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Photoshop for Artists

A Complete Guide for Fine Artists, Photographers, and Printmakers

by Sylvie Covey ...

ENRICH, ENHANCE, AND TRANSFORM YOUR ART WITH THE MAGIC OF PHOTOSHOP®For artists, Adobe® Photoshopâ offers an exciting entry into a new world of limitless color, textures, and effects that can be applied with just the touch of a keyboard or click of a mouse.Intended for serious artists -- painters, photographers, and printmakers ‑- Photoshop for Artists provides a comprehensive series of detailed ... Read more

$24.31 NZD

ENRICH, ENHANCE, AND TRANSFORM YOUR ART WITH THE MAGIC OF PHOTOSHOP®For artists, Adobe® Photoshopâ offers an exciting entry into a new world of limitless color, textures, and effects that can be applied with just the touch of a keyboard or click of a mouse.Intended for serious artists -- painters, photographers, and printmakers ‑- Photoshop for Artists provides a comprehensive series of detailed
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How to Have Great Ideas

A Guide to Creative Thinking

by John Ingledew ...

How to Have Great Ideas is the essential guide for students and young professionals looking to embrace creative thinking in design, advertising and communications. It provides 53 practical strategies for unlocking innovative ideas.Strategies include improvisation techniques, changing the scenery, finding hidden links, looking to nature for inspiration, combining unusual systems, challenging set ... Read more

$4.99 NZD

How to Have Great Ideas is the essential guide for students and young professionals looking to embrace creative thinking in design, advertising and communications. It provides 53 practical strategies for unlocking innovative ideas.Strategies include improvisation techniques, changing the scenery, finding hidden links, looking to nature for inspiration, combining unusual systems, challenging set
... Read more
The EveryGirl’s Guide to Life

by Maria Menounos ...

Raised by working-class immigrant parents and later exposed to Hollywood's most elite experts in every field, Access Hollywood's, Today's, and Nightly News's reporter Maria Menounos reveals her EveryGirl secrets on everything: her systems to organize life, manage time, and ascend the ladder of success; her lazy woman's workout; her weight-loss tips (how she lost forty pounds and kept it off); and ... Read more

$10.99 NZD

Raised by working-class immigrant parents and later exposed to Hollywood's most elite experts in every field, Access Hollywood's, Today's, and Nightly News's reporter Maria Menounos reveals her EveryGirl secrets on everything: her systems to organize life, manage time, and ascend the ladder of success; her lazy woman's workout; her weight-loss tips (how she lost forty pounds and kept it off); and
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Writing to Learn

How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All

by William Zinsser ...

This is an essential book for everyone who wants to write clearly about any subject and use writing as a means of learning. ... Read more

$10.99 NZD

This is an essential book for everyone who wants to write clearly about any subject and use writing as a means of learning.
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Sex with the Queen

900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

by Eleanor Herman ...

In this follow-up to her bestselling Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of a queen's boudoir. Impeccably researched, filled with page-turning romance, passion, and scandal, Sex with the Queen explores the scintillating sexual lives of some of our most beloved and infamous female rulers.She was the queen, living in an opulent palace, wearing ... Read more

$14.99 NZD

In this follow-up to her bestselling Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of a queen's boudoir. Impeccably researched, filled with page-turning romance, passion, and scandal, Sex with the Queen explores the scintillating sexual lives of some of our most beloved and infamous female rulers.She was the queen, living in an opulent palace, wearing
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The Great Book of Drawing Zentangle

How to Create Amazing Designs

by Jane Marbaix ...

Discover the mesmerizing world of Zentangle drawing and unlock their creative potential with this comprehensive guide, beautifully illustrated in full-colour.The art of Zentangle is a creative and mindful artform, using intricate patterns to make abstract and meditative compositions. In this practical book, renowned Zentangle teacher Jane Marbaix takes readers on a journey through creating their ... Read more

$1.91 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

Discover the mesmerizing world of Zentangle drawing and unlock their creative potential with this comprehensive guide, beautifully illustrated in full-colour.The art of Zentangle is a creative and mindful artform, using intricate patterns to make abstract and meditative compositions. In this practical book, renowned Zentangle teacher Jane Marbaix takes readers on a journey through creating their
... Read more
Watercolor Painting

A Comprehensive Approach to Mastering the Medium

by Tom Hoffmann ...

