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  • PROJECTS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES
    JESSE REISER
    Projects and Their Consequences presents fifteen key projects from leading architectural thinkers Reiser + Umemoto. Projects and Their Consequences traces thirty years of innovative, multidisciplinary investigations of form, structure, technique, and planning. Projects include large-scale studies of infrastructure for the East River Corridor and Hudson Yards areas in Manhattan ...

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  • SINGLE-HANDEDLY
    MOSES, NALINA
    Part of the generation of architects who were trained to draw both by hand and with digital tools, Nalina Moses recently returned to hand drawing. Finding it to be direct, pleasurable, and intuitive, she wondered whether other architects felt the same way. Single-Handedly is the result of this inquiry. An inspiring collection of 220 hand drawings by more than forty emerging arc...

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  • ARTFUL CATS
    MARY SAVIG
    Cats, cats, and more cats! Expressive or aloof, affectionate or enigmatic, cats have complicated characters that make them compelling artists' muses. Artful Cats explores the quirky and charming relationships of artists with their cats in 130 rarely seen photos, paintings, sketches, manuscripts, and letters from the Archives of American Art. Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Louise N...

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  • A COLORFUL LIFE
    LOUISE SANDHAUS / KAT CATMUR
    The designer Gere Kavanaugh is an irrepressible force of nature who epitomized the craft and folk vibe of the '60s and '70s California design scene and remains a larger-than-life personality today. Raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Kavanaugh became in 1952 only the third woman to earn a degree in Cranbrook Academy of Art's design program. After successful stints as one of GM's so-c...

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  • BUILD IT YOURSELF: WEEKEND PROJECTS FOR THE GARDEN
    PERRONE, FRANK (AUTHOR)
    Are you into gardening, DIY, or organic living? Looking to branch into woodworking? Build It Yourself: Weekend Projects for the Garden will help you to do just that. Accompanying you every step of the way, from the local home goods store to your workshop or table, Build It Yourself is a fun, accessible, and portable guide to constructing twelve practical, tasteful projects for ...

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  • WRIGHT SITES: A GUIDE TO FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT PUBLIC PLACES (FIELD GUIDE TO FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSES AND STRUCTURES, INCLUDES TOUR INFORMATION, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND ITINERARIES)
    FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BUILDING CONSERVANCY (AUTHOR), JOEL HOGLUND (EDITOR), JACK QUINAN (INTRODUCTION)
    This revised and updated edition of Wright sites celebrates the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright`s birth. ...

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  • YOU ARE HERE: NYC
    HARMON, KATHARINE
    Maps are magical. Every graphic, like every story, has a point of view, and New York is rife with mapmaking possibilities, thick with mythology, and glutted with history. You Are Here: NYC assembles some two hundred maps charting every inch and facet of the five boroughs, depicting New Yorks of past and present, and a city that never was."A Nightclub Map of Harlem" traces a boo...

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  • CREATIVE CAT
    SINDEN, DAVID
    The Creative Cat is your muse in this irresistible journal. Extend, complete and/or color in these charming cat-themed illustrations, letting the cat guide you: he starts, you finish. This original take on doodling/patterning will delight cat and coloring fans of all ages. ...

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  • EDIFICES DE ROME MODERNE
    LETAROUILLY, PAUL
    Paul Letarouilly's masterpiece, Edifices de Rome Moderne, has been hailed as the most beautiful book on Renaissance architecture ever published. Letarouilly (1795–1855) devoted thirty-five years to drawing the plans, sections, elevations, perspectives, and large-scale details of gardens, convents, palaces, and churches of Renaissance Rome. His keen observational ability and imm...

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  • I CAN MAKE MY OWN ACCESSORIES
    SCOTT-SMITH, LOUISE / VAUX, GEORGIA
    I Can Make My Own Accessories is brimming with smart ideas for making your own fashion accessories! Make and customize unique, stylish jewelry, hair accessories, bags, belts, and much more.With inspirational photographs of the finished accessories this book includes clear step-by-step illustrated instructions and actual-size patterns to make a wide range of on-trend accessories...

