Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Illustrated History of Colour
Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic color and used it to create the famous blue crown of Queen Nefertiti? Or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? In the Roman Empire, hundreds of thousands of snails had to be sacrificed to produce a single ounce of dye. Throu ...Show more
Think Like a Designer, Don't Act Like One by Jeroen Van Erp
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Think Like A... Ser.
75 LESSONS FROM THE WORLD OF DESIGN This anthology of design concepts reveals what you can learn from Mad Men's Don Draper, why the Beatles were not just brilliant as musicians, how a lemon tart can make you world famous and why purple is just always so wrong. Unless you're Prince or the Pope, that is, ...Show more
Picturing the Pacific: Joseph Banks and the Shipboard Artists of Cook and Flinders by James Taylor
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art
For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of a new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolors and drawings--a sensational view of a part of the world few would ever see. Today these works represe ...Show more
Salvador Dali at Home by Jackie De Burca
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art
Salvador Dal at Home explores the influence of Catalan culture and tradition, Dal 's home life and the places he lived, on his life and work. Dal was born in Figueres and was deeply connected to the area. Fully illustrated with over 150 illustrations of his famous work, as well as lesser known pieces, a ...Show more
Pattern Design (HB) by Elizabeth Wilhide
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art
Throughout history, patterns have come in countless permutations of motif, colour-way and scale. Yet what all have in common is the regularity of repetition, that insistent rhythm that animates a flat surface with a sense of movement and vitality and gives it depth. Evident in the arrangement of petals ...Show more
The World Atlas of Tattoo by Anna Felicity Friedman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art
Lively and informative, The World Atlas of Tattoo is a superbly illustrated and compelling reference book that, through examining the meeting point between tattoo artists and their personal understanding of their environment, presents a well-informed and nuanced account of what has become a widespread a ...Show more
Digital SLR Photography All-in-One For Dummies by Robert Correll
$62.95 AUD
Category: Photography
The complete beginner's guide to DSLR photography It doesn't matter if your camera says Canon, Nikon, or Sony on the outside. If a passion for photography is on your inside, this all-encompassing guide will be your new best friend. Packed with instruction on how to take your photos from so-so to stunnin ...Show more
Subway Art by Martha Cooper
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art
In 1984, photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant captured the imagination of a generation with Subway Art, a groundbreaking book documenting the work of graffiti writers who illegally painted subway cars in New York City. The 2009 edition of the book is now available in a new, slightly reduced fo ...Show more
Iconic: The Masters of Italian Fashion by Megan Hess
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fashion | Series: Megan Hess: the Masters of Fashion Ser.
For centuries, Italian fashion has been known for its craftsmanship and luxury, but also for its creativity and, most of all, its passion. Lace, leopard print and show-stopping red dresses - the masters of Italian fashion know how to make a statement. From the workshops of Florence to the runways of ...Show more
Photography: The Whole Story by Julie Hacking
$19.99 AUD
$39.99 (50% off)
Category: Photography
"Photography: The Whole Story" is a celebration of the most beautiful, meaningful and inspiring photographs that have arisen from this very modern medium. The book begins with a succinct overview of photography, placing it in the context of the social and cultural developments that have taken place glob ...Show more
Trees: Between Earth and Heaven by Art Wolfe (Photographer); Gregory McNamee; Daniel J. Hinkley (Foreword by); Wade Davis (Introduction by)
$85.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Art Wolfe's immersive photos capture the wonder humans have felt about trees for millennia. From the biblical Tree of Life to the Native American Tree of Peace, trees have played an archetypal role in human culture and spirituality since time immemorial. An integral part of a variety of faiths--from Bud ...Show more
Vincent Van Gogh by Rosalind Ormiston
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Masterworks Ser.
A gorgeous new edition with the cover printed on silver. Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the world's greatest painters, his work having had a huge and far-reaching influence on 20th-century art as well as remaining visually and emotionally powerful to this day. We all know of Van Gogh's troubled g ...Show more