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Take a refreshing walk through the woods without even leaving your home. Woodlands are everyone¿s favourite landscapes and, from a colouring perspective, they¿re full of amazing details. Acorns, bluebells, curling ferns, toadstools and leaves all give the colourist a calming, natural and satisfying experience. Meander through this uplifting woodland journey of meditative scenes and be inspired by uplifting quotations gently scattered through the pages.

A sumptuous treasury of Dior scarves. Plain and elaborate, commonplace and precious, fashionable and timeless, masculine and feminine: Dior¿s silk scarves form a unique visual repertoire and cover a gamut of palettes, themes and styles. The epitome of Parisian chic, they express the poetic imagination of the creative directors who have shaped the destiny of the house, from Christian Dior to Maria Grazia Chiuri. Unveiling the history and artistry of Dior¿s scarves from the first designs to today, this sumptuous book celebrates their incredible variety and beauty as never before. At its heart is an atlas of over 400 scarves, organized by theme and printed on a delicate paper that replicates the texture of the scarves themselves. Dior¿s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri, who has overseen the creation of this volume, contributes a foreword. The atlas is supplemented by exclusive visual essays from renowned photographers Brigitte Niedermair and Pol Baril, as well as texts by distinguished fashion historians Maria Luisa Frisa, Claire Allen-Johnstone, Elda Danese and Emilie Hammen. From vibrant opulence to graphic harmony, every scarf conveys a mood and every one tells a story. Those stories are now brought together in a book that will delight all aficionados of this symbol of timeless elegance.

The perfect countryside and armchair companion to the wild flowers of the British Isles. Illustrator Angie Lewin and author Christopher Stocks follow up the success of The Book of Pebbles with The Book of Wildflowers, a celebration of British wild flowers and their place in the landscape. Christopher Stocks reveals the interesting and unusual history and science of wild flowers, including guidance on where they can be found and also tips for cultivation. Designed in a similar format to The Book of Pebbles, it will focus on around 15 of Lewin's favourite wild flowers, and include reproductions of her paintings and illustrations, many of them created specially for the book. Sustaining our long-held affection for the British countryside, The Book of Wildflowers will appeal to anyone who loves British wild flowers, as well as fans of Angie Lewin, who is widely admired for her alluring images of the natural world. It is intended to be followed by a companion volume on cultivated flowers.

The Designers Republic¿ is the design group that changed design. But there¿s never been a book that tells its story - until now. Led by founder and born rebel, Ian Anderson, The Designers Republic¿ has shaped graphic communication over the past thirty years through rule-defying music work, provocative self-initiated projects and a fierce commitment to conceptual thinking over style. Now, for the first time in book form, Anderson explores the studiös output, and its influence on a generation of graphic designers. AZTDR¿ spans over three decades of work ¿ from the studiös earliest designs for the FON label in the mid-1980s and sleeves for Age of Chance, Chakk and Cabaret Voltaire, right up to its recent projects for The Cinematic Orchestra, Led Bib and the Gulbenkian Foundation. Alongside classic self-initiated TDR¿ projects, the 512-page book features an A to Z of everything from campaigns for Evolution Print, Coca-Cola and Nike, through to the studiös celebrated designs for video games such as Wipeout and Formula Fusion. TDR¿¿s special relationship with print is explored through its celebrated contributions to IDEA and Emigre magazines and its 3D>2D book, alongside its work for Manchester School of Art, Gatecrasher, NY Sushi and the studiös array of music clients. Here, TDR¿¿s work with Autechre is examined via ten key releases, while the studiös involvement with Pop Will Eat Itself focuses on some twenty-eight different singles and albums. There are also expansive sections devoted to TDR¿¿s designs for Aphex Twin, Moloko, Sun Electric and The Orb, alongside sleeve designs for R&S Records, New Atlantis, a range of Berlin-based labels and, of course, Warp Records.

