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Taking font creation back to basics, this book explores ways to design contemporary lettering of various kinds, with examination that ranges from classic design examples to 3D and illustrated fonts, digital lettering and radical conceptual alphabets.

Piet Oudolf, one of world's most visionary and influential landscape gardeners, is at the forefront of the New Perennial planting movement. This title features twenty-three of Oudolf's most beautiful public and private gardens. It explains how these gardens and the plants fit the specific environment.

A cosmopolitan painter and icon of the Art Deco movement, Tamara de Lempicka created images that became the symbols of an era, the crazy 1920s and 1930s. She was possibly that periods most brilliant exponent. This title offers a definitive catalogue on the first woman artist to be a glamour star.

An overview and insight into the unique collection of the Norwegian art collector Erling Neby. Erling Neby is the owner of one of the most important and precious private collections of constructivist and concrete art in Europe, and even worldwide. Over a period of thirty years, Neby has been building up a collection which is today unequalled in the Nordic countries and is of international standards and fame. Thanks to more than 200 color plate...

The first monograph on Kata Legrady's works presenting a collection of drawings, photographs, sculptures and video-installations. Kata Legrady (Hungary 1974) belongs to that long line of artists for whom an object offers the stimulus for artistic thought. Her approach takes the form of a symbolic encounter between weapons of war and confectionery. The Smarties are used to decorate weapons so that in her hands machine guns, grenades and knives ...

Penelope Umbrico (Photographs)offers a radical reinterpretation of every-day consumer and vernacular images. As the artist describes, she works "within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the relentless flow of seductive images, objects, and information that surrounds us, searching for decisive moments- but in these worlds, decisive moments are cultural absurdities." Umbrico finds these moments in the pr...

A collection of essays, reviews, and lectures some of which have gained a cult following due to online postings by Tod Papageorge, one of the most influential voices in photography. It includes texts that examine the more general questions of photographys relationship to poetry.

Distributed by Thames & Hudson Ltd. C/O Littlehampton Book Services Faraday Close, Durrington Worthing West Sussex BN13 3RB UK Customer Service T +44 (0) 1903 828 501 E enquiries@lbsltd.co.uk Direct Order Desk T +44 (0) 1903 828 511 F +44 (0) 1903 828 801/02 E orders@lbsltd.co.uk Sanna Kannisto Fieldwork Fieldwork, the first major monograph by Finnish rising star Sanna Kannisto, explores the dialectics of nature and culture in both artistic an...

History Files: This new paperback series presents the people, events, and ideas that shaped our past and made our present. Drawing upon the latest research, the books are abundantly illustrated with telling images from out-of-the-way sources, and offer the tangible fragments of vanished times in the form of loose-leaf facsimile documents that are included in the books.

Pablo Picasso's modest yet revolutionary cardboard and sheet metal Guitar sculptures (1912 and 1914, respectively) bracket an incandescent period of structural, spatial and material experimentation for the artist. In October 1912, while in what he described as 'the process of imagining a guitar', Picasso embraced the radical techniques of collage, construction, and mixedmedia painting, frequently combining traditional artists' supplies - oil p...

THE ART OF NOT MAKING probes the distinction between works identified as craft and those identified as fine art and explores whether art and craft are equals in the 21st century. Featuring original interviews with the artists and artisans who worked together to create this kind of work, this is a fresh, controversial and enlightening approach to many of the most influential artworks of our time.

In July 1999, Michael Jackson summoned the 23-year-old Arno Bani to a secret photo shoot, having seen and admired his photographs in the "Sunday Times" fashion pages. 700 photographs were the result, originally intended for the cover of Jacksons 2001 album "Invincible". This book offers this collection of portraits.