Product Description: Renowned for his effervescent and rollicking paintings of Flemish life, Peter Bruegel the Elder also holds a place among the world's finest engraving designers. This collection contains 64 of his engravings plus a woodcut, arranged in two parts...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Offering imaginative insight into the area where mathematics and the arts meet, this book may be used as a practical tool by the architect, designer or scientist who has to deal with such problems as defining space, distributing patterns, packing and stacking, and communication links.

An illustrated introduction to the history and art of Japanese crests, tracing their relationships to heraldry, war, and fashion

Sir Kenneth Clark offers an historical and critical appraisal of the role of nude figures in the portrayal of beauty, energy, pathos and ecstasy in classic and Renaissance art (view table of contents)

Product Description: Thirty-eight complete, uppercase, Art Deco alphabets, 5 with numbers, created specially for this book. Saxony, Julep, Boogie, and more!

Why did renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher create the pictures? How did he construct them? And how are the various images Escher created interrelated? This book, including biographical data, illustrations, and explications of mathematical problems, offers answers to these and other questions.

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Surveys the basic principles which govern graphic design, while illustrating their application in creative art work

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The classic Designing with Type has been completely redesigned, with an updated format and full color throughout. New information and new images make this perennial best-seller an even more valuable tool for anyone interested in learning about typography. The fifth edition has been integrated with a convenient website, www.designingwithtype.com, where students and teachers can examine hundreds of design solutions and explore a world of typographic information. First published more than thirty-five years ago, Designing with Type has sold more than 250,000 copies—and this fully updated edition, with its new online resource, will educate and inspire a new generation of designers. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Sq. 4to. This is two books in one. It is a fully illustrated reprint of the catalogue raisonné by Hédiard from 1906, which was not originally illustrated. The editor Rainer Mason, then director of the Cabinet des Estampes of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire of Geneva, incorporated the catalogue into an exhibition catalogue to which he added additional illustrations and essays by Yves Bourel, Claude Ritschard and Chantal Oederlin...read more

Product Description: one of the first attempts to document various aspects of U.S. Postal history

Demonstrates the various styles, tools, and spacings used in lettering, with advice on technique and design selection

Product Description: A must-have for every Fab Four fan, this classic visual tribute to their music is now available in a handsomely repackaged and affordable paperback edition. The music and lyrics of the Beatles have proven them to be artists of the page as well as the stage and have here provided inspiration to dozens of artists...read more

Product Description: A catalogue of the graphic works of Herbert L. Fink, an artist of growing stature whose recent honors include a citation by the Soci­ety of Illustrators for some of the “best book illustrations for the year” (John Gardner’s The King’s Indian, 1973) and his 1979 election to the National Academy of Design...read more

Product Description: The rapid sequence of important inventions and developments in the past thirty years has decisively affected technical progress and development trends in printing technology. As the field becomes more and more complex and specialised, so does the need increase for effective signposting to aid the interpreters, translators, engineers, technicians, students, scientists and all others connected with the graphic arts...read more