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  • THE KITCHEN ART STUDIO
    JENNY, PETER
    The Kitchen Art Studio turns the old adage "Don't play with your food" on its head by encouraging readers to discover the creative energy hidden in their pantry. In Peter Jenny's playful exercises, broccoli becomes material for sculpture, a cookie depicts the waning moon, cherry stems form captivating patterns, and spoons inspire performance art. ...

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  • JAN KAPLICKÝ DRAWINGS
    RICHARD ROGERS / IVAN MARGOLIUS
    Jan Kaplicky (1937-2009) was a visionary architect with a passion for drawing. It was his way of discovering, describing and constructing; and through drawing he presented beguiling architectural imagery of the highest order. Many of his sketches, cutaway drawings and photomontages are brought together and celebrated in this book. These drawings date from the early years of his...

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  • FLORA ILLUSTRATA
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
    An exquisitely illustrated volume in celebration of the world's foremost library of botanical works The renowned LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden counts among its holdings many of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical and horticultural works ever created. More than eight centuries of knowledge, from the twelfth century to the present, are represe...

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  • THE PRISON
    Having left South Africa at the age of four as a political refugee with his parents, photographer Koto Bolofo returned to his home country with his wife in 1992, two years after Nelson Mandela had been released from prison. Bolofo got free access to the notorious and by now deserted prison of Robben Island, where Mandela had been held for the majority of the twenty-seven years ...

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  • INSIDE THE FAVELAS
    A unique linsight into life in Brazil's infamous favelas. A honest portrayal of the 'other side' of Brazil's society. Portrays a world that came to prominence with the hit film City of God. Combining thought-provoking text and hard-hitting, stunning photography, Inside the Favelas provides a compelling commentary on the life in Brazil's shanty towns Includes a foreword by The H...

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  • THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VILLAGES OF PROVENCE
    JACOBS, MICHAEL / PALMER, HUGH
    Provence is a land apart, a territory of outstanding beauty and distinction that has fascinated outsiders since earliest times. The Greeks, the Romans, the barbarians of the North, and the Moors have all left their traces in its villages, from the Luberon to the Alpes-Maritimes.It is in such smaller communities that the true Provencal spirit can be found: in brilliant sunlight ...

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  • REVOLUTION OF FORMS UPDATED EDITION
    JOHN A. LOOMIS
    Prior to the publication of Revolution of Forms in 1999, few were aware that the most outstanding architectural achievement of the Cuban Revolution, the Escuelas Nacionales de Arte (National Art School), stoodneglected just outside Havana. Three architects who aimed to reinvent architecture just as the revolution hoped to reinvent society were commissioned. However, before cons...

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  • BUILDING ENVELOPES
    JENNY LOVELL
    Building Envelopes -- Far from being just a simple outer wall or decorative element, the building envelope, or facade, determines a building's structural stability, climate control, and degree of energy performance. There is an urgent need for architects and allied professionals to gain a greater understanding of how materials and technologies can be applied to meet both aesthe...

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  • PARIS
    GARCETTI, GIL
    These days, bicycles are as much a part of the image of Paris as the Eiffel Tower. Through his photographs, Gil Garcetti captures fleeting figures, silhouettes that appear suddenly, turn a street corner and then disappear on the horizon. With an artist's eye, he goes beyond documentation and creates a delicate mosaic of our city on bicycles. This elegant work is at once tribute...

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  • DIGITAL FABRICATIONS
    IWAMOTO, LISA
    Digital Fabrications -- Architectural pioneers such as Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn introduced the world to the extreme forms made possible by digital fabrication. It is now possible to transfer designs made on a computer to computer-controlled machinery that creates actual building components. This "file to factory" process not only enables architects to realize projects featurin...

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  • BIOREBOOT: THE ARCHITECTURE OF R&SIE{N}
    GIOVANNI CORBELLINI
    What do you call an architecture firm that draws inspiration from the most extreme aspects of nature and human psychology? When faced with this challenge in 1989, architect Franois Roche decided that the best way to express his firm's design philosophy would be to change its name every few years. Presently, the Paris-based practice goes by the name of R&Sie(n). Pronounced "here...

