Product Description: Legendary designer Louise Fili brings a sparkle to her stationery collection with this set of twelve double-sided pencils in six metallic shades. A shimmering twist on classic Italian packaging, Brillante is a companion to her bestselling pencil sets Perfetto and Tutti Frutti...read more

Product Description: Paris is a city of pure enchantment, and everyone who loves the City of Light has a Parisian muse, from the Tour Eiffel to crème caramel. For celebrated graphic designer and incessant flâneur Louise Fili, it's the city's dazzling signage...read more

Product Description: From graphic design phenomenon Louise Fili (Elegantissima, Grafica della Strada) comes another striking set of notecards, on the heels of Quattro Parole Italiane, this time inspired by the Art Deco ironwork of Paris. Four popular French expressions—salut (greetings), merci (thank you), plaisir (pleasure), bisous (kisses)— are framed with gorgeous graphics and colors, making the cards a delight both to send and receive...read more

Product Description: An invaluable collection of underappreciated stencil typography from prehistory through the twentieth century Designers often look to the past to inform their work. In Stencil Type, design gurus Steven Heller and Louise Fili explore the variety and influence of the world’s most ubiquitous typographic style, which dates to prehistoric times and has been used on a range of surfaces from street signs, buildings, and bridges to packaging and posters...read more

Designers often look to the past for ways to enliven their projects. Letters with relief and shadow have long been an effective way to add spectacle or intrigue to otherwise mundane words. Introduced in metal type as early as 1815, shadow typefaces were a form of early experimentation among type founders. In the late nineteenth century, the form was adopted in wood type for use in posters and has been embraced ever since by designers looking for ways to communicate a sense of monumentality, a feeling of confidence, or a simple impression of optimism. Shadow Type presents a broad spectrum of examples—advertising, shop signs, billboards, posters, type-specimen books—featuring the most popular, rare, and (nearly) forgotten dimensional letters from Europe and the United States. Compiled by the leading historian of graphic design Steven Heller and renowned graphic designer Louise Fili, this invaluable collection, packed full of typographic ideas, will inspire anyone aiming to give more depth to their design.

Product Description: For more than three decades, renowned graphic designer and self-described Italophile Louise Fili has traveled the cities and countryside of Italy cataloging the work of sign craftsmen in whose hands type takes on new life with a tantalizing menu of styles...read more

Product Description: This set of twelve impeccably-designed notecards features four iconic Italian expressions: grazie, prego, auguri, ciao (thank you, with pleasure, greetings, hello). Designer Louise Fili (Elegantissima, Shadow Type) has invested all her love of vintage Italian packaging into this collection, infusing it with color and elegance that make these cards perfect for all manner of festive correspondence...read more

Product Description: Eight walks take shoppers to unique shops that uphold Italian standards of quality, craftsmanship, and creativity.With this discriminating book as a guide, visitors will find a trove of eighty shops that only native Florentines know well...read more

A collection of Art Deco designs from across Europe features more than 1,200 images from packaging, advertisements, menus, and brochures from the period between World War I and the Second World War.

Product Description: French button cards from the Art Deco era are reproduced on these charming notecards.For a brief period at the turn of the twentieth century, mass-produced buttons were simple, plain, and subdued, waiting timidly off stage while their newly invented rival, the zipper, shone in the fashion spotlight...read more

The newest addition to the Art Deco series, British Modern is the first to focus on Great Britain's contribution. An essential resource for graphic artists, designers, and anyone interested in advertising or art history, British Modern contains over 200 reproductions of classic Art Deco work from the 20s, 30s, and early 40s. Here are RAF posters, cigarette packages, post office greeting cards, Vogue magazine covers, travel promotionals, ads for London nightclubs, and other examples of Deco style. Some of the best pieces turn up in the most unlikely places -- the tiny packages in which razors were sold, for example, yield an impressive display of bold and beautiful Deco artistry. Copious inspiration for designer or artist, British Modern also presents a novel portrait of English life in the first half of the 20th century.

Product Description: If sex sells, what better come-on for merchants of the repressed decades of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s than the come-hither wink of a coquettish countertop mannequin? In Counter Culture, Steven Heller and Louise Fili take us on a colorful peep show of these sexy, sometimes erotic, but always fetishistic, plaster bodies and body parts...read more

Product Description: Exquisite graphic design artifacts make up this unusual collection culled from the pages of type and typography books spanning four vintage decades. Dating from 1900 to 1940, most of the rare type specimens, layouts, marks, and decorations from the period have never been reprinted before, and will serve as inspiration and resource for practicing design professionals, students, and teachers of graphic design...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Featuring more than five hundred color and black-and-white images, a history of typology explores an array of typefaces that range from the nineteenth-century Victorian era to the latest in digital typography, all organized according to historical period and country of origin. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Combining the romance of a hand-penned letter with the practicality of laser-compatible paper, these elegant writing tab-lets feature an assortment of full-color stationery printed on high-quality paper, with a lined sheet to help guide your writing and elastic closures.