Art books are the most direct media for obtaining art knowledge in design creation. A good art book can bring creative materials for inspiration, consolidate our art expertise, and even establish the future creation style. The following books from art book publishers have not been read? With four categories, we will introduce you to these future design partners who will be with you every day!
Which publishing house can win your heart, such as the creative pioneer publishing house, the highly professional publishing house, the academic publishing house, and the publishing house with unique art form? Let's have a look!
Creative pioneer publishing house
Creativity is the breakthrough of artistic creation. A good art book should not only have a professional degree, but also have creative content that will keep readers going. Next, we will introduce some publishers that are very creative. They may not have too many academic artistic ideas, but they can feel rich creativity in reading. Students can collect materials or create inspiration.
Rizzoli
Rizzoli is still popular with the reduction of contemporary paper bibliography, and has also become the exclusive publication of many international brands. The ability to do so depends not only on the professional level, but also on Rizzoli's unique artistic creativity.
Rizzoli's bibliography is like a cup of art espresso. It puts a wide range of things into a book through art design. This high concentration of artistic creativity requires a lot of creative support. The binding of each Rizzoli book is like a beautiful magazine, in which rich binding design, selection of content and theme, and visual design techniques are presented comprehensively, which is worthy of students to learn the creative content they need.
Taschen
Taschen should be the most familiar publishing house for students. It is a well-known art publishing house. Art books cover a wide range, mainly including painting, photography, architecture, etc. Taschen's artistic creativity is to introduce niche art into the mainstream bibliography and bring these niche books to the public's view. For example, strange art, fetishism
Although creation needs certain artistry, the audience is equally important. Taschen, as an old brand in the publishing industry, has always maintained a populist publishing style. The Special Price series is worthy of being carried home by students. This series has many "collections of artists" - Monet, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Frieda, Kubrick, etc., which can be bought without high prices. Taschen's "affinity to the people" is rare in other art publishing houses, and may be able to absorb some design concepts of user experience for students' creation.
Lawrence King
The books published by Lawrence King tend to be contemporary, innovative and avant-garde. Their creativity in visual arts is very new, involving the fields of architecture, fashion and photography. At the same time, Lawrence King is also committed to publishing professional art reference books, such as A World History of Art. It can be seen that Lawrence King's innovation is based on a complete art knowledge system.
Lawrence King's official website specifically recommends some books to assist students in art learning, and can apply for a 35% discount service for students during school. This consideration is rare for other art publishers.
Gestalten
The books published by Gestalten are visual enjoyment. This visual art publishing house will make students willing to pay for it because of its appearance. Although Gestalten published books with similar binding design, each one is like an "art note" worth collecting. The constant pursuit of exquisite design and innovation is meeting their strict visual art requirements.
Gestalten focuses on interior and architecture, fashion and design. There are also many books about travel and food. Gestalten highly integrates art and life. This inclusiveness focuses on our life. GestaltenVisual Culture's visual creative books are more classified than other books, and have more creative and professional artistic quality, which is suitable for students of all majors to study artistic creation.
Gestalten's visual art content is more diversified than that of other publishers. It has a separate label for each visual project: brand, graphic design, illustration, photography, letterpress printing, editorial design, sustainability, etc., so that its books have a broad artistic perspective and a high verticality. Students can learn from the visual knowledge in detail. Gestalten's books can help us better combine visual art with life in our study and creation.
Phaidon
Phaidon, as the "peacemaker" in the art publishing industry, is the most enthusiastic one among many art publishers. To comment on everything and publish every book with an independent artistic perspective and a pertinent point of view is what students should have in the process of design and creation.
Phaidon will publish some specific books, such as the INTERIORS series this spring, as well as the independent projects Wallpaper * City Guide and Global Styles. It can be seen that every book published by Phaidon has a sound basis. It pays attention to careful investigation, and can learn the method of rigorous research before artistic creation.
Mack
Mack only publishes dozens of books every year, and the number of books updated each time is limited to about 20. Although Mack's publishing efficiency is not high, its content is of high quality, and it supports the publishing of some minority artists, which makes our understanding of artists broader.
Since 2012, Mack has elected the First Book Award award every year to help artists who have not published any books get into people's eyes. Students may be able to find a unique way to explain art in these emerging artists' works and form their own artistic creation style.
A highly professional publishing house
The professional knowledge of art is the basis of design. The art books of art publishing houses with a high degree of professionalism have a good foreshadowing for students' creation. The following publishing house students may all know that they are highly praised in the art circle and have excellent professional reputation. The most important thing is that the professional level matches the textbook level, which can supplement solid knowledge. The books of art adhesion professional knowledge are enough to become the instructors of students' art creation.
Peguin Group
"Because what you read matters" is the Slogan of Penguin Group. The fine division and professionalism of Penguin Publishing Group are unmatched by many art publishers. As one of the famous American publishers, it not only has a complete art bibliography, but also provides textbooks for many art schools.
Penguin can combine serious professionalism with elegant artistic temperament to create interesting and professional art books. Reliable verticality can provide good professional knowledge for students' design. Moreover, Penguin's books are intended for readers of all ages. Students can absorb various artistic experiences and feel that Penguin's starting point for users is applied to design.
