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Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival
Author: Tom de Freston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An artist's obsession with Gericault's monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa, and an intensely personal reckoning that delves deep...
Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters
Author: Nienke Bakker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 An illustrated selection of Van Gogh's letters, forming an extraordinary window into the life and creative thinking of one of the...
Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting
Author: Christopher Neve Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Christopher Neve's classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking...
Thomas Heatherwick: Making
Author: Thomas Heatherwick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 Coinciding with Thomas Heatherwick's new series on Radio 4, 'Building Soul'. Featuring sixteen new projects and fresh photography, this updated and...
The Synthetic Eye: Photography Transformed in the Age of AI
Author: Fred Ritchin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 An essential investigation into the murky ethics of AI, one that calls into question the future of photography. Artificial Intelligence is...
The Everyday and Everydayness: Two Works Series Vol. 3
Author: Julie Mehretu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 'The character of the everyday has always been repetitive and veiled by obsession and fear', wrote Henri Lefebvre in 1987. Drawing...
Paolo Roversi
Author: Chiara Bardelli-Nonino Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 A compact survey of photographer Paolo Roversi's romantic, intense and ethereal fashion images and portraits. Born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1947,...
Packaged for Life: Beer, Wine & Spirits
Author: Victionary Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 In our haste to consume the things we love, we often disregard or discard packaging without a second thought. While many would...
Modern Painting: A Concise History
Author: Simon Morley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A new concise history of modern painting, offering an indispensable reference to the complexities and characteristics of this medium. While acknowledging...
Maritime Logos
Author: Various Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 108 Maritime Logos is the second instalment in an ongoing series of pocket books dedicated to logo design. Following on from 'Architectural Logos'...
Looking at Photographs
Author: Laurent Jullier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 New in the Art Essentials series, an introductory guide to the art of looking at and engaging with photography. Everything counts...
Illustration: A Concise History
Author: Andrew Hall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 An indispensable guide to the international history of illustrated images, from 1750 to the present day. Illustration: A Concise History is...
Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
Author: Grayson Perry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'The Tomb of an Unknown Craftsman is of a treasure hoard from a distinct civilisation. The difference is that it is...
Design for the Real World
Author: Victor Papanek Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Design for the Real World has been translated into over twenty languages since it first appeared in 1971; it has become...
Contemporary Art
Author: Natalie Rudd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A plain speaking, jargon-free account of contemporary art that identifies key themes and approaches, providing the reader with a clear understanding...
Cabin
Author: Will Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The story of the author's cabin build in the wilderness, packed with practical advice for aspiring builders and insights into of...
Art Class: Flowers and Foliage: Creating Contemporary Botanical Art
Author: Sarah Hankinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Flowers and Foliage: Creating contemporary botanical art explores the always popular subject matter of botanical art. This is a beginner's guide...
And in the End: The Last Days of the Beatles
Author: Ken McNab Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 This is the story of the last acrimonious days of the Beatles, a final chapter reconstructing for the first time the...
A Chronology of Film: A Cultural Timeline from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Screen
Author: Ian Haydn Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 An entirely fresh perspective on the history of cinema, using timelines to trace its development from the earliest moving images...
500 Patterns
Author: Jeffrey Mayer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A comprehensive sourcebook of over 500 patterns across six design styles, a must-have for anyone involved in textiles and the decorative...
Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard
Author: Christopher Wallace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural...
Fashion Writing: Journalism and Content Creation
Author: Josephine Collins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Fashion writing now enjoys its highest-ever profile as the digital world has multiplied the number of platforms on which it is...
1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left
Author: Robyn Hitchcock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 1967 explores how that pivotal slice of time tastes to a bright, obsessive/compulsive boy who is shipped off to a hothouse...
Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist
Author: Daniel Pollack-Pelzner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 How did Lin-Manuel Miranda become the preeminent musical storyteller of the 21st century? Daniel Pollack-Pelzner traces Miranda's path from a friendly...
Regenerative Fashion
Author: Safia Minney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 As our climate, ecological and social crises converge, urgent action is needed to maximize our chances of survival. A new commercial...