An updated authorized edition of Isabelle Fiemeyer¿s literary biography of Coco Chanel, which demystifies the legendary designer¿s life. Coco Chanel was an emancipated fashion revolutionary. Raised by nuns in an orphanage, and starting out as a café and nightclub singer, she rose to become a star of the world of couture and a byword for stylish elegance. Chanel¿s association with senior Nazi officers in Occupied Paris during the Second World War is well known. As a former friend of British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, she was recruited unknowingly, it seems, as a German informer. Chanel used her contacts to secure the release of her beloved nephew from a prison camp. Featuring unpublished and exclusive content based on first-hand interviews with Chanel¿s great-niece and confidante, this meticulously researched biography tells the true story of the twentieth century¿s most celebrated yet enigmatic fashion icon.

The sixth edition of the market-leading, practical book for both students and small businesses.

A visually stunning, intimate photographic tour of Pompeii¿s spaces, including many that have never been seen by the public. Pompeii, one of the most astonishing and well-preserved sites of classical antiquity, is also one of the world¿s most visited architectural sites. This lavish volume takes readers on a tour of Pompeii through an array of visually compelling and original photographs by Italian artist Luigi Spina. Produced in partnership with the Parco Archeologico di Pompei, readers are expertly guided through the Roman city¿s nine districts, including many hidden corners that are inaccessible to most visitors. Pompeii¿s architecture is a central feature of the images, which were shot at all times of day, in all seasons, and in natural light. Lacy peristyles and rows of column fragments give way to intimate, atmospheric interior spaces. Mosaic floors and beautiful ¿ albeit fragmentary ¿ wall paintings are reproduced with stunning fidelity and sensitivity. The book also includes an essay by Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii archaeological park, and several meditations on the history, architecture and natural beauty of the city. Inside Pompeii provides the wondrous experience of wandering through this remarkable site without ever leaving home.

An elegant presentation of interiors for introverts, placing the memorable work of London architect William Smalley alongside buildings around the world that have inspired his practice.

A career-to-date retrospective of a unique creative talent. A journey to the most inaccessible Arctic regions of Siberia, showing dreamlike encounters with its people, landscapes, and fauna.

From Alisha and Roisin McDonnell, the entrepreneurs behind Sew Botanical, Embroidery: Learn in a Weekend isan easy way to get into this popular craft—with instructions, templates, and contemporary projects that will guide you along the way. The traditional craft of embroidery has become more exciting as a new generation of stitchers bring contemporary style to subjects such as houseplants and modern interiors. This smart little book, written with beginners in mind, perfectly captures that aesthetic and gives readers the skills they need to succeed.Embroidery covers the materials you need to get going, offers simple introductions to the key stitches, and includes ten contemporary projects that evolve in complexity. Each project has a template to be copied, enabling the reader to get started straight away and achieve great results in a short time. Specially commissioned step-by-step photography makes the whole process easy, and after only a couple of days with your needle and thread, you’ll find that you’re making designs to show off.

Twenty art projects inspired by famous artworks for budding mini artists aged 3¿6 years. The benefits of art to young children are well known. Art stimulates curiosity, creativity and the imagination. It also cultivates wellbeing, but being creative with young children can feel surprisingly daunting - and this is where Mini Artists comes in. The twenty projects in Mini Artists are designed to engage children with art through making. Mini artists will discover drip painting with Jackson Pollock, carve soap sculptures with Barbara Hepworth, and create their own obliteration room with Yayoi Kusama. They'll also travel through time and explore art from different periods, from cave painting to Medieval stained-glass, and Chinese ink painting to washable graffiti inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Each project requires minimal set-up so the maximum amount of time is spent creating together, and the step-by-step instructions show photographs of the projects in progress so they can be followed at a glance. The projects use simple materials, from clay to ink to paint. Being grounded in art history, Mini Artists features a range of interesting art techniques that are ideal for teaching new motor skills.

