Chanel Catwalk: The Complete Collections
300.00 ₾Chanel Catwalk: The Complete Collections by Adélia Sabatini (Thames & Hudson) — every Chanel collection from the house’s reopening through the most recent season, documenting the continuous reinvention of the most influential fashion aesthetic in the world. Under Karl Lagerfeld for thirty-six years, Chanel became simultaneously a shrine to the original Coco aesthetic and a laboratory for its transformation. Runway photography, detail shots, and authoritative commentary throughout. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Tarantino: A Retrospective
160.00 ₾Tarantino: A Retrospective by Tom Shone (Thames & Hudson) — the complete Tarantino career from Reservoir Dogs through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with exceptional visual material from the archive and rigorous analysis by one of film criticism’s sharpest minds. A serious engagement with a filmmaker who has been one of the defining forces in American cinema for three decades — polarising, essential, and completely original. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Tarkovsky: Films, Stills, Polaroids and Writings
180.00 ₾Tarkovsky: Films, Stills, Polaroids and Writings (Thames & Hudson) — the films, the working stills, the personal Polaroids, and the writings of Andrei Tarkovsky, one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, gathered in the most comprehensive available account of a cinema of metaphysical ambition and extraordinary visual power. Andrei Rublev. Mirror. Stalker. Sacrifice. — an indispensable companion for anyone who has encountered his work. Published by Thames & Hudson.
John Galliano for Dior Catwalk
600.00 ₾John Galliano for Dior Catwalk by Alexander Fury (Thames & Hudson) — the complete photographic record of John Galliano’s fifteen years at Dior, during which he produced the most theatrically extravagant and technically brilliant collections in recent fashion history — each one a complete artistic statement combining haute couture mastery with the narrative ambition of a major theatrical production. An essential document of fashion at its most creative. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Yves Saint Laurent Catwalk: The Complete Collections
300.00 ₾Yves Saint Laurent Catwalk: The Complete Collections by Suzy Menkes (Thames & Hudson) — every YSL collection from 1962 to 2002, documented in runway photography, detail shots, and expert commentary by the most respected fashion journalist of her generation. A forty-year survey of the most influential career in twentieth-century fashion — from the trouser suit and the safari jacket to the final couture. The definitive YSL reference. Published by Thames & Hudson.
Greek Lessons
46.00 ₾Greek Lessons by Han Kang (Penguin) — a man losing his sight and his ancient Greek, word by word; a woman who has lost her languages and is trying to find a new one. Between them, something begins that neither has words for. The Nobel Prize winner writes about language itself — about the way it both constitutes and fails us, about the particular vulnerability of a person stripped of the words that define their inner life. Quietly devastating. Published by Penguin.
The School of Life: An Emotional Education
46.00 ₾The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton (Penguin) — the comprehensive distillation of the School of Life’s decade of work on emotional intelligence, self-knowledge, communication, relationships, and the experience of being alive. Not a self-help book but a practical philosophy of wellbeing — covering what we lack in emotional vocabulary and the practices that help us understand and work with our inner lives. Published by Penguin.
The Communication Book
50.00 ₾The Communication Book by Mikael Krogerus (Penguin) — fifty of the most useful models and frameworks from psychology, management science, and communication theory, presented visually in the compact format that makes complex ideas immediately applicable. From the Johari Window through Roman Jakobson’s communication model to Paul Watzlawick’s axioms — the ideal reference for anyone who wants to communicate more effectively in professional or personal life. Published by Penguin.
My Family and Other Animals
46.00 ₾My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell (Penguin Modern Classics) — the irresistibly funny memoir of five years on the Greek island of Corfu, where ten-year-old Gerald collected scorpions, geckos, owls, and tortoises while his family attempted to maintain English respectability. Never out of print since 1956 — one of the most purely pleasurable memoirs in the English language, funny in every chapter and precise about the natural world. Published by Penguin Modern Classics.
East of Eden
45.00 ₾East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Penguin Modern Classics) — Steinbeck’s self-declared masterpiece: a retelling of Cain and Abel across three generations of California families, asking whether a person is capable of choosing good in a fallen world. Vast, ambitious, and completely unmistakable — the book he spent his whole life preparing to write, carrying the weight of a writer’s deepest convictions about what it means to be human. Published by Penguin Modern Classics.
