Product Description: Car The automobile is one of the defining technologies of our era. This issue looks at the psychological and physical aspects of the car interior through the lens of art, design, video, film, and photography. From the work of Matthew Barney and Lorna Simpson, to the representation of the car interior in film noir, we look at the car as a psychologically charged space caught between public and private...read more

Product Description: This critical study of graphic design and typography is a source for anyone interested in the art and history of books, letterforms, symbols, advertising, and theories of visual and verbal communication. A section on theory considers the centrality of the written and printed word to post-structuralism and deconstruction...read more

Product Description: A dynamic celebration of contemporary dance, "Dance Ink: Photographs" features work by some of the finest photographers in the world. These provocative images -- of dancers, choreographers, and performance artists -- were conceived as a duet between artist and photographer, forming a dialogue that plays out in the pages of this extraordinary book...read more

Product Description: Feet Our debut issue looks at feet: what they are, how they look, how we adorn and protect them, and where they take us. The subject of poetry and nursery rhymes, films and fetishes, art and fashion, this issue explores cultural, historical, and physiological aspects of feet and footwear...read more

Product Description: Between 1890 and 1940, America's culture of consumption took its modern form: products were mass-produced, mass-distributed, and designed to be rapidly replaced by the buying public. The same period also saw the rise of the modern bathroom and kitchen as newly equipped spaces for administering bodily care The streamlined style of modern design, which served the new ideals of hygiene and the manufacturing policy of planned obsolescence, emanated from the domestic landscape of the bathroom and kitchen...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Today's computer technologies have allowed for the creation of new spaces for typographic communication. This collection of drawings, photographs, and typefaces explores some of the ideas that might govern the logic of three-dimensional type...read more

Product Description: Interior Design magazine says that The ABC's of the Bauhaus is, "a collection of visually and intellectually stimulating essays about basic design courses at the Bauhaus, Froebel toys, inflation in the Weimar Republic, the typography of Herbert Bayer, Psychoanalysis, and fractal geometry...read more