KAWS, Adam Pendleton and friends reimagine the I Voted sticker
Postal ballot voters can take pride in wearing these new versions of the classic lapel label
Michele Robecchi on 25 years of Phaidon's Contemporary Artist Series
Phaidon's Commissioning Editor talks about the series' beginnings, why he always wants the books to 'introduce, celebrate and surprise', and what he's learned from working so closely with artists over the years
25 things we learned from 25 years of our Contemporary Artist Series
Did you know about Wolfgang Tillmans’ short spell in social care, Yayoi Kusama’s Broadway musical, Kerry James Marshall’s brush with Hanna Barbera, Jonas Wood’s highly illegal ingredient, Paul McCarthy’s unlikely Vietnam link and Trevor Paglen’s days as punk club promoter?
25 great quotes from 25 years of our Contemporary Artist Series books
Here's a quarter century of artistic excellence and explanation, in each artist's own words, courtesy of our era-defining list
The Flowers caught in a design classic
Fake rather than real roses ended up looking pretty inside this masterpiece of 80s furniture design
Buy art and help Beirut get back on its feet
Denise Maroney of Dear Beirut outlines a special new auction, aiding those made homeless by the recent explosion
Secrets from The Garden: There's nothing black and white about a monochrome planting
Our new book, The Garden: Elements and Styles, unpicks the tricksy terms underpinning some of the world’s most beautiful gardens
Magnus Nilsson's Momentous Moments: The day he understood Fäviken couldn’t have survived Covid
The chef knows his restaurant wouldn’t have beaten the pandemic, but he remains optimistic about post-pandemic eating
Our Snacky Tunes authors hit the (virtual) road
Greg and Darin Bresnitz team up with 8 chefs and their favourite musicians for virtual events this month and next
Secrets from the Garden: Today’s wildlife friendly gardens owe a lot to big city parks
This 'natural' planting style might look countrified, but it owes its popularity to urban landscapes
Watch Will Cotton make a candy crown
The contemporary artist is one of many who've made videos with Phillips auction house to accompany our new book Open Studio
Want to cook like Lee Tiernan? Here’s the music to help you
The chef shares his Skepta, Stormzy and slowthai musical passions and some (surprisingly vegetarian) culinary ones too in Snacky Tunes
The Flowers that dance to the seasons
Our new book Flower features a brilliant stop-motion work that celebrates the miracle of spring
JR’s biggest exhibition ever is opening in London next month
The new show will cover the artist’s entire career, from the streets of Paris to political hotspots across the globe
The Flowers that haunted Yayoi Kusama
Our new book Flower features a highly prescient, early portrait of the world-famous Japanese artist
Magnus Nilsson's Momentous Moments: The day he knew he had to close Fäviken
'When I got home I went straight back to bed and cried. I didn’t understand. It was a kind of sadness that I had never felt before'
Marcel Dzama on Goya, Ghosts and his Artspace edition The illumination of the sisters of paradise
The Canadian artist discusses his early life, his experiences during the pandemic, and how they both fed into this beautiful new work
Secrets from The Garden: Don't forget to add some colour!
When it comes to colour, many of the best gardeners set down their plans on paper before digging in the plants
Want to cook like Alex Atala? Here’s the music to help you
The chef shares his musical and culinary passions in our new book Snacky Tunes
Magnus Nilsson's Momentous Moments: The day Magnus realised influence is OK, copying is not!
