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This incredible box contains 30 collectible, frameable, and mailable deluxe postcards, includes the iconic and fantastic works of: Bedelgeuse, Charlie Immer, Kikyz1313, Hine´ Mizushima, Cal Redback, Michael Reedy, Thomas Robson, Mark Ryden, Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo, and Fernando Vicente.

A stunning tribute to our eternal fascination with the human body

Anatomy, Exploring the Human Body is a visually compelling survey of more than 5,000 years of image-making. Through 300 remarkable works, selected and curated by an international panel of anatomists, curators, academics, and specialists, the book chronicles the intriguing visual history of human anatomy, showcasing its amazing complexity and our ongoing fascination with the systems and functions of our bodies.

Exploring individual parts of the human body from head to toe, and revealing the intricate functions of body systems, such as the nerves, muscles, organs, digestive system, brain, and senses, this authoritative book presents iconic examples alongside rarely seen, breathtaking works. The 300 entries are arranged with juxtapositions of contrasting and complementary illustrations to allow for thought-provoking, lively, and stimulating reading.

Advisory panel: Sara Barnes, Dame Sue Black, Gordon Campbell, Andrew Graciano, Elizabeth Hallam, Peter Heinl, Mieneke te Hennepe, Nick Hopwood, Taylor McCall, Jeffrey Reznick, Vanessa Ruiz, Michael Sappol, Thomas Schnalke, Jill Shapiro, Johanna Simkin and Carla Valentine

Additional texts: Eva Åhrén, Sara Barnes, Dame Sue Black, Gordon Campbell, Tim Cooke, Anita Dalal, Louisa Elderton, Diane Fortenberry, Andrew Graciano, Nick Hopwood, Tom Jackson, Taylor McCall, Michele Robecchi, Carole Reeves, Vanessa Ruiz, Michael Sappol, Thomas Schnalke, Johanna Simkin, James Smith, David Trigg and Martin Walters

About the Authors:

Professor Thomas Schnalke is director of the Berliner Medizinhistorischen Museums der Charité.

Dame Sue Black is a forensic anthropologist, anatomist and academic. Black is a Fellow and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Biology, and is the lifetime Professor of Anatomy for the Royal Scottish Academy. She was awarded an OBE in 2001 for her work in Kosovo and a DBE in 2016 for her contributions to forensic anthropology. She is also a recipient of the Fletcher of Saltoun award for her contribution to Scottish Culture, the Jephcott gold medal for scientific advancement, the Lucy Mair medal for humanitarian assistance and the Anatomical Society gold medal for her distinguished contribution to the field of anatomy.

The Ancient Egyptians used a hieroglyphic writing system that still resonates today for its graphic representation of things, people, pharaohs and concepts.

These hieroglyphics were discovered by adventurers and archaeologists in temples, tombs and on papyrus documents, telling of the everyday life, religion and history of this 5,000-year-old civilisation.
Some of the symbols were simple but represented something with a wider significance, such as the eye of Horus; other logograms might represent an animal, such as a snake, elephant or lion; while others, such as the Ba symbol of a bird with a human head, represented the human soul with the ability to travel to the afterlife using wings.

In Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs Illustrated, explore the logograms for popular concepts such as ‘sun’, ‘house’ and ‘mountain’, as well as more complex ideas such as Ajet, or ‘sun rising over mountains’; marvel at Tutankhamun’s full name as marked on his tomb, which is portrayed using a reed, a wave of water, a falcon, an ankh symbol, and a series of staffs; learn about the two outstretched arms of the Ka symbol, which represents the mortal life and soul of a person; and wonder at the Ouroboros, a symbol that shows a snake-like animal that swallows its own tail, representing eternal struggle.

Each of more than 150 entries includes a description of the written form and an explanation of its meaning.

Presented in a high-quality Chinese-bound format with accompanying illustrations, Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs Illustrated provides a compact, easy-to-understand introduction to the writing system of Ancient Egypt.

About the Author:

Trevor Naylor is a writer living in Yorkshire. Almost 40 years of visiting and living in Egypt have inspired several travel and history books about this fascinating civilisation. Most recently, these have included Egypt – A Visual Explorer Guide, Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics Illustrated and The Riddle of the Sphinx – Quiz Like and Egyptian. His latest book, Egyptian Gods and Myths Illustrated, will be published by Amber Books in September 2025.

