Black artisans have long been central to American art and design, creating innovative and highly desired work against immense odds. Atlanta-based chairmaker and scholar Robell Awake explores the stories behind ten cornerstones of Black craft, including:

• The celebrated wooden chairs of Richard Poynor, an enslaved craftsman who began a dynasty of Tennessee chairmakers.
• The elegant wrought-iron gates of Philip Simmons, seen to this day throughout Charleston, South Carolina, whose work features motifs from the Low Country.
• The inventive assemblage art and yard shows of Joe Minter, James Hampton, Bessie Harvey, and others, who draw on African spiritual traditions to create large-scale improvisational art installations.

BLACK CRAFT AND AMERICANA: Delving into the history of Black skilled artisans, estimated to have outnumbered white artisans five to one in the southern United States in the late 1800s, this unique art history book celebrates handcrafted objects that reflect the dynamic nature of Black culture.

DYNAMIC ILLUSTRATED ESSAYS: Luminous color illustrations by artist Johnalynn Holland highlight beloved craft objects and their makers, creating a fascinating volume to study and treasure.

ART HISTORY EXPERTISE: Author Robell Awake is a notable furniture maker, artisan, and educator whose work has been featured in the New York Times and in group shows at Verso Gallery in New York City and the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC. Dr. Tiffany Momon, who contributes an afterword, is the founder and co-director of the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive and a leading scholar of Black history and African American placemaking throughout the southeast.

BEAUTIFUL GIFT BOOK: The gorgeous design is ideal for art collectors and craft enthusiasts, as a keepsake reminder of Black heritage, for Black History Month and beyond.

Perfect for:

• Anyone interested in the intersection of Black art, craft, and history
• Designers and craftspeople
• Educators and students
• Collectors and museum curators
• Lovers of fine and artisanal design objects

Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics.--I Love Typography

The bestselling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded third edition: This is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. Covering the essentials of typography, this book explores everything from typefaces and type families to kerning and tracking to grids and layout principles.

Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. Historical and contemporary examples of graphic design show how to learn the rules and how to break them. Critical essays, eye-opening diagrams, helpful exercises, and dozens of examples and illustrations show readers how to be inventive within systems that inform and communicate.

Featuring 32 pages of new content, the third edition is revised and refined from cover to cover:

• More fonts: old fonts, new fonts, weird fonts, libre fonts, Google fonts, Adobe fonts, fonts from independent foundries, and fonts and lettering by women and BIPOC designers
• Introductions to diverse writing systems, contributed by expert typographers from around the world
• Demonstrations of basic design principles, such as vi­sual balance, Gestalt grouping, and responsive layout
• Current approaches to typeface design, including
  • Variable fonts and optical sizes
  • Tips for readability, legibility, and accessibility
  • Stunning reproductions from the Letterform Archive

From the creator of the popular Slow Stitch Club, Well Worn is a fresh and engaging clothing repair guide and accessible introduction for anyone looking to explore visible mending to revolutionize their wardrobe, whether you are a stitching pro or have never picked up a needle and thread.

Mending is a creative outlet and a slow and therapeutic skill, and author and textile artist Skye Pennant shares the joys of mending by teaching traditional darning and sashiko techniques to help fight against wardrobe perfectionism as well as fast fashion, making for gorgeous visible mending results. Her introduction includes a short history of mending followed by key techniques, fabrics, tools, and materials. Sections are organized by type of clothing to mend: Jeans & Denim, Sweaters & Knitwear, T-Shirts, Socks, and more.

An outstanding gift or self-purchase for anyone interested in refreshing their wardrobe, fostering a more sustainable lifestyle, saving money and avoiding fast fashion, or simply engaging with a crafty new creative outlet, this sewing basics book is all about mending clothes you love, one slow stitch at a time.

Beloved children's book author and illustrator Marianne Dubuc chronicles the adventure and collaboration that ensues when four animal friends take turns caring for a precious little egg they find in the woods.

Enter the beautifully illustrated world of Bear, Hare, Turtle, and Mouse. In Dubuc's signature soft and inviting watercolor scenes, these forest friends make an unexpected discovery and turn to each other to find a shared solution. They decide they each will have a turn caring for the egg in their homes.

