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

Modern art arouses many different responses: suspicion, controversy and misunderstanding are among the most frequent. But it doesn’t need to be like that. To help out, here is a clear, accessible, fully illustrated introduction to what can otherwise seem a daunting subject.
Covering everything from Impressionism to the Harlem Renaissance, from Cézanne to Postmodernism in clearly [...]

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Author: Susie Hodge, English, Art General, Softcover, 270 x 210mm, 128pp, ISBN: 9781854377494,
Price: (ZA)R 260.00

Students of art hailed Classical Drawing Atelier, Juliette Aristides’s first book, as a dynamic return to the atelier educational model. Ateliers, popular in the nineteenth century, teach emerging artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years. The educational process begins as students copy masterworks, then gradually progress to painting as [...]

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Author: Juliette Aristides, English, Art General, Hardcover, 240pp, 285x235mm, ISBN: 978 0823006588,
Price: (ZA)R 395.00

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

JAG Art Classes are up and running, with a range of innercity and workshop staff participating in the creation of amateur, but inspired art projects.  This weeks themes included Bafana Bafana memories and aspirations, and self-portraits using recycled materials.

As two aspiring, but rather untalented artists, Ellen and I decided to take advantage of the free [...]

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Whilst ‘normal people’ were at home doing whatever it is that normal people do on a Saturday, the first of the group of sleep and heat deprived art-lovers who visit the gallery on Saturdays in search of - shall we call it “Artology” – shuffle into the David Krut Bookstore. 
I noticed the growth of the group [...]

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TAF004 – DESIGN INITIATIVES FEATURED ON THIS DVD ELIZABETH JANSE VAN VUUREN and WEYERS MARAIS, two young Cape Town-based designers who stand out in the design industry for their innovative and original work.

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Author: TAXI Art Films, English, Multimedia, DVD, PAL/Full Colour, ISBN: 978-9814188-6-5,
Price: (ZA)R 150.00

While Pemba is a fairly well-known artist in the Eastern Cape, he has only recently begun to get wider national exposure. Pemba struggled to get formal training, and to earn a living form his art. With the introduction of apartheid policies in 1948, Pemba found it even more difucult to pursue his art. He decided [...]

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Author: Barry feinberg, English, Monograph, Softcover, 205 x 148mm, 100pp, B&W and colour illustrations, ISBN: 978 1874932376,
Price: (ZA)R 78.00

Buy the full set of TAXI Art Books, an important collectible for any library on South African art for R4000.
The first major series of monographs on contemporary South African artists by a South African publisher, the TAXI Art Books have become an invaluable resource to educators and individuals both in South Africa and abroad. As examples of [...]

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Author: Various, English, with certain containing French and Dutch elements, Monograph, ISBN: Various,
Price: (ZA)R 4000

Computer technology has completely revolutionized the work of graphic designers, printers, and print production professionals.

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Author: Alan Pipes, English, Art General, Softcover, 278 x 215mm,, ISBN: 978 1856694582,
Price: (ZA)R 380.00