Beano Dandy Gift book 2024: Spills 'n' Thrills and Belly Laughs! by DC Thomson
$34.95 AUD
Category: Art
An explosion of full-colour comicality and ha-ha hoopla awaits within this classic compilation of comic favourites. Once again, we open The Dandy and Beano archives and let loose the laughter. Spills, thrills, and belly laughs abound, as Dennis and Gnasher, Minnie the Minx, Desperate Dan, and many more ...Show more
Portals: Gates, Stiles, Windows, Bridges and Other Crossings by Philippa LEWIS
$15.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
The Cosmos in Stone - Scared Geometry of a Master Mason by Tom Bree
$69.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
This beautiful and groundbreaking book examines the use of sacred geometry and cosmology in Gothic cathedral design. Renowned geometer and lecturer Tom Bree demonstrates how medieval Master Masons combined their knowledge of the practical building arts with ancient cosmological knowledge to endow their ...Show more
Don Binney - Flight Path by Gregory O'Brien
$98.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment
Painter, printmaker, teacher, writer and ornithologist Don Binney (1940 - 2012) was a mercurial presence on the New Zealand cultural scene from the time of his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s. His unmistakable, stylised depictions of birds have come to define an era in the development of the na ...Show more
Urgent Moments - Art and Social Change: the Letting Space Projects 2010-2020 by Mark Amery (Editor); Amber Clausner (Editor); Sophie Jerram (Editor)
$69.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
The story of a remarkable art activation. After first occupying vacant spaces in post-stock-market-crash Auckland in the mid-1990s, public art curators Letting Space re-emerged in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. Confronted by the thin net of social welfare, the waste of the capitalist syst ...Show more
Rewi - Ata Haere, Kia Tere by Jade Kake; Jeremy Hansen
$82.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
THE POWER OF ARCHITECTURE TO EXPRESS TE AO MORI AND TRANSFORMA major tribute to the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngti Porou, Ngti Raukawa) whose early death robbed Aotearoa New Zealand of one of its greatest thinkers about how our built landscape could best express te ao Maori and be transformative. Wr ...Show more
How to Draw Manga by Tim Seelig
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
The Japanese drawing style known as manga has rapidly evolved from low-budget, black-and-white graphic novels to one of the most diverse, popular and celebrated contemporary art forms. This beautifully illustrated book is a guide to drawing your own manga characters, enhancing them with diverse props an ...Show more
Celtic Pattern: Visual Rhythms of the Ancient Mind by Adam Tetlow
$15.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment
How do you draw Celtic knotwork? What are the secrets of keys? Are there tricks for drawing Celtic spirals? What do these mysterious patterns actually mean? Who drew them? Where did they come from? In this exquisite pocket book, author and artist Adam Tetlow shows us the practical tricks of the trade an ...Show more
Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes by Jonathan Horning
$15.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
Horning examines shelters from all over the world, from mud-brick adobe structures, nomad tents, and travellers' quick fixes to timber frame buildings, straw bale designs and geodisic domes.
Proportion: In Art and Architecture by Michael Schneider
$15.95 AUD
Category: Art & Entertainment
What is the difference between ratio and proportion? When is a harmonic rectangle also geometric? Do pentagons, hexagons and heptagons really each have their own characters? Is there a secret to great art? In this beautiful little book, art educator Michael Schneider presents a groundbreaking synthesis ...Show more