For sale in Balkans only! This book is written by two designers with different nationalities and cultures. Stone Wen a lecturer with practical experiences at Wuyi University and his good friend Jordi Mila a famous designer who was the general manag...

The hip, functional, and versatile furniture and products of Konstantin Grcic – widely recognized as one of the most important designers working today – are transforming the landscape of contemporary design. This book accompanies the first exhibition...

Working in the tradition of trompe l'oeil, Steve Wolfe (b. 1955) creates careful replicas of classic books, worn album covers, and vinyl records, crafted from modeling paste, screenprints, drawings, and many other media. Wolfe's reproductions embrace...

Tin toys have been made in Japan for more than 100 years, but during World War II their production – and international sales – ended. Almost as soon as the war was over, ingenious manufacturers began to make model Jeeps out of recycled food cans. Wit...

Silvia Bنchli was invited to design the official contribution for the Swiss Pavilion at this year's Biennale in Venice. This book offers a look inside her studio and documents the preparation of her works for the Biennale, illustrating her working pr...

The plans for the gigantic Monument to the Third International were completed in 1920 by Vladimir Tatlin, the Russian painter and visionary designer who was a key figure of Russian constructivism. Planned as the headquarters and monument of the Comin...

This catalogue illustrates each entry in the prestigious bookbinding competition held by Designer Bookbinders, one of the foremost bookbinding societies in the world. The Designer Bookbinders International Competition is being held at the Bodleian Li...

Matthew Boulton was an eighteenth-century designer, inventor, and industrialist, a consummate businessman, and co-founder of the influential Lunar Society. Now, on the bicentenary of his death, this book surveys his life and extraordinarily varied ac...

In 1957, Swiss typographer Max Miedinger came up with "Haas Grotesk". Renamed Helvetica after 1960, this typeface went on to become one of the world's most used typefaces ever. It embodies the myth of Sachlichkeit, propagated at the time by Swiss Typ...

Designed in 1957, the Helvetica font is an icon of swiss graphic design, which was a model of sober, functional communication throughout the world in the 1950s and 60s. The balanced and neutral appearance of Helvetica forgoes a high degree of express...