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When it comes to video game design, the importance of settingand ambience cannot be overstated. Exploration is fundamentalto the medium, and it is vital that virtual locations be as compelling, dynamic, and visually engaging as possible. Every location must reflect the themes of the game and help create the tone of the story and gameplay, while also subtly directing and reacting to the player's actions.In Next Level: Game Design, some of the b...

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Typographic spectacle meets existential picture book in Mouse and Kat and the Evil One, a visual delight for discerning adults and an action packed story for children. Artist Stuart Sharpe's work draws on influences as diverse as his experience as an animator. El Lissitsky, and Saturday morning cartoons. This epic adventure in miniature explores the universal theme of good versus evil in classic scenes of hostile confrontation, violent capture...

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In this previously unpublished work, a young Marshall McLuhan, as cultural historian, illuminates the complexities of the classical trivium, provides the first ever close reading of the enigmatic Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe, and implicitly challenges the reader to accept a new blueprint for literary education. Ideas that would ground McLuhan's media analysis of the 1960s and 70s are here in embryo, as he sets out in scrupulous detail the r...

In the later part of his life, wheelchair-bound and unable to fullytake care of himself, Henri Matisse began to experiment withcollage and paper cutouts as a way of continuing to make art.Sometimes representational and sometimes abstract, his bold, simple shapes became iconic of his style, and his collages remainsome of his best-loved work.In Ana Bianchi's latest children's book - part biographical vignette, part activity guide - kids will rea...

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David King created a legendary logo design for the foundationalpunk band Crass, dubbed the ¿double-headed snake and cross'.In the intervening years, he's been busy. This long-overduemonograph features King's iconic stencil-only designs, startingwith the original Crass logo drawing and continuing to the presentday.Both the artist's process and finished output are on displayin this revealing collection, from the covered-in-layers-of-paintstencil...

On the outskirts of civilization, where suburban man stumbles over nature, an untold drama is taking place. A relentless effort by present day frontiersmen to tame and overcome the inhospitable California desert. Rudy VanderLans takes us to the heart of this spectacle, where suburban elements meet vacuous space, where dubious claims of commerce stand fragile against a harsh light, where contemporary dwellers impose incongruous notions of luxur...

Artist and author Caleb Neelon (SONIK) began his graffiti career like anyone else, but the Cambridge, Massachusetts native took a hard right and caught a flight out of town. Deliberately ignoring the obvious global centres of New York, LA and London, Caleb painted subject matter close to his heart while making a street presence in places like Kathmandu, Sao Paulo and Tegucigalpa. Across, around and in between five continents, indoors and out, ...

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Recent innovations in access to technology have led to an explosion in the number and variety of interactive art installations.Art pieces that would have been inconceivable twenty years agoare now popping up in galleries and public spaces around theworld, expanding the range of human experience in mind-bogglingways.New Media Installation offers a fascinating look into the world of technology-based art installations, with a global selection of ...

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Ryan McGinness started a design firm called EGO. EGO favors an honest, pragmatic approach to solving problems. Their thoughtful work is in direct opposition to the over-hyped style-based design served up by many other firms. Contemporary design books gravitate towards empty design that is little more than eye-candy. The Difference Between Telling and Selling is a revelatory guide to a more process-oriented approach that provides insight and su...

For someone who traveled as much as he did, it is a marvel thatAndy Warhol had time to make art. Desperately Seeking Warholtraces the artist's movements around the globe from internationalcultural hotspots like New York, Paris and Rome to lower-profile burgs such as Carbondale and Montauk - more wellknown now, partially as a result of Warhol's involvement.Relentless in the pursuit of new avenues to create and sell hiswork, Warhol set up shop i...

Facsimile edition edited by Wyndham Lewis ! In December 1913, Ezra Pound wrote to William Carlos Williams calling the London art/literary scene "The Vortex.'' Wyndham Lewis in turn appropriated the term to christen his budding movement in the arts "Vorticism.''Vorticism" was baptized on June 20, 1914 in the first issue of BLAST, A Review of the Great English Vortex Lewis's revolutionary magazine. BLAST is now considered one of this century's e...

Longtime skateboard artist Sean Cliver put together this staggering survey of over 1000skateboard graphics from the last 30 years, creating an indispensable insiders' history ashe did so.Alongside his own history, Sean has assembled a wealth of recollections and stories from prominentartists and skateboarders such as Wes Humpston, Jim Phillips, Lance Mountain, Pushead, Ed Templeton, John Lucero, Mike Hill, Chris Miller, Jason Jessee, Steve Cab...

Anton the mustachioed sailor never voyages anywhere without his beloved sketchbook. Whether drawing seagulls, bottles, krakens or mermaids, he never feels quite like himself unless he is observing and recording the nautical wonders around him.But what is the fate of ink and paper when met with a terrible storm at sea? What becomes of a thoughtful, creative sailor when his drawings are waterlogged and ruined? His pal Skinny Jean justmight have ...