According to Andrew Graham-Dixon, "portraiture is often dismissed as an art form mired in the past", yet the National Portrait Gallery's survey of 21st Century Portraits "clearly (and perhaps surprisingly) demonstrates...

Donna Stain's floral arrangements not only greet the guests at Hotel Arts Barcelona, they are also much admired by the cognoscenti. Marking the hotel's 20th anniversary, the book 'A Bouquet of Colours' celebrates some...

Contexts, published by the Royal Institute of British Architects, represents a fresh take on the architectural monograph. Instead of a lookbook full of project images, five writers examine Hodder’s role in the changing landscape of...

The streamlined Dymaxion Car was the automotive future as envisioned by US inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller. A three-wheeler, steered by a single rear wheel, it could do a U-turn in its own length. The car was a revolutionary...

Eduardo Chillida is best known as a sculptor working with stone, metal and wood – the materials of his Basque landscape. In addition, he executed thousands of drawings and collages. Eleven facsimiles of drawings haven been selected and...

In 2007 Norman Foster celebrated 40 years of independent practice. The book features 40 of Foster's most important projects, together with 40 themes that have consistently underpinned his work. Echoing the spirit of Foster's...

Foster Works is a collection of six volumes featuring Norman Foster’s complete œuvre from the early Team 4 beginnings to the latest projects. The six books are being published over a period of six years by Prestel. The Foster Works books...

In 2009, the National Portrait Gallery London held an exhibition of portraits by the German painter Gerhard Richter some of which had never been presented before. The exhibition focused on the early black-and-white paintings derived from...

Two observations left an indelible impression on the receptive mind of architect Norman Foster when visiting the Cuban capital Havana: the decaying beauty of its historic architecture and the equally crumbling state of the city's pre-...

The Art of Racing' is a book that blurs the boundaries between motorsport and art. With lavishly reproduced photographs by Darren Heath and the expert insights of longtime motorsport commentator Maurice Hamilton, the book examines...

Norman Foster designed the Carré d'Art in Nîmes more than 20 years ago and celebrates a spectacular return to the South of France with 'Moving – Norman Foster on Art'; a show he curated to mark the 20th anniversary of the...

“O Carnaval de Pixinguinha" is a joyful tribute to Alfredo da Rocha Viana, Jr., better known as Pixinguinha (1887 - 1973) and arguably Brazil's most famous composer, arranger and instrumentalist. The immaculately presented box...

Patrick Heide’s catalogue marks the tenth anniversary of the gallery’s inauguration in London’s Church Street. It is a very personal expression of Patrick Heide’s vision and features all 33 gallery artists with their key works, a brief...

Now in its eleventh year the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize is an example of how the Thomas Manss & Company designed identity of the award has been carefully evolved without loosing its instantly recognisable visual...

The Complete Works by Zaha Hadid, one of the world's most celebrated architects, consists of four volumes presented in a 3-D ruby–red Lucite slipcase. The brief to design the definite overview, incorporating four volumes of differing...

The Architecture of Happiness' amounts to a beguiling tour through philosophy and the psychology of architecture. It is also Alain de Botton's most lavishly illustrated text book. Probing questions and myriad examples of historic...

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace, beautifully evoking what other people get up to all day – and night – to make the frenzied contemporary world function. With a...

"It is the structure of our spaces rather than our language which keeps us sane." This Merleau-Ponty quote has not only inspired much of Alex Hamilton's work. Its influence can also be seen in the design of Works – 2009. The...

The publication of ”Atlântica Moderna: Purus and Negros“ coincided with the solo show of Brazilian artist Ana Maria Tavares at Museu Vale. Key features including the installation „Loos’s Wall with Paradise”, created especially for the...

Phaidon's Art & Ideas series is a survey of major artists and movements around the world. Unlike many art books, Art & Ideas is as much about the written word as it is a visual feast. Thomas Manss & Company developed the...

Arups on Engineering is a compendium of engineering knowledge accumulated since the Ove Arup & Partners' inception in 1946. In thirty essays the leading lights of this global practice cover a wide range of topics from engineering...

