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Distant Early Warning Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Garde
ISBN: PB: 9780226753454, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 halftones
Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) is best known as a media theorist – many consider him the founder of media studies – but he was an important theorist of art, too. A near-household name for decades, McLuhan remains a fascinating and even cultish figure i...
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£24,00
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Ducks on Parade!
ISBN: HB: 9781684580415, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 76 colour plates
Inspired by Robert McCloskey's beloved children's book of the same name, the iconic bronze Make Way for Ducklings sculpture in Boston's Public Garden has come to serve as something of a record of the recent decades of life in the city itself. In a se...
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£12,00
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Davos Is a Verb A World in Disruption
ISBN: HB: 9783037786482, Lars Muller Publishers, February 2021
192 pp., 30x23 cm, 120 illus.
Since the last financial crisis, a new practice has emerged in Davos: During to the World Economic Forum WEF, the main street is being temporarily rebuilt almost throughout. Freestanding pavilions are being constructed for events organized by compani...
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£40,00
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Data Centers Edges of a Wired Nation
ISBN: HB: 9783037786451, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2020
320 pp., 26x19 cm, 160 illus.
Often hidden in plain sight, data centers are the backbone of our Internet. They store, communicate, and transport the information we produce and access along invisible pathways. Unlike industrial plants, data centers come entwined with an iconograph...
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£30,00
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David King Designer, Activist, Visual Historian
ISBN: HB: 9780300250107, Yale University Press, September 2020
240 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 260 illus.
This book offers a comprehensive overview to the work and legacy of David King (1943-2016), whose fascinating career bridged journalism, graphic design, photography, and collecting. King launched his career at Britain's Sunday Times Magazine in the 1...
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£30,00
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Dot Art: Sticker Seurat – Bathers at Asnieres
ISBN: PB: 9783791385747, Prestel Publishing, July 2020
28 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 14 colour illus.
Georges Seurat's Bathers at Asnieres is one of the most famous and popular paintings in London's National Gallery. This activity book allows adults and children to understand how the artist used colors to create vibrant and luminous scenes. Opening w...
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£10,99
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Detroit Style Car Design in the Motor City, 1950-2020
ISBN: HB: 9780300247084, Yale University Press, June 2020
150 pp., 29.2x29.2 cm, 100 colour illus.
Detroit, nicknamed Motor City, has always been a leader in car design. As the city became the center of the American automobile industry in the early 20th century, its studios became incubators for new ideas and new styles. This volume highlights the...
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£30,00
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Dotted Visuals Polka Dots in Contemporary Graphic Design
ISBN: HB: 9789881470317, Bookport, SendPoints, April 2020
240 pp., 27.6x20.7 cm, 650 colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! An elemental unit of design in the universe, the dot has an aesthetic appeal that is perhaps part instinctual and part referential as virtually everything found from the micro to the macro level is based on this simple for...
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£34,95
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Duro Olowu Seeing
ISBN: HB: 9783791359489, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
320 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 300 colour illus.
Nigerian-born British fashion designer Duro Olowu is internationally renowned for his womenswear label launched in 2004 that speaks to a cosmopolitan sensibility informed by his international background and a confident eye for visual disciplines from...
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Design It Emotional Emotions in Graphic Design and How to Spark Them 
ISBN: PB: 9788417656027, Hoaki, February 2020
184 pp., 24.8x18.7 cm, fully illustrated in colour
In this book, the author presents the perspectives of several authors and designers on how to achieve an emotional graphic design. Even though they are not absolute truths and there is no guarantee that if a designer follows those principles people w...
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£22,50
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