Mouse's house is chilly, so a cozy fire is set ablaze in the fireplace. At Bear's house, exercise and activity rule the day, and Little Egg hatches out of her shell! The next stop is Hare's house, where Bear and Hare dote over the newborn chick and face a new challenge: trying to find something for her to eat! Finally, it's on to Turtle's house for a special time exploring Turtle's treasures and sharing stories.

An endearing picture book that celebrates friendship and encourages young readers to share and trust in the power of community and their own resourcefulness, Everyone Gets a Turn is a wonderful read-aloud book for children with a timeless message.

Welcome to the wonderful world of rabbits. Rabbitology is filled with incredible information about this lovable animal species, relayed in a playful tone by author Ilaria Demonti, with adorable illustrations by Camilla Pintonato.

Did you know rabbits can dig burrows with tunnels over one hundred feet long? Or that they participate in agility and jumping competitions in Europe? Do you know how to spot the differences between a rabbit and a hare? Did you realize that a mother rabbit can give birth to as many as fifty kits (baby bunnies) in a single year?

These and other intriguing and engaging facts about the lovable bunny can be found in Rabbitology, a visual encyclopedia and follow-up to Chickenology, Pigology, andSheepologyin the Farm Animal series of books. Nature- and animal-loving readers of all ages will find something to learn and love about these fascinating creatures.

Perfect for gift-giving to curious kids and anyone who enjoys charming animal facts books. Pair with the Rabbitology 1000 Piece Puzzle to create an irresistible bundle!

Praise for the Farm Animal series

Pigology, Chickenology, and Sheepology are my absolute favorite books about farm animals. They explain history and science with ease and charm. These books help us to see that reality transcends fiction, and that once we understand it, our sense of wonder deepens, making the world more enjoyable and more magical.

- Isabella Rossellini

NEWEST VOLUME IN BELOVED SERIES: Rabbitology makes the perfect companion volume for all those who clucked with joy over the award-winning Chickenology, squealed with delight over the irresistible Pigology, and celebrated the wooly glory of sheep in Sheepology!

ANIMAL FACTS BOOK FOR ALL AGES: Kids, parents, grandparents, teachers, storytime readers, and all who love these cute and furry beasts will enjoy this collection of intriguing facts and charming illustrations.

RESOURCE FOR ANIMAL LOVERS: Anyone who has ever tended to farm animals, taken a trip to a farm, or even practiced goat yoga understands that gaining a greater understanding of our animal friends' history, habits, and culture is the perfect way to make the most of our connection with our fellow creatures.

GREAT GIFT: For Easter baskets and other vernal festivities, Rabbitology makes a charming present.

Perfect for:

• Kids who enjoy encyclopedia facts and amazing animal secrets
• Gift-giving to curious grade schoolers, teachers and caregivers, animal and nature lovers
• Artists who love to draw animals and farm scenes
• Readers who love Richard Scarry, Katherine Applegate, and Julia Rothman
• Fans of Beatrix Potter, The Velveteen Rabbit, Shaun the Sheep, Mercy Watson, Elephant & Piggie, Charlotte's Web, The Secret Zoo, and National Geographic books

All friends have disagreements. But when the friends are the Moon and planet Earth, the consequences are pretty cosmic!

After 4.5 billion years together, Moon has had enough of Earth. So, she packs her things and sets off to see what the solar system has to offer. On her galactic tour, Moon sweeps young readers along on a delightful and educational journey.

From scorching Venus to giant Jupiter, Moon encounters the oddities and charms of all the other planets on her journey. But as she reaches the cold and lonely edge of the solar system, she begins to wonder whether Earth is really so bad after all . . .

With vibrant illustrations, a dash of humor, and heartfelt explorations of emotions like anger and empathy, this children's book about friendship beautifully conveys the value of connection and the invaluable lesson that sometimes what we're looking for is closer than we think.

Offering a fun and practical review of the planets and their characteristics throughout, The Day Moon and Earth Had an Argument also includes two full spreads at the back of the book filled with fascinating facts about our solar system, information about gravity, how the moon was formed, and more.

Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums is a collection of the greatest and most beloved museums of North America, illustrated and explored through fun and fascinating anecdotes. Curated by Bob Eckstein, author of the New York Times bestseller Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores, this delightful twist on an art history book shows these institutes in a way not seen before, illustrated in a lush and idealized style.

