NEW: Gardner's Art Through the Ages 16th ed. (2020)
A grand tour of the world most celebrated works from the Stone Age to the modern era, this introductory text has been a classroom favorite for 85 years. Every chapter includes rich and compelling discussions of pivotal art works, periods and geographies in art history, as well as new artists and art forms.
NEW: Letters from M/M (Paris) (2023)
A fabulous typographic exploration of the letter forms and typography of one of Europe's leading design studios. Letters from M/M (Paris) is a comprehensive study of the typefaces produced by Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak since they founded their influential art and design practice, M/M (Paris).
NEW: Surrealism and Design Now (2022)
Published to accompany the exhibition Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 - Today, this book celebrates Surrealism's enduring legacy. It features groundbreaking fashion by Mary Katrantzou and Dior, as well as British artists and designers, including Tim Walker, Jonathan Trayte and Vince Fraser.
NEW: The Age of Data (2022)
Art is constantly evolving, inviting experimentation, and, in today's digital age, uses artificial intelligence to create entirely new realities. This volume focuses on the aesthetics and creativity of a new generation of designers who are using algorithm-supported tools along the vertical, from graphic design to 3D animation, kinetic objects and real-time visuals, to robotics and spatial installations, as well as hybrid approaches between digital and analogue.
NEW: The Art of Feminism (2022)
Includes over 350 remarkable artworks, ranging from political posters and graphics to stunning and provocative pieces of painting, sculpture, textiles, craft, performance, digital and installation art, the book begins with poster images produced by the Suffrage Atelier in the nineteenth century, moving on to developments of both World Wars before arriving at the `birth' of feminist art in the 1960s.
NEW: The ECAL Manual of Style (2022)
Here, for the first time, ECAL's teaching methods are revealed to a wider readership. The book poses the question 'How should design be taught today?' to select designers, critics, and writers, and the answers highlight the school's unique approach to design pedagogy: encouraging individual and personal styles, and rigorously pushing them to develop into their most coherent forms.
NEW: Vitamin C+ (2023)
Over 100 global artists working with collage, as chosen by a team of art experts - an indispensable who's who of the most exciting and innovative names working in the medium
NEW: Why Graphic Culture Matters : essays, polemics and proposals about art, design and visual communication (2023)
A collection of more than 40 searching and provocative essays about art, design, and visual communication by design critic Rick Poynor
After the Bauhaus, before the Internet (2022)
A history of design teaching from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s told through essays, interviews, remembrances, and primary materials.
Book of Girls (2023)
For as long as Beci Orpin has drawn, she has been obsessed with the female form. This title brings together over 30 years of manifestations of these forms into a book. From the early days of university drawing to designing t-shirts for clothing label Princess Tina to current day projects, Book of Girls presents an archival view of Beci’s work told through her sketchbooks.
Design Thinking for Visual Communication (2019)
How do you start a design project? How can you generate ideas and concepts in response to a design brief? How do other designers do it? This book will answer all these questions and more.
Double Nation (2023)
In Double Nation, Ian McLean traces the history of Australian art, from colonial art practice to twentieth-century national art. Two key themes structure the narrative: the transformation of British art practice into an Australian one and the troubled pursuit of the aesthetic means to claim an Indigenous heritage. Interrogating the canonical tradition, McLean asks why certain artists came to prominence while others have been neglected. In the process,
Exhibition Design (2015)
Exhibition Design 2 describes the skills needed to become an exhibition designer, including: developing a brief and working with clients; design principles for graphics, circulation, lighting, and accessibility; presenting ideas to clients; and the practicalities of production.
Great Women Painters (2022)
A sumptuous survey of over 300 women painters and their work spanning almost five centuries Great Women Painters is a groundbreaking book that reveals a richer and more varied telling of the story of painting.
The Inside World (2019)
This groundbreaking book focuses on contemporary memorial poles, one of the most unique forms of contemporary Aboriginal Australian art.
Madayin (2022)
This volume chronicles the rise of a globally significant art movement, as told from the perspective of the Yolngu people of north eastern Australia. It presents more than 90 iconic paintings on eucalyptus bark, many of which have never been seen outside of Australia
Monoprinting (2018)
In this book, Jackie Newell and Dee Whittington show you how to push the boundaries of monoprinting with various techniques and demonstrate some unique possibilities available to you from screen printing to collage prints.
