Mark Batty Publisher Books


Vending Machines: Coined ConsumerismVending Machines: Coined Consumerism
Best Price: $16.86
Vending Machines: Coined Consumerism is more coffee table art book than the social history of...
Revelations and the Stupid CreaturesRevelations and the Stupid Creatures
Best Price: $19.98
In Revelations & the Stupid Creatures , John Murphy pairs his distinctive Stupid Creatures...
Drainspotting: Japanese Manhole CoversDrainspotting: Japanese Manhole Covers
Best Price: $8.49
This book is truly amazing. I had no idea that manhole covers such as these even existed! They...
RetrofontsRetrofonts
Best Price: $39.96
Retrofonts is an excellent resource for those aiming to capture the right historical styling in...
Textura Dos: Buenos Aires Street ArtTextura Dos: Buenos Aires Street Art
Best Price: $21.89
Matt Fox and Guilherme Zauith sure know how to have fun. The duo spent several months exploring...


Cereal: Snap, Crackle, Pop CultureCereal: Snap, Crackle, Pop Culture
Best Price: $5.00
Forty-nine percent of all Americans start their day with a bowl of cereal. It?s the third most...
An Illustrated Guide to CockroachesAn Illustrated Guide to Cockroaches
Best Price: $10.27
Cockroaches - a topic besmirched in polite circles - is the subject of this highly creative...
Cuba TV: Dos CanalesCuba TV: Dos Canales
Best Price: $16.46
During broadcast hours, all TVs in Cuba are on, no matter if they are being watch or just...
Stencil Graffiti Capital: MelbourneStencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne
Best Price: $13.20
Stencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne , MBP's first street-art book, stands as a contemporary...
Kill, Marry, FucKill, Marry, Fuc
Best Price: $16.06
Part party game, part voyage of self-discovery, part celebrity trivia, all laugh-riot...


Innovation & the Printing ArtsInnovation & the Printing ArtsWhile Youre ReadingWhile Youre Reading
Best Price: $21.62
Despite I was expecting a very scientific book I was pleasantly surprised, it is extremely...
A Field Guide to the North American FamilyA Field Guide to the North American Family
Best Price: $5.97
Garth Risk Hallberg, with some major help from his many photographer friends and designers...
EdgyCute: From Neo-Pop to Low Brow and Back AgainEdgyCute: From Neo-Pop to Low Brow and Back Again
Best Price: $19.99
EDGYCUTE is a term used by Harry Saylor to describe the odd conglomeration of images contained...
The Art of Todd Bratrud: Seen UnknownThe Art of Todd Bratrud: Seen Unknown
Best Price: $12.39
"What makes Todd so brilliant is his inability to create anything ugly.  He tries,...

Celebrity VinylCelebrity Vinyl
Best Price: $12.10
Celebrity Vinyl is a laugh-riot reminder of what happens when famous people decide to...
Tart Cards: London's Illicit Advertising ArtTart Cards: London's Illicit Advertising Art
Best Price: $3.99
Marshall McLuhan wrote that advertising was the cave art of the twentieth century. He...
U&lc : Influencing Design & TypographyU&lc : Influencing Design & Typography
Best Price: $52.62
As a graphic design student at Brigham Young University I was introduced to U&lc, "The...
Stencil Graffiti Capital:  MelbourneStencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne
Best Price: $17.00
I've been a little obsessed with Melbourne's street art scene for quite a while;...
Wood Engravings Of Agnes MilleWood Engravings Of Agnes Mille
Best Price: $106.45
With more than 800 examples, the most comprehensive compilation of Agnes Miller Parker?s wood...

ImpostersImposters
Best Price: $0.69
Photographer James Knoblauch writes: "When I first saw the Imposters, I loved how they fit...
Urban Guerrilla ProtestUrban Guerrilla Protest
Best Price: $6.00
URBAN GUERRILLA PROTEST is at once an art book as well as being a documentation for the myriad...
New Skateboard GraphicsNew Skateboard Graphics
Best Price: $18.13
The book Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art is of course mandatory reading for anyone who...
The Open DaybookThe Open Daybook
Best Price: $26.49
David P. Earle is responsible for this most entertaining and unique 'calendar' -a book...
Cultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic AlphabetsCultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic Alphabets
Best Price: $21.71
Cultural Connectives bridges the Arabic and Latin alphabets through a family of typefaces...

