Architectural Graphics

A Sourcebook for Aspiring Artists and Designers

Looks at working with stretch and jersey fabric. This book shows how to work with stretch fabrics and how to cut patterns that exploit their properties with truly original results.

A visual and comprehensive compilation of some the finest architectural drawings from Sir John Soane's extensive collection.

George Saumarez Smith is one of Britain's foremost classical architects. His sketchbooks display a supreme mastery that goes beyond technique and assumes the status of art.

Notebook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence- they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and regulations around the globe.

What was the golden secret known to Leonardo da Vinci, Kepler, Plato and the ancient magicians? Can there really be a key to nature and life itself? This book aims to unravel a mystery, a code that seems to underly life, the universe and everything, a pattern we instinctively recognise as beautiful, and which nature herself uses at every scale.