The father of modern jewellery, the golden engineer, the King of Bling… These are just some of the epithets assigned to Andrew Grima, the British genius who marched in the vanguard of a 1960s London-based movement that created a new vocabulary for jewellery design.

Jeweller to the royals and the jet set, to the rule makers and the tastemakers, Grima was a feted celebrity who appeared on talk shows, in Pathé newsreels and in advertisements for Canada Dry. He won The Queen’s Award for Export, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Prize for Elegant Design and a record 11 De Beers Diamonds International Awards (the ‘Oscars’ of the jewellery world).

This book illuminates the career of a man who participated in a golden age of British creativity. It contains a dazzling array of never-before-seen sketches, designs and photographs from the Grima archives and includes a sparkling preface from the doyen of jewellery experts, TV celebrity Geoffrey Munn. A must-buy publication for art and jewellery lovers alike.

“Since discovering the work of Andrew Grima, I have not only become a collector of his exquisite creations, I have also become one of the many to be inspired by his unique and inimitable designs. Each piece of jewellery, each watch, each object is a sculpture.” – Marc Jacobs

 “His work, his style, is completely identifiable, it’s unique.” – James Taffin de Givenchy

- The first major monograph on Andrew Grima, arguably Britain's greatest jewellery maestro
- A glittering retrospective that encompasses Andrew Grima's life, career and legacy
- Detailed pictures demonstrate Grima's impeccable artistry as a modernist designer
- Preface by TV celebrity and Antiques Roadshow expert, Geoffrey Munn

About the Author:

William Grant is the husband of Andrew Grima's second wife Jojo, and step-father to their daughter Francesca. He therefore has unique access to the family history and has thoroughly investigated the verbal and written testimony about Grima, as well as the brand's extensive archives.

Animal Anatomy for Artists will equip you with the knowledge, tools, and reference material you need to take your animal drawings to the next level. Introductory chapters by artist and instructor Joe Weatherly focus on a structural approach to drawing, exploring core topics including gesture, rhythm and posing, construction, anatomy basics, proportions, and more. This is followed by the visual reference library, an expansive collection of stunning animal photography with detailed overlaid illustrations showing the skeletal structure, musculature, and contour forms of a wide variety of animals, illustrated by artist Shannon Beaumont. The library also contains numerous pose sketches, both stationary and mid-action, of each animal. Whether you are an oil painter, traditional sculptor, or digital concept artist, the informative resources within this book will help you to improve the quality and accuracy of your art. 

With a foreword from artist and teacher Marshall Vandruff, Animal Anatomy for Artists is a key resource for artists of any skill level who seek to capture animals realistically, or aim to exaggerate the animal form to create fantastical creatures. The clear presentation and incredible details provide a keepsake resource that will enable you to create anatomically correct images for years to come.

• Written and illustrated by experts in the field of artistic animal anatomy 
• Thorough introduction to animal anatomy fundamentals and terminology 
• Chapters cover foundational topics including the structural drawing process and anatomy basics 
• Visual reference library of 50 colour animal photographs with detailed overlays to show the skeleton, musculature, and contours of each animal’s form 
•  Additional illustrative studies and pose sketches to capture movement and dynamic angles

Contents and contributors:

FOREWORD by Marshall Vandruff
INTRODUCTION by Joe Weatherly
THE DRAWING PROCESS
Gesture
Rhythm & posing
Construction
Drawing from the imagination
Drawing from life
Keeping a sketchbook
Drawing tools

ANATOMY BASICS
Simplified skeletal structures
Simplified musculature
Proportions & surface anatomy
The simplified head
The simplified neck & torso
The simplified foreleg
The simplified hind leg
Comparative anatomy

VISUA: REFERENCE LIBRARY
Artwork by Shannon Beaumont
Bison
Cow
Goat
Impala
Sheep
Buffalo
Alpaca
Camel
Deer
Moose
Giraffe
Okapi
Hippopotamus
Dog
Fox
Wolf
Cat
Cheetah
Jaguar
Lioness
Oncilla
Tiger
Meerkat
Hyena
Badger
Otter
Weasel
Wolverine
Sea lion
Racoon
Grizzly bear
Polar bear
Bat
Kangaroo
Donkey
Horse
Zebra
Rhinoceros
Tapir
Baboon
Rhesus macaque 
Chimpanzee
Gorilla
Elephant 
Beaver
Mouse
Rat
Crocodile
Lizard
Hawk

CONTRIBUTORS' GALLERY
Joe Weatherly
Shannon Beaumont

GLOSSARY

This is the revised and expanded ten-year anniversary edition of one of Counter-Print’s most-loved books.

