New, in original shrink wrap, in English. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority mail upgrade within US. The new book Bro Destruct 4 not only presents the best of realized projects of the past 12 years, but also intermediate steps, discards, experiments & inspiration of the Bern-based and internationally renowned design studio Bro Destruct. The Swiss, who see themselves and their studio as a kind of band, again present a skillfully composed album with this new book. In contrast to the strict and somewhat restrained Swiss Style of the 1960s, Bro Destruct stands for design without the handbrake on... View More...
New, in publisher's shrink wrap. AVAILABLE NOW. The Original Edition by graphic design publisher Unit Editions. -- This book is a near facsimile of the one-off, leather-bound 'sketchbook' (shown left) that Lance Wyman made to catalogue his design process for the creation of a logo and graphic identity for the 1976 USA Bicentennial celebrations to mark the creation of the USA as an independent republic. It's a record of the creative process that Wyman went through to arrive at a refined and workable solution. It's rare for designers to reveal so much of their inner workings, and even rarer for ... View More...
Unit Editions,, 2016 The original Unit Editions First Edition, limited to 2000. Not the Thames & Hudson reprint. NEW in publisher's shrink wrap. Lots of images! Has a small scratch in the front of the hardcover and the shadow of a small stain on the back cover. Pages very clean, no markings or underlining. ships from Hawaii with Priority Mail within US, not slow Media Mail. Written by the Moscow Design Museum's Alexandra Sankova and Olga Druzhinina, this book tells the previously untold story of the VNIITE - the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics. Formed in Soviet ... View More...
New, in publisher's shrink wrap. AVAILABLE NOW. The Original Edition by graphic design publisher Unit Editions. -- Limited Edition of 2000 Expanded Edition New TD 63-73 is available in a new hardback edition, featuring an updated text by Ben Bos that extends the focus beyond 1973, in addition to a host of new images from his archives The book - now 520 pages; its first outing it was 320 - is not your average second edition And it's not strictly a reprint either, rather a new book altogether Creative Review The expanded edition of TD 63-73 is a unique insider's account of Total Design's golden ... View More...
NEW, a beautifully printed book, signed by the author. Portland, Eberhardt Press 2022, 204 pages, 8 x 5.5 inches. Ships from Hawaii. The tramp printer was a typesetting troubadour with a story in lieu of a song, a scholarly hobo, and a master of the type case. Carrying little more than a union journeyman's card and a few basic tools, these "itinerant" typographers criss-crossed the continent for more than a century, train-hopping from newspaper to newspaper. To the tramp printer, personal autonomy and adventure were far more valuable than material possessions. Many of them were brilliant, lite... View More...
The Paris Metro in the 30's. With many photos and 4 color plates, metro plans. COMPAGNIE DE CHEMIN DE FER METROPOLITAIN DE PARIS & Les Ateliers A.B.C., Paris, 1931. Illustrated silver hardcover, 58 pages. 12.5 x 10 inches. Elegant publication printed in heliogravure illustrated with numerous B/W photos, 4 color plates, network diagrams and plans, vignettes and tailpieces, color illustrated endpapers. Good condition, with an unusual metallic looking cover and great graphic design of the book. Pages very slightly browned, but very clean. No markings, no damage to pages. The cover has some shelf-... View More...
A long overdue book examining the extraordinary life and work of artist/designer Ed Fella. Ed Fella is revered by many of the leading names in contemporary design. Now, at long last, there is a book that charts Ed's journey from the commercial design studios of 1950s Detroit to his current position as a widely celebrated artist/designer. Ed Fella: A Life in Images makes extensive use of his vast treasure store of visual delight: it showcases flyers, posters, original sketches, drawings, Polaroids and collages, as well as items from Ed's collection of vernacular design. The book makes unrestric... View More...
New, in publisher's shrink wrap. Ships from Hawaii. Weight 3.2 pounds, Dimensions 10.7 x 0.9 x 10.7 inches Between 1834 and 1844, a remarkable collection of copperplate engravings issued forth from the Lahainaluna Seminary, a school on the island of Maui run by the Hawaiian Mission. Collectively, these engravings?views of the Hawaiian Islands,including towns and rural settlements, portraits, objects of natural history, and original maps and charts?form one of the most important visual records of nineteenth-century Hawaii before the age of photography. Although most of the drawings on which the... View More...
Unit Editions, 2016. Limited Edition of 2000. Paperback. New, in publisher's shrink wrap. AVAILABLE NOW. The Original Edition by graphic design publisher Unit Editions Size: 248mm×185mm, Pages: 384, Binding: Lay-flat bound. In this book you will find the covers of design magazines, journals and periodicals of all kinds. They cover many topics - graphic design, typography, architecture, interiors, print, theory and history. But above all, they are brilliant specimens of innovative visual design. There's no better place to view the stylistic rollercoaster of graphic design than the covers of des... View More...
