African Costumes and Textiles: From the Berbers to the Zulus by Anne-Marie Bouttiaux
$112.00 AUD
Category: Design
Celebrating African costumes and textiles, this volume draws on historical and modern pieces from the Zaira and Marcel Mis Collection. The extraordinary works exemplify the craftsmanship of highly skilled African weavers and provide insight into the lives and culture of various ethnic groups. The book p ...Show more
Homes with Soul: Designing with Heart by Orly Robinzon
$69.99 AUD
Category: Design
-Pages are filled with full-color photography of beautiful interior spaces for a range of family environments, including living rooms, children's rooms, private nooks, intimate and stylish bedrooms, magnificent garden spaces, as well as a close look at materials for exterior fa ades, architectural eleme ...Show more
A Book on Books: New Aesthetics in Book Design by Victionary
$59.99 AUD
Category: Design
From scrolls and sheets of papyrus to elaborate and expensive codices to the mass press-printed volumes as we know them today, books have come a long way since writing was first developed. Although digital technology has impacted how we consume information over the last few decades, book design has surv ...Show more
Patterns of India - A Journey Through Colors, Textiles, and the Vibrancy of Rajasthan by Christine Chitnis
$49.99 AUD
Category: Design
It's the trip of a lifetime--a textile-based tour of colorful Rajasthan, India featuring more than 200 lush photographs depicting everday life in one of the most vibrant regions in the world. Patterns of Indiais a visual experience that offers intimate insights into the diverse and richly hued Western I ...Show more
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People by Debbie Millman
$99.99 AUD
Category: Design
Foreword by Roxane Gay "Debbie Millman brings her Design Matters podcast, 'about how the most creative people in the world create their lives,' to the page with this excellent interview anthology. Sharpened by Millman's penetrating commentary, the candid musings teem with insight and empathy. This spark ...Show more
1000 Design Classics by Phaidon Editors
$140.00 AUD
Category: Design
The most innovative, iconic, and influential products ever designed - from 1663 to the present day. Originating from the highly acclaimed and groundbreaking three-volume Phaidon Design Classics, this new book presents 1,000 of the world's greatest objects in one large-format volume - from everyday item ...Show more
Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers by Josef Muller-Brockmann
$90.00 AUD
Category: Design
This book is suitable for those who work with automated text and image design. It shows examples of working correctly on a conceptual level. Exact directions for using all of the grid systems presented (8 to 32 grid fields) are given to the user. These can be used for the most varied of projects. The th ...Show more
Skateboard by Jonathan Olivares
$79.95 AUD
Category: Design
An authoritative chronicle of the design history of the skateboard, from its humble beginnings in the 1950s to the present day. From its starting point as a simple wooden plank to the high-tech boards of today, the skateboard has undergone a dramatic evolution. Skateboard explores its design, from the m ...Show more
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Design
The ultimate guide to human-centered design Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious-even liberating-book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ...Show more
The Graphic Design Bible by Theo Inglis
$55.00 AUD
Category: Design
Discover the history and theory of graphic design from the past 150 years, and how that comes to bear on contemporary design. Designer, writer and lecturer Theo Inglis takes readers through the core building blocks of graphic design such as composition, colour, medium and typography, and explores how ea ...Show more
Textiles from Borneo: The Iban, Kantu, Ketungau, and Mualang Peoples by Heribert Amann
$125.00 AUD
Category: Design
This book shows the extraordinary richness of textile art from Iban and their neighbouring tribes of Kantu, Ketungau and Mualang, in the north of Borneo. The more than 150 full page brilliant colour photographs are taken from one of the most outstanding private collections of these works and many have n ...Show more
Umbaukultur - The Architecture of Altering by Christoph Grafe; Tim Rieniets; Baukultur Nordrhein-Westfalen
$85.00 AUD
Category: Design
-Conversion as an environmentally friendly alternative to new buildings -The new standard reference work in the field -Presentation and illustration of 30 pioneering case studies Conversion, adaptation, reuse - these techniques are as old as construction itself. However, since the industrialization of t ...Show more