A comprehensive introduction to the styles and techniques of portrait photography. Through simple projects on subjects such as 'Making Self-Portraits' and 'Capturing Personal Moments' as well as captivating profiles of twenty internationally acclaimed photographers, Cian Oba-Smith and Max Ferguson give you a visual tour of the medium. Perfect for the aspiring portrait photographer, this manual includes: ¿ Projects with which to experiment and develop your technique ¿ Inspirational profiles of leading photographers from around the world ¿ A complete overview of the most exciting, continually evolving form of photography

A darkly evocative compendium of images exploring natural, constructed, imaginary and subconscious underworlds, curated by renowned image collector and social media figure Stephen Ellcock. Underworlds takes readers on a captivating visual odyssey to the underbelly of everything, beginning with depictions of life and natural systems existing beneath the surface of the Earth and finishing with imagery that emanates from the depths of our subconscious. Work by world-renowned artists ¿ from Rubens and René Magritte to contemporary artists such as Kyra Walker and Edward Burtynsky ¿ is featured alongside recently unearthed images from archives around the world. Expertly curated, themed and paired by image alchemist Stephen Ellcock, these remarkable depictions evoke the underworlds ¿ both real and imagined ¿ that have fascinated mankind for millennia. From the burrows and secret bunkers beneath our feet to imagined hellscapes and surrealist dreamscapes, the disquieting, alarming and wonderful visuals span natural and constructed subterranea and imagined and subconscious worlds. The works of art featured range from the naturalistic, scientific and photographic to the surreal and visionary. A personal introduction by Stephen together with contextual chapter introductions establish the key themes and illuminate the hidden meanings and symbolism in the artworks while panel texts elucidate key concepts, historical events and figures. Thought-provoking literary, philosophical and spiritual quotations punctuate the intriguing images. Together, the arresting images and authoritative text highlight the interplay between the real and the imagined, revealing how the real has fed our fears and hopes and informed our imagination, and conversely how our imagination has depicted the esoteric, the abject and the unknown.

A stylish collection of legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent's maxims on fashion, craft, women and inspiration. Presented in a beautiful package and accessible format, The World According to Yves Saint Laurent is the perfect gift for fashion fans, capturing the essence of a true visionary.

A Pulitzer-nominated author and one of the great public intellectuals of Slavic culture bring to life the unfamiliar myths and legends of the Slavic world. Slavic cultures are far-ranging, comprising of East Slavs (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), West Slavs (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland) and South Slavs (the countries of former Yugoslavia plus Bulgaria), yet they are connected by tales of adventure and magic with deep roots in a common lore. In this first collection of Slavic myths for an international readership, Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak expertly weave together a retelling of the ancient stories with nuanced analysis that illuminates their place at the heart of Slavic tradition. Though less familiar to us than the legends of ancient Egypt, Greece and Scandinavia, in the world of Slavic mythology we find much that we can recognize: petulant deities, demons and faeries; witches, the sinister vestica, whose magic may harm or heal; a supreme god who can summon storms and hurl thunderbolts. Gods gather under the World Tree, reminiscent of Norse mythology¿s Yggdrasill; or, after the coming of Christianity, congregate among the clouds. The vampire ¿ usually the only Serbo-Croatian word in any foreign-language dictionary ¿ and the werewolf emerge from the shallow graves of Slavic belief. In their careful analysis and sensitive reconstructions of the origin stories, Charney and Slapsak unearth the Slavic beliefs before their distortion first by Christian chroniclers and then by 19th-century scholars seeking origin stories for their new-born nation states. They reveal links not only to the neighbouring pantheons of Greece, Rome, Egypt and Scandinavia but also the belief systems of indigenous peoples of Australia, the Americas, Africa and Asia. In so doing, they draw out the universalities that cut across cultures in the stories we tell ourselves.

An introduction to the bold and engaging photography of Harry Gruyaert.

Colour the wonders and wildlife of the natural world Leila Duly, one of the UK's most talented illustrators, scored huge hits with her first two colouring books Floribunda (LKP, 2016) and The Flower Year (LKP, 2017). Now she returns, her distinctively fluid line style perfectly showcasing the glories of the natural world. Beginning and advanced colourists alike will love bringing Leila's art to life and stumbling across the wildlife hiding in the pages. Among the blooms and foliage wait a host of lively butterflies and other beasts, ready for your pencil or felt tip to discover.

