Architecture & Design

This revised and updated version of Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids is an essential design text that outlines and demonstrates basic layout/grid guidelines and rules.

Adhering to certain layout and grids standards and principles is important for any job from brochures, to annual reports, to posters, to websites, to publications. However, knowing how to bend the rules and make certain grids work for the job at hand takes skill. This book outlines and demonstrates basic ...

An illuminating look at a controversial architectural style - and its finest examples. Historians Geraint Franklin and Elain Harwood discuss its background and key architects before celebrating Britain's finest examples.

Even before the heyday of Von Dutch and Big Daddy, the ultimate way to personalize your car or motorcycle was to lay some wicked lines on top of the paintwork. Done with a steady hand and an eye for style, pinstripes speak volumes. In How to Pinstripe, acclaimed veteran striper Alan Johnson teaches you ...

Stunning images of Mustang's greatest hits are given context by informative text hitting the high points of each featured car, along with tech-spec boxes and period ads and brochures.

From the meanings behind colors to working with color in presentations, Color Design Workbook provides you with the information needed to effectively apply color to design work.

Discover the most iconic bicycles of recent history with this beautiful and informative book from the prestigious Design Museum.

Explore the fifty designs that have shaped modern Paris with this latest addition to the prestigious Design Museum Fifty series.

A guide for designers, covering everything they need to know about building a successful career after graduating.

The last 30 years have seen a revolution in the production of graphics. Computers have had a profound effect on an industry which previously relied on working by hand. Focusing on the collaboration between graphic designers and their clients, this forward-looking book takes account of the many different ...

A lavish celebration of one of the most revered car brands, published in association with the Bentley Drivers Club and the W.O. Bentley Memorial Foundation.

Designers are used to working for clients, but there is nothing better than when the client is oneself. Graphic and product designers, who are skilled with the tools and masters aesthetics, are now in the forefront of this growing entrepreneur movement. Whether personal or collective, drive is the common ...

503 copyright-free designs of ornamental scroll-work form from authentic Victorian sources. Many styles, motifs, sizes.

Derived from a one-of-a-kind, hand painted studio sourcebook of the early 1900s, the patterns in this stunning collection combine to form a treasury of bold and colourful designs, never before seen in print.
Originating in Lyon, France's long time silk capital, the patterns were created by anonymous ...

The definitive guide to 100% original and correct Porsche 911 restoration, this book covers every inch of each air-cooled 911 generation in precise detail. It includes mechanical details, bodywork, interiors, and more, all illustrated with exquisite color photographs and in-depth text. The last word ...

Who knew, one hundred years ago, that the freedom-loving, speed-hungry, cutting-edge motorcycle fanatics who founded Harley-Davidson were making history along with bikes? The Harley-Davidson Collection, showcasing a century of bikes that shaped motorcycle history, brings that history to gleaming life ...

Tarchitect Moshe Safdie's buildings are exemplars of what has been be termed 'progressive contextualism' - an important way of thinking globally about building. This book explores this renowned architect's buildings and the philosophy that shapes them. It features various essays examining his role in the move toward architectural globalisation.

An essential text on developing form and style in type design. Includes a history of type and gallery of contemporary styles.

Add color and depth to these 31 original symmetrical patterns, each an unusual combination of swirling forms. Then put on the enclosed 3-D glasses and watch them spring to life. Previously published as Abstracts Coloring Book.