NEW! LSD 2: A Typographic Issue Add to Cart —> www.draw-down.com The second issue of the Cahiers du centre national du graphisme (France's National Graphic Design Center) is about #typography, observed through artistic, cultural, societal, or technical approaches, with a focus on the work of the font designer Jean-François Rey and his 2020 exhibition Typography and comics at le Signe, centre national du graphisme. LSD 2 includes a text by Catherine Guiral ("Ultra Letters: Moments of Visual B...

LAST COPY! Learn to Code Now! / SuperHi www.draw-down.com Covering everything a creative person would need to know when #learningtocode with HTML, CSS + Javascript—the building blocks of web design. This book is an opinionated guide to learning HTML, CSS and Javascript—the three building blocks needed to create the visual elements of web pages. Learn how to create web pages from scratch incorporating the latest tricks that professional front-end web developers use daily. You'll have the freed...

On the Necessity of Gardening: An ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation www.draw-down.com A brilliant and radical A-Z of garden history and garden politics Organized as an inventive abecedarium, On the Necessity of Gardening tells the story of the garden as a rich source of inspiration. Over the centuries, artists, writers, poets and thinkers from Capability Brown to Derek Jarman have each described, depicted and designed the garden in different ways. In medieval art the garden was a reflection ...

Lake Effect By Gunnar Harrison www.draw-down.com In 1959, a railroad causeway was built directly through Great Salt Lake (Utah), creating a salinity imbalance and consequently a striking water color discrepancy between the north and south sides. #LakeEffect showcases aerial photos of this phenomenon and splices them together, creating new compositions and raising questions about human influence on natural environments. Includes an interview with Dr. Bonnie K. Baxter, Professor of Biology at W...

BACK IN STOCK Publishing as Practice www.draw-down.com Publishing as Practice centers on the work of three contemporary artists/book publishers who have developed fresh ways of broaching the political in publishing. This book documents Publishing as Practice, a residency at Ulises—a curatorial platform based in Philadelphia—that explores publishing as an incubator for new forms of editorial, curatorial and artistic practice. #PublishingasPractice also includes writing from #ClaraBalaguer, #Ha...

LAST COPIES! Karel Martens - Patterns www.draw-down.com This publication contains a collection of patterns designed by Karel Martens between 1960 and 2021. Although Martens is widely recognized for his specialization in typography, the dozens of colorful full-page patterns shown here are devoid of any text, allowing the sequence to become a mesmerizing pattern in itself. Designed by Martens & Martens (Karel Martens, Aagje Martens) #KarelMartens #Patterns

More copies just arrived! More Is More: Designing Bigger, Bolder, Brighter www.draw-down.com Instead of extolling #lessismore and paring everything down to a bare minimum, creatives are expressing themselves in #bigger, #bolder, and #brighter ways that brim with personality. Whether it is by mixing #clashing colors or matching disparate #patterns and elements, #MoreisMore is an ode to the fearless few who deftly break design rules and push the boundaries to make eye-catching statements. #de...

SAVE 20% on everything! TODAY ONLY Use Code: APRIL30 www.draw-down.com Graphic Design Rules: 365 Essential Design Dos and Don'ts By #SeanAdams, Peter Dawson, John Foster, and Tony Seddon A handy guide for professional graphic designers, students, and laypeople who incorporate #graphicdesign into their job or small business. Packed with practical #advice, this spirited collection of #design dos and don'ts takes readers through 365 rules like knowing when to use a modular #grid — and when t...

MICA Continuum '21 www.draw-down.com Curated by designer, writer, typography enthusiast and design educator #IsaacGertman, Continuum is a representation of work from #MICAGraphicDesign courses from Fall 2019 through Spring 2021. The collection celebrates work made by #graphicdesign students during two exceptional academic years, 2020 and 2021, and recognizes conditions that impacted higher #education and industries worldwide: the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for dismantling unjust systems. @mi...

MICA Continuum '21 www.draw-down.com Curated by designer, writer, typography enthusiast and design educator #IsaacGertman, Continuum is a representation of work from #MICAGraphicDesign courses from Fall 2019 through Spring 2021. The collection celebrates work made by #graphicdesign students during two exceptional academic years, 2020 and 2021, and recognizes conditions that impacted higher #education and industries worldwide: the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for dismantling unjust systems. @mi...

NEW! Photobooks &: A Critical Companion to the Contemporary Medium www.draw-down.com An engaging appraisal of photobook culture today and the future of the form Elucidating key issues and themes in contemporary photobook #culture—from the medium’s #postdigital and post-photographic condition to the aims of publishing, issues of accessibility and the act of reading—Matt Johnston’s Photobooks & combines research and interviews with key individuals from the photobook world. Informed by his expe...

NEW! Lake Effect www.draw-down.com In 1959, a railroad causeway was built directly through Great Salt Lake (Utah), creating a salinity imbalance and consequently a striking water color discrepancy between the north and south sides. Lake Effect showcases aerial photos of this phenomenon and splices them together, creating new compositions and raising questions about human influence on natural environments. #GunnarHarrison #LakeEffect