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 "A strangely moving experience"—T: The New York Times Style Magazine
Creating large-scale relief prints from cross sections of trees, Bryan Nash Gill reveals the sublime power locked inside their arboreal rings. Gil rescues the wood from the property surrounding his studio and neighboring land, extracts and prepares blocks of various species—including ash, maple, oak, spruce, and willow—and then prints them by carefully following and pressing the contours of the rings until the intricate designs transfer from tree to paper. Woodcut collects these exquisitely detailed prints for the first time.  "In Writing About Architecture, Lange recognizes the stakes inherent in the act of describing place." —The New York Times
Writing About Architecture is a handbook on writing effectively and critically about buildings and cities. Each chapter opens with a reprint of a significant essay written by a renowned architecture critic, followed by a close reading and discussion of the writer's strategies. Lange offers her own analysis using contemporary examples as well as a checklist of questions at the end of each chapter to help guide the writer.  "Organic farms, swimming pools, even a vintage plane. New York's skyline has hidden delights, as aerial photographer Alex MacLean discovered."—The Independent (UK)
In Up on the Roof, MacLean directs his lens at the rarely seen top floor of NewYork City and reveals a hidden world of amazing complexity, diversity, and life. Alongside the citys famous water towers are pools, sunbathers, tennis courts, art, restaurants, gardens, and solar panels. Maps and captions help the reader to easily identify the photographs. Whether you are new to the city native born, this fascinating look at hidden New York will be a revelation.  "Taking cues from art world icons like Andy Warhol and the '60s publication Aspen, the Sleepwalkers Box is a trippy mishmash of print, audio, and film—kind of like the coolest mystery gift ever."—NYLON
Introducing The Sleepwalkers Box—a kaleidoscopic multimedia experience unfolding the making of Doug Aitken's groundbreaking 2007 MoMA public film installation containing: CD and limited vinyl picture disc; music supervised by Jonathan Galkin of DFA Records; original artwork by Doug Aitken on a full-color, two-sided poster; two flipbooks; video of the piece as installed at the MoMA in NYC on DVD; and a book filled with never-before-seen photographs, production stills, process sketches, and writings. This limited edition of 1000 includes an authentication card signed by the artist.  "...an inspiring collection of projects that prove graphic design isnt all corporate logos and glossy page layouts." — Fast Company
Some call it design for the greater good. Others call it social design. Whatever you call it, its clear that an altruistic impulse is on the rise in the design community. Our latest Design Brief, Designing for Social Change, is a compact, hands-on primer for graphic designers who want to use their unique problem-solving skills to help others. Featuring ten proven design strategies and twenty inspiring case studies, Designing for Social Change provides design educators a valuable teaching resource and designers an essential set of tools to use in their practice.  America's Other Audubon chronicles for the first time the story behind the making of an extraordinary nineteenth century book.
Nearly everyone is familiar with John James Audubon and his seminal color-plate book, The Birds of America. But few people are aware of another monumental volume of artwork, Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio. Inspired by viewing Audubon's lithographs at the 1876 World's Fair in Philadelphia, twenty-nine-year-old amateur naturalist and artist Genevieve Jones began working on a companion volume to The Birds of America, illustrating the nests and eggs that Audubon omitted. When Genevieve died suddenly of typhoid fever, her family labored for seven years to finish the project in her memory. |
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