The beauty of a watercolor painting lies in its diaphanous layers, delicate strokes, and luminous washes. However, the very features that define the beauty of the medium can make it difficult to master. This complete guide to understanding the relationships between color, value, wetness, and composition unravels the mysteries of watercolor to help your practice evolve.Experienced teacher and ... Read more

$8.79 NZD

The beauty of a watercolor painting lies in its diaphanous layers, delicate strokes, and luminous washes. However, the very features that define the beauty of the medium can make it difficult to master. This complete guide to understanding the relationships between color, value, wetness, and composition unravels the mysteries of watercolor to help your practice evolve.Experienced teacher and
... Read more
Minimalista

Your step-by-step guide to a better home, wardrobe and life

by Shira Gill ...

***"I identified with so many of the important lessons Shira teaches in Minimalista. Now I'll know what book to recommend when people ask me to help them on their journey towards minimalism!" - Garance Doré, New York Times Best Selling Author of Love Style LifeElevate your personal style, trim your belongings, and transform your life, one room at a time, with this visionary lifestyle and home ... Read more

$24.99 NZD

***"I identified with so many of the important lessons Shira teaches in Minimalista. Now I'll know what book to recommend when people ask me to help them on their journey towards minimalism!" - Garance Doré, New York Times Best Selling Author of Love Style LifeElevate your personal style, trim your belongings, and transform your life, one room at a time, with this visionary lifestyle and home
... Read more
101 Watercolor Secrets

Essential Insights and Techniques for Painters

by Anna Bucciarelli ...

Improve your skills, explore new techniques, and immerse yourself in the joy of watercolor painting!Watercolor painting is a popular and satisfying art form that offers vibrant, luminous results, encourages spontaneity, and rewards creativity. Though it may present challenges for beginners, these are valuable opportunities to enhance your skills and grow as an artist.In 101 Watercolor Secrets, ... Read more

$31.87 NZD

Improve your skills, explore new techniques, and immerse yourself in the joy of watercolor painting!Watercolor painting is a popular and satisfying art form that offers vibrant, luminous results, encourages spontaneity, and rewards creativity. Though it may present challenges for beginners, these are valuable opportunities to enhance your skills and grow as an artist.In 101 Watercolor Secrets,
... Read more
The Essential Kabbalah

The Heart of Jewish Mysticism

by Daniel C. Matt ...

A translation of the Kabbalah for the layperson includes a compact presentation of each primary text and features a practical analysis and vital historical information that offer insight into the various aspects of Jewish mysticism. ... Read more

$10.99 NZD

A translation of the Kabbalah for the layperson includes a compact presentation of each primary text and features a practical analysis and vital historical information that offer insight into the various aspects of Jewish mysticism.
... Read more
Rendering in Pen and Ink

The Classic Book On Pen and Ink Techniques for Artists, Illustrators, Architects, and Designers

by Arthur L. Guptill ...

Arthur L. Guptill's classic Rendering in Pen and Ink has long been regarded as the most comprehensive book ever published on the subject of ink drawing. This is a book designed to delight and instruct anyone who draws with pen and ink, from the professional artist to the amateur and hobbyist. It is of particular interest to architects, interior designers, landscape architects, industrial designers ... Read more

Was $18.04 NZD Now $4.04 NZD

Arthur L. Guptill's classic Rendering in Pen and Ink has long been regarded as the most comprehensive book ever published on the subject of ink drawing. This is a book designed to delight and instruct anyone who draws with pen and ink, from the professional artist to the amateur and hobbyist. It is of particular interest to architects, interior designers, landscape architects, industrial designers
... Read more
Thinking with Type

A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (3rd Edition, Revised and Expanded)

by Ellen Lupton ...

The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton—revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces."Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."—I Love TypographyThe bestselling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded third edition: ... Read more

$29.18 NZD

The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton—revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces."Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."—I Love TypographyThe bestselling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded third edition:
... Read more
Fifty Chairs that Changed the World

Design Museum Fifty

by DESIGN MUSEUM ENTERPRISE LTD ...

