Release Dates for new Arts & Photography Books

Kevin Judd occupies a unique position in the New Zealand wine industry. Not only is he one of our most respected winemakers, having turned Cloudy Bay Vineyards into the international star that it is, but he is New Zealand's finest wine photographer. This potent blend of wine knowledge and artistic s...

The single best collection of photographs of Banksy's street work. Period. You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat concentrates on this singular artist's iconic imagery, spanning the late '90s up until the end of 2011. The locations are from around the world (predominantly the UK, US and Europe), and ...

This title features the character designs of Shigenori Soejima! Go behind the scenes of "Persona 3", one of the most unique and respected RPG's ever. Inside you'll find character designs, rough sketches, storyboards, backgrounds & settings, an exclusive interview with the game's creators, and more.

"Like a cuddly Trojan horse, Chueh's work is pretty on the outside, but nice and macabre on the inside": so says "Entertainment Weekly" of LA-based artist Luke Chueh. Employing minimal color schemes, simple animal characters, and a seemingly endless list of ill-fated situations, Chueh has enjoyed cu...

Using her trademark blended-pencil technique, Lee Hammond shows how to draw a wide range of wild animals and birds in their natural habitats. Readers learn how to realistically render the facial features, body structure and characteristic movements of all types of animals and birds found in the wild...

This fun book shows readers how to make standalone character figures with polymer clay - what the author calls "Odd Face" - dragons, tree folk, witches, wizards, fugitives from fairy tales, figments of the imagination, and the slightly off center. Readers learn about materials, special precautions a...

In Sengoku Basara, mighty samurai warlords and their armies battle all across feudal Japan, each hoping to enact their own personal vision for the future of the land. "Sengoku Basara Samurai Heroes: Official Complete Works" collects the unique artwork behind the latest game in this landmark "Capcom"...

Fanciful creatures slither, swim, and soar through this full-color treasury of exotic birds, fishes, reptiles, and dragons. This reprint of a rare 19th-century German portfolio presents enlargements of the original illustrations, offering magnified details of stylized feathers, fins, scales, and oth...

Logos are an intricate component of any organisation's visual communications, putting good logo designers in high demand. Designing a logo is a crucial skill set for any graphic designer and can become a niche speciality. It is an endeavour that all graphic designers will encounter at some point in ...

This title showcases Todd McFarlane's unique art style, which burst onto the comic book scene in the late 1980s and forever changed the landscape of comic book art. It features art from original comic art boards, rare, never-before-seen sketches, as well as art from McFarlane's work on "Batman", "Sp...

The automobile seems to be as popular now as it ever was. Posters of cars still adorn many a child's bedroom wall, and school exercise books are full of doodles of cars. This book takes those notebook sketches and teaches you how to develop them into the car designs you see in magazines. Using simpl...

This book packs a lot of information into a handy resource that you can carry in your pocket or bag, or store in your safe deposit box. Check each box as you add a coin to your collection. You ll also find plenty of room to write notes on when and where you bought various coins, their grades, prices...

The silver Peace dollar issued from 1921 through 1935 was a coin that commemorated the end of the most traumatic war in human history. In the Guide Book of Peace Dollars, award-winning author Roger W. Burdette explores these fascinating and collectible coins, covering every date and mintmark of Amer...

Americans love to collect the beautiful and historic Morgan silver dollar! No other coin conjures up so much of the romance and adventure of the United States. In this fourth edition of his bestselling book, the dean of American numismatics, Q. David Bowers, offers an engaging portrait of the countr...

Born in Tokyo, Chino came to Britain at the age of 10. The core of her photographic work is based on the personal experience arising from this move and her sense of a dual inheritance from both East and West. In many of her projects she uses self-portraiture to explore themes of belonging, identity ...

Northern California-based artist Alex Pardee has been creating fantastical garish and tortured creatures in both fine and commercial art capacities for over a decade. While gaining notoriety working with Warner Bros., Reprise Records, Upper Playground, Hurley International, RIDE snowboards, Definiti...

Following on from his successful Drawing Geometry, Jon Allen explores the creation of the many-sided three-dimensional forms known as the Platonic and Archimedean solids. Based on patterns of equally spaced points on a sphere, these polyhedra have been the fundamentals of geometric exploration for m...

There's a good reason The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide has been the definitive guide for collectors and dealers alike since 1970. In addition to being the preeminent source of comic book pricing information, it features a ton of other data as well. The 42nd edition includes all new insights and...

Branded by critics from Aristophanes to Nietzsche as sophistic, iconoclastic, and sensationalistic, Euripides has long been held responsible for the demise of Greek tragedy. Despite this reputation, his drama has a fundamentally conservative character. It conveys nostalgia for an idealized age that ...

In this 2003 study, Edson Armi offers a fresh interpretation of Romanesque architecture. Armi focuses on buildings in northern Italy, Switzerland, southern France and Catalonia, the regions where Romanesque architecture first appeared around 1000 AD. He integrates the study of medieval structure wit...

Join Chris Ayers and his menagerie as they make their Parisian debut on the walls of Galerie Daniel Maghen. Fifty-eight pieces were created especially for the gallery show in year six of The Daily Zoo and they are all captured in this book in their full glory. Do not miss meeting Le Chic Sheep, Le P...