Graffiti JapanGraffiti Japan
Best Price: $13.04
Japan has long been a breeding ground for innovative appropriation of Western traditions, as...
Bathroom GraffitiBathroom GraffitiJames Mosley: Selected Essays on Type, Lettering & CalligraphyJames Mosley: Selected Essays on Type, Lettering & CalligraphyFuzz and Fur: Japan's Costumed CharactersFuzz and Fur: Japan's Costumed Characters
Best Price: $4.95
Ever the leader in the world of creative advertising, Japan is the source of the characters so...
Letterpress AdventuresLetterpress Adventures
Best Price: $29.40
The artists and printers featured in Letterpress Adventures shun standard mass-produced fare,...

Arabic for Designers, Second EditionArabic for Designers, Second Edition
Best Price: $29.70
In Arabic for Designers, Second Edition , Mourad Boutros has overhauled his critically...
Green DesignGreen DesignNew Visual Culture Mod IranNew Visual Culture Mod Iran
Best Price: $337.84
Reza Abedini, a graphic designer and professor at Tehran University, has collected an impressive...
Graffiti JapanGraffiti Japan
Best Price: $57.58
GRAFFITI JAPAN is another fine book on contemporary art and design from Mark Batty Publisher. As...
Drawing AutismDrawing Autism
Best Price: $27.06
This art book is primarily a celebration of form and color as done by artists on the autistic...

Name TaggingName Tagging
Best Price: $7.40
Not knowing anything about name tags, I found this book much more interesting and informative...
The Art of Marc McKee: Seen UnknownThe Art of Marc McKee: Seen Unknown
Best Price: $12.19
The release of these two Seen Unknown titles marks the beginning of a new MBP series, edited...
Wood Engravings Of Agnes MilleWood Engravings Of Agnes Mille
Best Price: $106.45
With more than 800 examples, the most comprehensive compilation of Agnes Miller Parker?s wood...
ImpostersImposters
Best Price: $0.69
Photographer James Knoblauch writes: "When I first saw the Imposters, I loved how they fit...
Urban Guerrilla ProtestUrban Guerrilla Protest
Best Price: $6.00
URBAN GUERRILLA PROTEST is at once an art book as well as being a documentation for the myriad...

New Skateboard GraphicsNew Skateboard Graphics
Best Price: $18.13
The book Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art is of course mandatory reading for anyone who...
The Open DaybookThe Open Daybook
Best Price: $26.49
David P. Earle is responsible for this most entertaining and unique 'calendar' -a book...
Cultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic AlphabetsCultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic Alphabets
Best Price: $21.71
Cultural Connectives bridges the Arabic and Latin alphabets through a family of typefaces...
Graffiti JapanGraffiti Japan
Best Price: $13.04
Japan has long been a breeding ground for innovative appropriation of Western traditions, as...
Bathroom GraffitiBathroom Graffiti

James Mosley: Selected Essays on Type, Lettering & CalligraphyJames Mosley: Selected Essays on Type, Lettering & CalligraphyShadows of TimeShadows of Time
Best Price: $6.99
This book was recommended by a photographer friend who knows the author and my interest in art...
Dot-Font: Talking about Matthew CarterDot-Font: Talking about Matthew Carter
In line with the first two books in this series, these two new titles focus on typography and...
Traveler's AdvisoryTraveler's Advisory
Best Price: $2.99
This small, wallet sized book is a compilation of well-designed phrases and photographs that...
Chicken: Low Art, High CalorieChicken: Low Art, High Calorie
Best Price: $13.13
Housed in a book cover that is hilariously vinyl (so that greasy fingers might not soil the...

