Books & Mags
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Making Moon: A British Sci-Fi Cult Classic
As seen in:Designer: Tony Noble
Director: Duncan Jones
Shop NowMaking Moon takes in-depth look back at the film’s production: It features interviews with the film’s key creatives and includes rare concept and behind-the-scenes images, as well as excerpts from the original shooting script.
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Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps: Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking
As seen in:Shop NowAnnie Atkins’s new book, Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps: Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking takes a behind-the-scenes look at the extraordinary and meticulous design of graphic objects for film sets.
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Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains
As seen in:Shop NowLair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains, celebrates and considers several iconic villains’ lairs from recent film history.
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The Art of Game of Thrones, the official book of design from Season 1 to Season 8
As seen in:Shop NowThe Art of Game of Thrones is filled with production design secrets and never-before seen concept art. Learn how BAFTA and Emmy award-winning production designer Deborah Riley and her team brought to life the iconic locations of Westeros and beyond.
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Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film
As seen in:Shop NowDark Places: The Haunted House in Film is a wide-ranging and compelling study, where Barry Curtis demonstrates how the claustrophobic interiors of haunted spaces in films connect to the dark places’ of the human psyche.
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Christmas at Highclere: Recipes and traditions from the real Downton Abbey
As seen in:Director: Michael Engler
Shop NowHighclere Castle, known as ‘the real Downton Abbey’, bustles with activity at the best of times, but it is never more alive than at Christmas. Christmas at Highclere is a look behind the scenes at the routines and rituals that make the castle the most magical place to be throughout the festive season.
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At Home at Highclere: Entertaining at The Real Downton Abbey
As seen in:Director: Michael Engler
Shop NowAs owner of Highclere, the real Downton Abbey, Lady Carnarvon’s love of history is richly rewarded with Highclere Castle’s mine of family records going back some 300 years. She has delved into the archives to create a book that invites you inside the Castle, past and present.
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Dieter Rams: Less But Better (Bilingual English and German Edition)
As seen in:Designer: Dieter Rams
Braun
Director: Gary Hustwit
Shop NowThis new and revised edition of Dieter Rams Less but Better shows how almost everything produced by one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century is today considered a classic.
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Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams (Bilingual English and German Edition)
As seen in:Designer: Dieter Rams
Braun
Director: Gary Hustwit
Shop NowLess and More is Dieter Rams’ 808-page book about his work, back in print in its original form with a PVC softcover and slipcase. The relevance of famous Braun designer Dieter Rams in modern design remains unbroken.
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View from Above
Shop NowVirts shares the astronaut’s view of the world, offering astounding aerial views of our planet and the vastness that surrounds it in the book View From Above.
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Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
Shop NowIn Typeset in the Future, blogger and designer Dave Addey invites sci-fi movie fans on a journey through seven genre-defining classics, discovering how they create compelling visions of the future through typography and design.
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Star Trek Encyclopedia
As seen in:Shop NowIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, a fully authorised revision of the popular reference companion: a two-volume encyclopedia featuring a completely new design, stunning new full-colour photographs and illustrations, and 300 pages of new entries, packaged in a specially designed and shrink-wrapped deluxe slipcase.
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Creating Interior Atmosphere, Mise-en-scène and Interior Design
Shop NowCreating Interior Atmosphere, Mise-en-scène and Interior Design explores the creation of interior atmosphere as seen through the lens of mise-en-scene. You will learn how this film theory informs the concept of `staged space’ translated through the narrative and expressive qualities of a particular scene.
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Ken Adam Designs the Movies: James Bond and Beyond
As seen in:Designer: Ken Adam
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Shop NowKen Adam is the most distinguished production designer in the world.
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Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death
Director: Sergio Leone
Shop NowThe landmark biography of one of the twentieth century’s most recognisable directors.
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Space Odyssey by Michael Benson
As seen in:Director: Stanley Kubrick
Shop Now“At last! The dense, intense, detailed, and authoritative saga of the making of the greatest motion picture I’ve ever seen, 2001: A Space Odyssey. I now have reason to see Kubrick’s ‘proverbial “really good” science fiction movie’ another 200 times. Michael Benson has done the Cosmos a great service.” (Tom Hanks)
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Room To Dream
Director: David Lynch
Shop NowDavid Lynch – co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films such as Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive – opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the friendships he has made along the way and the struggles he has faced – sometimes successful, sometimes not – to bring his projects to fruition.
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Rationalism on Set: Glamour and Modernity in 1930s Italian Cinema
Shop NowThis catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition Rationalism on Set: Glamour and Modernity in 1930s Italian Cinema, curated by Valeria Carullo, held at the Estorick Collection in 2018.
Approx £12.95 Inc VAT if applicable / $17
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Frida (DVD/Blu-ray/On Demand)
As seen in:Director: Julie Taymor
One of our favourite films: The film biography of one of Mexico’s most prominent, iconoclastic painters – Frida Kahlo
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This Brutal World
Shop NowA curated collection of some of the most powerful and awe-inspiring Brutalist architecture ever built.
Approx £20.00 Inc VAT if applicable / $27
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The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
As seen in:Director: Stanley Kubrick
Shop NowGet closer than ever to the movie that changed the movies. This behind-the-scenes spectacular of 2001: Space Odyssey sheds light on the lead actors, senior production designers, special-effects experts, who together with the intricate mastermind of Kubrick himself, revolutionized science fiction and the art of cinema.
Approx £32.50 Inc VAT if applicable / $44
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