Counter-Print proudly presents the 10th-anniversary edition of this iconic book, brimming with an exquisite collection of animal-inspired logos from around the world.

Explore this fascinating realm of visual identity, where creativity meets nature. Engaging and visually captivating, this timeless edition showcases the power of animal symbolism, making it a must-have for designers and illustrators.

Swissbound (lay-flat cover with exposed spine)

About the Author:

Counter-Print is an independent publisher and online store specialising in design and visual culture. They produce and curate a unique selection of books from around the world.

The definitive visual guide to the cityscapes and buildings of the most celebrated and influential anime movies

The influence of anime, one of Japan’s most successful cultural exports, has been felt across cinema, literature, comic books and videogames for decades, yet the artwork behind the genre remains somewhat enigmatic, particularly in the pre-digital period before the early 2000s. A genuine behind-the-scenes journey into the original background paintings, storyboards and early drafts of the industry’s most revered directors and illustrators, Anime Architecture presents the otherworldly buildings and megacities of these visionaries as celebrations of – and lessons for – the near future.

Includes exclusive material from:

AKIRA, 1988
Patlabor: The Movie, 1989
Patlabor 2: The Movie, 1993
Ghost in the Shell, 1995
Metropolis, 2001
Innocence, 2004
Tekkonkinkreet, 2006
Rebuild of Evangelion, 2007, 2009

Contents List:

Introduction • 1. The Multilayered Landscape • 2. Tokyo Scale: The Endless Megacity • 3. Special Effect City • Biographical Information

About the Author:

Stefan Riekeles is a curator based in Berlin. He has been the Artistic Director of the Japan Media Arts Festival Dortmund, and curated the 2011 exhibition ‘Proto Anime Cut’. He served as the Programme Director of the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2010 and curated exhibitions for transmediale festival for art and digital culture Berlin. He holds an MA in Culture Studies and Audio Communication Science from the Humboldt University and the Technical University in Berlin.

From the editors of Another Man magazine, an epic journey into the world of men’s style. Another Man magazine is revered around the world as the ultimate style bible for modern men. Elevating men’s fashion to a lavish and luxurious level, it combines a singular, soulful point of view on men’s style with thought-provoking, sophisticated editorial content. Using the rich wealth of the Another Man archive, remixed with handpicked material and specially commissioned work, this scrapbook narrative filled with rock and roll legends, romantic anti-heroes, and timeless fashion icons expresses the best of men’s style. Featuring over 300 images by photographers including Alasdair McLellan, Willy Vanderperre, Nick Knight, and David Sims, this volume also contains a portfolio, curated by Jefferson Hack, of interviews and conversations with cultural icons like Jake and Dinos Chapman, Jarvis Cocker, William Gibson, Kate Moss, Bobby Gillespie, William Burroughs, and Paul Simonon.

About the Authors:

Alister Mackie is the creative director of Another Man magazine. Previously the fashion director of Dazed & Confused and AnOther, he has worked closely with brands including Lanvin, Louis Vuitton, and Marc Jacobs and has built longstanding partnerships with photographers like Nick Knight and Alasdair McLellan. Jefferson Hack is the editorial director and publisher of Dazed Group. His groundbreaking work over the last twenty years has seen him co-found the iconic magazines Dazed & Confused, Another, and Another Man alongside launching digital platforms Dazed Digital and Anothermag.com. Ben Cobb is the editor of Another Man magazine and the author of Anarchy and Alchemy: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky.

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Recognized as one of the most innovative designers in contemporary fashion, Tokyo-based Anrealage is the brainchild of Kunihiko Morinaga. Born in 1980, Morinaga launched the brand in 2003, began showing in Tokyo in 2006 and Paris in 2014, and would later be the recipient of the Mainichi Grand Prize for design — Japan’s top fashion prize previously conferred to Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto.