The 75+ museums featured include the biggest and boldest names (MoMA, the Whitney) and the more offbeat (Museum of Bad Art, the Museum of Jurassic Technology). They span the US, Canada, and Mexico and include those specializing in art, natural history, academia and science, and more. The 155 original pieces of artwork illustrate a story about the museum or showcase a particular work of art in its collection.

Featured museums include:

• The Field Museum, Chicago
• The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
• The National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
• La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
• Museum of Motherhood, St. Petersburg, Florida
• Chapultepec Castle, Mexico City, Mexico
• American Museum of Natural History, New York
• And many more

There is a tradition of shopkeeping, a tradition of codes, etiquette, and customs. For the most part, it is an oral history, passed along, person to person. You learn to be a retailer--not by going to college, but by going to work. You learn from people who have learned how to run a shop. [from the Introduction]

For more than four decades, Peter Miller has run a design bookshop that shares his name in Seattle. He has also written three of his own books, manuals about cooking and about food and about eating together. In this love letter to his day job, Miller writes for the first time about his other love: shopkeeping.

Miller crafts stories from the bookshop floor with wry humor and skillful storytelling. Readers are taken on a shopkeeping journey and will come to understand along the way that small shops characterize our towns and cities, making them unique, special, and worth visiting and living near. This essay collection is for shop lovers everywhere and captures the art and heart of running a local shop treasured by the community that surrounds it. By the end, you can't help wanting to own a shop.

Celebrated animal photographer Traer Scott invites readers on a heartwarming journey into the lives of courageous rescue cats and kittens, captured in evocative images and remarkable stories. In these pages, you'll meet:

• Forrest, a majestic Maine Coon who was born with an impairment and found on the street as a twelve-week-old stray. After finding the perfect home, he now goes kayaking and camping with his family.
• Linus, once a severely malnourished kitten weighing less than one ounce and given no chance of survival. After months of careful foster care, he grew to be a healthy and beloved pet.
• A litter of kittens, shown week by week, revealing how quickly they grow and change.
• And twenty more rescue cats whose inspiring stories of survival and resilience offer an irresistible celebration of compassion and second chances.

Chickenology takes young readers on a fascinating and informative tour of chickens. With a playful tone and irresistibly charming illustrations by rising star Camilla Pintonato, this lively visual encyclopedia presents chickens in all of their feathered glory. Discover the incredible variety of chickens with different origins, breeds, and feather patterns. Learn incredible facts: did you know that chickens can learn to count up to four and have excellent hearing? Many even like to listen to music!

A great educational book, covering:
- Different breeds of chickens, like Padovana and Silkie
- The difference between roosters and hens
- How chicks are formed in the egg
- Chickens sounds and noises
- Chicken anatomy and feather anatomy and colors
- Chickens and eggs around the world
- Chicken history and folklore
- Raising chickens at home
- Chickens as pets

Chickenology is the perfect animal book for nature and animal loving young readers, chicken enthusiasts, chicken farmers, and pet chicken owners alike!

Prepare to be fascinated by the varied world of chickens, presented here in charming detail....Endearingly dubbing chickens 'irresistible companions, ' this educational overview of all things chicken is bound to hatch some new enthusiasts.--ALA/Booklist, STARRED REVIEW

Join author-illustrator Colter Jackson on a journey of animals on land, in the air, and at sea that's sure to entertain and educate young readers. From sloths and elephants to whales and flamingos, come learn about the humorous, surprising, and joyful collective nouns that describe our favorite groups of animals.

A Sleuth of Bears features rhyming text and inviting watercolor illustrations that explore the many ways animals are busy all day, including a creep of tortoises commuting to work, a congregation of gators singing in a chorus, a colony of chinchillas sailing the sea, and a dazzle of zebras acting on stage. For animal-loving kids and eager language learners, this makes a beautiful gift that will be enjoyed again and again.

SWEET & FUNNY NATURE BOOK FOR KIDS: An engaging read-aloud, A Sleuth of Bears and Other Amusing, Beguiling, and Peculiar Collective Nouns engages young readers on a learning journey to find out how groups of animals (with charming and hilarious names) spend their busy days.

