Design April 2015

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Pitti People - Portraits of the Italian Dandy BNN Inc. 2015 ISBN 9784861009709 Acqn 24772 Pb 15x21cm 112pp 300col ills £16 This title introduces you to the fashionable world of the dandy Italian Style, as witnessed and drawn by the illustrator Yoko Tanimoto. Pitti People includes tips for your daily style, whether in business or casual, on how to wear jackets or use coloured scarves etc. It also includes interviews with legendary tailors from Florence, as well as introducing long-established select shops.

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Black Dolls Radius Books 2015 ISBN 9781934435892 Acqn 24580 Hb 32x25cm 192pp 120ills 80col £35 This book presents over 100 unique handmade African American dolls made between 1850 and 1930 from the collection of Deborah Neff, a Connecticut-based collector and champion of vernacular art. It is believed that African Americans created these dolls for the children in their lives, including members of their own families and respective communities as well as white children in their charge. Acquired over the last 25 years, this renowned collection is considered to be one of the finest of its kind ever to be assembled. The dolls portray faithful yet stylised representations of young and old African Americans—playful boys and girls, well-dressed gentlemen, elegant young ladies, and distinguished older men and women. Made with scraps of cloth, ribbon and lace, or old socks, and stuffed with wool or cotton, these unusual dolls are charming and full of emotional spirit. Their faces are embroidered, stitched and painted to express a variety of emotions, each representing a fascinating story of culture and identity in American history. The book also features an assortment of rare vintage photographs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing both black and white children holding, posing or playing with their dolls. After five years of combing the archives of museums, historical societies and private collections, the research done for this volume uncovered fascinating vernacular photographs of African American children holding white dolls and Caucasian children holding black dolls—but there was not a single image of an African American person holding a black doll. This complex combination of text and imagery has helped transform this book into a commentary about social mobility and racial identity conveyed through the untold story of these dolls. In an essay, renowned artist Faith Ringgold addresses the inherent prejudices of this work as well as her personal connection with the medium. Also included are essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Margo Jefferson and writer Lyle Rexer.

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nendo - In The Box ADP 2014 ISBN 9784903348414 Acqn 24041 Hb 13x16cm 560pp 500ills 200col £30 Canadian-born Oki Sato received his MA in Architecture from Waseda University in Tokyo in 2002 and established his design office, nendo, the same year. He prides himself on the ability to give form to a client’s desires, those unspoken wishes, and making them realise that the result is what they truly wanted all along. This present, as he calls it, is offered to them in a white box – a model of an interior. From shops and offices to cafés and installations, Sato’s mastery of miniature creation is collected in 500 pages of photos from 38 projects and designs, accompanied by detailed information about each. Although the book’s dimensions are small, within its thickness lies wonder.

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Sekai No Moyo Cho. A Book Of World Textile Designs Seigensha Art Publishing 2014 ISBN 9784861524653 Acqn 24552 Pb 11x15cm 312pp 275col ills £15 Susumu Ema (1910-1973), a Japanese artists who lived in Kyoto, also produced designs for Nishijin silk fabrics. Feeling the need to infuse abundant diversity into the world of dyeing and weaving design, he collected samples of textile fabrics from around the world and reproduced the designs in the form of woodblock prints that he presented in a book, 'Tozai Senshokumon' (East-West dyeing and weaving). This volume contains a full-colour collection of approximately 320 dyeing and weaving designs from Europe, Africa, the Middle and Near East and America that were introduced in Ema's book.

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Graphic Design For Weddings BNN Inc. 2015 ISBN 9784861009747 Acqn 24890 Pb 18x24cm 160pp 300col ills £21

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American Illustration 33 Amilus Inc 2015 ISBN 9781886212411 Acqn 24605 Hb 24x29cm 384pp 383col ills £58.50 In its 33rd annual volume honoring the year's best editorial, book, advertising, poster and fine art illustration in hardcover, American Illustration comes extravagantly wrapped in all-black, organic, uncoated paper stocks and cloth. The simple black-on-black elegance of this, the latest in a series of celebrated annual books, is continued inside with a "little black book" that offers the names of the artists, captions and creative credits for each of the images in the collection, along with existential musings presented in verse anonymously, one for each of the 212 featured artists. The beauty of the packaging culminates with an original cover—an expressionless, genderless face borrowed from old Buddhist paintings—by South Korean artist Daehyun Kim on a double-sided jacket. Co-designed by Len Small and Esther Wu, this edition of American Illustration includes 383 winning images selected by a jury of top art and design professionals from among 9,720 images submitted by illustrators, magazines, publishers, agencies and schools. This year's distinguished jury included Chris Dixon, Design Director, Vanity Fair; Marti Golon, Art Director, Reader's Digest; Amy Hausmann, Deputy Director, MTA Arts for Transit & Urban Design and Peter Morance, Art Director, The New York Times, among others. As always, each illustration is generously presented one image per page in large format, standing on its own as a work of art.

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Design For Local Paper Media In Japan BNN Inc. 2015 ISBN 9784861009549 Acqn 24771 Pb 23x29cm 192pp 300col ills £28.50 This book introduces various paper media designed to cover locals attractions in Japan such as public relation magazines by local governments, free newspapers, zines, sightseeing information magazines, flyers, maps, etc. This book focuses on local paper media, collecting apx.60 effective graphic designs projects, as well as telling the stories behind the projects and designs

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Chimaski - Lovely Accessories Hand-made Of Shrink Plastic BNN Inc. 2015 ISBN 9784861009761 Acqn 24891 Pb 18x24cm 88pp 260ills 250col £11.50 Text in Japanese

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