsh shares the secrets...

An armchair discovery tour of truly remarkable places, captured in SJ Axelby’s inimitable watercolours. This follow-up volume to SJ Axelby’s Interior Portraits transports the reader to bars, cafes, museums, shops, hotels, tearooms, restaurants, gardens,...

In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing ‘an art without a history’. ‘No-one’, it went on, ‘has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.’ Until now. Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an...

The long-awaited biography of cartoonist Murray Ball, creator of Footrot Flats In Murray Ball: A Cartoonist's Life, Murray's son Mason Ball shares all the hits and misses and long years of hard graft that went into what would become the wildly...

The hilarious and heartwarming companion to international bestselling author Liz Climo’s You’re Mum. DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD! Oh, hello! Now that I have your attention… You must be dad! You’re probably pretty busy. Being a dad isn’t easy. Maybe you...

You Are Positively Awesome is a colourful and practical book for an everyday burst of positivity and an extra dose of self-kindness. We all weather some difficult days, sometimes we just wake up needing a bit of a boost and a reminder that nobody...

With this guide to mending and patching, you don’t have to say goodbye to your worn favourite clothes. Throwing away damaged, yet beloved, clothes can be one of the saddest things, but what if you were able to fix those holes and extend their life? With...

Collaborating with artist Anna Pignataro, we have created a calendar for 2025 called Champignons, introducing a gorgeous mushroom illustration each month.

A Parisian dream... We have created this beautiful Calendar called A Secret World in collaboration with Elise Hurst.

Mamang was created as part of an Indigenous language recovery project led by Kim Scott and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project. From a creation story told to the American linguist Gerhardt Laves at Albany, Western Australia, around 1931 and...

Noongar Mambara Bakitj was created as part of an Indigenous language recovery project led by Kim Scott and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project. Inspired by a creation story told to the American linguist Gerhardt Laves at Albany, Western...

A visual history of the Folly Cove Designers (1941-1969)—one of America’s longest-running block printing collectives. The Folly Cove Designers (officially 1941-1969) was a grassroots collective of predominantly women block printers founded by Caldecott...

Designer, artist, and educator Mitch Goldstein's experience as student and teacher gives guidance and inspiration to help students get the most out of design school.Life as a design student is filled with questions. Rochester Institute of Technology...

Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative (design) career guide for everyone!Part textbook and part comic book, zine, manifesto, survival guide, and self-help manual, Extra Bold is filled with stories and ideas that don't show up in other...

Grocery lists, to-do lists, bucket lists— everyone makes lists. Handy and portable, this set contains three pads, each with a distinctive design. Featuring the classic and ever-popular Grids & Guides aesthetic, these stylish list pads are as useful...

"… accomplishes what the other books on the Bauhaus don't, which is to demonstrate, in concise language and clear graphics, exactly how Bauhaus design theory works in practice."—The Wall Street Journal   "A fascinating work of design theory and...

Our bestselling Grids & Guides line, writ small! Compact and stylish, the matchbook style pad flips open to reveal a custom infographic (each colorhas a different graphic) and 60 perforated mini-grid sheets perfect for small lists and tiny missives.

"A marvelous invitation to anyone with an interest in creativity, invention, and design." (Michael Bierut) This colorful, handy card deck presents fifty-two exercises and activities to jump-start your creative juices, free you from creative block, start...

Discover the patterns in your everyday life in a guided visual journal. Harness your skills of observation. Activities teach you how to document the world through colors, lines, shapes, design, and data. Fuel your creativity. Through the lens of data,...

A beautiful nature-inspired blank notecard box set featuring original art by Irish design agency Superfolk.Led by the husband-and-wife team of Gearóid Muldowney, a craft designer, and Jo Anne Butler, an artist and architect, Superfolk is a design agency...

Our best-selling Grids & Guides line goes big, with this large-format drawing pad designed for your desk. Fifty pages of extra-large graph paper are bound neatly to a black board and perforated for easy tear out. Each sheet of classic blue graph...

In the early 1960s Italian design legend Bruno Munari published his visual case studies on shapes: Circle, Square, and, a decade later, Triangle. Using examples from ancient Greece and Egypt, as well as works by Buckminster Fuller, Le Corbusier, and...