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Thinking about Video Games: Interviews with the Experts

David S. Heineman · Indiana University Press
Format: Print book

The growth in popularity and complexity of video games has spurred new interest in how games are developed and in the research and technology behind them. David Heineman brings together some of the most iconic, influential, and interesting voices from across the gaming industry and asks...
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Shake Puppies

Carli Davidson · Harper Design
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling book Shake, Shake Puppies also features 61 dogs caught mid-shake—only this time they’re even more adorable and laughter inducing.Shake Puppies features two images of each dog placed side by side to capture the action of the shake—the...
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Twenty Over Eighty: Conversations on a Lifetime in Architecture and Design

Aileen Kwun · Princeton Architectural Press 2015.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Twenty Over Eighty is a collection of insightful, intimate, and often irreverent interviews with twenty architecture and design luminaries over the age of eighty. Revealing conversations with leaders from a variety of fields - including graphic designers Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser, Lora...
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Vintage Knit: 25 Knitting and Crochet Patterns Refashioned for Today

Marine Malak · Laurence King Pub
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Vintage Knit offers lovers of retro style 25 beautiful knitting patterns from the 1940s and 1950s, regraded to fit modern sizes (small, medium, and large) and to knit with yarns easily available today. A short introduction describes each garment and suggests how to style it, followed...
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Pressed for All Time: Producing the Great Jazz Albums from Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday to Miles Davis and Diana Krall

Michael Jarrett · University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Histories of jazz slight record producers. They are invisible generally unknown and seldom acknowledged. And yet, we have a jazz canon those recordings that define an artform because of the contributions of producers: such as Milt Gabler, George Avakian, Bob Weinstock, Lester Koenig, Orrin...
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The Watercolor Course You've Always Wanted: Guided Lessons for Beginners and Experienced Artists

Leslie Frontz · Watson-Guptill Publications
Pages: 184
Format: Print book

A comprehensive and practical guide to watercolor painting from sought-after instructor and acclaimed artist Leslie Frontz that answers the two most common questions students at all levels want to know: What am I doing wrong? and How do I decide what to do instead? In the tradition...
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Creating Comics as Journalism, Memoir and Nonfiction

Randy Duncan · Routledge
Format: Paperback

This book provides student journalists, artists, designers, creative writers and web producers with the tools and techniques they need to tell nonfiction stories visually and graphically. Weaving together history, theory, and practical advice, seasoned nonfiction comics professors and scholars...
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