Cerebral and tech-savvy, the Anrealage approach to design is forever putting high-concept theory into practice. Known principally for introducing photochromatic textiles into dresses that react and change colors in response to varying degrees of light, he has also received acclaim for juxtaposing contrasting textures with deconstructed elements to create unique silhouettes. A master of provocation, Morinaga has always been preoccupied byintegrating humanity with rapidly evolving technologies and is actually wary of modern society’s excesses. Bemoaning the smartphone’s impact on real-world, person-to-person interaction, one of his most recent shows featured fabrics that repelled cellular signals. Anrealage has rightly won itself a devoted fashion following not only in Japan, but overseas as well, with recent insurgent collaborations with brands suchas Fendi, augmenting its growing influence with a firm grasp on how the street informs high fashion. Anrealage: A&Zis conceived as a celebration, approximating with printing effects (including augmented reality) some of the mystery and detailing associated with brand. The visual narrative itself provides an instructive look at the process of design from Morinaga’s own point of view — illustrating that he is at once comfortable with developing technologies and respectful of traditional approaches 

About the Author:

Born in 1980, Kunihiko Morinaga is the designer of Anrealage. He is the recipient of Japan’s top fashion award, the Mainichi Grand Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2019 LVMH Prize.

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This comprehensive overview, organized by material and period, allows the reader to distinguish, appraise, and date French jewelry from 1800‒1950.

This highly accessible guide offers a detailed panorama charting the evolution of French jewelry created between the Consulate period in the 1800s through to the 1950s. Iconic examples include Onyx cameos, “dormeuses” earrings in rose gold, an Art Deco solitaire, a sapphire “you and me” ring, a diamond “shaker” brooch, and an emerald “negligee” necklace.

Entries are organized by period, and include primary sources of inspiration and characteristics, designers, materials, gemstones, and types of jewelry. Completed with an overview of the key design houses and artists who have left their mark on the jewelry industry since 1800, along with detailed advice for buying and maintaining pieces, this practical reference — richly illustrated with photographs and archival documents — provides everything you need to know to appreciate antique jewelry in all its facets.

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This indispensable reference to antique French jewelry gives amateur and professional jewelry enthusiasts the knowledge and confidence to:
• recognize and date a piece of antique jewelry
• identify the principal gemstones
• distinguish the major French jewelry designers
• buy and sell antique pieces
• have works appraised

Charting the evolution of French jewelry created between the Consulate period (established by general Napoleon Bonaparte on the cusp of the nineteenth century) and the 1950s, this practical guide defines each era by identifying its hallmark trends, materials, gemstones, main types of jewelry, and historic jewelry houses. Richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, and archival documents, and featuring iconic designs such as the “tank” bracelet, “you-and-me” ring, “négligé” pendant, and Zip necklace, this essential book covers antique French jewelry in all of its scintillating facets.

About the Author:

Victoire de Castellane is artistic director of Dior Jewelry. Geoffray Riondet runs the Riondet design house, and is an antique jewelry specialist, legal expert, and gemologist. Riondet drew upon the expertise of Valérie Goupil, Anne Laurent, Loïc Lescuyer, Gérard Panczer, and Brigitte Serre-Bourt, professors at the French National Institute of Gemology (ING, Paris-Lyon).

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Cutting-edge graphic work from the Arab world and Iran that is emblematic of the cultural emancipation of this entire area.

The wave of protests that started this year in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and other countries have made it clear just how much the Middle East is searching for a new identity. Young designers in the region are playing a part in this movement by increasingly emancipating themselves creatively. In their work, they are charting their own compelling course between local visual convention and a modern international style.

Arabesque 2 documents the potential of this current creative emancipation in the Arab world and Iran. The book features examples of recent innovative and groundbreaking design work that is inspired by the richness of the region’s visual culture.

Given the important role of calligraphy in the Middle East, Arabesque 2 focuses on typography. The book presents a wide range of Arabic fonts and typefaces inspired by traditional calligraphy. These are accompanied by a rich selection of applications. Select examples of design and graffiti serve as powerful demonstrations of how text can be used illustratively. This work is particularly relevant to those creating street art and poster design.

