Birds: The Art of Ornithology by Jonathan Elphick
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Jonathan Elphick tells the remarkable story of the development of bird art through the centuries. The book features early, skilfully executed but often fanciful images of birds, scientific illustrations produced during the ages of exploration, and modern approaches capturing the essence of these freest ...Show more
Comic Sans - The Biography of a Typeface (the ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art & design | Series: The\ABC of Fonts Ser.
Comic Sans is one of the most used and most reviled typefaces of the digital age. How was it made? How could it spawn a movement to ban it and yet still be so widely promoted by educators? What does its accidental creator make of its contentious and singular history?This quirky and unique book considers ...Show more
Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toioho ki Apiti by Cassandra Barnett, Kura Te Waru-Rewiri
$70.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
This richly illustrated publication examines the last 25 years of the influential Toioho ki Apiti programme at Massey University, its global indigenous pedagogical reach, and its ongoing impacts on national and international contemporary art and cultural sectors. Toioho ki Apiti's transformative and kau ...Show more
Artists in Antarctica by Patrick Shepherd (editor)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
What transformation happens when writers, musicians and artists stand in the vast, cold spaces of Antarctica? This book brings together paintings, photographs, texts and musical scores by Aotearoa New Zealand artists who have been to the ice. It explores the impact of this experience on their art and ar ...Show more
By My Hands by Florian Gadsby
$55.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
The internet's favorite potter opens up about his life and craft in this inspiring, stunningly photographed ode to the beauty of small things that brighten life's daily rituals.Florian Gadsby has devoted his life to pottery, refining his technique towards the point of perfection--and as his skill has gr ...Show more
Urgent Moments - Art and Social Change: the Letting Space Projects 2010-2020 by Mark Amery (Editor); Amber Clausner (Editor); Sophie Jerram (Editor)
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
The story of a remarkable art activation. After first occupying vacant spaces in post-stock-market-crash Auckland in the mid-1990s, public art curators Letting Space re-emerged in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. Confronted by the thin net of social welfare, the waste of the capitalist syst ...Show more
Gordon Walters by Francis Pound; Leonard Bell (Foreword by)
$90.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
The first substantial monograph on the art of one of this country's most influential artists, Gordon Walters. In this remarkable study by the late Francis Pound, author of the landmark Invention of New Zealand, we are introduced to the making of a New Zealand modernist - tracing the work of Gordon Walte ...Show more
Domain by Hipkins Gavin
$70.00 NZD
Category: Art & design
Early in his career, New Zealand artist Gavin Hipkins was described by fellow artist Giovanni Intra as a ‘tourist of photography’. This epithet has been used repeatedly by commentators on Hipkins’ work to describe two intertwined aspects of his practice. As art historian Peter Brunt puts it, Hipkins is ...Show more
Baskerville - The Biography of a Typeface (the ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art & design | Series: The\ABC of Fonts Ser.
The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years since its creation. Baskerville is a transitional design, poised between the first metal types and modern styles, notable for its combination of fat and thin strokes. When it was first used there was genuine conce ...Show more
Albertus - The Biography of a Typeface (the ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art & design | Series: The\ABC of Fonts Ser.
One of the most beautiful handcrafted typefaces in the world, Albertus is also one of the most enduring. The face of thousands of book jackets, and the chosen look for David Bowie, Coldplay, Star Wars and London street signs, Albertus is as as warmly enticing on film posters as it is on memorial plaques ...Show more
Learn Flower Painting Quickly by Trevor Waugh
$22.00 NZD
Category: Art & design | Series: Learn Quickly Ser.
With the help of world-renowned artist Trevor Waugh, you can begin painting beautiful watercolor flowers right away In this fun, easy-to-follow guide, packed with inspirational paintings and helpful step-by-step sequences, Trevor Waugh lays out his most important techniques for painting a garden of wate ...Show more
Hockney - A Graphic Life by Simon Elliott
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art & design | Series: BioGraphics Ser.
Follow the journey of David Hockney's exceptional life in a unique graphic novel format. From his childhood in Bradford and early years making it as an artist, to his sun-drenched Los Angeles period, his triumphal return to the UK and his recent iPad drawings that proudly exclaim that 'spring cannot ...Show more