The Grapes of Wrath
40.00 ₾The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Penguin Modern Classics) — the Joad family drives west from the Dust Bowl on Route 66 toward California and the promise of work, and finds exploitation, contempt, and organised resistance. Written in 1939 in a state of moral fury, it is the greatest American social novel of the twentieth century — technically extraordinary, built around characters of such specific humanity that their suffering is not an argument but an experience. Published by Penguin Modern Classics.
The News: A User’s Manual
46.00 ₾The News: A User’s Manual by Alain de Botton (Penguin) — an attempt to read the news as seriously and as critically as we would read philosophy: what each category of news tells us, what it conceals, and what a better relationship with it might look like. De Botton analyses political, world, economic, celebrity, disaster, and entertainment news with characteristic intelligence and wit. The essential companion for the age of information overload. Published by Penguin.
The Art of Travel
46.00 ₾The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton (Penguin) — a philosophical investigation of why we travel, enlisting Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Van Gogh, Flaubert, and Ruskin as travelling companions who help illuminate not the destinations but the inner states that travel both reveals and conceals. De Botton’s most personal book — on sinister travel, the pleasures of returning home, and why we take photographs. A book that changes how you travel. Published by Penguin.
The Architecture of Happiness
50.00 ₾The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton (Penguin) — a philosophy of the relationship between physical space and psychological state, between the buildings we inhabit and the selves we aspire to become. Drawing on architecture, philosophy, and the history of taste, de Botton argues that beauty in the built environment is not a luxury but a profound human need. Beautifully written and generously illustrated. Will permanently change how you look at buildings. Published by Penguin.
The Collected Stories
46.00 ₾The Collected Stories by Lydia Davis (Penguin Modern Classics) — four decades of stories, some a sentence long and some several pages, each turning a single thought or observation until every facet catches light. Davis is the most original American fiction writer of her generation, her influences French, her method empirical, her results completely unlike anyone else’s. A book that changes how you think about what a story can be. Published by Penguin Modern Classics.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
50.00 ₾One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (Penguin Modern Classics) — seven generations of the Buendía family in Macondo, where the miraculous and the mundane are indistinguishable and the patterns of history repeat until they reach their inevitable end. The novel that invented magic realism as a literary mode and changed what fiction is allowed to do. Winner of the Nobel Prize. The essential Latin American novel. Published by Penguin Modern Classics.
Not Quite Dead Yet
80.00 ₾Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson (Electric Monkey) — Holly Jackson, bestselling author of the A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy, returns with a new standalone thriller in which Laurel Keaton wakes in hospital with no memory of the previous three days and begins to suspect that everyone around her knows something she doesn’t. Plotting precision, dark wit, and a revelation that reframes everything. Published by Electric Monkey.
The Kama Sutra Colouring Book
45.00 ₾The Kama Sutra Colouring Book by DK — intricate illustrations inspired by the ancient Indian Kama Sutra tradition, rendered in classical Indian visual style and designed for meditative adult colouring. Each image engages with two thousand years of one of the world’s oldest erotic traditions, making this a unique and aesthetically beautiful creative gift for adults who appreciate both art and play. Published by DK.
The Correspondent
60.00 ₾The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (Penguin) — a foreign correspondent returns to the country where a decade-old story still haunts her, and finds that the distance she has kept from her own life is no longer enough to protect her. Written with the clarity of someone who understands how journalism actually works — not as heroism but as daily compromise and judgement under pressure — a gripping narrative and serious inquiry into the ethics of witness. Published by Penguin.
How to Be a Fashion Designer
45.00 ₾How to Be a Fashion Designer by DK — the practical guide for young people who want to move from a vision of fashion to the reality: learning to sketch, source fabrics, understand construction, create a collection, and present work with professional confidence. Step-by-step clarity throughout, with coverage of fashion history, influential designers and movements, and the practical realities of building a career in fashion. Published by DK.