Arabesque 2 also features graphic design, logos, editorial design, and illustration by young designers and activists from Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates. Regardless of the location and nationality of their creators, all of the examples included in the book combine modern design with the traditional, letter-based canon of Arab forms in striking ways.  

The book’s preface is written by John Martin, co-founder of Art Dubai. Additional texts and interviews describe the environments in which the featured designers and artists work. Editors Ben Wittner and Sascha Thoma round out Arabesque 2 with a CD-ROM that features four typefaces related to its themes.

This volume throws light upon an art expression to be found clad in the garments of Moroccan architecture. This work provides keys to the understanding of geometrical arabesques. This art of a rare and precious mastery was elaborated through the determined efforts of generations of anonymous artists. A brief historical survey defines the specificity of Islamic art in Morocco.

Three principal styles of decorative architecture are studied: calligraphy, floral arabesque, and geometrical arabesque. Illustrations and photographs of some of the most beautiful sites of Morocco (monuments, royal palaces and cities) are a pleasure for the eye.

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Arcade Game Typography presents readers with a fascinating new world of typography – the pixel typeface. Video game designers of the 70s, 80s and 90s faced colour and resolution limitations that stimulated incredible creativity: with letters having to exist in an 8x8 square grid, artists found ways to create expressive and elegant character sets within a tiny canvas.

Featuring pixel typefaces carefully selected from the first decades of arcade video games, Arcade Game Typography presents a previously undocumented ‘outsider typography’ movement, accompanied by insightful commentary from author Toshi Omagari, a Monotype typeface designer himself, and screenshots of the type in use. Exhaustively researched, this book gathers an eclectic typography from hit games such as Super Sprint, Pac-Man, After Burner, Marble Madness, Shinobi, as well as countless lesser- known gems. The book presents its typefaces on a dynamic and decorative grid, taking reference from high-end type specimens while adding a suitably playful twist. Unlike print typefaces, pixel type often has bold colour ‘baked in’ to the characters, so Arcade Game Typography looks unlike any other typography book, fizzing with life and colour.

About the Authors:

Toshi Omagari is a typeface designer at Monotype UK. He studied typography and typeface design at Musashino Art University in Tokyo. Arcade Game Typography is his first book.
Kiyonori Muroga is the former editor-in-chief of the renowned Japanese design magazine IDEA. He now works as an editor, writer and curator on graphic design and typography.

Plan B instead of Planet B

Neither naïve escapism into virtual worlds, nor the technological utopia of space colonization will save us from facing the big, uncomfortable questions. With this year’s theme Welcome to Planet B, Ars Electronica is an invitation to take part in an exciting thought experiment: What if we had already mastered the great challenges of the 21st century? How would we live (together)? And most importantly: What would our path there have looked like?

We will need every bit of technology, but the biggest innovation project has to be ourselves, our ability to rise to the challenge as a global community — a reinvention of humanity! Planet B is not the second chance for another place where we can continue as before, it is the cipher for the indispensable, new, and in many forms completely different life and action on this only planet that exists for us.

Now available in a new format, this lavishly illustrated volume explores Art Deco art and design from its origin to its present day influences.

The Art Deco style is so recognizable and widespread that its original influence on the culture in which it emerged has been all but lost in the clutter of imitation. This book draws our attention back to the birth of Art Deco — a period between two devastating world wars when industrialization was flourishing, interest in archaeology was peaking, and movements such as Cubism, Constructivism, Futurism, and Modernism were turning the art world on its head. Brilliantly designed to reflect the style it celebrates, Art Deco is filled with hundreds of examples of painting, architecture, interiors, jewellery, crafts, furniture, and fashion.

Author Norbert Wolf traces the chronology of the Art Deco style by looking at the politics and culture of Europe in the 1920s and early 1930s, and the artistic movements that paralleled its popularity. He follows Art Deco’s influence in Europe and its immigration to the Americas and Asia. Most importantly, this wide-ranging volume looks beyond the era of Art Deco’s origination to the present day. Pointing to the numerous revivals and contemporary echoes in painting and even literature, this beautiful volume demonstrates that Art Deco is alive and well today — often in forms where we least expect it.

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