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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorExploring Calvin and Hobbes: An Exhibition Catalogue
Bill Watterson · 151 pages
Creating the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home
Sarah Susanka · 261 pages
Banksy Locations & Tours: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs in London, England
Martin Bull · 176 pages
Apartment Therapy's Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces
Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars
Camille Paglia · 202 pages
An enthralling journey through Western art's defining moments, from the ancient Egyptian tomb of Queen Nefertari to George Lucas's volcano planet duel in "Revenge of the Sith."
The Most Beautiful Libraries Of The World
Jacques Bosser, Guillaume de Laubier · 248 pages
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
Sebastian Smee · 393 pages
"Picasso & Matisse. Manet & Degas. Pollack & de Kooning. Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon. This is the story of four pairs of artists-- each linked by friendship and a spirit of competitiveness. Taken together, they form an impressive lineage stretching across more than 150 years. But in each case, these relationships had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end and
Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions
Bill Scott, Theresa Neil
Botanical Illustration Course with the Eden Project
Meriel Thurstan, Rosie Martin · 144 pages
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R. Tufte · 197 pages
The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the high-resolution displays, small multiples. Editing and improving graphics. The data-ink ratio. Time-series, relat
About Looking
John Berger · 198 pages
This successor to John Berger's Ways of Seeing, written over the last ten years, searches for meaning within and beyond what is looked at. Why do zoos disappoint children? Why do we take snapshots of those we love? How do the media use photographs of agony? When an animal looks us in the eyes, what does that look mean? Berger describes how a sixteenth-century masterpiece he saw in the 1960s com
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles
Martin Gayford · 352 pages
From October to December 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a home in Arles with Vincent van Gogh. This was, without doubt, the most celebrated cohabitation in art history: never, before or since have two such towering artistic talents been penned up in so small a space. They were the Odd Couple of art history. Predictably, the results were explosive. The dénouement of their life together has entered into
Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
Leander Kahney · 321 pages
"The bestselling author of Inside Steve's Brain profiles Apple's legendary chief designer, Jonathan Ive. Jony Ive's designs have not only made Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world; they've overturned entire industries, from music and mobile phones to PCs and tablets. But for someone who has changed the world as much as he has, little is widely known about Apple's senior vice presi
The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
Carol Strickland · 222 pages
An illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to contemporary world art, from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media in an easy-to-understand format.
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation.
E.H. Gombrich · 466 pages
"Considered a great classic by all who seek a meeting ground between science and the humanities. Art and Illusion examines the history and psychology of pictorial representation in light of present-day theories of visual perception information and learning. Searching for a rational explanation of the changing styles of art, Gombrich reexamines many ideas on the imitation of nature and the function