Comprehensively detailing exciting complete and under-construction projects around the world, Architecture Now! 8 is an amazing resource for contemporary architecture. The hardcover book covers a wide array of geographic locations including the jungle, the modern city and the desert. These interesting building projects are discussed thoroughly, and celebrate the architects whose ingenuity created the unique […]

Capturing the development of the modern architectural landscape, Taschen releases a new coffee table book featuring the most innovative private residences around the world from the last decade. The extraordinary homes defy the cookie-cutter houses of suburbia, and shift our perspective on what makes a building a home. The manipulation of conventional space is astounding […]

We’ve been fans of Mark Jenkins’ subversive wit and knack for unintentional trouble for a minute now — check out our interview to hear his words of wisdom. The American artist, famed for making eerily lifelike figures and inserting them into public and causing a disturbance, is releasing his first monograph, The Urban Theater: Mark Jenkins. […]

Legendary ad-man George Lois, known best for his groundbreaking Esquire covers (which we’ve covered before) wrote a book to give advice for people with talent, and it’s damn good advice too. Perhaps Lois has been accused in the advertising world for taking credit for others’ work, but in this Phaidon book the art director/designer/author offers […]

As the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death approaches in 2012, Taschen has created a unique biography by pairing Norman Mailer’s 1973 bio Marilyn with Bert Stein’s intimate portraits of the actress from a Vogue photo shoot just six weeks before her death. The homage — simply titled Norman Mailer, Bert Stern: Marilyn Monroe — […]

It will be a bittersweet day when the final installment of Christopher Nolan’s much revered Batman trilogy drops July 20, as it will be the end to one of the best comic book franchise films of all time. This second trailer does nothting to quiet the buzz this film will generate as 2012 grows into […]

What do you do when you have an epiphany, and unknowingly strike upon genius? Why, you try to repeat it. And what do you do when that bolt of brilliance takes the form of a Book of Boobs In 3-D? That’s pretty simple: you take more photos of boobs (aka life’s universal salve), and you […]

The second installment of our Best Of 2011 retrospective series focuses on the Top 10 Books of 2011, including photo-heavy coffee table books, research tomes and literature. From the history of menswear staples to Japanese art to modernist architecture to the appreciation of the well shaped derrière, there were a multitude of books published covering […]