Books
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Delusional
£29.00Widely revered as the “artists’ gallerist,” Jonathan LeVine has nourished a much needed alternative viewpoint within the stilted New York art market. In the pages of Delusional, readers will discover the fascinating backstory that brought this punk kid from Trenton to the hallowed gallery walls of Chelsea.
LeVine began his career in the arts publishing a fanzine in the 1980s and then curating shows at diverse venues in the 90s. By the turn of the millennium, LeVine had opened up Tin Man Alley, his own gallery located in New Hope, and then Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Jonathan LeVine Gallery was officially launched in New York City in 2005. Since then, LeVine has brought his considerable talents to bear, focusing on work influenced by illustration, comic books, graffiti, street art and pop culture imagery.
Levine’s featured artists tend to share a strong figurative and narrative inclination and include Doze Green, Shepard Fairey, Audrey Kawasaki, Gary Baseman, Camille Rose Garcia, Tara McPherson, Josh Agle (aka Shag) and a long list of other esteemed artists*.
Lavish illustrations throughout complete the package.
256 pages, Hardcover, 8 1/2” x 11” (216 x 279 mm)
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Hangtag Design
£29.00Hangtags, like business cards, are often the first impression a designer can make; but unlike business cards, which must be handed out, the hangtag is literally connected to a product. A hangtag must present a brand’s identity in an instant.
This comprehensive volume is the first to fully explore the most creative in contemporary fashion, design, craft, and package hangtags and present these functional and small-scale works of art as inspiration to the reader. The finest designs by artists, illustrators, and designers, as well as upcoming Etsy crafters, are featured, with websites and email addresses listed.
The sheer ingenuity within the creative community is illuminated by the many techniques found within this book, including lenticular printing, screenprinting, drawn metal, printing on salvaged vintage book pages, hand drawn typography, laser cutting, paper folding, embroidery, letterpress, embossing, debossing, and die cutting. Christopher James’s tags are even embedded with seeds that grow when the 100% organic cotton hangtag is planted in the ground!
290 pages, Paperback, 8 1/2” x 10” (216 x 254 mm)
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Obey Book
£50.00Obey: Supply & Demand, The Art of Shepard Fairey – 20th Anniversary Edition expands upon the previous version of this book and adds 100 new pages of illustrations and text to showcase Fairey’s extensive body of work, a massive retrospective covering 20 colourful years.
This massive book pulls no punches and all areas of artist’s work, travels and travails are illuminated. From exhibitions, posters, flyers, silkscreens and stickers to high altitude pursuits, citations and police beatings, it’s all documented in a museum quality layout and binding.
Through the lens of esteemed writers and critics such as Carlo McCormick, Steven Heller, Henry Rollins, Rob Walker, Roger Gastman and more, readers learn about Shepard Fairey, the roots of the omnipresent OBEY street art campaign, his design practice and prolific gallery exhibitions. Also featured are artworks in diverse mediums ranging from album covers (including the recently released Led Zeppelin compilation Mothership), to skateboards and T-shirts.
446 pages, Hardcover, 9 1/2” x 12 1/4” (240 x 310 mm)
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Package Design
£29.00The Art of Package Design features the finest in worldwide packaging that functions as much more than simply product wrappers. This title includes projects from printed bamboo around Japanese denim, to purified water bottles that look like fine glassware, to eco-friendly boxed seeds, to designer shoeboxes for Nike sneakers, to cut out books doubling as planter boxes, to Pantone paint tins in every possible shade.
Designers include Tokyo Pistol, PlayMeDesign, ico design, Coarselog, and Unplug Design Studio
256 pages, Flexi-bound, 8 1/4” x 10 1/4” (210 x 260 mm)
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Vectorism
£29.00Vectorism examines the state of contemporary vector graphics and its continuing relevance in the design world.
In art and design, there has been a shift in recent years towards the fruits of more “lo-fi” processes, a distinct need for a personal component and the expressiveness that normally only a human hand can evoke.
Vector graphics have weathered this current backlash taking pride of place alongside the fruits of more handmade techniques. The sources of inspiration often remain the same, whether a nod to popular culture or an homage to nostalgia. The execution is precise and original, with a unique capacity for pattern and color and a great versatility of scale.
240 pages, Paperback
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7 1/2” x 9 3/4” (191 x 248 mm)
900 color illustrations
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