For more than thirty years Ben Johnson has been documenting the work of one of today’s most acclaimed architects in photographs that have served as source material for his own neo-realist paintings. Included in this intimate volume are...

Bernhard Edmaier has been photographing the surface of the earth for more than 20 years. On his travels to untouched corners of the globe, he is accompanied by fellow geologist and science writer Angelika Jung-Hüttl. Together, they have...

Paul Goldberger’s book ’Building with History’ examines the strategies employed by architects Foster + Partners for contemporary interventions in historic buildings. Goldberger’s critical assessment is underpinned by beautifully reproduced...

The opportunity to design a book as well as the materials to promote it, helped ensure the high visibility of Contemporary World Architecture, a major international survey of architecture today. The book offers a comprehensive look at...

Unusually, the catalogue for 'Das viagens, dos desejos, dos caminhos' features a series of images of the exhibition in its final setting at Museu Vale. While this meant that the catalogue could only be produced once the...

As part of a major survey of fashion photography the National Portrait Gallery published Face of Fashion – a book exploring the symbiotic relationship between contemporary portrait photography and fashion. Each photographer is represented...

Project 16 is no ordinary paper promotion. Italian paper manufacturer Fedrigoni and Thomas Manss & Company joined forces to bring together 16 of the world's leading book designers and 16 of the finest papers available for book...

Project 16/3 owes its existence to the success of the original Project 16. It also turns the conceptual clarity of this paper promotion into somewhat of a misnomer. Project 16 was conceived to bring together 16 of the world's leading...

The Foster + Partners small monographs are a highly focussed series of architectural publications. Each volume introduces a single building with insightful texts, lavishly reproduced images and a dedicated drawing section for the...

Upon completion of their new headquarters in Düsseldorf, German insurance company ARAG and their architects Foster and Partners decided to celebrate the building's completion with a limited edition book. Rather than following the...

Art book publishers Ivorypress are best known for their sumptuous limited edition artist books. Sils opened a new collection of small-format artist’s books published by Ivory Press. With a cover concept by Thomas Manss & Company each...

Germany Divided explores the work of Georg Baselitz and his contemporaries Marcus Lüpertz, Blinky Palermo, A.R. Penck, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter. The publication coincided with the first public display of works on paper from the...

Why do photography books have to feature a photograph on the front cover? “Sightwalk”, a collection of Tokyo images by Russian-born Magnum photographer Gueorgui Pinkhassov, was an opportunity for the designer to break this mould. Sightwalk...

German artist Hans Kotter is best known for the virtuosity of his light installations. Kotter's studies of light refraction and colour composition have resulted in "art that impresses the eye" according to art historian...

Perhaps most widely known for the spectacular glass cube that is the Stuttgart Museum of Art, the firm of Hascher Jehle has been at the cutting edge of technologically advanced architecture since its inception in 1992. This catalogue of...

Horizons is the most exclusive travel book you won't find. In fact, travel is just the excuse for this lavishly produced art book creating a journey through photography, text and poetry. It was sold out before it was even published...

The opening spread of Károly Keserü's London Works catalogue summarises this Hungarian artist's story – literally and metaphorically. An entire page filled with tiny, meticulously written capitals illustrates the seemingly crazy...

Papertiger was the first solo show of Károly Keserü solely dedicated to works on paper. Apart from his trademark graphite and ink drawings there was also a selection of works that did not involve any other medium than the paper itself: the...

Looking at Kitaj's early prints almost fifty years later, one is struck by how bold, fresh, witty and incisive they are. Undoubtedly they are riddled with obscure references, but this is what makes them so intriguing: they are like...

Thomas Manss & Company designed the concept for this XXL-format survey of drawings and painting by the Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and all-around genius. The book explores Leonardo's life and work in...

The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism' is a collection of 100 essays and articles by Martin Pawley, one of the most important and entertaining voices in post-war architectural criticism. Spanning Pawley’s 40 year career, the...