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  • THE MEANING OF PHOTOGRAPHY
    CLARK SYMPOSIUM / CLARK SYMPOSIUM THE MEANING OF PHOTOGRAPHY
    With essays by Geoffrey Batchen, François Brunet, Mary Ann Doane, José Luis Falconi, Robin Kelsey, Douglas R. Nickel, Blake Stimson, and John Tagg, and additional contributions by Lars Kiel Bertelsen, Anne McCauley, Jorge Ribalta, John Roberts, Eric Rosenberg, Eric C. Shiner, and Bernd StieglerPhoto essays by Sharon Harper, Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault, Fiona Tan, and Akram ...

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  • REVOLUTION IN HUNGARY
    ERICH LESSING / FRANÇOIS FEJTÖ / NICOLAS BAUQUET
    u003cbu003eErich Lessing's landmark photographs of the Hungarian Revolution, published to mark the 50th anniversary of the uprising.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003e On October 23, 1956, what began as a mass rally in Budapest quickly evolved into the Hungarian Revolution. Within days, millions of Hungarians were supporting the revolt. It lasted until November 4th when it was...

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  • NEW ART IN THE 60S AND 70S
    RORIMER, ANNE
    By the end of the 1960s a revolution had taken place in the perception and practice of art in Europe and North America. This book, the first detailed account of developments centered around the conceptual art movement, highlights the main issues underlying visually disparate works dating from the second half of the 1960s to the end of the 1970s. These works questioned the accep...

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  • ABORIGINAL ART
    CARUANA, WALLY
    Widely sought after, Aboriginal art has now taken its place in the collections of the great museums and galleries.This is the first concise survey of the full range of the work of Australia's indigenous artists from all parts of the continent. Building on traditions that stretch back at least fifty millennia, these artists have worked in a variety of contexts, from the sacred r...

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  • THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY TOWNS OF PROVENCE
    ATTLEE, HELENA
    The outstanding beauty and distinction of the small towns of Provence have proved irresistibly attractive to visitors from America for the best part of a century. From the hills and mountains of the Alps and the Luberon to the rich vine-growing country of the Var and the delightful coastal resorts, these communities are special places indeed. In the small towns one finds the tr...

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  • THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VILLAGES OF NORMANDY
    HUGH PALMER
    Normandy is a vast region of open country and woodland as well as a coastal land of towering cliffs and sandy beaches, punctuated by delicious villages - some fashionable resorts, others still working fishing communites. The area is crossed by rivers along the banks of which stand many gems of villages, like exquisite Carrouges in the south, and Clécy in the valley of the Orne ...

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  • D.I.Y.: DESIGN IT YOURSELF (DESIGN HANDBOOKS)
    ELLEN LUPTON (AUTHOR)
    Not satisfied with the new T-shirts on sale at the local mall? Maybe you'd like a wedding invitation that expresses your own vision, not your party planner's? How about some personalized stationery? An upgrade to your website? A business card? A poster for your political campaign? A CD package for your band? Sound good? Then get up off your couch and Design It Yourself! Avoid g...

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  • STUDIO JOY WORKS
    RICK JOY (AUTHOR)
    Rick Joy's reputation as one of the country's most gifted designers, whose mining of materials and site create transcendent, even poetic buildings, was established in his first book, Desert Works. This follow-up, Studio Joy Works, marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of his firm's founding and continues the careful documentation of the growing body of his important work, includin...

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  • IN THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT
    NELLA NOTTE BUIA

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  • THE NEW URBAN HOUSE
    BELL STATHAKI

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  • STICKER, SHAPE, CREATE: A STICKER ART ACTIVITY BOOK
    THEREZA ROWE

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  • VINEYARDS
    LYON, FRED
    As a budding photographer and oenophile in the 1940s, Fred Lyon surveyed the wine photography of the day and thought, "I can do better than that!" What followed was a seven-decade adventure that took him to the world's great wine regions—to French châteaux, the verdant slopes of Chile, and the picturesque wineries of Italy, Greece, Portugal, and beyond — always returning to the...