Pioneers of Spanish Graphic DesignPioneers of Spanish Graphic Design
Best Price: $18.73
Emilio Gil is an important figure in the field of Design, having founded the TAU...
ABCing: Seeing the Alphabet DifferentlyABCing: Seeing the Alphabet Differently
Best Price: $5.74
ABCing: Seeing the Alphabet Differently is not a standard artbook, but rather a visual...
TexturaTextura
Best Price: $17.22
Luz Martin has created what everyone hopes will be said of writer/photographers who document...
Unruly AlphabetUnruly Alphabet
Best Price: $2.91
I can tell you first-hand that kids love The Unruly Alphabet. I am a school teacher of older...
Kicks Japan: Japanese Sneaker CultureKicks Japan: Japanese Sneaker Culture
Best Price: $15.00
The Japanese tend to takes things to extremes and become aficionados. Given that many of the...

Infinite Instances: Studies and Images of TimeInfinite Instances: Studies and Images of Time
Best Price: $30.57
Filmmaker Phillip Adams once said, ?Of all the big questions of existence? none impacts our...
Drawing AutismDrawing Autism
Best Price: $17.05
First identified in 1943, autism has over the last decade become an international topic of...
The Art of the Book in the Twentieth CenturyThe Art of the Book in the Twentieth Century
The design of books today we enjoy today was fundamentally influenced by a handful of preeminent...
Xiu Xiu: The Polaroid ProjectXiu Xiu: The Polaroid Project
Best Price: $15.29
XIU XIU may not be a name known to many but it is the moniker of a difficult to define...
The Noir A-ZThe Noir A-Z
Best Price: $4.49
I don't know what to make of this as a book. The size (approx. 6.5 x 5 x 1.75 inches)...

Instructions for the ApocalypseInstructions for the Apocalypse
Best Price: $4.98
Instructions for the Apocalypse is a fictional account of Gareth Gray's final hours of...
Becoming: A Gender FlipbookBecoming: A Gender Flipbook
Best Price: $12.84
Yishay Garbasz is a consummate artist. She is a photographer of several meaningful monographs...
Xiu Xiu: The Polaroid Project: The BookXiu Xiu: The Polaroid Project: The Book
Best Price: $20.52
As tour manager and official chronicler of the immensely popular indie rock band Xiu Xiu, David...
The Inner Life of Martin FrostThe Inner Life of Martin Frost
Best Price: $16.64
Paul Auster's novel The Book of Illusions explores the implications of stories within...
Glitch: Designing ImperfectionGlitch: Designing Imperfection
Best Price: $7.26
A "glitch" usually fixes itself in the amount of time it takes for it to be noticed in...

The Art of Dove Bradshaw: Nature, Change, and IndeterminacyThe Art of Dove Bradshaw: Nature, Change, and Indeterminacy
Best Price: $21.55
A longtime proponent of art and indeterminacy, this book features some of Bradshaw?s most...
1X1: Pixel Based Illustration & Design1X1: Pixel Based Illustration & Design
Best Price: $14.95
This book really does have fantastic art in it. I'm glad I got it for such a low price. I...
Well Made Book:Essays & Lectures by Daniel Berkeley UpdikeWell Made Book:Essays & Lectures by Daniel Berkeley Updike
Best Price: $7.95
A collection of essays and lectures about the art of book making.
George W Jones Printer LaureatGeorge W Jones Printer Laureat
Best Price: $32.00
A retrospective of Jones?s works, considered to be some of the most important fine printing done...
Talk Back: The Bubble ProjectTalk Back: The Bubble Project
Best Price: $0.35
I bought this book thinking it would just be fun to have around, but I can't put it down. It...

