Design
HISTORY OF COLOUR: HOW WE SEE, USE AND UNDERSTAND COLOUR
Written by Parkinson, Neil
This comprehensive, beautiful book delves deep into the complex but fascinating story of our relationship with colour throughout human history. Color is fundamental to our experience and understanding of the world. It crosses continents and cultures, disciplines and decades. It is used to convey information and knowledge, to evoke mood, and to inspire emotion.
ISLAMIC DESIGN: A GENIUS FOR GEOMETRY
Written by Sutton, Daud
Across the Islamic world, illuminating Korans from Morocco to Malaysia, and adorning mosques, mausoleums and palaces, are hidden some of the most exquisite geometrical devices ever conceived by man. In this excellent pocket book geometer Daud Sutton unravels the mystery of Islamic patterns, explaining where they come from, how to draw them, and hinting at the Divine messages they encode.
BLUEPRINT NOTEBOOK: TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS
Written by Press, Dokument
Blueprint Notebook: Technical Innovations is more than a notebook. Each page features a beautiful blueprint of a brilliant historic innovation. The bright blue high quality paper is perfect for taking notes and writing down your thoughts and to-do lists.
FELINITY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ILLUSTRATED CATS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Written by Victionary
With a history tracing back to ancient Egypt where they were even revered as gods, domestic cats have not only gained the favor of humans by repelling pests, but have also provided us with endless companionship and entertainment through the millennia.
GET LOST!: EXPLORE THE WORLD IN MAP ILLUSTRATIONS
Written by Victionary
Long before GPS or Google Maps were invented, folded paper maps were our most trusted companions on the road. While traditional maps are becoming increasingly obsolete, there is more to cartography than establishing bearings or a sense of scale. Maps can also be a thing of beauty that appeals to our sense of nostalgia, evoking memories of trips taken - or planned and not yet realized.
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA IN THE GLYPTOTHEK: BEYOND HELLAS
Sculptures and paintings by the architect Santiago Calatrava in dialogue with the ancient works that influenced him. Santiago Calatrava's encounter with the sculpture collection at the Glyptothek in Munich thirty years ago prompted him to create an extensive series of sculptures titled Die Aegineten (The Aeginetans).
BEAUTY OF THE HEBREW LETTER: FROM SACRED SCROLLS TO GRAFFITI
Written by Pludwinski, Izzy
A celebration of the beauty of the Hebrew aleph-bet from sacred scrolls to graffiti. The Beauty of the Hebrew letter is unique: there are many art books on Chinese lettering, Roman lettering, and so on, but this is one of just a few books on the Hebrew letter, and what a beautiful book it is.
APPLE II AGE: HOW THE COMPUTER BECAME PERSONAL
Written by Nooney, Laine
An engrossing origin story for the personal computer--showing how the Apple II's software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists' plaything to essential home appliance. Skip the iPhone, the iPod, and the Macintosh. If you want to understand how Apple Inc. became an industry behemoth, look no further than the 1977 Apple II.
PENNED & PAINTED: THE ART & MEANING OF BOOKS IN MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS
Written by Freeman Sandler, Lucy
The idea of the book was central throughout the western European and the eastern Mediterranean world in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From the beginning, the word for 'book'--sefer in Hebrew, biblia in Greek, and liber in Latin--was identified with sacred writings--the Holy Scriptures of Jews and Christians, who were known as 'people of the book'.
HANDBOOK OF TYRANNY: EXPANDED EDITION
Written by Deutinger, Theo
An updated edition of the essential guide to the 21st century's new infrastructure of oppression and surveillance
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