Promoting Fashion

Caline Anouti , Barbara Graham

The marketing and promotion of fashion is entering a fast-moving and challenging phase. This book shows how to appeal to the consumer and communicate the brand message. Advertising campaigns, both offline and online, are discussed, together with the existing and new...

Sketch Club: Urban Watercolour

Phil Dean

***Take your urban sketching skills to the next level with watercolour. Bestselling author and artist Phil Dean (@shoreditchsketcher) provides a step-by-step guide to creating beautiful urban artworks. Get started with the very basics of depicting cityscapes with a...

200 Words to Help You Talk about Art

Ben Street

Have you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about? If yes, this new book series is for you. Each book features definitions of two hundred words frequently used to describe and discuss a smart...

David Hockney

James Cahill

The latest addition to the 'Lives of the Artists' series: highly readable short biographies of the world's greatest artistsDavid Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the north...

Keith Haring

Simon Doonan

Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist, who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life. Brought to life by Simon Doonan, Creative Director for Barneys New York, this new pocket-sized biography tells his inspirational story.Revolutionary and renegade,...

Looking to Sea

Lily Le Brun

Art is Life

Jerry Saltz

Emily in Paris: Paris, J'Adore!

Emily In Paris

The Best of Matt 2022

Matt Pritchett

The latest - superb - collection from everyone's favourite cartoonist! 'Like a sunrise, he lifts the heart. He's so touching and achingly funny' Jilly Cooper'He's a genius' Jeremy Vine'So much greater than his nearest rivals it's almost embarrassing' Stephen Fry'No one...

Planet B

Nicolas Bourriaud

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.The awareness of climate change modified our collective relation to the earth in many ways, but it also...

A Jeweller's Memoirs

Fred Samuel

« Every successful life has something of a fairy tale about it. But dig deeper into the details and it’s clear that behind the myth there is energy, perseverance, intelligence and courage – and also, unfortunately, a few tragedies. Fred Samuel, more than most, lived in...

Love and Let Die

John Higgs

'Smart, analytical and enormously good fun' Stuart Maconie, Mail on Sunday'Ingenious . . . conjures a whole cultural history of the past six decades' The Spectator'Strikingly insightful . . . page after page of glorious anecdotes' The i Newspaper'A book to leave you...

Creativity Begins With You

Andy Neal , Dion Star

Can creativity be 'taught'? Or is it simply innate? This book will help you find your creativity through your own unique identity and experience, challenging you to fight those negative voices, get out of your habitual comfort zones and - most importantly - play. Part...

Kiki Man Ray

Mark Braude

'Exuberantly entertaining' NYT Book Review'Mark Braude's writing and subject make this book irresistible, as was Kiki herself.' Jim Jarmusch'A delightful, marvelously readable, meticulously-researched romp of a book, Kiki Man Ray brings to life not just the...

Crosshatching in Pen & Ink

August Lamm

Learn the unique art of crosshatching and create stunning works of art with expert guidance from August Lamm. How to Crosshatch in Pen & Ink begins with a potted history of the artform, and elucidates exactly what crosshatching entails, and where it came from. After a...

Vintage Tattoos

Carol Clerk

Princes and prisoners, sailors and criminals, showgirls and soldiers – all have submitted to the tattooist's art.Vintage Tattoos features over 500 retro designs of every style and subject matter, including nautical, patriotic, hearts and banners, circus, girls, animals,...

The Lady Di Look Book

Eloise Moran

***Fashion writer Eloise Moran has studied thousands of pictures of Princess Diana over the past few years. Looking carefully at Diana's clothes, she discovered that behind each outfit lies a carefully crafted strategy. What Lady Di couldn't express verbally, she seemed...

How We Might Live

Suzanne Fagence Cooper

William Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement - was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still with us today: but his wife Jane is too often relegated to a footnote, an artist's...

Portrait of a Thief

Grace D. Li

"A remarkably assured debut" Sunday Times"This is as much a novel as a reckoning." New York TimesThe characters are alluring and ... engaging. So too are the emotional struggles the crew endure as they try to balance duty to family with their love for China and the need...

Advanced Creative Draping

Karolyn Kiisel

Advanced Creative Draping teaches designers and students how to drape fashion-forward, conceptual designs that use elements of couture construction to elevate the work to the highest level of fashion. Five methods of draping are explored as well as draping using...