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  • OBSERVER'S NOTEBOOK
    PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS

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  • THE OLIVETTI PATTERN SERIES PENCIL SET
    MADE BY MEMO
    Twelve charming pencils inside a very charming box. Printed with distinctive red-and-black patterns made on the iconic Olivetti typewriter, these elegant pencils contain soft graphite, perfect for sketching, editing, drawing, and writing. The Olivetti typewriter is held in the collections of the MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and revered by playwrights, s...

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  • I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS I AM LIKE
    JOHN G. HANHARDT / THOMAS A. CARLSON / KIRA PEROV
    Bill Viola (b. 1951) is one of today's premier video installation artists whose apparently straightforward imagery belies a decades-long investigation into the human imagination and its various states of consciousness. This unique and accessible guide to Viola's work provides new insights into the artist's creative processes by drawing on his own writing, as well as texts that ...

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  • I'VE SEEN THE FUTURE AND I'M NOT GOING
    MCGOUGH, PETER
    Brilliantly funny, frank, and shattering, this is the bittersweet memoir by Peter McGough of his life with artist David McDermott. Set in New York's Lower East Side of the 1980s and mid-1990s, it is also a devastatingly candid look at the extreme naiveté and dysfunction that would destroy both their lives. Escaping the trauma of growing up gay in Syracuse and being bullied at s...

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  • PEOPLE KISSING: A CENTURY OF PHOTOGRAPHS (VINTAGE SNAPSHOTS AND POSTCARDS, A GREAT GIFT FOR ENGAGEMENTS, WEDDING SHOWERS, AND ANNIVERSARIES)
    BARBARA LEVINE / PAIGE RAMEY
    Love is in the air as Barbara Levine and Paige Ramey take on humankind's oldest pastime: kissing. In racy candids, humorous vintage postcards, and snapshots taken on the sly, couples from the Victorian era through the Swinging Sixties smooch, canoodle, neck, and spoon. The collected photographs are sweet, sincere, and saucy, occasionally awkward, and always intriguing: Who took...

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  • THE ARTISTS WHO WILL CHANGE THE WORLD
    KHOLEIF, OMAR
    Traditional histories of art have often been confined to a western European framework. But with the birth of contemporary museum culture, the proliferation of art fairs and biennials in regions far and wide, and the advent of digital technologies, new global networks have emerged, fostering a new world map of art, and paving the way for the art of tomorrow.How do we engage with...

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  • GRIDS & GUIDES TRACEBOOK
    PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
    Tracebook brings a whole new dimension to our Grids & Guides family. Each Tracebook set includes two books filled with tracing paper. The covers feature two distinct grids, classic on one side and isometric on the other; cover flaps fold inside the book, providing handy structure for your sketches, designs, or lists. Remove the flaps, and your design remains, while the grid dis...

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  • MODERN TYPOGRAPHY NOTECARDS
    PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
    Picking up where our successful u003ciu003eVintage Typography Notecardsu003c/iu003e left off, this new notecard set features one-of-a-kind typefaces as well as modern classics. Each card is accompanied by a capsule history of its origin and use, and housed in a handsome box sure to appeal to typophiles, designers, and fans of mid-century design and modern art. ...

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  • PATKAU ARCHITECTS: MATERIAL OPERATIONS
    PATKAU ARCHITECTS (AUTHOR)
    Patkau Architects is known for creating innovative, sculptural buildings that convey artistic expression through the purposeful use of materials. Patkau Architects: Material Operations reveals the architectural philosophy and techniques that drive the firm's extraordinary constructions.Working directly with materials—bending them, breaking them, feeling their texture, mass, and...

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  • THE WRITER SAYS: QUOTES, QUIPS, AND WORDS OF WISDOM
    KEVIN LIPPERT (COMPILER)
    The Writer Says summons us to an intimate gathering of novelists, memorists, grammarians, journalists, and teachers - a glittering cocktail party where history`s most venerable scribes meet today`s freshest storytellers and essayists to compare insights on work habits, formative experiences, the pleasures and limitations of language, the business of authoring, and much more. On...

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  • MAGNUM MANIFESTO
    CLÉMENT CHÉROUX / CLARA BOUVERESSE
    u003cpu003eIn this landmark photography publication and accompanying exhibition celebrating the 70th anniversary of the renowned photo agency, Clément Chéroux and Clara Bouveresse demonstrate how Magnum Photos owes its preeminence to the ability of its photographers to encompass and navigate the points between photography as art object and photography as documentary evidence.u0...