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf: With an introduction by Bernardine Evaristo
Author: Ntozake Shange Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 'Inspiring. Emotionally charged. Ground-breaking' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'A revelation. I am so thankful to Ntozake Shange for seeing us, reflecting us and...
I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records
Author: Audrey Golden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual...
The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities
Author: Caroline Campbell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of...
Portrait Mastery In Black & White: Learn the Signature Style of an
Author: Tim Kelly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Tim Kelly is a Master Photographer whose portrait work has inspired people in the portrait photography industry since the 1980s. His...
Paint 50: Watercolour Animals: From Basic Shapes to Amazing Paintings in Super-Easy Steps
Author: Marina Bakasova Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Learn to paint 50 vibrant watercolour animals in seven simple stages, with award-winning artist Marina Bakasova. Paint 50 Watercolour Animals is...
Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter: A Times Book of the Year
Author: Lucy O'Brien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A Times Book of the Year A Financial Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Book of the Year 'Reading the...
Scott C. Blank Boxed Notecards
Author: Scott Campbell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 20 Celebrate Scott C.'s world of imaginative art with this stylized set of notecards. A master of unique and charismatic illustrations, paintings,...
Oh Sh*t... What Now?: Honest Advice for New Graphic Designers
Author: Craig Oldham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 So you've graduated. What now? Where do you live? Can you afford to live? How can you make money doing design?...
Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
Author: Peter Ross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The Sunday Times paperback bestseller and Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month *Featuring a brand new chapter!* 'Never have the joys...
Branded Protest: The Power of Branding and its Influence on Protest
Author: Ingeborg Bloem Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Many of the most successful and recognizable protest movements in the world make use of branding techniques, even when they simultaneously...
Relation of Elements: Using Prepositions to Shape Design
Author: Ryan Crooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 Discover a new way to explore three-dimensional design and architecture using prepositions. "Relation of Elements" explores the role of prepositions in...
Beyond Design: Making Socially Relevant Projects Successful
Author: Renate Boere Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 This nonfiction novel provides insights into the contemporary, often hybrid, practice of today's multi-talented graphic designers. The story tells how Boere...
How to Be a Graphic Designer withou: New expanded version
Author: Adrian Shaughnessy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Published to instant acclaim in 2005, our best selling How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul has become...
The False Servant
Author: Martin Crimp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 88 Are you really surprised to discover that a woman might have a mind of her own? When LA (c)lio thinks he...
Phew, Eh Readers?: The Life and Writing of Tom Hibbert
Author: Tom Hibbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Superb celebration of his life and work ... a must-read tribute' CLASSIC POP, 5/5 'The funniest and most revealing of all...
So Tell Me What You Want: The must-read 2025 music memoir on life working with pop idols Take That, Prince, Amy Winehouse, the Spice Girls, David Bowie and more
Author: Nicki Chapman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Nicki was and always will be the absolute queen of pop' Mel B 'When it comes to the music industry, Nicki...
Starring Adele Astaire: A Novel
Author: Eliza Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight returns as she delves into the life of Adele Astaire, who served up smiles and...
Intercultural Design Basics: Advancing Cultural and Social Awareness
Author: Susanne Radtke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Intercultural Design Basics is an intercultural and innovative approach to design education. A unique companion app ensures relevance for a young...
Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europe: Design
Author: Mieke Gerritzen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 When everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply do not see it anymore because it...
Contrarian Branding: Stand Out by Camouflaging the Competition
Author: Roland van der Vorst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The world is busier than ever. One of the major challenges for brands is how to stand out of...
Hunt the Stars: A Novel
Author: Jessie Mihalik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The critically acclaimed author of Polaris Rising takes readers on an exciting journey with the start of her brand-new series about...
Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir
Author: Leslie Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "You are Black; you are female," Leslie Jones' father once said. "But if you work harder and you're better than everybody...
The Sun: Images from Space
Author: Beth Alesse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 The Sun: Images from Space has over 130 incredible images of our Sun taken from space. These images come from Solar...