Surfboards were once made of wood and shaped by hand, objects of both cultural and recreational significance. Today most surfboards...
Josef Albers's Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors,...
Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artists,...
Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable.In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and...
Mid-twentieth-century California offered fertile ground for design innovations. The state’s reputation as a land of unlimited...
Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colorful prints to depict the latest fashion trends....
When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or...
Behind every typeface is a story – who designed it, and why? What are its distinctive characteristics, and what cultural baggage...
Artists Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and many other women played a major...
If only today's technology were simpler! It's the universal lament, but it's wrong. In this provocative and informative book,...
Quilts are among the most utilitarian of art objects, yet the best among them possess a formal beauty that rivals anything made...
The second largest city in 17th-century Europe, Naples constituted a vital Mediterranean centre in which the Spanish Habsburgs,...
The designer and architect Pierre Chareau (1883-1950) was a pivotal figure in modernism. His extraordinary Art Deco furniture...
This latest volume in the acclaimed ''Art through the Centuries Series'' explores the most important and influential artists and...
During the twenty years following Caravaggio's death, his revolutionary precedent inspired the creation of a remarkable body of...
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