Archive for Items Categorized 'Art, Artists and Design', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

How to Draw Crazy Cars & Mad Monsters Like a Pro

by Thom Taylor and Ed Newton

“Yes, you can!” Draw, that is. Let some of the original artists of Ed Roth’s studio show you how!

Bugatti: Carlo, Rembrandt, Ettore, Jean

by Amanda Dunsmore, John Payne

If all you can think of is “cars” when you hear Bugatti, you’re missing something. Furniture, sculpture, and, yes, cars—there’s a Bugatti for that. This book shows pieces that are held in public and private collections in Australia.

Architecture of Transportation

Planes, trains, automobiles—how does the task of keeping people moving affect buildings?

The Spirit: Celebrating 75 Years of the Rolls-Royce Motor Car

by Ken Dallison

Twenty-four 18 x 14˝ watercolors of classic Rolls-Royce automobiles in a leather-bound limited-edition book.

Motor Movies – The Posters!

by Paul Veysey

From starring role to bit part, automobiles are inseparable from movies. This book offers a look at the poster art and publicity campaigns.

Ferrari: 25 Years of Calendar Images

by Günther Raupp 

For more than a quarter of a century Ferrari has offered an “official” calendar, and for the whole of that time one single photographer has had the privilege of being The Man. This book uses select images from Raupp’s calendars to illustrate the story of Ferrari cars.

Ferrari: 2012 Official Scuderia Ferrari Calendar

Highlights from Ferrari’s most recent F1 season, captured in images by three of the big names in motorsports photography. There’s really not much more that needs to be said, but there is always a useful bit of background to further enlighten the viewer.

Ferrari Myth 2012: The Official Ferrari Calendar

by Günther Raupp 

Imagine standing in front of this cover, in all its 27˝ x 19˝ eyeball-searing grandeur. If you do not feel something stirring inside there’s something wrong with you—and you do not deserve to look at it anymore. Only 5000 of these things exist so move over!

Silver Clouds: The 1934 Grand Prix Season

by Paul Chenard

A marvelous limited-edition collection of artwork—only 50 pieces—with narrative about the 1934 racing season in Europe.

Bugatti (Hawley)

by Hawley, des Cordes, Mishne

From stone masonry to automobiles this catalog of a museum show looks at the artistic output of the entire Bugatti clan across three generations.

Robert Taylor’s Battle of Britain: Commemorative Collection

by Robert Taylor

WWII’s Battle of Britain was the first major campaign in which aerial warfare was a, if not the, decisive factor. Its 70th anniversary in 2010 prompted this compilation book of paintings by one of the dominant names in aviation (and other military) art.

Ocean Liner Posters

by Cadringher & Massey

Ocean-crossing passenger ships did not make the world a global village but they were, especially when steam replaced (or augmented) sail which allowed them to overcome the capriciousness of wind and current, the first and for quite a long time only means of personal transport to different parts of the planet on a more or less repeatable and predictable basis.