ART

The renewed prominence of the poster as both a marketing tool and a display of artistry has led to an explosive renaissance. Learn More

Patterns---bold, colorful, muted, delicate, intricate, splashy, spare, figurative, abstract, dizzying, calming---are the subject in this comprehensive reference, the first to examine pattern as an essential part of twentieth-century design history. Learn More

Alphabets: A Miscellany of Letters is a lavish colourful collection, from A to Z, of a multitude of examples of the Western alphabet in use. Alphabets explores the language of letters that we see around us everyday, touching on the alphabet’s origins in hieroglyphs through to its development as a significant part of our history and visual vocabulary. Learn More

A novel with each cover hand-illustrated by the author. Literary journals bound by magnets, or designed to look like junk mail. Learn More

In recent years, design professionals have been called upon to push the physical limitations of printed artifacts. Learn More

Before the invention of Letraset, the sheets of dry-transfer letters that became popular with designers in the 1960s, custom headline lettering styles were frequently drawn by hand, creating a limitless field of innovative, creative, fanciful letters full of stylistic freedom and an energy unfettered by typographic traditions and templates. Learn More

When personal computers became de rigueur for the design world, their font lists standardized the array of typefaces available to layout artists and typesetters. Learn More

Louise Fili has been an inspiration for designers around the world since the 1980s, when she raised the bar on book cover design, creating close to two thousand jackets as art director for Pantheon Books. Learn More

Graphic design has broadened its reach dramatically over the past decade, expanding from a specialized profession to a widely deployed skill. Learn More