Adrian Henri (1932–2000) was a painter, poet, musician and a pioneer of happenings and events in Britain. This book covers his work from the 1960s and 1970s – when it...
Description: When Sarah Horn began photographing hotel frontages in Blackpool, UK, little did she know that her collection would result in a unique archive of coastal architecture, vernacular typography and unconscious...
The first anthology of its kind, Graphic Design: History in the Writing (1983–2011) comprises the most influential texts about graphic design history published in English. Edited by a graphic design...
Henry van de Velde (1863–1957) is a pivotal figure in the history of modern design. His range was prodigious: from furniture, jewellery and dress design to interiors and entire buildings....
This book brings together a selection of photographs by artist Mekhitar Garabedian, ocumenting the warehouse of his late father’s company, Melantex, which exported second-hand clothing from Belgium to the Middle...
Description: The Natural Enemies of Books is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication ookmaking on the Distaff Side, which brought together contributions by women printers, illustrators, authors, typographers and typesetters, highlighting...
This book offers a collaborative panorama of Belgian graphic design history from a multiplicity of perspectives, with essays on type design, colonisation and labour relations among other subjects. Contributors include...
This ambitious book brings together a wide international selection of new and recent writing by educators and practitioners who question the rules and hierarchies of graphic design education today. It...
Description: Alison Britton’s collected writings review the unstable place of craft in the spectrum of art and design. Now in a second edition, the essays included in Seeing Things reveal that...
Description: Now it in its third printing, The Form of the Book Book brings together essential essays on the book – its history, present, and possible futures – by preeminent graphic...