AVA Publishing

AVA is a creative publisher for the applied visual arts. When our business was founded a few years ago we wanted to rethink the concept of the textbook. Our audience is visually literate, technically sophisticated, and acutely aware of good design and presentation. In our endeavor to create 21st-century textbooks for 21st-century students, AVA Academia’s titles respond to these qualities. It seemed to us that academic books about the applied visual arts should themselves be both well designed and well written, something that had previously appeared to be an either/or option for many publishers. To date, many hundreds of universities, colleges, and higher education bodies around the world have adopted and recommended our texts across numerous courses and programs.

Beginning in April 2013, all new AVA titles will be published under the Fairchild Books imprint.

www.avabooks.com

Featured Books

Fashion Thinking: Contemporary Approaches to the Design Process Add to My Reading List

Fiona Dieffenbacher

From the Publisher. The fashion design process has always been shrouded in mystery. The unique creative approach that each designer evolves to arrive at their final collection has gone largely undocumented. By following award-winning student designers through their thought processes in response to a brief, Fashion Thinking by Fiona Dieffenbacher unmasks… More

ISBN: 9782940411719

January 17, 2013

8.5 x 12 inches, paperback, 224 pages, 200 color illustrations

Pattern Cutting : The Architecture of Fashion Add to My Reading List

Pat Parish

From the Publisher. Pattern Cutting: The Architecture of Fashion by Pat Parish is a detailed exploration of a key area that some students – and designers – struggle to get to grips with.

Success in fashion design has for decades relied upon the pattern cutter’s aesthetic judgement, of proportion, balance, line… More

ISBN: 9782940411900

January 17, 2013

8.5 x 12 inches, paperback, 196 pages, 200 color illustrations

The Fundamentals of Interactive Design Add to My Reading List

Michael Salmond
Gavin Ambrose

From the Publisher. The Fundamentals of Interactive Design, by Michael Salmond and Gavin Ambrose, introduces the essential areas of digital design. It examines the workflow of creating and exporting design across multiple media platforms. The book is for designers who have never worked within the interactive medium as well as… More

ISBN: 9782940411863

February 28, 2013

8 x 9 inches, paperback, 192 pages, 200 color illustrations

Selected Backlist

Basics Design 01: Format (second edition) Add to My Reading List Gavin Ambrose Paul Harris 2012 More	Basics Design 02: Layout (second edition) Add to My Reading List Gavin Ambrose Paul Harris 2011 More
Basics Fashion Design 09: Designing Accessories Add to My Reading List John Lau 2012 More	Basics Fashion Management 02: Fashion Promotion Add to My Reading List Gwyneth Moore 2013 More
Basics Graphic Design 02: Design Research Add to My Reading List Neil Leonard Gavin Ambrose 2012 More	Basics Graphic Design 03: Idea Generation Add to My Reading List Neil Leonard Gavin Ambrose 2013 More
Fashion Thinking Add to My Reading List Fiona Dieffenbacher 2013 More	The Fundamentals of Fashion Management Add to My Reading List Susan Dillon 2011 More
The Fundamentals of Interactive Design Add to My Reading List Michael Salmond Gavin Ambrose 2013 More	Pattern Cutting Add to My Reading List Pat Parish 2013 More
The Publishing Business Add to My Reading List Kelvin Smith 2012 More	Visual Research (second edition) Add to My Reading List Ian Noble Russell Bestley 2011 More

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Now is Better by Stefan Sagmeister

Now is Better

By Stefan Sagmeister
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: October 2023

Combining art, design, history, and quantitative analysis, transforms data sets into stunning artworks that underscore his positive view of human progress, inspiring us to think about the future with much-needed hope.

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Design Emergency: Building a Better Future by Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli

Design Emergency: Building a Better Future

By Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: May 2022

Rawsthorn and Antonelli tell the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes—Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology—the authors present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology.

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Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People by Debbie Millman

Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People

By Debbie Millman
Publisher: Harper Design
Published: February 22, 2022

Debbie Millman—author, educator, brand consultant, and host of the widely successful and award-winning podcast “Design Matters”—showcases dozens of her most exciting interviews, bringing together insights and reflections from today’s leading creative minds from across diverse fields.

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Milton Glaser: POP by Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber

Milton Glaser: POP

By Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Published: March 2023

This collection of work from graphci design legend Milton Glaser’s Pop period features hundreds of examples of the designer’s work that have not been seen since their original publication, demonstrating the graphic revolution that transformed design and popular culture.

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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

By Alexandra Lange
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: June 2022

Chronicles postwar architects’ and merchants’ invention of the shopping mall, revealing how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. Publishers Weekly writes, “Contending that malls answer ‘the basic human need’ of bringing people together, influential design critic Lange advocates for retrofitting abandoned shopping centers into college campuses, senior housing, and ‘ethnocentric marketplaces’ catering to immigrant communities. Lucid and well researched, this is an insightful study of an overlooked and undervalued architectural form.”

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Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition) by Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller

Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition)

By Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller
Publisher: Letterform Archives Books
Published: October 2023

This facsimile edition of Die Fläche, recreates every page of the formative design periodical in full color and at original size, accompanied by essays that contextualize the work, highlighting contributions by pathbreaking women, innovative lettering artists, and key practitioners of the new “surface art,” including Rudolf von Larisch, Alfred Roller, and Wiener Werkstätte founders Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann.

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