The Gift of Calligraphy - A Modern Approach to Hand Lettering with 25 Projects to Give and to Keep by Maybelle Imasa-Stukuls

$25.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: near fine

Calligraphy and hand lettering have surged in popularity as people rediscover traditional handicrafts as a creative outlet and way to relax. Unlike other hand lettering books, The Gift of Calligraphy shows you how to use your calligraphy skills to create invitations, wrapping paper, growth chart for kid s, rubber stamps, printed tea towels, gift tags, and more. Maybelle Imasa-Stukuls, calligraphy teacher and author of Belle Calligraphy, brings her signature modern style to this traditional craft. The first quarter of the book provides a primer for creating a simple alphabet and how to find your own personal style of lettering, followed by wonderful projects that will delight your family, impress your friends, and beautify your home, all accompanied by clear step-by-step photography and inspiring shots of the finished pieces. ...Show more

The Art and History of Calligraphy by Patricia Lovett

$45.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: near fine

Ranging from the Middle Ages, when beautiful calligraphy was a way of celebrating the divine, to the renaissance of the art form by William Morris, to the modern school of calligraphers following in the wake of master typographer Edward Johnston, Patricia Lovett charts the development of calligraphy thr ough the history of European manuscripts. A renowned expert on the history of the form as well as a fine calligrapher herself, she writes--uniquely--from a practitioner's point of view. Large-scale full-color reproductions enable the reader to see the fine detail of each manuscript, and to understand more clearly than ever before the painstaking craft and great artistic skill that were necessary to create these strikingly beautiful pieces of writing. ...Show more

Fronting Up: Classic New Zealand Magazine Covers by Richard Wolfe

$30.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Fronting Up is a rich, large-format sample of more than 100 classic magazine covers, all drawn from the extensive archives of the Auckland Museum Library. The selected publications span 165 years, and include both household names - such as the Listener, New Zealand Woman's Weekly and the departed Auckla nd Weekly News - and less well-known publications, such as Typo, Tomahawk and Tit-Bits. They all provide an insight into the nation's interests and changing reading habits, while their colourful covers are a panorama of graphic design history, and represent the work of recognised artists and illustrators. They include both glossy and low budget productions, while healthy doses of humour and ingenuity are also evident in the remarkably large and fertile field of New Zealand magazines.First published 2005.Richard Wolfe is a well-known New Zealand author of more than twenty books, many of which explore our cultural history. They include such books as New Zealand! New Zealand! In Praise of Kiwiana, (Co-author Stephen Barnett), Kiwi: More than a Bird, At the Beach: The Great New Zealand Holiday, (Co-author Stephen Barnett), Classic Kiwiana: An Essential Guide to New Zealand Popular Culture, (Co-author Stephen Barnett), The Way We Wore: The Clothes New Zealanders Have Loved, and Moa: The dramatic story of the discovery of a giant bird. He is also the author of a number of children’s books, illustrated by his wife Pamela. First published 2005. ...Show more

The Tin Can Book. The Can as Collectible Art, Advertising Art & High Art by Hyla M. Clark

$16.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: very good

Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design by Alan Powers

$22.00 NZD

Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good

Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design is a comprehensive survey of the very best of cover and jacket design from the 20th century. The most important and innovative designs are explored, including the distinctive yellow dust-jackets of the Gollancz novels of the 1930s, the colour-coded series design of Penguin paperbacks in the 1960s and the award-winning paperback designs by Canongate in the 1990s. Chapters are devoted to separate themes - the development of the modern book jacket in the 1920s and 1930s, the diverse styles that evolved in the post-war era, the paperback explosion of the 1960s and 1970s, and the recent revival in jacket design in the hands of design companies such as Pentagram. Revealing double-page features appear in each chapter on such tropics as the Cold War novel, classic novels of the period, and individual authors such as Len Deighton and Ian Fleming. With 300 jackets in full-colour, including rare first editions, innovative designs by leading designers such as E. McKnight Kauffer and Paul Rand, and newly discovered gems, together with an insightful text by leading design expert Alan Powers, this fascinating book will delight anyone with a passion ...Show more

Sweet Roman Hand: Five hundred years of italic cursive script by Wilfrid Blunt

$8.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: poor

A Handwriting Manual by Alfred Fairbank

$12.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: good

"The most interesting, as it is the most practical, book in its field." - The Spectator This classic introduction presents the fundamentals behind every aspect of the art of penmanship, from the necessary equipment to the best techniques. Many pages of demonstration scripts provide helpful accompaniment to the clear instructions. Written by an expert calligrapher whose books were widely used in schools, this volume offers an essential guide to those who practice or teach lettering and graphic design. AUTHOR: British calligrapher and handwriting expert Alfred John Fairbank (1895-1982) was a founding member and chairman of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators and founder of the Society for Italic Handwriting. His books were widely used in British schools, and he designed the upright italic typeface Bembo Condensed Italic for Monotype, which was digitized as Fairbank in 2005. ...Show more

Chinese Calligraphy by Chang Yee

$20.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: very good

Ornamental Posters of the Vienna Secession by Walter Koschatzky; Horst-Herbert Kossatz; Graphische Sammlung Albertina Staff (Contribution by)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: good

Enrich Your Calligraphy by Diana Hardy Wilson

$16.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: very good

Ads That Made Australia by John Bruden-Brown

$25.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: very good

A Tally of Types with Additions by Several Hands by Stanley Morison edited by Brooke Crutchley

$14.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: very good

The Tally of Types was first circulated in a privately printed edition in 1953, achieving a fame and influence wholly disproportionate to the comparatively small number of copies in existence. In 1973 Cambridge University Press published a version edited and expanded by Brooke Crutchley and others, maki ng this classic of typographical history and practice available to a wider readership; it is this edition we have reprinted here. Stanley Morison provided the impetus and judgement behind the programme of typographical revival carried through by the Monotype Corporation in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Tally is an account, historical, critical and functional, of the types cut under Morison's direction during this period. It is an impressive performance: a fine example of what is now recognised as Morison's characteristic blend of erudition and insight. What started as no more than an attempt to record the facts developed, under his hand, into one of the major statements of typographical practice of its time. ...Show more