Japan Travel Journal
60.00 ₾Japan Travel Journal by DK — a beautifully produced guided journal designed to facilitate the quality of attention that transforms a good visit to Japan into a transformative one. Prompts, templates, and space for observations and memories, woven with cultural context — etiquette tips, off-the-beaten-path suggestions, guidance on Japanese aesthetics — that helps travellers understand what they are seeing. The ideal companion and keepsake. Published by DK.
From the World of Percy Jackson: The Chalice of the Gods
90.00 ₾From the World of Percy Jackson: The Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan (Penguin) — Percy Jackson returns in his senior year at New Rome University, tasked by Ganymede with retrieving Zeus’s stolen drinking goblet before the next Olympic feast. With Annabeth and Grover at his side, Percy enters a New York underworld stranger and more dangerous than anything he has faced before. Essential for any Percy Jackson fan. Published by Penguin.
Face Yoga: 50 Easy-to-Follow Poses and Exercises
80.00 ₾Face Yoga: 50 Easy-to-Follow Poses and Exercises by DK — a practical guide to targeted facial exercises that strengthen and lift specific muscle groups, improve circulation and lymphatic flow, and contribute to structural facial health that no topical product can achieve. Fifty poses with clear photographic instruction, guidance on the specific muscles targeted, and programmes organised by concern — lifting, firming, contouring, reducing tension. Published by DK.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
25.00 ₾Avatar: Fire and Ash by DK — a new chapter in the Avatar universe explored with the full visual and narrative depth DK brings to its licensed reference books: character profiles, world-building detail, and behind-the-scenes material illuminating how the creative team continues to build one of animation’s most fully realised fictional universes. Beautiful production artwork and character designs make this as visually spectacular as the series itself. Published by DK.
Japanese Comfort Food
80.00 ₾Japanese Comfort Food by DK — the domestic, everyday dimension of Japanese cooking in recipes that are authentic without being intimidating: the ramen, the katsu curry, the miso soup, the onigiri. Accessible to Western home cooks with standard kitchen equipment, faithful to the flavours that make Japanese food beloved worldwide. Each recipe includes guidance on key Japanese ingredients and where to find them. The ideal introduction to Japanese home cooking. Published by DK.
Rapping Up Physics
50.00 ₾Rapping Up Physics by DK — Newton’s laws, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, wave mechanics, quantum theory, and special relativity, each first presented as a hip-hop track encoding its essential content, then elaborated in clear text and visual explanation. Teachers using the approach report significant improvements in student retention and engagement. The most creative physics introduction available for students who need a different approach. Published by DK.
Rapping Up Biology
50.00 ₾Rapping Up Biology by DK — cell structure, DNA replication, photosynthesis, evolution, the immune system: each concept first encoded in a hip-hop track that makes it memorable, then elaborated in clear explanatory text and visual diagrams that build genuine understanding. The approach exploits the same cognitive mechanisms that make song lyrics stay in memory long after prose is forgotten, applied to content that rewards exactly this kind of treatment. Published by DK.
Rapping Up Chemistry
50.00 ₾Rapping Up Chemistry by DK — the core concepts of chemistry presented through hip-hop rhythms and rhymes that make the material memorable in a way conventional presentation cannot achieve. Atomic structure, the periodic table, chemical bonding, reactions, acids and bases, and organic chemistry — each concept first in musical form, then with clear explanatory text and visual diagrams. A genuinely innovative approach to science education for students who need a different approach. Published by DK.
The Loneliness of Souza
65.00 ₾The Loneliness of Souza by Kiran Desai (Penguin) — a documentary filmmaker returns to Goa after a long absence to find a city both familiar and completely changed, and people who force her to confront what she has been recording instead of living. Kiran Desai — Booker Prize winner for The Inheritance of Loss — brings the same quality of tender, merciless attention to this smaller, more concentrated canvas. Published by Penguin.
Mocktail Hour
90.00 ₾Mocktail Hour by DK — over a hundred mocktail recipes that take full advantage of the extraordinary range of non-alcoholic spirits, shrubs, syrups, and botanical preparations now available, with clear instructions, beautiful photography, and the flavour context that allows creative adaptation. Classic cocktail formats reimagined without alcohol, original creations, and mocktail menus for specific occasions. Essential for thoughtful hosts and mindful drinkers. Published by DK.