Series series Design Museum Fifty
Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about it? Fifty Chairs That Changed the World imparts that knowledge listing the top 50 chairs that have made a substantial impact in the world of British design today. From Thonet's 1870 Side Chair to Konstantin Grcic's Chair_One, each entry offers a short appraisal to ... Read more

$16.99 NZD

Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about it? Fifty Chairs That Changed the World imparts that knowledge listing the top 50 chairs that have made a substantial impact in the world of British design today. From Thonet's 1870 Side Chair to Konstantin Grcic's Chair_One, each entry offers a short appraisal to
... Read more
Unless It Moves the Human Heart

The Craft and Art of Writing

by Roger Rosenblatt ...

Multiple award-winner Roger Rosenblatt has received glowing critical acclaim for his exceptional literary works—from the hilarious novels Lapham Rising and Beet to his poignant, heartbreaking, ultimately inspiring memoir Making Toast. With Unless It Moves the Human Heart, the revered novelist, essayist, playwright, and respected writing teacher offers a guidebook for aspiring authors, a memoir, ... Read more

$10.99 NZD

Multiple award-winner Roger Rosenblatt has received glowing critical acclaim for his exceptional literary works—from the hilarious novels Lapham Rising and Beet to his poignant, heartbreaking, ultimately inspiring memoir Making Toast. With Unless It Moves the Human Heart, the revered novelist, essayist, playwright, and respected writing teacher offers a guidebook for aspiring authors, a memoir,
... Read more
Universal Methods of Design, Expanded and Revised

by Bruce Hanington, Bella Martin ...

Series series Rockport Universal
This expanded and revised version of the best-selling Universal Methods of Design is a comprehensive reference that provides a thorough and critical presentation of 125 research methods, synthesis/analysis techniques, and research deliverables for human-centered design.The text and accompanying photos and graphics of this classic resource are delivered in a concise and accessible format perfect ... Read more

$49.67 NZD

This expanded and revised version of the best-selling Universal Methods of Design is a comprehensive reference that provides a thorough and critical presentation of 125 research methods, synthesis/analysis techniques, and research deliverables for human-centered design.The text and accompanying photos and graphics of this classic resource are delivered in a concise and accessible format perfect
... Read more
Newspaper Blackout

by Austin Kleon ...

Poet and cartoonist Austin Kleon has discovered a new way to read between the lines. Armed with a daily newspaper and a permanent marker, he constructs through deconstruction—eliminating the words he doesn't need to create a new art form: Newspaper Blackout poetry.Highly original, Kleon's verse ranges from provocative to lighthearted, and from moving to hysterically funny, and undoubtedly ... Read more

$14.99 NZD

Poet and cartoonist Austin Kleon has discovered a new way to read between the lines. Armed with a daily newspaper and a permanent marker, he constructs through deconstruction—eliminating the words he doesn't need to create a new art form: Newspaper Blackout poetry.Highly original, Kleon's verse ranges from provocative to lighthearted, and from moving to hysterically funny, and undoubtedly
... Read more
The Urban Sketcher

Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location

by Marc Taro Holmes ...

Make the world your studio!Capture the bustle and beauty of life in your town.Experience life as only an artist can! Join the rapidly growing, international movement of artists united by a passion for drawing on location in the cities, towns and villages where they live and travel. Packed with art and advice from Marc Taro Holmes, artist and co-founder of Urbansketchers.org, this self-directed ... Read more

$28.04 NZD

Make the world your studio!Capture the bustle and beauty of life in your town.Experience life as only an artist can! Join the rapidly growing, international movement of artists united by a passion for drawing on location in the cities, towns and villages where they live and travel. Packed with art and advice from Marc Taro Holmes, artist and co-founder of Urbansketchers.org, this self-directed
... Read more
The Faith of a Writer

Life, Craft, Art

by Joyce Carol Oates ...

A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her methodJoyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having written in a number of genres -- prose, poetry, personal and critical essays, as well as plays -- she is an artist ideally suited to answer essential ... Read more

$15.99 NZD

A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her methodJoyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having written in a number of genres -- prose, poetry, personal and critical essays, as well as plays -- she is an artist ideally suited to answer essential
... Read more
Drawing in Pen & Ink

by Claudia Nice ...

