Phaidon Press Ltd

Following the success of 'Spoon', this title presents 10 leading design experts' choice of 100 of the most important young product designers from around the world. With a short written piece provided by the curators for each designer, it gives insight into why the designer's work has been chosen, and their background and future design plans....

Outdoor advertising is one of the oldest and purest forms of communication. Until now, however, it has remained largely undocumented. Advertising Outdoors looks at the art and ingenuity of art directors and copywriters who devise the artwork and ideas, and explores how their creative input drives an industry that supplies large-scale frames...

Anatomy of an Actor titles are comprehensive studies on the craft of the world's greatest actors, through the analysis of ten of their most iconic roles. The authors examine why and how these famous actors have become some of the most respected and influential in the film world. Each title is divided into 10 chapters, each one dedicated to a...

This lively and informative new title was originally inspired by the author's Italian mother and her struggles with the vagaries of the English language. Over the years the author has tried to correct her attempts and explain why the word she has chosen is incorrect, only to be baffled herself by the lack of logic within those explanations. English...

Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) is one of the twentieth-century's most influential fashion photographers. An experimenter and innovator, his photographs are rich in hybrid imagery and melding celebrities, eroticism, saturated colour and black-and-white graphics. He is best known for his advertising campaigns and his fashion photography for American...

Among the most influential feminist artists working today, Mary Kelly first came to prominence in 1976 with her epic series, Post Partum Document. This work, exploring the artist...