Following hard on the heels of the success that was McLaren's 'The Art of Racing', '50 Years of Racing' charts the highs and lows of one of the most successful racing teams ever. No stone was left unturned to...

This book, commissioned by the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office and published by Prestel, celebrates the fact that a number of British architects have created acclaimed buildings in Germany, as part of the country’s rejuvenation...

Blind Spot is an exhibition of works by Miguel Rio Branco – one of Brazil's most important contemporary artists. Featuring photographs, paintings, collages, installations and videos created throughout a career, that spans almost 50...

"There are no short cuts to any place worth going." This pearl of wisdom by the late American soprano Beverly Sills perfectly summarises the catalogue for the Korean artist Minjung Kim. Although she represented her chosen...

On Foster, Foster On, published by Prestel, is a collection of essays by, and about architect Norman Foster. Incorporated in the cover is an interactive CD that presents colour images and drawings of the projects mentioned in the body of...

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize is a survey of the best in contemporary photography. The annual prize is accompanied by a catalogue presenting the winners and nominations. Its distinctive design makes the catalogue a must-...

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize is a survey of the best in contemporary photography. The annual prize is accompanied by a catalogue presenting winners and nominations. The fifth edition continues the publications distinctive...

The catalogue design for the annual Photographic Portrait Prize has been a veritable long distance runner of a publication. Now in its sixth edition, the catalogue's subtle layout has stood the test of time for the simple reason that...

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize has become an annual fixture in the London art calendar. In 2014, the National Portrait Gallery is celebrating the seventh year of its annual snapshot of contemporary portrait photography with...

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize is an annual showcase of the best in contemporary portrait photography. The eighth edition of the catalogue presents winners and nominations. It also continues the publication’s distinctive...

The ninth edition of the catalogue for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize has seen some subtle changes in the way the selected photographs are being showcased. Much like the previous eight editions, the 2016 catalogue lauds the...

The Stirling Wilford catalogue presents 11 major projects plus competition entries of architectural practice James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates. The publication accompanied two major retrospectives of the practice at London...

Riverlines traces the making of Richard Long's enormous 'mud works' at the Norman Foster designed Hearst Tower in New York. The book shows the artist at work giving an insight into the process. In addition, closeups...

When Ron King sold the entire archive of his private press to Yale, the Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut organised a major retrospective accompanied by a catalogue raisonnee. In addition to Ron King's complete works,...

The Looking Book celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Circle Press and coincided with a major retrospective called “Through the Looking Book” at the National Theatre. Like many of the limited edition artists’ books published by this...

The little booklet published by Italian publisher Cartamano Press is the essential guide to the almost forgotten art of letter writing. It is the account of an Italian aristocrat, who decided to document the finer points of personal...

This Phaidon collection of anecdotes and photographs from Magnum/National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry is presented as a portfolio of work. The large format pages echo the dimensions of McCurry’s original transparencies so the...

The Japanese architect Tadao Ando is known for the light, colour and atmosphere of his spaces and his beautiful juxtaposition of materials. Working without the aid of artificial lighting, Richard Pare’s photographs distil this to present...

This non-fiction book documents in stunning pictures and up-to-date accounts the rise of a desert settlement to a high-tech paradise and centre of tourism and finance – an ascent unprecedented in regional history, save perhaps for the...

The Queen – Art and Image is Thomas Manss & Company's modest contribution to the celebrations of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The catalogue has been designed to accompany an exhibition of the same name that has travelled the...

Thomas Müller’s work is an exploration of drawing with a diversity that is deeply rooted in his investigative and intuitive approach. The design of the catalogue dedicates two complete sections at the beginning and at the end of the book...

The catalogue for the Trajectories exhibition, celebrating 40 years of the University of Fortaleza (Unifor), presents a selection of Brazilian art from the Edson Queiroz Foundation curated by Paulo Herkenhoff and Marcelo Campos. Mirroring...

In his first monograph on the award winning Istanbul-based architecture and design firm Zoom/TPU, author Philip Jodidio investigates the designers’ holistic approach, from their interpretation of client requirements to their material and...