Take a sticky trip to the museum! Stickyscapes at the Museum includes an 8-page booklet, brimming with over 100 stickers and a huge, double-sided fold-out panoramic scene for you to decorate. One side of the scene shows a busy museum during the daytime, with enormous dinosaur skeletons, priceless vases and bored...
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet and Anna Isabella Milbanke, a mathematician. Her parents separated when she was young and her mother insisted on a logic-focused education, rejecting Byron’s “mad” love of poetry, but Ada remained fascinated with her father and considered mathematics “poetical science.”...
Many designers use folding techniques in their work to make three-dimensional forms from two-dimensional sheets of fabric, cardboard, plastic, metal and many other materials. This unique book explains the key techniques of folding, such as pleated surfaces, curved folding and crumpling. It has applications for architects, product designers, and jewellery...
Mapping has been one of the most fertile areas of exploration for architecture and landscape in the past few decades. While documenting this shift in representation from the material and physical description toward the depiction of the unseen and often immaterial, Cartographic Grounds takes a critical view toward the current...
By enhancing your ability to identify connections, you can enhance your creativity. This exercise book strengthens your ability to recognise connections. The exercises are based on the theory of the book The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker, as well as observations in neuroscience, and seventy years of creativity studies....
From the powerhouse author/illustrator team of Iggy Peck, Architect comes Rosie Revere, Engineer, another charming, witty picture book about pursuing your passion. Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she’s a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When her Great, Great Aunt Rose...
Embark on an adventure of personal creativity and invention with fan favorite Rosie Revere! This activity book features art from the picture book Rosie Revere, Engineer and will inspire young readers with activities of all kinds. Kids will have the chance to design a better bicycle, build a simple catapult, construct a...
Pull it. Tear it. Stick it. Sticky Roll Notes contain over 26 feet of note-taking tape to place anywhere you need to put an end to kvetching. Pull, tear, and stick on a mirror, desk, fridge, cubicle, windshield—anywhere! Specifications: 100% adhesive and repositionable A sticky note that’s on a roll—literally....
This stunning and original colouring book presents an array of remarkable worlds all presented in a tower of stunning detail and intricacy. Colouring enthusiasts can loose themselves in the Vertical City, where shops perch above parking lots that sit upon skyscrapers. Other realms include the Carnival, the Tree House, the...
Iggy Peck and Rosie Revere have earned their places among the most beloved children’s characters and have inspired countless kids and adults to follow their passions. Determined Ada Twist, with her boundless curiosity for science and love of the question “Why?,” is destined to join these two favourites. Like her...
While fundamentally a design discipline, architectural education requires an element of history and theory, grouped under the term ‘research’. However, many students struggle with this part of their course. This practical handbook provides the necessary grounding in this subject, addressing essential questions about what research in architecture can be. The...
The ancient craft of architectural model making may seem unnecessary in today’s age of digital renderings and virtual tours, but physical models remain a uniquely revealing and compelling tool for the architect. More forcefully than any other way of visualizing a building, models represent ideas, as opposed to images. The...