ANIMAL ART: Expressive, playful, and joyful, Colter Jackson's illustrations will delight young and old alike. An accomplished artist, her work has been published in the New York Times' Modern Love column, Epoch Magazine, Tin House, Bellevue Literary Review, and more. She is the author of several children's books, all featuring wild and wonderful animals.

VOCABULARY BUILDER: Informative and entertaining, this funny take on wildlife offers an excellent opportunity to explore nature with children and add terrific new words to their vocabulary.

Perfect for:

• Kids who love animals and nature
• Parents and educators seeking fun and informative books for children
• Gift-giving for kids ages 4 - 8
• Readers who enjoy clever zoology books like The Atlas of Amazing Birds and An Anthology of Intriguing Animals

Sudoku has never been more beautiful! A refreshing change from typical logic puzzle collections, this gifty Sudoku book features a stylish, ornate theme in a stunning yet portable package, inspired by vintage French signage. With a variety of levels and colorful numbered squares for contrast, this book is both an intellectual and visual pleasure to solve your way through. Whether you pack your puzzles to take on your commute or display this gorgeous collection on your coffee table to enjoy from the comfort of your own couch, this puzzle book will beat screen fatigue and keep your mind sharp.

For grownups and kids alike, 50 Things to Do in the Snow is the perfect illustrated guide to enjoying all that winter has to offer. Organized in sections on Snow Play, Snow Craft, Winter Wisdom, Winter Survival, and Snow Fires, this activity book will show you how to:

• Make a snow maze​
• Create a winter bird feeder​
• Identify winter trees​
• Make snowshoes
• Build a fire in the snow​
• And much more​

Sized just right for a coat pocket or backpack for on-the-go cold weather adventures, and packed with safety tips, equipment, and recommended cold-weather clothing, 50 Things to Do in the Snow has everything you need to get started as a true snow explorer. A wonderful gift or self-purchase for families with kids of all ages, anyone seeking ways to mindfully connect with nature in winter, and fans of other titles in the popular Explore More series, including 50 Things to Do with a Penknife and 50 Things to See in the Sky.

This beautifully illustrated nonfiction children's picture book begins with a view of the forest at a distance, then zooms in on its fascinating details, including the amazing trees, bright birds, adorable baby animals, and other wonders of nature that inhabit it. The rhythmic text and inviting watercolor illustrations allow curious young readers to observe, explore, and learn what makes forests so special and vitally important.

An engaging read-aloud that invites questions and conversation, Forest offers an intriguing introduction to the natural world and encourages little ones to develop a connection with the great outdoors that can last a lifetime. Perfect for any time of year and a beautiful way to celebrate spring, Earth Day, Mother's Day, or the arrival of a new baby, this endlessly delightful children's nature book includes additional information about forests and what we can do to care for them.

W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits is the first complete publication of W.E.B. Du Bois's groundbreaking charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition.

Famed sociologist, writer, and Black rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois fundamentally changed the representation of Black Americans with his exhibition of data visualizations at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Beautiful in design and powerful in content, these data portraits make visible a wide spectrum of African American culture, from advances in education to the lingering effects of slavery. They convey a literal and figurative representation of what he famously referred to as the color line, collected here in full color for the first time.

A landmark collection for social history, graphic design, and data science, these visualizations and infographics were far ahead of their time. This comprehensive publication gives modern readers a chance to explore and enjoy:

• Colorful graphs and charts that are mesmerizing pieces of art in their own right
• Content that makes a valuable companion to W.E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk
• Contributions from renowned scholars and educators Aldon Morris, Silas Munro, and Mabel O. Wilson

Lovingly illustrated by Olivia Cosneau, this book is a colorful introduction to the magical world of the garden, including a range of fun activities, removable stickers, and a quiz. In the process, fledgling gardeners ages five and up learn about the different types of vegetables and fruits they can grow, how to care for them, what tools they need, and many other interesting facts.

Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips's celebrated introduction to graphic design, available in a revised and updated edition. Graphic Design: The New Basics (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded) explains the key concepts of visual language that inform any work of design. A foundational graphic design book for students, Lupton and Phillips explore the formal elements of design through visual demonstrations and concise commentary. From logos to letterhead to complex website design, this is a graphic design book for everyone, no matter your design project or focus.

