[ Design ]

The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist

This book represents the most extensive collection of Mead’s visionary work ever printed, compiling hundreds of images, sketches and concepts from a career spanning almost 40 years. By Syd Mead.

[ Science Fiction ]

The Peripheral

The story of a young woman caught between two worlds, The Peripheral interweaves two futures — pre-jackpot USA and post-jackpot London — to tell a story which gets to the heart of the way we live now. By William Gibson.

[ History ]

The Russian Cosmists

A dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the lives and ideas of the Russian Cosmists. By George M. Young.

[ Science ]

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. By David Wallace-Wells.

[ History ]

The Visioneers

How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future. By W. Patrick McCray.

[ Design ]

Trade Marks & Symbols Vol 1: Alphabetical Designs

A comprehensive, profusely illustrated guide to more than 1,500 trademarks from all over the world. By Yasaburo Kuwayama.

[ Design ]

Trade Marks & Symbols Vol 2: Symbolical Designs

A comprehensive, profusely illustrated guide to more than 1,500 trademarks from all over the world. By Yasaburo Kuwayama.

[ History ]

Trevor Paglen: From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaeologist

In From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaeologist, multidisciplinary artist Trevor Paglen collaborates with Peter Merlin, a former NASA archivist, on this new artist’s book featuring a photographic inventory of objects from the aerospace historian’s archive of research culled from military bases such as Area 51.

[ Geography ]

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

An extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Taking a deep-time view of our planet, Macfarlane asks a vital and unsettling question: “Are we being good ancestors to the future Earth?” By Robert Macfarlane.

[ Comics ]

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

McCloud, in an incredibly accessible style, explains the details of how comics work: how they're composed, read and understood. By Scott McCloud.

[ Design ]

VNIITE: Discovering Utopia: Lost Archives of Soviet Design

The previously untold story of the VNIITE – the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics. The ‘Vniitians’, designed for the future and developed new theories and approaches to design in the USSR.

[ Art ]

Worlds Beyond: The Art of Chesley Bonestell

A richly illustrated book about the life and work of Chesley Bonestell, the "Father of Modern Space Art". By Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durant III.