Packaging is everywhere. Through boxes, bottles and bags, we make our products and services desirable in the global marketplace and celebrate our design capability, innovation and cultural diversity. Traditionally a means of preserving, protecting and promoting the products it contains, the rise of environmental issues and globalization mean that today’s packaging designers must do more [...]

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Author: Janice Kirkpatrick, English, NonArt, Softcover, 285x235mm, full colour, 102pp, ISBN: 97818566961385,
Price: (ZA)R 425

Design For A Living World asks us to think about how products we use – where they come from, how they are made, and the impacts they have on our planet. The Nature Conservancy invited ten designers to create new objects from sustainable materials sourced from around the world. Wood, plants, wool, and other organic [...]

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Author: Edited by Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller, English, Art General, Softcover, 245x190mm, 200pp, full colour, ISBN: 9780910503884,
Price: (ZA)R 480.00

Straddling two World Wars and the Great Depression, ushering in the Jazz Age and the era of the automobile and skyscraper, fomenting in the great cities of Europe and America and shaping everything from the Golden Gate Bridge to the humble desk lamp, the story of Art Deco is the story of our modern world. [...]

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Author: Alastair Duncan, English, Art General, Harcover, 310x245mm, colour, black and white, 544pp, ISBN: 9780500238554

Aimed at prospective and new students, this book gives a comprehensive introduction to the nature and practice of interior design as well as invaluable information about education and careers and gives a balanced inside view of the business today. Its broad, up-to-date approach unites history, theory and practice. Subjects covered include how to develop a [...]

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Author: Jenny Gibbs, English, NonArt, Softcover, 255x215mm, full colour, 224pp, ISBN: 9781856696043,
Price: (ZA)R 395.00

A comprehensive and practical guide for students and experienced designers alike, this carefully structured text is illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams. It takes the reader through every aspect of the subject, from the components that make up a book, to understanding how books are commissioned and created, to the intricacies of grid construction and [...]

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Author: Andrew Haslam, English, Art General, Sofcover, 255x215mm, Colour,256pg, Black and White, ISBN: 9781856694735,
Price: (ZA)R 450.00

As printing and design technologies have evolved over the past decade, so too have designers’ approaches to type design and typography. Today’s innovative designers have overturned established rules about type, turning letters into images and using typefaces in increasingly experimental ways. New Typographic Design covers a wide variety of applications from design for print–ranging from [...]

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Author: Roger Fawcett-Tang, English, Art General, Softcover, 192pp, 285x235mm, ISBN: 978 0300117752,
Price: (ZA)R 420

When the 27-year-old Brooklyn street artist Swoon had her first one-person gallery exhibition at New York’s Deitch Projects in 2005, the area surrounding the gallery was so overrun with fans and friends that neither cars nor pedestrians could pass through. Reviews in all of the major New York papers, and even national news sources like [...]

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Author: Swoon, English, Art General, Softcover, 64pp, 190 x 277mm, ISBN: 978 0977868667,
Price: (ZA)R 225.00

Amidst dumps and slums, street children and artisans search for how to survive, to reclaim and promote their own existence. This publication offers photographs taken in the markets and villages of Kenya, where initiative promoting self-sustenance have developed on the development of experience in exploiting poor and recyclable materials. The discovery of  “poor art”, from [...]

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Author: Annelise Della Rosa, English, Art General, Softcover, 127pp, 240 x 170mm, ISBN: 9788881586974,
Price: (ZA)R 350.00

From subtly shimmering white subway-style walls to dramatic colorful mosaics, tile is one of the most seductive ways to enhance the beauty of a space. Long prized for its durability, tile has become more of an object of aesthetic desire than ever before. Your heart may be set upon using it, but with thousands of [...]

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Author: Jen Renzi, English, Art General, Hardcover, 320pp, 235 x 195mm, ISBN: 978 0307406910,
Price: (ZA)R 480.00

Computer technology has completely revolutionised the work of graphic designers, printers and print production professionals. To keep pace with the far-reaching changes, Production for Graphic Designers is set firmly in the digital age. This revised fourth edition embraces all the new and emerging technologies in graphics and print production, comprehensively explaining the prepress and printing [...]

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Author: Alan Pipes, English, Art General, Sofcover, 278x215mm, 272pg, full colour, ISBN: 9781856694582,
Price: (ZA)R 380.00