Terence Conran: My Life in Design by Sir Terence Conran

$20.00 NZD

Category: Design | Reading Level: very good

In My Life in Design, Terence Conran tells the story of the Conran brand from the founding of the Conran Design Studio sixty years ago to the creation of the Design Museum, now moving to a dazzling new space on High Street Kensington in November this year. Extensively illustrated chapters consider the m any areas where Terence and his design team have made a lasting impact on the way we live our lives, including the founding of Habitat, which introduced good, affordable homeware to the high street, his restaurants, which brought Britain out of the culinary dark ages to discover the joys of eating out and his talent for rescuing and regenerating abandoned buildings and bringing them back into exciting new use. My Life in Design is illustrated with more than 400 images - many from private collections that have not been published before. The book is introduced by internationally renowned designer, Thomas Heatherwick, who identifies his mentor Terence Conran as 'a modernist who, together with a tiny handful of others, gave us a new vision of Britain and ourselves.' Now in his eighties and still designing beautiful homeware and opening buzzy, welcoming restaurants, Terence reveals the secrets and stories of this transformation of British design. Gloriously lively, opinionated and visually stimulating, this is the only book to tell the story of Terence Conran's remarkable career in his own words. Terence Conran: My Life in Design is published in time for the opening of the Design Museum at its new home in a world-class building. It will appeal to designers, students and all those who have grown up with the work of the multi-talented Sir Terence Conran. ...Show more

Swedish Design: The Best in Swedish Design Today by Susanne Helgeson and Kent Nyberg

$35.00 NZD

Category: Design | Reading Level: very good

The author presents a survey of over 30 Swedish designers, from glass and textile designers to ceramic artists and furniture makers, which provides an insight into Scandanavian design philosophies. The work of 14 Swedish photographers illustrates the text, capturing the artists, their work and a number of key producers and contributors. An illustrated history surveys Swedish design from 1845 to the early 21st century, while a glossary and directory provide further information on this growing industry. This text should be of interest to those studying design, and the Swedish design scene in particular. ...Show more

Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design by Alan Powers

$22.00 NZD

Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good

Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design is a comprehensive survey of the very best of cover and jacket design from the 20th century. The most important and innovative designs are explored, including the distinctive yellow dust-jackets of the Gollancz novels of the 1930s, the colour-coded series design of Penguin paperbacks in the 1960s and the award-winning paperback designs by Canongate in the 1990s. Chapters are devoted to separate themes - the development of the modern book jacket in the 1920s and 1930s, the diverse styles that evolved in the post-war era, the paperback explosion of the 1960s and 1970s, and the recent revival in jacket design in the hands of design companies such as Pentagram. Revealing double-page features appear in each chapter on such tropics as the Cold War novel, classic novels of the period, and individual authors such as Len Deighton and Ian Fleming. With 300 jackets in full-colour, including rare first editions, innovative designs by leading designers such as E. McKnight Kauffer and Paul Rand, and newly discovered gems, together with an insightful text by leading design expert Alan Powers, this fascinating book will delight anyone with a passion ...Show more

Sweet Roman Hand: Five hundred years of italic cursive script by Wilfrid Blunt

$8.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: poor

A Handwriting Manual by Alfred Fairbank

$12.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: good

"The most interesting, as it is the most practical, book in its field." - The Spectator This classic introduction presents the fundamentals behind every aspect of the art of penmanship, from the necessary equipment to the best techniques. Many pages of demonstration scripts provide helpful accompaniment to the clear instructions. Written by an expert calligrapher whose books were widely used in schools, this volume offers an essential guide to those who practice or teach lettering and graphic design. AUTHOR: British calligrapher and handwriting expert Alfred John Fairbank (1895-1982) was a founding member and chairman of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators and founder of the Society for Italic Handwriting. His books were widely used in British schools, and he designed the upright italic typeface Bembo Condensed Italic for Monotype, which was digitized as Fairbank in 2005. ...Show more

Chinese Calligraphy by Chang Yee

$20.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: very good

Ornamental Posters of the Vienna Secession by Walter Koschatzky; Horst-Herbert Kossatz; Graphische Sammlung Albertina Staff (Contribution by)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: good

The Chinese Art of Writing by Jean Francois Billeter

$25.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: very good

Enrich Your Calligraphy by Diana Hardy Wilson

$16.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: very good

Ads That Made Australia by John Bruden-Brown

$25.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: very good

A Tally of Types with Additions by Several Hands by Stanley Morison edited by Brooke Crutchley

$14.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: very good

The Tally of Types was first circulated in a privately printed edition in 1953, achieving a fame and influence wholly disproportionate to the comparatively small number of copies in existence. In 1973 Cambridge University Press published a version edited and expanded by Brooke Crutchley and others, maki ng this classic of typographical history and practice available to a wider readership; it is this edition we have reprinted here. Stanley Morison provided the impetus and judgement behind the programme of typographical revival carried through by the Monotype Corporation in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Tally is an account, historical, critical and functional, of the types cut under Morison's direction during this period. It is an impressive performance: a fine example of what is now recognised as Morison's characteristic blend of erudition and insight. What started as no more than an attempt to record the facts developed, under his hand, into one of the major statements of typographical practice of its time. ...Show more

Paragraphs on Printing by Bruce Rogers

$14.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: very good