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The Lost Words: artwork from the publishing phenomenon gets its own exhibition

Creative Boom

Launching on 26 March and running until 18 September, The Lost Words is an enchanting exhibition based on the Sunday Times bestselling book of the same name first published in 2017. Featuring the art of Jackie Morris and the creative talents of writer Robert Macfarlane, the show celebrates nature's power to spark the imagination.

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Concrete Hong Kong: learn about architecture through foldout models

Creative Boom

A new book celebrates the architecture of Hong Kong public housing in the 1950s-1980s. During the 1950s-1980s, when the colony was under British rule, public housing embraced the modernist architectural approach, and Hong Kong initiated mass housing projects that dramatically redeļ¬ned urban living. Weird, isn't it?

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This Experimental Publisher Is Rethinking How Design Books Get Made

Eye on Design

The incredible feat of pre-selling nearly 9,000 copies of a classic yet relatively obscure tome in just over a month raised a lot of eyebrows in both the publishing and design worlds, including those of publisher and graphic designer Darren Wall and Thames & Hudson editorial director Lucas Dietrich.

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The 26 Best Books for Creative Business Owners

Inkbot Design

Sale Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear Hardcover Gilbert, Elizabeth (Author) English (Publication Language) 304 Pages – 09/27/2016 (Publication Date) – Riverhead Books (Publisher) −$6.99 $11.01 Hardcover Book Jim Collins (Author) English (Subtitle) English (Publication Language) Buy on Amazon 4.

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Jacob Lindgren Recommends 7 Publications That Take An Expansive Approach To Graphic Design

Eye on Design

We think Chicago based bookstore Inga offers some of the most interesting graphic design titles out there, and weā€™re always excited to see what new independent and self-published books they have in stock. Malia [ Haines-Stewart] , Alan [ Medina], and I met at a book fair in 2017, which I guess was some kind of foreshadowing.

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10+ Best Books to Learn Drawing in 2023

Just Creative

The introduction isn’t practical Includes many exercises Learn More Latest Price on Amazon: Sale 662 Reviews The Natural Way To Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study Nicolaides, Kimon (Author) English (Publication Language) 240 Pages - 02/01/1990 (Publication Date) - Harper Design (Publisher) $11.58 Buy on Amazon 2.

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Artistic rebel, urban poet: new book celebrates the iconic photography of Saul Leiter

Creative Boom

For his main source of income from the late 1950s through the 1970s, Leiter worked as a fashion photographer, and his pictures were published in magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Elle, British Vogue, Queen, Nova and Esquire. It took a painful ten years before Saul Leiter: Early Color was published, but it was worth the wait.

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