15-minute Art Pastels

Zena Kay

Explore the pure joy of pastels with fifty 15-minute projects that encourage you to explore drawing, colouring and shading in a relaxing, free and fun way. Each project can be completed in no more than six steps and will include practice pages, colour swatches and...

Where the Music Had to Go

Jim Windolf

FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE NEW INTERVIEW WITH SIR PAUL McCARTNEYPersuasive, captivating and bursting with insight, this dual biography by acclaimed journalist Jim Windolf dives into the surprisingly supportive, occasionally rivalrous, always fertile relationship between Bob...

Proceedings of the International Conference on Architectural Research and Design (ARDC 2025)

Khusnul Hanifati , Murni Rachmawati

This is open access book. The term Global South is more than a metaphor for underdevelopment; it encapsulates a history of colonialism, neo-imperialism, and ongoing global inequalities in wealth, resources, power, and cultural dominance (Dados & Connell,...

Working in Art

Alexandra Steinacker-Clark

Icons of Style: Charli XCX

Caroline Young

Genre trailblazer in both music and fashion, Charli XCX is revising the rules on self-expression as a popstar.From the bright patterns of the 2010s to the grungy, hyperpop style of Brat Summer, Charli XCX has reigned over the cool-girl aesthetic on stage and in the club...

Dressing the Queen

Kate Strasdin

'A truly wonderful and fascinating book!' Lady Anne GlenconnerThe hidden story of the people who designed, sewed, stitched and steamed the clothes of Britain's queens, from Victoria to the present day.From tours and walkabouts to the dazzling spectacle of a wedding or...

Vasari and the Sacred Image

Sally J. Cornelison

Vasari and the Sacred Image explores the iconography, patronage, function, meaning, and afterlife of Giorgio Vasari's paintings for, and architectural modification of, one of the most important churches in his hometown of Arezzo. Based upon a rich and previously...

Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power

Elizabeth R. Macaulay

Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 celebrated the quadricentennial of Columbus's 'discovery” of the Americas by creating a fantastical white city composed of Roman triumphal arches and domes, Corinthian colonnades, and Egyptian obelisks. World's fairs were among the...

Cosmic Music

Andy Beta

Musician, wife, mother, daughter, sister, grandmother, collaborator, guru, iconoclast: Alice Coltrane is one of the most forward-looking yet misunderstood artists of the last fifty years.For most of her life - and even in the decades since her passing - she was seen...

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference and Exhibition of Innovation in Media and Visual Design (IMDES 2025)

Lia Herna , Yusup Sigit Martyastiadi , Lalitya Talitha Pinasthika , Aditya Satyagraha

This is an open access book. The Innovation in Media and Visual Design (IMDES) conference and exhibition discuss the relationship between media, people, design, and technology as well as innovation, creation, and sustainability concepts resulting from those...

Covid-19 Ad memoriam. What we remember and what remains

Laetitia Atlani-Duault

For many of us, the Covid-19 pandemic represented an anthropological rupture, a moment of personal and collective change. It was experienced in a variety of ways by diff erent people, in different contexts, in different countries, and it has left deep scars.In this...

The Manga Bible

Helen Mccarthy

Everything you ever wanted to know about manga.The Manga Bible is the definitive guide to manga, taking you from its earliest beginnings in 12th-century Japan right through to the 21st-century global phenomenon it has become. Whether you're already a manga superfan or...

The Art of Antiquing in France

Sharon Santoni

Sharon Santoni has spent decades exploring flea markets, brocantes, and antique fairs throughout France. There, she gleaned invaluable expertise from dealers who taught her how to source unique treasures, how to care for and renovate special pieces, and ultimately how...

The Design of Montaigne's Essais

Vittoria Fallanca

What can design tell us about literature?What can literature tell us about design? The Design of Montaigne's 'Essais' provides a model for answering these questions by analysing the uses and function of the termdessein. Wresting design free from its intentionalist...

The Design of Montaigne's Essais

Vittoria Fallanca

What can design tell us about literature?What can literature tell us about design? The Design of Montaigne's 'Essais' provides a model for answering these questions by analysing the uses and function of the termdessein. Wresting design free from its intentionalist...

What's Around Design?

Susana Leonor , Américo Mateus , Carla Paoliello

This book presents volume two of the proceedings of the "What's Around Design?" meeting, held October 2024 in Algarve, Portugal. The chapters here cover a wide variety of topics related to design futures and how design and specifically biodesign can contribute to...

The Quest for Empathic Architecture

Paola Gregory

Starting from the emotional turn in the understanding of reality, the book retraces some thematic core concepts of aesthetic, philosophical and neuroscientific thought that have thematized empathy as a fundamental way of relating to otherness. From this point of view,...

Community (&) Design

Tom Bieling , Wolfgang Jonas , Maria Cecilia Loschiavo Dos Santos

This book explores how design shapes and is shaped by communities across diverse physical and digital, urban and rural, local and transnational contexts. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from around the world, it investigates how design fosters interaction,...

What's Around Design?

Susana Leonor , Américo Mateus , Gabriel Patrocinio

This book presents volume one of the proceedings of the "What's Around Design?" meeting, held October 2024 in Algarve, Portugal. The chapters here cover a wide variety of topics related to design futures and how design and specifically biodesign can contribute to...

Reflections

Sir Roger Deakins