Australian Toys by JONES, LUKE
$59.99 AUD
Category: Design
The book documents the production of each toy with beautiful colour photographs accompanied by relevant text about the toy and manufacturer.Luke Jones? carefully structured collection has been assembled with passion and commitment over a period of more than thirty years and is unrivalled for its breadth ...Show more
How to Create Things for the World Sustainably by Sarah K
$90.00 AUD
Category: Design
Sarah K of supercyclers, is telling us that we don't need to become an expert in sustainability to make things right.Instead, what this book proposes, is an ideological refocus, inspired at heart by First Nations' wisdom and combined with the author's expert knowledge and revolutionary approach to desig ...Show more
Mid-Century Modern Furniture by Dominic Bradbury
$100.00 AUD
Category: Design
The ultimate collector's resource, including hundreds of pieces by both well- and lesser-known designers from around the world. From armchairs and chaises longues to cabinets and nightstands, the period between the late 1930s and early 1970s was one of the most productive, inventive and exciting eras fo ...Show more
Design Monograph: Perriand by Naomi Stungo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Design | Series: Design Monograph Ser.
An illustrated 'greatest hits' of Perriand's work, with a concise explanation of why she is so lauded and the hallmarks that identify her work. A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book conta ...Show more
Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education Through Art, Design and Architecture by Ann Stephen; Philip Goad; Andrew McNamara; Harriet Edquist
$64.99 AUD
Category: Design
Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond- Transforming Education in Art, Architecture and Design presents an extraordinary new Australasian cultural history. It is a migrant and refugee story- from 1930, the arrival of so many emigre, internee and refugee educators helped to transform art, architecture and design in ...Show more
1000 Design Classics by Phaidon Editors
$140.00 AUD
Category: Design
The most innovative, iconic, and influential products ever designed - from 1663 to the present day. Originating from the highly acclaimed and groundbreaking three-volume Phaidon Design Classics, this new book presents 1,000 of the world's greatest objects in one large-format volume - from everyday item ...Show more
Ceramics: An Atlas of Forms by Glenn Barkley
$79.99 AUD
Category: Design
What can we learn about the Roman empire from an amphora made in 200 BC? How can a simple, unadorned cup made in 1945 tell us so much about history? And what will an artwork comprising a vast collection of clay spheres tell our descendants about the act of making? Once fired, clay has the strength to ...Show more
Pattern Design (HB) by Elizabeth Wilhide
$65.00 AUD
Category: Design
Throughout history, patterns have come in countless permutations of motif, colour-way and scale. Yet what all have in common is the regularity of repetition, that insistent rhythm that animates a flat surface with a sense of movement and vitality and gives it depth. Evident in the arrangement of petals ...Show more
Italian Textile Design by Linfante
$95.00 AUD
Category: Design
The dynamic geometrical patterns of Emilio Pucci; the dazzling trompe-l’œil effects of Roberta di Camerino; the pop sensibilities of Gianni Versace and Franco Moschino; the bold street-style prints of Iuter and Sunnei—these and countless other innovations have made Italian design a leading force in the ...Show more
Mid-Century Type: Typography, Graphics, Designers by David Jury (Text by)
$120.00 AUD
Category: Design
Mid-Century Type is a fascinating visual exploration of how, during the middle decades of the last century, the typographer became an independent, influential contributor to a fast-developing technological world of communications. The years after the Second World War were a time of great economic, socia ...Show more
Art Deco Style: Great Designers & Collectors by ALASTAIR DUNCAN
$165.00 AUD
Category: Design | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This grand opus assembles the people and the pieces at the heart of the Art Deco movement at each stage of its enduring appeal. The History of the Art Deco Style is richly illustrated with the work of legendary designers and decorators Eileen Grey, Paul Iribe, Antoine Bourdelle, Armand-Albert Rateau and ...Show more
History of Modern Design Third Edition by David Raizman
$99.99 AUD
Category: Design
This unparalleled and wide-ranging book surveys the history of applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing, and the technological, social and commercial contexts in which this relationship has deve ...Show more