Taschen & Other Collectible Books

Science and illustration have always walked hand in hand, and not only the scientific community but the general public as well have used images since early history to understand natural phenomena. Moreover, from Galileo to Einstein, our modern...

The first and only publication of its kind, Sneaker Freaker has been at the forefront of the global sneaker scene for nearly two decades. With over 650 redesigned pages, fresh photography, insane historical detail, and otaku-level minutiae, this...

Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (18531890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In paintings such as Sunflowers, The Starry Night, and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the...

Long before GPS or Google Maps were invented, folded paper maps were our most trusted companions on the road. While traditional maps are becoming increasingly obsolete, there is more to cartography than establishing bearings or a sense of scale. Maps can...

No two human beings are 100% alike, which is why skin tones make one of the most distinct and diverse palettes on our planet. While they may seem subtle and soft when presented without context, nude colors can be striking when it comes to making a...

Colours have the ability to elicit a broad range of emotions and responses; forming a powerful and accessible language that can transcend all sorts of communication barriers. Multicolour (Vol. 2) takes a look at some of the best creative solutions around...

With their mesmerising sheen, metallic colours add lustre to surfaces as they catch the eye even under the dimmest of lights. Through a vast variety of mediums and techniques, the artists and designers featured in Gold & Silver (Vol. 3) demonstrate great...

PALETTE mini 04: Neon comes after the first 3 titles (Black & White, Multicolour, Gold & Silver) with a dazzling collection of projects featuring clever uses of fluorescent hues. Showcasing spot colours, phosphorescent inks, and interesting printing...

Following the first 4 titles under the series (Black & White, Multicolour, Gold & Silver, Neon), PALETTE mini 05: Pastel contains thoughtful design solutions and visual experiments that inspire with the variety of creative ways that the typically soft...

By manipulating the sense of absence and presence, transparency is a powerful attribute that can lure viewers into exploring what lies beneath and beyond a surface. Featuring additional projects that play with opacity, transparency, and everything in...

Palette Mini 08: Iridescent explores the myriad of possibilities that result from multi-colored illusions that shift with the viewer’s vantage point through projects from all around the world. Whether its kaleidoscopic nature is utilized to create depth...

Basquiat (40th Anniversary Edition)

One of the most expansive illustrated publications on Disney animation, finally available in a compact edition. The landmark volume includes behind-the-scenes photos, story sketches, and cel setups of famous film scenes. It covers each of the major...

Antoni Gaudí merged Orientalism, natural forms, and new materials into a unique Modernista aesthetic that put Barcelona on the global architecture map. With brand-new photography, plans and drawings by Gaudí himself, as well as an extensive appendix...

Enter the world?Æs finest homes in this dependable global digest featuring talents like Shigeru Ban and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-comers like Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri Nishizawa. Organized by architect and brimming with...

This special edition updates Jamie Hewlett’s first-ever monograph with around 30 brand new pieces. Through stories, characters, strips, and sketches from the Tank Girl era through Gorillaz and up to the present day, we trace Hewlett’s exceptional...

The Japanese woodblock print is a phenomenon with no Western equivalent. Breathtaking landscapes exist alongside blush-inducing erotica, ghosts and demons torment the living, and sumo wrestlers and kabuki actors are rock stars. This condensed edition...

Redout. Book of Flowers (40th Anniversary Edition)

From legendary releases to ultra-rare records, Elvis Presley to Iron Maiden, discover the 750 album covers that made rock history. Fact sheets, insider interviews, and lists from leading collectors of their top 10 records guide us through the...

Ellen von Unwerth?Æs knock-out collection of female sexuality, starring some of the most iconic women of our time including Claudia Schiffer, Eva Mendes, Kate Moss, and Dita Von Teese. Enter a world of femininity, playfulness, and fetish in which...

The ultimate anthology of cinematic showpieces, in extra-handy format. This careful selection of movie masterworks sets noir alongside new wave, slapstick alongside tragedy in a far-reaching, infinitely inspiring guide to the jewels of 20th-century...

Drawn from our Illustration Now! series, this book surveys 100 of the makers and shapers of the illustration scene. With featured artists including Istvan Banyai, Mirko Ili?, Anita Kunz, and Christoph Niemann, the international overview provides an...

Girls, Gags & Giggles, ran publisher Robert Harrisons recipe for dishing up pin-up to the American male. Men loved his tasty dishes, a mixture of strippers and starlets dressed in outfits so fetishistic no one noticed they were never nude. While...

1000 Record Covers (Bibliotheca Universalis Edition)

George Eastmans career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, and a crucial innovator in photographic history. Eastman died in 1932,...

Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinets Le Costume historique was in its day the most wide-ranging and incisive study of clothing ever attempted. Covering the world history of costume, dress, and style from antiquity...

Explore the modern age of design in this Bibliotheca Universalis edition of the 20th century’s key movements and trends. Featuring numerous works from around the world, this is an essential compendium for design...

Clothes define people. A persons attire, whether its a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, personality, even faith. Founded in 1978, the Kyoto Costume Institute recognizes the importance of understanding...

Explore the dark and brooding elegance of Film Noir with this essential handbook to the genre, exploring key noir themes and their most representative movies. Copiously illustrated with film stills as well...

The most exciting new buildings today are almost all environmentally aware, sustainable, and conceived to consume less energy than ever before. Discover the best examples of green projects from the Architecture Now! series in this handy Bibliotheca...

Get ready to quake in fear with this revised and expanded edition of our history of horror cinema. This chilling volume packs 640 pages full with the finest slashers, ghosts, zombies, cannibals, and more, curating the very creepiest screen creations...

Explore the compositions, postures, and role-playing of the male nude genre from anonymous 19th century erotica through to contemporary work from David Hockney and Duane Michaels. Highlights include the Sicilian homoerotic scenes of Baron Wilhelm von...

Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the photographers of the Farm Security Administration set out to document the rural poor and “introduce America to Americans.” With nearly 400 pictures from the likes Dorothea...

With cost and space often at a premium, small but perfectly formed buildings are a popular architectural challenge. From world-famous names such as Toyo Ito and Zaha Hadid to the best in new international talent, architects around the world showcase...

From Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen, take in over a century’s worth of fashion greats. This updated edition includes 15 new labels and shows some 500 garments in the permanent collection of The Museum at FIT in New York...

Dive into one of the most colorful pop culture phenomena of mid-century America. In this handy edition gathering hundreds of images and ephemera, urban archaeologist Sven Kirsten takes us on a journey through Tiki history, from the first Pacific...

From Paris to L.A., London to Bergen, Sao Paulo to Vienna, and many more, no one has quite captured the strangeness, heroism, frustration or surreal quality of the coronavirus pandemic quite like the world's street artists. This brilliant compact volume...

It's so simple, yet so profoundly satisfying. Each page has the colors, and the artist draws the lines. Created by artist Kendra Norton, these beautiful and whimsical watercolors provide a gentle visual guide, so open-ended that the possibilities...

Style C Flat for Roman, texts and italic lettering and for accented line drawing, scrolls or scripts.