Thames and Hudson
Thames and Hudson's professional strength cannot be underestimated. They are professional publishers of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. They create a "wall free museum" so that readers can get exchanges between the art world and top scholars when reading.
The bibliography of the British Museum is distributed together with the exhibition, which can be published efficiently for the museum. This distribution speed requires a high degree of professionalism to complete the publication in a short period of time. The art knowledge in the book must be relatively professional. In addition, V&A Books, which are widely praised in the art industry, are also published by Thames and Hudson. While absorbing professional knowledge, students can deepen their understanding of the art industry.
ArtbookDAP
ArtbookDAP is RCA Royal College of Art , London Design Museum, MoMA, MOCA and many other dedicated publishers of museums and galleries. It covers art movement, art culture of different countries, professional artists, exhibitions, High School Art Books, etc. It has a high degree of verticality in the art field and a wide range of books, which can bring students high purity of art expertise.
College Press/Journal
I have seen many publishers with rich artistic creativity and high degree of professionalism, and I will show you the independent publishers or school journals of art schools. They may not have mature publishing technology, but we can find the professional attitude of each art school, as well as the recent situation of the school and some design project research.
RISD XYZ
RISD XYZ is the school journal of RISD. It was first published in the spring of 2010 and updated twice a year. Students can download it on ISSUU. In the spring and summer of 2019, the theme is "Freedom is a concept", which contains some alumni 'definitions and views on freedom.
We can see that XYZ creates around alumni and campus life, and the lifestyle of these excellent RISD artists, scholars and mentors is actually focusing on people's own life state to find the problems. Students can extract the required artistic perspective from XYZ and use it in design.
Prattfolio
Prattfolio is Pratt's alumni magazine, which was founded in 2007 and updated twice a year. It can also be found on ISSUU and downloaded directly. Prattfolio's artistic perspective comes from his daily attention to the school: what he has learned in learning, how to apply what he has learned to the field of art design, and so on. Students can find the focus of creation, find their own creation habits and trigger more artistic thinking through Prattfolio's content.
AA Publications
AA Bookshop is AA's physical bookstore and one of the few architectural bookstores in London. It can be seen that AA has a mature publishing operation in many art schools. AA Publications publishes 8-10 books every year, including AA Files and AABook, which are sold in AA Bookshop. It goes deep into the fields of architecture, engineering, landscape, urban and other environmental arts, involving philosophy, history, art, photography and other professional directions.
AA Publications may not have as many creative elements as RISD and Pratt in content layout, but it is better in physical distribution. Students can directly absorb some knowledge and ideas related to AA architecture in the book.
'A'Magazine
'A' Magazine is RCA's alumni magazine, founded in the spring of 2015. The update speed is not fast. So far, there are only three issues. Color matching and typesetting are very particular, and the content is more abundant than that of other colleges and universities, combining the art extension in different directions such as alumni life, school specialty and art design. ' A'Magazine contains multi-dimensional art content to facilitate students' absorption of art knowledge, and also to find the comprehensiveness in art creation and improve it.
A publishing house with unique art form
The uniqueness of art is not only the pursuit of many artists, but also the characteristic of some art publishers. The following several art publishers may not be brilliant in content, but they are unique in art form and have very high aesthetic value. In this way, "niche" publishers can "embellish" the design of students with their own unique characteristics.
Aperture
Aperture is a non-profit publishing house of photography books Parsons School of Design Publishers of Parsons, the Paul Strand Archive, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and other art institutions. Publications, magazines, exhibitions and awards focusing on photography.
We know that photography cannot be separated from visual art. Aperture attaches great importance to the creation of visual art. Its published books, magazines and e-books are leading in the field of artistic vision and creativity, and their contents involve photography education, aperture and other photography expertise. Photography has a very high aesthetic quality. Aperture will have high technical requirements for typesetting and binding. Students can feel the professionalism of visual creation from it, and gradually form their own independent aesthetic views.
Mörel Books
M ö rel Books is a non-profit publisher for limited edition photos and art books. It will cooperate directly with artists and bookstores and occasionally sell special edition and limited edition books. It can not only be used as a collection, but also as an expert in cultivating visual aesthetics. Because many books are works of a small number of artists, with intuitive personal aesthetic guidance. They are rare artistic accomplishments of mainstream art and enrich the spiritual guidance for our creation.
ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers
ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers is a well-known publishing house in Europe. Its publications include creative jewelry design, antique collection, contemporary ceramic art modeling, photography and other art categories. The audience of ARNOLDSCHE is very precise, and the sales form is also very unique. The main reason is that the collection is of high aesthetic value, and a book of ARNOLDSCHE can be regarded as a collection. Students can trace the history of art and the process of art development from the perspective of these books, bringing the purest texture to design.
These art publishers make us realize that design should not only have professionalism, verticality, and aesthetic presentation, but also pay attention to every detail: typography, binding, content, user experience, audience and other factors. We can see from the books of these art publishers that the publishers understand the needs of users. How to lead users to have a better reading experience is what we need to learn in design.
I hope students can find their favorite art book publishers in today's articles, and select art books that are suitable for themselves and helpful to design. The art publishing houses and the books they publish let us absorb more art expertise from them, broaden our design ideas and horizons, and find the deficiencies in design. For us, art books are not only the foreshadowing of art expertise, but also a kind of visual aesthetics, which brings a spiritual guidance to our design.
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