Product Description: Anteaters to Zebras is a creative, playful, and witty introduction to the alphabet, created by Alan Fletcher, one of the most influential and respected figures in graphic design and a cofounder of the famous design firm Pentagram...read more

Product Description: "The title of this book is a remark allegedly made by Kurt Schwitters to an acquaintance when asked what he was going to do that day. Frankly, considering his poor command of English, it seems unlikely. Anyway, the intention was clear...read more

An investigation into the mystery of Geoffrey Chaucer's death, written by a respected medievalist best known for his work with Monty Python, evaluates the celebrated writer's sudden disappearance from public record and examines evidence that he may have been murdered. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Robert Brownjohn was born in New Jersey in 1925. He was taught by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at the Chicago Institute of Design in the 1940s and worked in New York in the 1950s, and spent the 1960s on the King's Road. Best known for his title sequences for the Bond films 'From Russia With Love' and 'Goldfinger', he also produced other influential pieces.

Product Description: The collection of 100 Maverick Postcards presents 100 variations on the theme of visual and verbal pleasure. Many of these are based on Alan Fletcher's own quirky and inimitable drawings and watercolours, while the rest are all highly entertaining examples of wit, wisdom and games with words and images...read more

Product Description: Describing himself as a "visual jackdaw", master designer Alan Fletcher has spent a lifetime collecting images, useless information, quotations and scraps that take his fancy. This work distils this collection into a quirky and entertaining feast for the eyes and the mind...read more

Product Description: Bold and innovative, California designers define what's new in HOT CALIFORNIA GRPAHICS 2. The pressure on today's designers is ever-changing and ever-increasing in this hyper-fast, cyber-spaced world. See how those top designers from the Golden Gate charge through problems with the panache and invention we've come to expect from the design community in California...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work is a monograph of the career of Alan Fletcher, containing details of more than 100 design solutions drawing from his 30-year career, including company logos, sign systems, typography, and the Zodiac Calenders. An essay on his life and career is also featured...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: `Rich in scholarship-invaluable to scholars studying the first milennium AD; highly recommended.' Choice