Faces of the Living DeadFaces of the Living Dead
Best Price: $6.90
Though the subject of spirit photography is not a novel one, few writers have offer the degree...
Bay Area GraffitiBay Area Graffiti
Best Price: $82.47
Like the region it hails from, this compilation is cool, colorful and idiosyncratic and will...
Bay Area Graffiti 80-90Bay Area Graffiti 80-90
Best Price: $30.57
Veteran graffiti writers SFaustina and Jocelyn Superstar have collaborated on a history of the...
Dogs in BooksDogs in Books
Best Price: $8.86
As the saying goes, dogs are man's best friend. Since the Stone Age, our canine companions...
Everymans McluhanEverymans Mcluhan
Best Price: $4.27
Anyone who has ever considered media and its relation to humanity has most likely heard the name...

Matchibako: Japanese Matchbox Art Of The 20s & 30sMatchibako: Japanese Matchbox Art Of The 20s & 30s
Best Price: $5.18
Japanese matchbook art of the 1920s and 1930s.
The Hot Knives Vegetarian Cookbook: Salad DazeThe Hot Knives Vegetarian Cookbook: Salad Daze
Best Price: $15.32
Bountiful with Dionysian flair, Hot Knives Alex Brown and Evan George dish up...
Animal Shelter PortraitsAnimal Shelter Portraits
Best Price: $10.83
Every week thousands of abandoned dogs and cats are picked up from city streets and put into...
The Hot Knives Vegetarian Cookbook: Spring BlazeThe Hot Knives Vegetarian Cookbook: Spring Blaze
Best Price: $14.47
Bountiful with Dionysian flair, Hot Knives Alex Brown and Evan George dish up condiments,...
Pentothal PostcardsPentothal Postcards
Best Price: $7.09
From 1954 to 1968 a series of postcards from faraway and exotic places arrived in the mail for...

Type & Typography: Highlights from Matrix--The Review for Printers & BibliophilesType & Typography: Highlights from Matrix--The Review for Printers & Bibliophiles
Best Price: $14.68
A ?best of? from the now defunct publication Matrix, the preeminent review for printers and...
Playing CardsPlaying Cards
Best Price: $4.99
Ira Pearlstein writes an engaging introduction in which he recounts buying at a country estate...
Urban IranUrban Iran
Best Price: $17.07
The focus here is on graffiti and street art in contemporary Iran along with streets scenes...
LE GUN 1,2,3 (Issues 1-3)LE GUN 1,2,3 (Issues 1-3)
Best Price: $66.04
LE GUN 1-3 is a fascinating new collection of works that are at once difficult to classify and...
South African Township Barbershops & SalonsSouth African Township Barbershops & Salons
Best Price: $17.11
Simon Weller is a graphic designer and a freelance photographer - a fine combination of skills...

Everything That Can Happen In A DayEverything That Can Happen In A Day
Best Price: $17.65
David Horvitz is an artist who is finding just how potent is the dissemination of information on...
Jeanette Abbink, Emily CM Anderson's3D Typography [Hardcover](2010)Jeanette Abbink, Emily CM Anderson's3D Typography [Hardcover](2010)
Best Price: $74.54
Stencil Graffiti Capital:  MelbourneStencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne
Best Price: $7.00
A riot of photographs and interviews demonstrates why Melbourne is considered a global capital...
Everyman's McLuhanEveryman's McLuhan
Best Price: $1.50
Certainly one of the more important minds of the 20th century was Marshall McLuhan, a man whose...
Products for a Happy LifeProducts for a Happy Life
Best Price: $0.94
As each of us daily boots up the computer to go shopping on the internet, intending to avoid...

Face Food: The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento BoxesFace Food: The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes
Best Price: $7.18
Christopher D. Salyers introduces us to an art form little known outside of Japan in this...
Notations 21Notations 21
Best Price: $36.51
"Notations21" is gorgeous, and worth the wait. It was announced in early 2008, and I...
The Inner Life of Martin FrostThe Inner Life of Martin Frost
Best Price: $11.99
Pictorially and artistically this is an interesting book. But there are problems. The text is...
In China, My Name IsIn China, My Name Is
Best Price: $4.99
As China opens its once secure, secretive doors to Western influences, the changes that have...
Negative SpaceNegative Space
Best Price: $15.25
Noma Bar has made a career of what he calls 'pain relief' - 'Art directors and...
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