Unit Editions, 2016. Limited Edition of 2000. Paperback. New, in publisher's shrink wrap. AVAILABLE NOW. The Original Edition by graphic design publisher Unit Editions. -- In this book you will find the covers of design magazines, journals and periodicals of all kinds. They cover many topics - graphic design, typography, architecture, interiors, print, theory and history. But above all, they are brilliant specimens of innovative visual design. There's no better place to view the stylistic rollercoaster of graphic design than the covers of design magazines - it's a fast-track education in the h... View More...
hardcover, cloth with paper sample inset on cover, slipcase. narrow 8vo. (xx), 26+(4) pages. Issued as Volume I in Sample Book series. A 14-page English introduction & history is followed by 26 accordion-fold pages with 90 mounted specimens of Aschaffenburg papers. The book opens to several feet, and is fitted with a flap to hold the book so all specimens are visible at the same time.Limited edition of 110 signed and numbered copies. Fine condition. Original samples of 90 decorated papers on twenty-six accordion-fold pages; they cover the 150 year history of this fine paper factory in Aschaffe... View More...
Very Good. A facsimile of Bodoni's edition of 1818.2 volumes in slipcase. (4to) decorative paper-covered boards with paper spine labels, matching slipcase. Limited edition of 500 copies. Interiors fine. Some wear and fading to slipcase, sunning to spine; light wear to bindings with some sunning to spines. View More...
Very Good large format hardcover, inside like new, some shelf wear to edges of dj Excellent print quality of the numerous photos ships from Hawaii. View More...
Like NEW, only leafed through once, The book from the Kickstarter campaign in 2018. Super rare. Ships from Hawaii with Priority Mail.within US. Author Johnny Blanchard on Kickstarter: "I started collecting retro gaming consoles when I first discovered the PC Engine. It was a machine that had largely been overlooked in the UK and I was instantly smitten. But whilst looking for more information I uncovered a whole bunch of consoles that NEC had created and I'd never heard of. Diving even deeper and I discovered consoles from other manufacturers, some from manufacturers that I hadn't even known h... View More...
ONE OF 80 ORIGINAL 2017 LIMITED "RED" EDITIONS IN SHRINK-WRAP, REDISCOVERED IN A WAREHOUSE. Unit Editions 2017, 315 × 240 mm 384 pages, Hardcover, Printed 4/4 Kaleido plus 2 special colours, Translucent jacket, Mirror paper cover and endpapers, Two paper stocks ------------------ A fleeting opportunity to grab the definitive compilation of Octavo, journal of typography 1986-1992 In 2017, Unit Editions crowdfunded the publication Octavo Redux, a unique 384-page book that brought together all eight issues of the influential Octavo journal of typography, published in the 1980s and 1990s by studio... View More...
New, in publisher's shrink wrap. AVAILABLE NOW. The Original Edition by graphic design publisher Unit Editions. -- Studio Culture Now is the essential guide to setting up, running and developing a design studio It offers bang up-to-date advice and guidance for designers working in a world of rapid change? Studio Culture Now features in-depth interviews with a host of leading design studios The interviewees share their experiences, insights, fears and joys, and reveal how they deal with the fundamentals and aspirations of studio life Candid and generous, these extensive Q&As form a blueprint fo... View More...
Albert Langen Verlag, Munich, Germany 1927. 2nd revised edition, (3rd - 5th thousand). 8° (9"x7.1/4") - 140pp - Text in German. 100 b/w Photo-reproductions by i.a. RENGER-PATZSCH, MOHOLY-NAGY, MAN RAY, HANNAH HÖCH and PAUL CITROEN., Typography and orig. dec. cl. by L. MOHOLY-NAGY. - Occas. sl. foxed. Binding sl. spotted. = Bauhausbücher 8, ed. W. Gropius and L. Moholy-Nagy. Lang 84; Parr/ Badger p.92f. Bauhaus Book N° 8 PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHY FILM, by L. Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) who also was responsible for the typography, and cover design. Moholy-Nagy was a painter, sculptor, photographer, desig... View More...
Pre-Echo Press, Nov 2021, 10.5 x 12.25 inches, portrait, Softcover, 176 pages Pre-Echo Press presents Eclipse Body & Soul Syntax, an artist book by New York City based, English artist, Nick Relph. "Nick Relph's new book, "Eclipse Body & Soul Syntax," collects years of digital street scans of New York City construction posters, an eerie portrait of a supersizing metropolis." New York Times. Amounting to a sort of unofficial and urgent index of a new city quickly replacing an old one, the book is a collection of scans made over the past decade, using a library wand scanner, clandestinely collect... View More...
Hardcover Very Good LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies, Unpaginated 48 pages SIGNED by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, title page printed in black, red, and yellow, decorative initials, 18 specimen pages printed within typographic borders and printed in black and various colors with occasional illustrations; text clean, unmarked Black cloth spine, patterned paper over boards, red leather spine label titled in gilt; binding square and tight, light shelf wear Very Good The types shown here were in the cases of the Grabhorn press, many since before 1930; many were brought to the Grabhorn Press by Albert Dr... View More...
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