The Garden of the Gods
46.00 ₾The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell (Penguin Modern Classics) — the third volume of the Corfu trilogy, richer and deeper than its predecessors, in which Gerald’s garden becomes a complete ecosystem managed by a teenage naturalist of growing skill while his family continues to produce the most improbable situations imaginable. Marked by the knowledge, present even in its comedy, that this particular paradise is about to end. Published by Penguin Modern Classics.
My Family and Other Animals
46.00 ₾My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell (Penguin Modern Classics) — the irresistibly funny memoir of five years on the Greek island of Corfu, where ten-year-old Gerald collected scorpions, geckos, owls, rose beetles, and various tortoises while his family attempted to maintain English respectability. Never out of print since 1956, one of the most purely pleasurable memoirs in the English language — funny in every chapter, precise about nature, beautiful about the Mediterranean. Published by Penguin Modern Classics.
Mother Mary Comes to Me
70.00 ₾Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy (Hamish Hamilton) — Roy’s long-awaited return to fiction, set in the lush, politically complicated landscape of Kerala. A woman navigating the demands of family, politics, and public life in contemporary India; a man caught between inheritance and choice; a world changing faster than its inhabitants can accommodate. Roy’s quality of complete, simultaneous attention — nothing too small to be important — fully present. Published by Hamish Hamilton.
BBC Walking with Dinosaurs
90.00 ₾BBC Walking with Dinosaurs by DK — the official companion to the BBC series, profiling every major dinosaur species with production artwork, the science behind the reconstructions, and the full paleontological context that makes each animal comprehensible as a real creature. Behind-the-scenes material illuminates how scientists and filmmakers collaborate — and how dramatically our understanding of dinosaurs has changed in the last twenty years. Published by DK.
Ultimate Japan
130.00 ₾Ultimate Japan by DK — the comprehensive guide to Japan’s history, culture, cities, landscapes, and practical realities, combining exceptional visual coverage of both iconic and lesser-known beauties with cultural context, practical guidance, and genuine local knowledge. Goes well beyond the standard tourist itinerary to give visitors and armchair travellers alike the depth of understanding that Japan requires. Published by DK.
The Seducer’s Diary
30.00 ₾The Seducer’s Diary by Søren Kierkegaard (Penguin) — embedded in Either/Or and now available alone, the disturbing and philosophically indispensable account of Johannes’s calculated seduction of Cordelia: simultaneously a portrait of a predatory mind and an inquiry into the difference between aesthetic and ethical modes of existence. Kierkegaard understood that the most damning portrait of a consciousness is one that presents itself as its own advocate. Published by Penguin.
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Chances are there wasn't collaboration, communication, and checkpoints, there wasn't a process agreed upon or specified with the granularity required. It's content strategy gone awry right from the start. Forswearing the use of Lorem Ipsum wouldn't have helped, won't help now. It's like saying you're a bad designer, use less bold text, don't use italics in every other paragraph. True enough, but that's not all that it takes to get things back on track.
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You made all the required mock ups for commissioned layout, got all the approvals, built a tested code base or had them built, you decided on a content management system, got a license for it or adapted:
- The toppings you may chose for that TV dinner pizza slice when you forgot to shop for foods, the paint you may slap on your face to impress the new boss is your business.
- But what about your daily bread? Design comps, layouts, wireframes—will your clients accept that you go about things the facile way?
- Authorities in our business will tell in no uncertain terms that Lorem Ipsum is that huge, huge no no to forswear forever.
- Not so fast, I'd say, there are some redeeming factors in favor of greeking text, as its use is merely the symptom of a worse problem to take into consideration.
- Websites in professional use templating systems.
- Commercial publishing platforms and content management systems ensure that you can show different text, different data using the same template.
- When it's about controlling hundreds of articles, product pages for web shops, or user profiles in social networks, all of them potentially with different sizes, formats, rules for differing elements things can break, designs agreed upon can have unintended consequences and look much different than expected.
This is quite a problem to solve, but just doing without greeking text won't fix it. Using test items of real content and data in designs will help, but there's no guarantee that every oddity will be found and corrected. Do you want to be sure? Then a prototype or beta site with real content published from the real CMS is needed—but you’re not going that far until you go through an initial design cycle.
