Profiles top tattoo artists and explores their inspirations, tools and techniques, strategies and thought processes in creating some of the world's most remarkable tattoos

Tattoos continue to move into the mainstream and grow in popularity with each passing day. For the talented and decorated artists behind these designs, the tattoo is not just a way of adorning the human form, but a way of honoring our bodies, celebrating our icons and loved ones, inspiring ourselves to accomplish our goals, and remembering and marking defining experiences - a way of life.

What defines them as artists? What were their most challenging tattoos to create? Which ones did they have reservations about? Each artist is introduced with a short biography explaining who they are and why they were drawn to the tattoo design field, notes and musings from them on their clientele and favorite tattoo designs are featured, along with full-colour photographs and sketches from their extraordinary creations.

Tattoo Delirium
Eva Minguet
9780061740329  16.99 PB
Collins Design
Pubdate: June 2009
Available from TBS

Another charming, elegant, and gloriously illustrated book with a timeless vision from M. Saseks beloved and bestselling childrens travel guide series returns to print

With full colour illustrations with a retro feel, M. Sasek captures the adventurous spirit of this science-fiction-turned-fact spot on Floridas coast. Sample text from this glorious, colourful picture tour for young and old with updated facts about NASAs Space Program: Welcome to the space capital of the world!

M. Sasek orbits around missileland, capturing in sky-bright brilliance and fascinating captions the amazing panorama of this incredible moment at the advent of space exploration.

This is the Way to the Moon
Author: Miroslav Sasek
9780789318428  10.99 HB
Rizzoli
Pubdate: July 2009
Available from MBS

Cruisers offers an insider’s look at the latest and greatest cruiser bicycle styles and designs, and provides tips on how people can kit out their own bikes to proclaim their individuality

Cruisers tells the unique history and development of cruiser bikes, from their pre–World War II origins to the popular California beach bikes of the 1970s to today’s retro-chic bikes. Without style, a bike is just a bike, a means of getting from here to there.

With style, the bikes people ride become a defining stamp of who they are. The modern cruiser - with its oversized balloon tires, solid steel framing, shock-absorbing suspension, and custom colors and modifications - is a testament to individual style.

Cruisers
Authors: Michael Ames and Jonny Fuego
Gibbs Smith Publisher
Pubdate: June 2009
Available from PGUK Enfield

Explores five techniques - tessellating, sectioning, folding, contouring and forming

A new volume in our Architecture Brief series. The field of digital fabrication has spurred a design revolution yielding a wealth of architectural invention and innovation. This book illustrates how designs evolve as a process between virtual (or computer) model and physical presence using digital fabrication. It is enhanced by illustrations of groundbreaking projects that provide insight into why this field has sparked the imagination of a whole new generation of designers.

Digital Fabrications offers a brief and informative background on the rise of digital fabrication in architecture. It then moves to practical information on the types of tools and technologies architects most frequently use.

Digital Fabrications
Author: Lisa Iwamoto
Princeton Architectural Press
Pubdate: July 2009
9781568987903  14.99 PB
Available from MBS

Louise Bourgeois is one of the world’s most respected sculptors

Louise Bourgeois is among the most prominent contemporary sculptors. Strongly influenced by surrealism, abstract expressionism, and minimalism, her work focuses on the exploration of her psyche.  Despite early success, she did not receive widespread acclaim until the ’70s.  Her staggering variety of mediums includes rubber, wood, stone, metal, and fabric.  This book accompanies a major retrospective touring exhibition.

An overview of Bourgeois’s career, it covers individual works, art movements, other artists, and themes that have played an important role in her life and art, with text by acclaimed authors and critics, including Julia Kristeva, Elisabeth Lebovici, Frances Morris, Mignon Nixon, Linda Nochlin, Robert Storr, Alex Potts, Marina Warner, and Deborah Wye.

Louise Bourgeois
Author: Frances Morris
9780847831319  35.00 HB
Rizzoli
Available Now from MBS

With never-before-published quotes and a variety of dynamic sketches, this study provides an unprecedented glimpse into the mind of one of the great postwar modernists, Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Sverre Fehn

Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn has had an impact not only in his home country but around the globe. Fehn has been strongly influenced by Scandinavia's breathtaking landscape and light conditions. His design sensibility is characterized by a great respect for material and construction. As a professor of long standing at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, he has distilled his complex creative process, passing his thoughts and philosophies to new generations of architects. This comprehensive study of Fehn's work allows the reader an intimate glimpse into the world of one of the great postwar modernists.

Author Per Olaf Fjeld, a former student, illuminates the mind of this long-revered modernist in a combination of biography and perceptive critique, covering all of Fehn's major projects: built and unbuilt, from world-renowned museums to lesserknown houses.

Sverre Fehn
Author: Per Olaf Field
9781580932172  45.00 HB
Monacelli Press
Pubdate: June 2009
Available from PGUk Enfield