My Mother Country (2022)
The collection of Joëlle and Pierre Clément includes a careful selection of works by indigenous Australian painters. This catalogue by Kunsthaus Zug features 80 works by 50 artists from the collection, as well as paintings by Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
Non-Toxic Printmaking (2019)
In this book, Mark Graver puts the case for non-toxic printmaking and then discusses the various technical factors (both materials and equipment) to consider when etching.
Salvador Dali at Home (2018)
Salvador Dalí at Home explores the influence of Catalan culture and tradition, Dalí's home life and the places he lived, on his life and work. Fully illustrated with over 130 illustrations of his famous work, as well as lesser known pieces, contemporary landscapes and personal photographs.
The secret lives of colour (2016)
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.
Behind the Image (2012)
Available in the library and online
This book features a wide range of photographic contributions from students, amateurs and professionals, specifically edited to help students reflect on their own work in order to produce better images in the future.
Cindy Sherman (2014)
The perfect introduction to the life and work of Cindy Sherman.
City of Shadows (2005)
In the late 1980s a collection of forensic crime photography, created by the New South Wales Police between 1912 and 1960, was rescued from a flooded warehouse.
Daido Moriyama (2012)
This accessible monograph reviews the complete spectrum of Moriyama's work, comprising an introductory essay followed by 55 photographs presented chronologically.
Robert Frank's 'The Americans' (2011)
In the mid-1950s, Swiss-born New Yorker Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across America, capturing thousands of photographs of all levels of a rapidly changing society.
Trading to Extinction (2014)
The book explores the sad truths behind this multi-billion-dollar industry and is one of the most comprehensive photographic documents on the wildlife trade, spanning more than 10 years and offering a rare view into this illicit business.
Fiona Hall: wrong way time (2016)
Fiona Hall is a distinguished Australian artist best known for her dexterous and inventive transfiguration of materials into forms that animate our relationship with the natural world.
Yayoi Kusama: infinity mirrors (2017)
This book explores Yayoi Kusama's best-known and most spectacular series--the Infinity Mirror Rooms--and its influence on the course of contemporary art over the past 50 years.
William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland : conversations in letters and lines (2017)
William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland are two of South Africa's foremost visual artists. Kentridge is a successful animator, opera director, performer, and draftsman, while Koorland has enjoyed critical acclaim as a painter, printmaker, and maker of objects.
3D Printing for Artists, Designers and Makers (2018)
Available in the library and online
This book is essential reading for students, researchers studying contemporary art and design and professionals involved in the creative industries.
Andy Goldsworthy - Projects (2017)
Projects presents a decade of the artist's large-scale sculptural work from around the world. Using local materials, including stone, clay and wood.
Studio Craft As Career
This unusual two-section resource directs creative people toward their personal best. Artist Paul Stankard provides a practical, personal guide outlining his philosophy based on self-directed learning.
9 Heads (2015)
This completely updated and expanded fourth edition of '9 Heads' contains over 1000 new drawings featuring the latest fashion garments and numerous new step-by-step diagrams for drawing the fashion croquis and the main garment categories.
Designing with Smart Textiles (2016)
Beginning by introducing the terminology and key applications, the book goes on to examine the key design processes needed to develop interactive textile design concepts, with detailed projects and examples to help.
Pattern Magic (2016)
Thorough step-by-step instructions and diagrams will ensure that your own patterns translate beautifully to your choice of garment, while photographs of the finished garments will inspire you to create your own designs.
Dior hats : from Christian Dior to Stephen Jones (2020)
Opening with a focus on hats designed by Christian Dior himself, the book explores the house's headdresses over the years.
100 ideas that changed graphic design (2012)
New in the 100 Ideas that Changed... series, this book demonstrates how ideas influenced and defined graphic design, and how those ideas have manifested themselves in objects of design.
Arcade Game Typography (2019)
Arcade Game Typography presents readers with a fascinating new world of typography: the pixel typeface. Video game designers of the '70s, '80s, and '90s faced colour and resolution limitations that stimulated incredible creativity.
The Book : a cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time (2016)
This book reveals how books and the materials that make them reflect the history of human civilization, tracing the development of writing, printing, illustrating, and binding to demonstrate the transition from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the mass-distributed books of today.
Type Tells Tales (2017)
Type Tells Tales' focuses on typography that is integral to the message or story it is expressing. This is type that speaks - that is literally the voice of the narrator. The narrator is the typographer.
