Step-by-step instructions show you how to use brush pens to make professional-looking letters and numbers. Five styles of modern calligraphy, plus ways to personalize your designs. Try more advanced techniques combining lettering and illustrations, and the many project suggestions for cards, invitations, signs, and more.
Industrial Interiors from the World's Most Original Hotels
From a huge former cold storage plant located in a remote corner of Chile and a sugar refinery in rural China to a hundred-year-old belt factory in Chicago, the book profiles over 25 truly exceptional hotels and boutique boltholes around the world, all of which are situated in refurbished industrial buildings. These are destinations for design ......
The Books, Writers and Artists who made the Shakespeare Head Press
Halting the dead hand of mechanisation Books are not for the rich men, but for all Death by 'carping indolent reviewers' Publish and be dammed (to poverty) Escape to paradise Levelling up - reskilling for equality Everyone involved in a book should be counted
She was called "the most beautiful girl in the world" and during Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s, she set standards of beauty and sophistication copied throughout the world during the three decades of her film career. When she made her American cinema debut opposite Charles Boyer in Walter Wanger's moody 1938 romance-drama, Algiers, ......
200 Years of Commercial Art from the Robert Opie Collection
Glorious Graphics delves into the vast array of graphic design that surrounds us wherever we go, and has done so ever since printing was invented. Yet everyday graphics have mostly been ignored as an art form. From Victorian song sheets to French perfume labels, early matchboxes to decorative greetings cards, appealing cigarette packets to ......
Prince Albert was the first Chairman of the first Royal Fine Art Commission, appointed by Queen Victoria to commission art for the new Houses of Parliament. At the age of just twenty-two, he deftly navigated the complex project, leaving a remarkable artistic legacy and honing the skills that made him one of the Renaissance Men of the nineteenth ......
A history of design that is often overlooked-until we need it Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you've benefited from accessible design-design for people with physical, sensory, ......
The car is probably one of the most fascinating inventions man has ever produced, and it is constantly being improved. Hans-Ulrich von Mende is equally well-informed on history, design, engineering, product policy and future perspectives on the subject of cars.Containing many marvellous photographs and analytical texts, his book makes exciting ......
