Art and Design

From the moment motion pictures were invented, fearless entrepreneurs, poverty row profiteers, and money-grabbing…

A rad book that profiles makers and includes projects you can make yourself. Featuring 25 profiles of illustrators,…

This cultural who's-who illuminates 50 famous figures, from Leonardo da Vinci to Coco Chanel, through the fascinating…

From the deepest depths of punk rock's primordial wastelands...through the stygian goth swamps of the 1980s, and on into…

This collection of essays about what it means to be "cool," particularly in relation to Blackness, packs a punch.…

This is a microportfolio of Mark Ryden's "The Gay 90's" exhibition. This set contains 24 plates of his "pop surrealist"…

How many self-tanning lotions are in Donald Trump’s weekender? What’s inside Martha Stewart’s hand-knit fanny…

In the late 90s, artist and printer Josh MacPhee found a 1970s-era anti-colonial pamphlet with a compelling cover about…

Ghassan Kanafani (1936–1972) worked as a journalist, a literary critic, and as a fiction writer. He was a spokesman…

Barred For Life is a photo documentary cataloging the legacy of Punk Rock pioneers Black Flag, through stories,…

Young, up-and-coming illustrator William Grill weaves a detailed visual narrative of Shackleton's journey to…

This is a cute book about cute little houses. It's well-done, beautifully photographed, and is a good tool for informing…

A radical feminist history and street art resource for inspired readers! This book combines short biographies with…

This book is really rad. It goes a step beyond the mindless (sorry, I mean mindful) coloring-to-zone-out trend—it…

This Celebrate People's History poster (part of a series by the justseeds artist collective) commemorates the burning of…

Indispensable for every home, library, and office, The Knowledge Book distills thousands of years of humankind’s…

Got an idea for a project but you're not sure how to make it work on a practical (and, let's face it, financial) level?…

This offers readers innovative new projects for transforming wood pallets into all types of beautiful, useful items for…

Over the last decade, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has become an ongoing topic of conversation around the world,…

All relationships eventually make the transition from never-ending passion to real life partnership. But with this…

Valerie Solanas may have been dismissed but will never be forgotten. She has become, perhaps unwittingly, a figurehead…

Study up on your freighthopping history, railroad graffiti interpretation, and hobo life of yesteryear and today. Follow…

I love this book -- I discovered it at age 10 or 11, and after half-assedly doing a few of the exercises I turned in a…