Series series First Steps
Got a yearning to pick up a pen and see what you can do? Go for it! But don't sketch alone-let popular artist and teacher Claudia Nice be your guide. She'll make your first steps fun and successful!In her trademark style-friendly and encouraging-Claudia will show you how to do a sketch of a subject that actually ends up looking like the subject. And she shares her secrets for turning simple lines ... Read more

$19.45 NZD

Got a yearning to pick up a pen and see what you can do? Go for it! But don't sketch alone-let popular artist and teacher Claudia Nice be your guide. She'll make your first steps fun and successful!In her trademark style-friendly and encouraging-Claudia will show you how to do a sketch of a subject that actually ends up looking like the subject. And she shares her secrets for turning simple lines
... Read more
Eighteenth-Century Women Artists

Their Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs

by Caroline Chapman ...

The eighteenth century was an age when not only the aristocracy but a burgeoning middle class could enjoy a remarkable flowering of the arts. But it was a man’s world; any woman who wished to succeed as an artist had to overcome numerous obstacles. In a society in which women were required to marry, reproduce, and conform to rigid social conventions a professional artist risked becoming an object ... Read more

$1.49 NZD

The eighteenth century was an age when not only the aristocracy but a burgeoning middle class could enjoy a remarkable flowering of the arts. But it was a man’s world; any woman who wished to succeed as an artist had to overcome numerous obstacles. In a society in which women were required to marry, reproduce, and conform to rigid social conventions a professional artist risked becoming an object
... Read more
The Dress Doctor

Prescriptions for Style, From A to Z

by Edith Head ...

Edith Head was perhaps the most famous Hollywood costume designer of all time. Long before Rachel Zoe, Andrea Leibermann, Estee Stanley, and Nicole Chavez were styling Hollywood celebrities, eight-time Oscar Award-winning Edith Head was the sartorial sensation behind the silver screen’s most high-profile stars and starlets. The Dress Doctor, adapted from her 1959 autobiography and enhanced with ... Read more

$18.99 NZD

Edith Head was perhaps the most famous Hollywood costume designer of all time. Long before Rachel Zoe, Andrea Leibermann, Estee Stanley, and Nicole Chavez were styling Hollywood celebrities, eight-time Oscar Award-winning Edith Head was the sartorial sensation behind the silver screen’s most high-profile stars and starlets. The Dress Doctor, adapted from her 1959 autobiography and enhanced with
... Read more
Drawing Basics and Video Game Art

Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game Design

by Chris Solarski ...

"This book supports my own 30-year crusade to demonstrate that games are an art form that undeniably rivals traditional arts. It gives detailed explanations of game art techniques and their importance, while also highlighting their dependence on artistic aspects of game design and programming.”— John Romero, co-founder of id Software and CEO of Loot Drop, Inc."Solarski’s methodology here is to ... Read more

$27.52 NZD

"This book supports my own 30-year crusade to demonstrate that games are an art form that undeniably rivals traditional arts. It gives detailed explanations of game art techniques and their importance, while also highlighting their dependence on artistic aspects of game design and programming.”— John Romero, co-founder of id Software and CEO of Loot Drop, Inc."Solarski’s methodology here is to
... Read more
Shabby Chic

by Rachel Ashwell ...

Valuable flea market finds...A peeling, antioue vanity in muted sea green...An elegant, cracked chandelier...An enormous, slipcovered sofa with deep, cushions...Comfort, the beauty of imperfections, the allure of time-worn objects, and the appeal of simple practical living: these are the cornerstones of what has come to be known as the Shabby Chic style. Like the cozy familiarity of a well-worn ... Read more

Was $20.99 NZD Now $16.99 NZD

Valuable flea market finds...A peeling, antioue vanity in muted sea green...An elegant, cracked chandelier...An enormous, slipcovered sofa with deep, cushions...Comfort, the beauty of imperfections, the allure of time-worn objects, and the appeal of simple practical living: these are the cornerstones of what has come to be known as the Shabby Chic style. Like the cozy familiarity of a well-worn
... Read more
Drawing and Sketching

by Collins ...

This practical one-stop guide will show you all the techniques and inspiration you need to start drawing. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy ebook format with colour illustrations and expert advice throughout.Thinking about taking up drawing or sketching? Need to know about the best techniques? Want to know which materials to use?Well-known artists Jackie Simmonds, Wendy Jelbert and ... Read more

$9.99 NZD

This practical one-stop guide will show you all the techniques and inspiration you need to start drawing. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy ebook format with colour illustrations and expert advice throughout.Thinking about taking up drawing or sketching? Need to know about the best techniques? Want to know which materials to use?Well-known artists Jackie Simmonds, Wendy Jelbert and
... Read more

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