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This extraordinary collection presents dozens of case studies that describe various projects before and after they've been redesigned. Each example includes detailed commentary from the designer about the constraints in which they had to work and the goals they were trying to achieve while doing the redesign. Evans examines a wide variety of the most commonly redesigned projects such as publications, identities, web sites and packaging. Graphic designers everywhere will find the challenges prese...

Bergdorf Goodman is where Grace Kelly ordered her wedding invitations; where Jacqueline Kennedy was outfitted for her dress for John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Ball; and where designers such as Halston, Michael Kors, and Isaac Mizrahi got their start. Bergdorf is a legendary fashion mecca that captures the imagination, invites fantasy, and plays a central role in the history of New York society. Its inner sanctum is revealed in this illustrated book, a sumptuous companion to the highly-anticipated f...

The way our environment looks today, the appearance of everything from newspapers to housing estates to skyscrapers, has been deeply influenced by the work of the Bauhaus. This school of art and design, founded in 1919 and closed down by the Nazis in 1933, has not only left a world-wide visual legacy; it has also made an indelible mark on art education throughout the world. The ideas behind the Bauhaus reflected attitudes to art, architecture and craft which had been shaped by the forces of engi...

Co-founder with Josef Hoffmann of the Wiener Werkstatte, Koloman Moser furnished Viennese homes with a simplicity and elegance that contrasted with the city's baroque decadence at the time. This new exhibition catalogue introduces readers hundreds of colour illustrations, showcasing the artist's design concepts for entire rooms including inlaid furniture, dinnerware, vases and wall hangings. The book traces Moser's artistic development as he branched into public projects, designing stamps, bankn...

A collection of the best personal, editorial and privately commissioned work by award-winning artist, Craig Elliott. Craig's carefully crafted and arresting images of nature and the human form have captivated audiences with their visual and intellectual celebration of the beauty in this world and beyond. Craig Elliott showcases the female form in original, evocative compositions. This collection is filled with lush, full colour finished images as well as preliminary sketches and studies and the...

Fern Mallis is the award-winning creator of New York Fashion Week and is often called the Godmother of Fashion. She hosts the sold-out conversation series Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis, assembling an incredible list of guests at the 92nd Street Y. Mallis goes one-on-one with her guests in front of a live audience to discuss everything from their childhood aspirations, career struggles and triumphs, to dishing on the inner workings of the notoriously high-pressure fashion industry. No topic is...

This catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the V&A's National Art Library provides a history of an art form over eight centuries. It documents not only the practice of medieval and Renaissance illumination, but also the survival of medieval book-making crafts alongside printing in the post-Renaissance period -and their revival in the nineteenth-century. Its three volumes bring together for the first time works such as the St Denis Missal of 1350 and the Chambord Missal of 1844, the Sanvito Pet...

Twentieth-century British wood-engraved illustration, up to the beginning of World War II, saw some of the most inventive artists of the period - such as Eric Gill, David Jones, Eric Ravilious and Joh Nash - contributing their work to the book form. Wood-engravers made a significant impact on the appearance of the printed page, transforming good books into works of art and influencing modern standards of book production. Joanna Selborne's study examines the work of these pioneering artists, trac...

In this informative volume, Dr Shirley Rose Evans explores the lives of two of the most prominent designers of the nineteenth century, designers who have left their distinctive mark on buildings and gardens throughout the British Isles. William Andrews Nesfield and William Eden Nesfield, father and son, were inspired by the beauty and romance of the past, and both played important roles in the nineteeth-century revivals of the Jacobean, Renaissance and Gothic styles. The Nesfields produced horti...