Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design by Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham

For fans of movies, art, design or just the ‘damn cool’, Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design by Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham is pretty much essential.

Hockney: The Biography by Christopher Simon Sykes

Anyone with an interest in art, the art scene or just interesting artists will want a copy of Hockney: The Biography by Christopher Simon Sykes, which is published in hardback on November 24th by Century.

Postcards from Puffin - 100 classic covers in a box

Fans of vintage literature and 20th century design will certainly appreciate this rather cool set of illustrations - Postcards from Puffin: 100 Book Covers in One Box.

It is just that, 100 postcards in a books-shaped box, each of the postcards featuring a different classic/iconic cover from a Puffin gem you might well remember from childhood.

70 years of British design and illustration history in a single box and yours for a modest £7.29.

Find out more at the Amazon website

Catalogue of iconic 1956 This is Tomorrow art exhibition reprinted

The 1956 This is Tomorrow exhibition, held at London's Whitechapel Gallery, was one of the seminal exhibitions in British art of the second half of the twentieth century, heralding the start of the British Pop Art scene. To accompany a display looking at the exhibition, the Whitechapel are printing a facsimile of the original catalogue. 

That's 132 pages, including 100 black and white images, looking at the work artists, architects and theorists produced for the exhibition. The long role call includes such name as Eduardo Paolozzi, Erno Goldfinger, Lawrence Alloway and Richard Hamilton who exhibited his famous 'Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?' collage in the show. The only difference between that and the original is a two page insert from the current director and the archive curator of the Whitechapel. 

Art for All: British Posters for Transport book

If the Modern British Posters book and exhibition appealed to you, here's another book focusing on the topic, Art for All: British Posters for Transport. 

As the title makes implies, the emphasis here is on posters designed for London Underground and the railways, dating from 1908 when the publicity programme was started by London Underground. Its 208 pages feature many well known poster works, it also examines great examples of the work of McKnight Kauffer in more detail.

Offering a great overview of the topic, the book accompanies an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art in America and uses work from their collection, alongside images from the London Transport Museum and National Railway Museum in York. 

Buy it for £23.77 from Amazon