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Instead of giving the reader just another collection of articles and interviews, "McLuhan Unbound" gives readers offprints of the original essays.

Author Michael De Feo is a teacher and artist who achieved some fame when his work was featured in The Art of Rebellion, the world's best-selling international survey of street art. But it was in his role as educator that De Feo came to the conclusion that the market was lacking in good art books for children and that's what inspired him to create one himself. - Alphabet City encourages both children and parents to pay attention to their every...

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Spanning the globe from Asia and Australia to Europe, North and South America, Merge represents the heights to which handcrafted art and design have attained. Possibly the broadest in scope of any book published on the subject, this title wishes to embrace all media, from the impermanence of food to that most controversial and everlasting of substances, plastic.

Skateboard graphics took a quantum leap in offensive potential after the sport was reborn aesthetically and otherwise in the ¿90s. Artists such as Marc McKee, Todd Francis, Mike Hill, Michael Sieben, Ed Templeton, Sean Cliver, Moish Brenman, Fos, Ben Horton, Alyasha Owerka-Moore, Eli Morgan Gesner, Jeremy Fish, Brice Raysseguier, Johnny "Mojo¿ Munnerlyn, Alex Kramer, Todd Bratrud, Winston Tseng and others brought dark humor and politically inc...

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For many of us, eating out is one of the supreme pleasures in life. The experience exposes us to the talents of a legion of chefs and entrepreneurs who find fulfillment in creating subtle and original experiences for our palates. This consideration does not stop at taste, but extends to the other senses as well, providing new combinations of form, color and texture that can comfort or tantalize. This can also be true of the design of restauran...

Modern living typically represents the compromising of a diverse number of considerations in place of the practical. We make our dwellings conform to our lifestyles, but most in the end are constrained by issues of space or cost. For the houses featured in this volume, no concessions have been made. Spanning the globe and featuring some of the most magnificent projects of recent years - most of which utilize new innovations in engineering and ...

Everyone who loves to doodle knows the pure joy that comes from drawing on an unexpected surface, from the reclaimed envelope to the side of a take out container. Infinite Illustration is a new title that features the most talented roster of illustrators from all over the world, examining how illustrative talent can be applied to product, packaging, print, clothing, and industrial design. The projects featured within are unified by a feeling o...

Marci Washington's distinctive artwork subverts Victorian gothic imagery into a contemporary visual language all its own. Flat washes of gouache and watercolor make up grotesque faces and distorted bodily forms that stare off the page into another dimension. With a muted palette of somber dark green, black, cream, blood red, and brown and gold hues, dismembered bloody hands and still heads float seemingly frozen in negative space, while livid ...

Packed full of gorgeous, well photographed images, Contemporary Living Space highlights the best of international living spaces from luxury homes to the less-often featured but very important variety of well-designed apartment spaces. Sleek and ultra modern, these spaces are light, airy, and utilize elements like recycled wood and eco-friendly lighting. Both aesthetically appealing and smart, the spaces featured are the result of the designers...

One of the most popular international surveys of contemporary fantasy art, the Fantasy+ series now turns its lens on the pervasiveness of the genre in all aspects of popular culture. From advertising to book design and illustration, modeling to game design and film animation - the artists herein continue to expose the public at large to new realms of the imagination. Choosing one representative artist in each category for an in-depth interview...

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A companion series to Oriental Tattoo Art, Oriental Tattoo Sourcebook delves deeper into the culture by focusing on the traditional symbols and characters that encompass the art form. An indispensable reference book for both practitioners and clients, each chapter is categorized by subject matter, from traditionaltattoos to portraits, animals, totems, and characters, the inspirationis comprehensive. Incorporating belief systems with a reverenc...

Suggestivism is the companion catalogue to a vibrantly fresh exhibition presented by Cal State Universitys Grand Central Art Center from February to April 2011. The exhibit coins this new term to refer to a genre of artwork encompassing the rising stars

Widely 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 fr

One of the most comprehensive surveys of type ever published, Type Image showcases contemporary works that challenge the type/image divide. Letters, words, and phrases are playfully crafted into landscapes, portraits, objects, textures, and patterns. Atte

In the same year that Wyndham Lewis published Self Condemned, Marshall McLuhan took inspiration from Lewiss journal BLAST and produced COUNTERBLAST, intended, like Self Condemned, to shake the city of Toronto out of its smugness, complacency, and spiritu

This utterly charming tale relates the story of King Mortimer, a royal plagued by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder who only finds comfort and ease by surrounding himself with the number 5 - be it 5 knights, 5 moats or 5 points on his crown. One day he awakens to find that he has grown a sixth finger! Woe is he! His wizard is quick to suggest a remedy, but not one without risk. In a state of crisis, he takes advice from far and wide on how to achi...

Italian born painter Nicola Verlato believes deeply in the power of figurative painting. From Verona with Rage features works created over the past 5 years since moving his studio to the United States. Verlato daringly combines techniquesand skills borrowed from the old masters with themes more pop culture than Raphael. Regardless of the stew of pop-culture sign-posts found in his work, ranging from Disney to rock ¿n¿ roll, to movie stars, com...