A festival of Indian folk rituals and costumes bursting with colour, captured by renowned photographer Charles Fréger, the creator of a distinctive and powerful new genre of portrait photography. Internationally renowned photographer Charles Fréger continues to explore global traditions and cultures, by celebrating the powerful visual aspects of Indian folk culture and religious ritual. India is the home to a myriad of local traditions, legends and religions, each with their own festivals, rites and rituals. Celebrations burst with vivid colours and often wildly exuberant costumes, some representing gods and goddesses, others legendary heroes from Sanskrit epics such as the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. In Charles Fréger's photographs, those who honour local cultural traditions are represented in single or group portraits, represented against carefully chosen landscapes and backdrops, from the heart of festivals and celebrations. Fréger's unmistakable style of portraiture allows us to admire the complexity of their adornments - masks and headdresses, costumes and body paint - and to consider the abundance of imagination that expresses India's countless stories and characters, both human and divine. This spectacular gathering of warrior figures, deities, musicians, tigers, mahouts, epic characters and their avatars is accompanied by texts setting the huge variety of eclectic costumes in context, and describing the local festivals and rituals. This compelling sequence of new portraits will enthral those with an interest in folk traditions, as well as the followers of this internationally acclaimed photographer.

A stylish and beautifully crafted celebration of Louis Vuitton's Tambour watch, a masterpiece of modern design and technical innovation.

A magnificent, large-format guide to the human body, featuring ingenious lift-up flaps. Discover the mysteries of the human body in this magnificent book. Cleverly designed, annotated lift-up flaps allow you to explore the wonders hidden beneath our skin as never before. Four large-scale figures unfold to illustrate the muscles, nerves, circulatory system and skeleton in meticulous detail. You will also see inside our organs, digestive system, limbs, head and brain, and follow the development of a baby from foetus to birth. Full of facts and fun, this is an exceptional overview of the amazing human body.

A visual analysis of the colours used in furnishing fabrics and wallpapers from the 15th century to now, providing inspiration for designers. This simply structured and highly original book analyses the palettes that have been used by designers in the creation of furnishing fabrics and wallpapers from the 15th century to the present. The colours used in each pattern are presented in a simple proportional grid, giving a clear understanding of hues that have been expertly combined at different periods to create the designs we continue to admire and emulate. Spectrum opens with a brief introduction by interior design expert Ros Byam Shaw, exploring the history of colour as used in interiors. The fabrics and wallpapers that follow are arranged chronologically. Each is reproduced on its own double-page spread, and is accompanied by a brief narrative-style caption that provides information about each fabric or wallpaper and its significance in the context of interior design. Unique in such a book are the colour grids shown beside each pattern, in which the colours in the original piece are shown in proportion to their use, and with their CMYK references to enable designers to replicate these colours in their own work.

A follow-up to two highly successful monographs (1988 and 1994) on the work of the most important British designer of his generation, showcasing projects from the past twenty-five years of his career. Ever since defining the look of the 1980s music scene as art director of The Face, Neville Brody has been one of the most consistently innovative and shape-shifting graphic designers of the past fifty years. Since his second monograph was published in 1994, he has produced a body of editorial, typographic, information and interface design of unparalleled boldness and sophistication for global clients that include Samsung, Shiseido, Coca-Cola, the UK's Channel 4 and Dom Perignon. The Graphic Language of Neville Brody 3 brings twenty-five years of work together in thematic sections that address the key fields of his vibrant design projects, including typographic experimentation, information graphics, cultural subversion and design systems. Richly illustrated, each project is explored in detail, revealing the work that has defined Brody's recent career across six chapters, from major brands to magazine editorials and features, revealing how Brody's design language has evolved since the 1990s. Many young designers working today, digital natives included, may not yet have been exposed to Brody's design genius at a time when the originality of work from the 1980s and 1990s across many creative disciplines is finding a new generation of fans. This inspirational volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of graphic design over the past three decades.