Topics include:

- Color
- Texture
- Rhythm and balance
- Hierarchy
- Layers
- Grids
- And much more!

The new revised edition features new chapters on:

- Visualizing data
- Typography
- Modes of representation
- Gestalt principles

Sixteen new pages of student and professional work covering such topics as working with grids and designing with color make this a course adoption favorite in any graphic design program and graphic design school. Graphic Design: The New Basics is an invaluable introduction to the field of graphic design for beginners from two accomplished designers and design educators.

Robert and Cortney Novogratz, stars of HGTV's Home by Novogratz and Bravo's 9 by Design, have transformed fabulous properties across the U.S. and around the world, including Hotel Dylan (Woodstock, NY), the Bungalow Hotel (Long Branch, NJ), and Timber Cove (Sonoma, CA), to name a few. They've also partnered with many celebrities and top retailers and had their work profiled in major national media outlets, from The New York Times to Architectural Digest, all while raising their family of seven children.​ They not only know how to run a successful and innovative design business but also how to balance work, family, and fun.

The Novogratz Chronicles is their most intimate and personal book to date, taking readers on their journey from their first house renovation project in Chelsea in the 1990s to their latest home in Greenwich Village and projects in Los Angeles, Brazil, and the Berkshires. Eleven chapters explore and share their path to success, from thinking outside the box when financing, to building the right renovation team, to developing a design aesthetic and trusting your design instincts, interspersed with personal anecdotes and stories from their hands-on experiences.

DIYers, HGTV fans, weekend warriors, and anyone interested in buying, selling, and renovating houses and spaces will love reading The Novogratz Chronicles and discovering the expertise that lies beyond their renowned how-to decorating prowess to inform and inspire their own renovation dreams and endeavors.​

Part textbook and part comic book, zine, manifesto, survival guide, and self-help manual, Extra Bold is filled with stories and ideas that don't show up in other career books or design overviews.

- Both pragmatic and inquisitive, the book explores power structures in the workplace and how to navigate them.
- Interviews showcase people at different stages of their careers.
- Biographical sketches explore individuals marginalized by sexism, racism, and ableism.
- Practical guides cover everything from starting out, to wage gaps, coming out at work, cover letters, mentoring, and more.

A new take on the design canon.
- Opens with critical essays that rethink design principles and practices through theories of feminism, anti-racism, inclusion, and nonbinary thinking.
- Features interviews, essays, typefaces, and projects from dozens of contributors with a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds, abilities, gender identities, and positions of economic and social privilege.
- Adds new voices to the dominant design canon.

Written collaboratively by a diverse team of authors, with original, handcrafted illustrations by Jennifer Tobias that bring warmth, happiness, humor, and narrative depth to the book.Extra Bold is written by Ellen Lupton (Thinking with Type), Farah Kafei, Jennifer Tobias, Josh A. Halstead, Kaleena Sales, Leslie Xia, and Valentina Vergara.

Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller is one of the design field's most respected figures. She is legendary for her decades of scholarship and activism and is known as a touchstone and conscience for the design profession. This long-awaited book documents the history of the question she has been asking for decades: Where are the Black designers? along with related questions that are urgent to the design profession: Where did they originate? Where have they been? Why haven't they been represented in design histories and canons?

Holmes-Miller traces her development as a designer and leader, beginning with her own family and its rich multiethnic history. She narrates her experiences as a design student at Rhode Island School of Design, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Pratt, leading up to her oft-cited Pratt thesis examining barriers to success for Black designers. Holmes-Miller describes the work of her eponymous studio for noted clients that included NASA, Time Inc., and the nascent Black Entertainment Television, as well as the story of her later critiques of the industry in the design press, most notably in Print magazine. Miller also recounts the parallel history of collective efforts by fellow scholars and advocates over the past fifty years to identify and celebrate Black designers.

Enhanced with a foreword by Crystal Williams, president of Rhode Island School of Design, award-winning poet, and noted advocate for equity and justice in the fields of art and education, HERE is part memoir, part investigation, and part urgent call for justice and recognition for Black designers, making it an invaluable resource for graphic design professionals, teachers, and students.