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  • MAGRITTE
    DIDIER OTTINGER
    This major new book on René Magritte offers fresh interpretations of the artist's use of symbols and imagery to articulate his particular brand of surrealism. In this beautiful monograph, a collection of revelatory essays focuses on five common images in Rene´ Magritte's work--fire, shadows, curtains, words, and the fragmented body. Featuring vibrant reproductions of more than ...

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  • SHOES
    JOHNSTON, LUCY / WOOLLEY, LINDA
    Shoes have always captured the imagination, and communicated the priorities and ambitions of the wearer. In the reign of Henry VIII, exaggerated shapes and wide toes were footwear's reflection of the aggressive social climate of court, while engravings of Queen Victoria show impossibly narrow slippers, worn in pursuit of nineteenth-century ideals of daintiness. Contemporary sho...

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  • TASTE
    BAYLEY, STEPHEN
    -Design-guru Stephen Bayley approaches the thorny and sometimes elitist topic of 'taste' with typical wit, drawing on his expertise in a number of fields from fashion to food -A new edition of a classic book, brought into the new millennia by Bayley's concise critique of modern design How do we define taste? The only certainty is that it shifts and changes - sometimes abruptly....

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  • THE BLIND PHOTOGRAPHER
    JULIAN ROTHENSTEIN
    The blind photographer cannot see a butterfly perched perfectly still on a flower, a bowl of sweet-smelling fruit, or a child's rattle on a darkened floor, but the mind's eye is sharply focused. How then, do blind or partially sighted people capture such extraordinary images?u003cbru003eu003cbru003e The photographs in this revelatory book suggest a deeper truth: that blindness ...

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  • LUCIAN FREUD'S SKETCHBOOKS
    HOWGATE, SARAH
    Previously unpublished drawings from the private sketchbooks of the pre-eminent British painter offer a new perspective on the artist's personality and artistic genius.This revelatory publication features a selection of beautifully reproduced images from the sketchbooks of Lucian Freud (1922-2011), one of the world's greatest realist painters. Most of the sketches - which inclu...

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  • DIGITAL DESIGN THEORY
    HELEN ARMSTRONG
    Digital Design Theory bridges the gap between the discourse of print design and interactive experience by examining the impact of computation on the field of design. As graphic design moves from the creation of closed, static objects to the development of open, interactive frameworks, designers seek to understand their own rapidly shifting profession. Helen Armstrong's carefull...

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  • REMARKABLE PLANTS: FIVE-YEAR JOURNAL
    KEW THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS / THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW
    Illustrated with exquisite and exotic images taken from the celebrated book Remarkable Plants That Shape Our World, this five-year journal offers ample space to trace the passing of the seasons and record plans, ideas, reflections, and more. The images are accompanied by select quotes on botanical themes by Chaucer, Wordsworth, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Jefferson, and many others, ...

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  • REMARKABLE PLANTS: MINI NOTEBOOKS
    KEW THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS / THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW
    This set of three notebooks--one lined, one gridded, and one with blank pages--offers ample room to keep notes, reflections, jottings, or lists. Each notebook cover boasts an amazing botanical illustration from the celebrated book Remarkable Plants That Shape Our World.u003cbru003eu003cbru003e The notebook set is part of a range of stationery products that marries the design an...

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  • ARCHITECTURE AND SURREALISM
    NEIL SPILLER
    u003cpu003eIn a world where "smart" objects can talk to each other and a gun can be printed with a desktop 3D printer, the conditions for contemporary design are nothing if not surreal. The long-standing interaction between architecture and Surrealism is being reinvigorated by the new technology that makes the protocols and concepts of otherworldly Surrealism more relevant to a...

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  • MIN
    TOLLEY, STUART
    Minimalism has informed some of the greatest graphic design in the history of the art form. It gave us the Helvetica font and decluttered web design, and it allowed graphic designers to focus with renewed diligence on the relationship between form and function. Today's resurgence in minimalist graphic design--as creators move away from the ornate, decorative patterns that have ...

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