Typography (2001)
This book is the legacy of Emil Ruder, one of the originator of Swiss Style, famous throughout the world for the use of asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces and flush left, ragged right text.
Visible Signs : an introduction to semiotics in the visual arts (2007)
Visible Signs introduces key theories and concepts, such as signs and signifiers, and language and speech, within the framework of visual communication.
Designing sustainable residential and commercial interiors (2015)
The book provides an overview of the types of commercial interior design projects emphasising a three-pronged approach to sustainability: equity, economy and ecology.
Vintage Industrial : living with machine age design (2015)
An exquisitely illustrated celebration of this influential style that is now at the forefront of interior design. Vintage Industrial covers the period from 1900 to 1950.
100 Designs for a Modern World (2016)
The first book on one of the leading collections of modern industrial design. A must-have for lovers of modernism, this is an accessible but authoritative introduction to the field.
Ekstrom Extreme: Norwegian furniture and industrial design (2016)
The story of the pioneering Norwegian designer, whose works have contributed to a new vitality and the autonomy of the Norwegian design scene of the 1970s and 1980s, is now told for the first time.
History of Modern Design: graphics and products since the Industrial Revolution (2010)
Surveying applied arts and industrial design from the 18th century to the present day, this book explores the dynamic relationship between design and manufacturing, and the technological, social and commercial context in which this relationship developed.
Urban Pioneer: interiors inspired by industrial design (2017)
A decline in manufacturing in city centres meant that many warehouses and factories became vacant, attracting the first wave of urban pioneers - artists and creatives.
Animation in Context (2016)
Animation in context is an illustrated introduction to cultural theory, contextual research and critical analysis.
Video Game Design (2018)
Video Game Design is a visual introduction to integrating core design essentials, such as critical analysis, mechanics and aesthetics, prototyping, level design, into game design.
Jewellery design and development : from concept to object (2013)
This book takes a unique approach to understanding jewellery design and development processes by exploring the works of seventeen innovative jewellers from around the world.
Pearls (2013)
Pearls traces the history of these coveted gems over the centuries and across cultures from East to West, from the Roman Empire right up to the present day.
500 Figures in Clay. Volume 2 (2014)
Presents a selection of contemporary ceramics based on the human form, including the work of Wesley Anderegg, Jeffrey Mongrain, Scott Stockdale, and Yeon Joo Lee.
500 Figures in Clay : ceramic artists celebrate the human form (2004)
This extraordinary photographic collection features 500 contemporary figurative pieces from today's most accomplished ceramists.
New Directions in Ceramics : from spectacle to trace (2015)
New Directions in Ceramics offers an exciting look at the contemporary ceramic scene, which innovative approaches have been adopted, and which are developing.
Subversive Ceramics (2016)
Divided into two parts, Subversive Ceramics discusses a selection of historical and contemporary works by artists and makers from twenty-one different countries, from 500 BC to the present day
Boredom (2017)
Boredom is arguable an essential facet of modernity, the inevitable oppressive outcome of industrialisation, mass politics and consumerism.
Information (2016)
An art-historical reassessment of information-based art and exhibition curation, from 1960s conceptualism to current digital and network-based practices.
Nature (2012)
This anthology considers how the rise of transdisciplinary practices in the post-war era allowed for new kinds of artistic engagement with nature. It provides an overview of the eclectic scientific and philosophical sources that inform contemporary art's investigations of nature.
Painting (2011)
Essential writings that consider the diverse meanings of contemporary painting since its postconceptual revival. The "death of painting" and its subsequent resurrection in transformed conditions is a leitmotif of the modern era.
The Studio (2012)
The evolution of studio--and "post-studio"--practice over the last half century. With the emergence of conceptual art in the mid-1960s, the traditional notion of the studio became at least partly obsolete.
Time (2013)
A survey of contemporary art and theory that proposes alternatives to outdated linear models of time What does 'contemporary' actually mean?
Utopias (2009)
Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations.
Lets face it : the history of the Archibald Prize
With the ease of a seasoned journalist, Peter Ross guides the reader through the disputatious and sometimes rocky history of Australia's most famous art prize.
The Archibald Prize
In her forward to the Archibald Prize: An Illustrated History, 1921- 1981, Anna Waldmann, wrote that this prize has stirred the imagination and rattled the art establishment since its inception.
As the famous editor of the Bulletin, the ‘bushman’s bible’, John Archibald was highly influential in late nineteenth century politics, literature and art.
