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Living Design
The Writings of Clara Porset
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CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781988111551
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Concordia University Press
Cuban-born and Mexico-based Clara Porset is renowned for her md-century modern furniture and interior design and for her collaborations with architects, such as Luis Barragán and Mario Pani. She was...
The Decoration of Houses
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CA$57.95
ISBN: 9780815604730
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., brought transatlantic fame to a writer best known as a chronicler of Gilded Age New York. In their...
Singular Sensations
A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781978840683
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Michelle Ann Abate examines what The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side all have in common-they're single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that presents cartoonists with a wide range of possibilities. Covering everything from nineteenth-century political cartoons to twenty-first-century web comics, she reveals their complexity, artistry, and influence.
Singular Sensations
A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States
Price:
CA$94.00
ISBN: 9781978840690
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Michelle Ann Abate examines what The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side all have in common-they're single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that presents cartoonists with a wide range of possibilities. Covering everything from nineteenth-century political cartoons to twenty-first-century web comics, she reveals their complexity, artistry, and influence.
Laffanour: Downtown Style
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CA$63.00
ISBN: 9782370741967
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
A visual celebration of the French gallery that helped popularize furniture by architects from Le Corbusier to Ron AradOver the last 40 years, the Laffanour Galerie Downtown Paris, founded by François...
Songs for Modern Japan
Popular Music and Graphic Design, 1900 to 1950
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CA$58.00
ISBN: 9780878468973
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
A delightful primer on early-to-mid-20th-century Japan’s fruitful fusion of music and design, as materialized in sheet musicJapanese society underwent a whirlwind of change during the first half of...
Superstorm
Politics and Design in the Age of Information
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CA$34.00
ISBN: 9789083362175
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
With politics and the internet increasingly interwoven, new media design confronts the cultural challenges of the presentOver the past two decades, the relationship between politics and new media has...
Through Witnessing
Threading the Critiquing, Making, Teaching of Design
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CA$39.50
ISBN: 9789083350127
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Essays and lectures on design pedagogy from a group founded by faculty members of Pratt InstituteHow does design give form to social fictions? How does design and the professionalization of design schooling...
To Hold Your Heart in Your Teeth, Women's Work
The Visual Language of the Romanian Blouse
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CA$37.50
ISBN: 9789083350165
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
A lovingly designed and scrupulously researched social history of the traditional Romanian blouseMade by generations of women, the folk garment of the Romanian blouse secured its language despite eons...
Design against Design
Cause and Consequence of a Dissident Graphic Practice
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CA$39.00
ISBN: 9789083318806
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
A conversational, impassioned treatise on the realities of a socially engaged design practicePacked with conversational interviews, personal and critical essays, and a wide-ranging collection of graphic...
Empty Pedestals
Countering Confederate Narratives through Public Design
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9780807181560
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: LSU Press
Empty Pedestals uses a design perspective to explore how monuments to the Confederacy speak to regionalism, racist political agendas, and residual collective pain. Many designers and artists working...
Transform! Designing the Future of Energy
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CA$124.00
ISBN: 9783945852606
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Tangible, sustainable energy solutions for designers to incorporate into buildings, products and moreEnergy is the central driving force of our society; energy is political; energy is invisible. But...
Triennale: One Hundred Years of Posters
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CA$50.00
ISBN: 9791254631591
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Eye-catching advertisements for the Triennale Milano chart an evolution of poster designOn the occasion of the centenary of the Triennale Milano, this book offers an invitation to look back over 100...
Free the Map
From Atlas to Hermes: A New Cartography of Borders and Migration
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CA$71.95
ISBN: 9789462088122
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
New cartographic means of visualizing people and society, beyond the traditional borders of the nation-state A map is a visual story of the world. It feeds our imagination and shapes our view of the...
What Design Can't Do
Essays on Design and Disillusion
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CA$37.50
ISBN: 9789083350134
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
A witty, tongue-in-cheek discussion of design’s potentials and pitfallsIn focusing on creating preferable conditions, the discipline of design is optimistic by default. And yet, vernacular manifestations...
The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928-1930
Price:
CA$87.00
ISBN: 9781736863343
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
A revelatory, beautifully produced compendium of the influential Japanese commercial design journal, with posters, billboards, shop window displays and moreFrom 1928 to 1930, Tokyo publisher Ars issued...
Living Design
The Writings of Clara Porset
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781988111551
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Concordia University Press
The Decoration of Houses
CA$57.95
ISBN: 9780815604730
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Singular Sensations
A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781978840683
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Singular Sensations
A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States
CA$94.00
ISBN: 9781978840690
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Laffanour: Downtown Style
CA$63.00
ISBN: 9782370741967
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Songs for Modern Japan
Popular Music and Graphic Design, 1900 to 1950
CA$58.00
ISBN: 9780878468973
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Superstorm
Politics and Design in the Age of Information
CA$34.00
ISBN: 9789083362175
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Through Witnessing
Threading the Critiquing, Making, Teaching of Design
CA$39.50
ISBN: 9789083350127
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
To Hold Your Heart in Your Teeth, Women's Work
The Visual Language of the Romanian Blouse
CA$37.50
ISBN: 9789083350165
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Design against Design
Cause and Consequence of a Dissident Graphic Practice
CA$39.00
ISBN: 9789083318806
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Empty Pedestals
Countering Confederate Narratives through Public Design
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9780807181560
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: LSU Press
Transform! Designing the Future of Energy
CA$124.00
ISBN: 9783945852606
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Triennale: One Hundred Years of Posters
CA$50.00
ISBN: 9791254631591
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Free the Map
From Atlas to Hermes: A New Cartography of Borders and Migration
CA$71.95
ISBN: 9789462088122
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
What Design Can't Do
Essays on Design and Disillusion
CA$37.50
ISBN: 9789083350134
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928-1930
CA$87.00
ISBN: 9781736863343
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.