The words of one hallowed French chef led Nilsson to realise that, in some instances, a re-appropriated recipe idea can be a tribute, rather than a theft
Want to cook like Selassie Atadika? Here’s the music to help you
The chef shares her musical and culinary passions in our new book Snacky Tunes
Magnus Nilsson's Momentous Moments: The day he realised chefs could learn a lot from high fashion
They both command high prices, Nilsson believes haute couture has higher standards and a better work ethic than haute cuisine
Simon Doonan shares his Zoom style tips with Page Six
Western shirts and the wise words of Iris Apfel are helping the author and fashion pro through the pandemic
David Netto helps Sotheby’s with its new Phaidon library
To mark the inauguration of a new library at Sotheby’s East Hampton, the interior designer discusses collecting with the auction house
Want to cook like Matt Abergel? Here’s the music to help you
The chef shares his musical and culinary passions in our new book Snacky Tunes
Spirited home bartending on a budget
You don’t need a lot of fancy equipment to make great mixed drinks, as our book Spirited explains
Secrets from The Garden: Wild gardens aren't really that wild
Our new book, The Garden Elements and Styles, traces the trend for unruly planting back to an outspoken critic of Victorian formality
9 smart moves Annie Leibovitz has used to shoot great pictures
On her 71st birthday, we share some of the photographer's working practices from Annie Leibovitz At Work
Mocktails have grown up, it’s time to learn how to make them
Our new book Spirited explains how soft drinks can be spectacular when put together with skill and great ingredients
El-P from Run the Jewels tells Snacky Tunes about making music and bagels
The New York rap star looks back fondly on a time when he could only afford one meal per day
RIBA winner Sir David Adjaye on the future of memorials
Following the announcement that the architect is to receive RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal, British architecture’s highest honour, we share some of his thoughts from our new book In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials
Five Spirited winter warmers to try during the colder months
These heated drinks are perfect evening accompaniments to autumnal and winter evenings
Putting together an autumn wardrobe? Here's how to truly be yourself
Simon Doonan, the fashion pro, professional contrarian and author of How to Be Yourself advises us all to dig deep and find our own personal style
5 things we learned from a short chat with Sir Paul Smith
We just previewed our book Paul Smith in an online chat with the fashion legend. Here are a few things he said
Lizzo keeps her Rihanna book right next to her Grammys!
Vogue just interviewed the singer at her LA home, revealing our great looking book on her display shelves
The Flower that symbolised new life in Ancient Greece
Our new book Flower features an incredible trove of ancient ornaments, proving the reverence for floral forms stretches back millennia
Want to cook like Sean Brock? Here’s the music to help you
The chef shares his musical and culinary passions in our new book Snacky Tunes
Secrets from The Garden: Sometimes the best elements aren't 'real'
Our new book, The Garden, reveals the lengths garden creatives can go to to get the perfect vista
The folk art that changed Anni and Josef Albers
Our book Anni & Josef Albers includes an examination of the couple’s love of pre-Columbian art and its influence on them
Secrets from The Garden: You don't have to own the best bit of your garden
Some of the greatest horticulturalists look towards the horizon when reworking the ground beneath their feet, explains our book,The Garden: Elements and Styles
Japan The Cookbook inspires Nancy Singleton Hachisu's menu at new London restaurant
Nordic and Japanese concept store Pantechnicon will host new restaurant Sachi with a menu devised by Hachisu
The Flowers frozen in time
Marc Quinn's high tech Garden of Eden is submerged in 25 tons of frozen silicon
Secrets from The Garden: Spanish colonial gardens aren't actually colonial
The Garden: Elements and Styles untangles the roots of horticultural terminology with beautiful images and crisp text
The square paintings that established Anni and Josef Albers
Anni & Josef Albers, examines how a series of repetitive paintings went from object of ridicule to high society status symbol
The Flowers that became street art
Discover how NYC florist Lewis Miller took his stems to the street, in our new book Flower
The style that defined Anni and Josef Albers
Our new book, Anni & Josef Albers, examines the clothes the couple favoured, in their own unwavering way
All you need to know about The Garden: Elements and Styles
Our beautiful new book is the quintessential reference guide to garden design, its rich history, and the creative art of horticulture
The Flower that symbolises Japanese spirituality
Our book Flower brings together an unimaginably varied bouquet of fine art blooms, including Rinko Kawauchi's powerful image
Best in Show! Simon Doonan indulges in a bit of doggy dressing for his new book
Window dressing gave the author confidence and this recent post proves he's still very much the master
Trevor Paglen: 'I’d go outside and have this overwhelming sense of fear but at the same time I was watching nature explode'
How the artist made his new show in the midst of a pandemic
Magnus Nilsson's Momentous Moments: The night he realised a good cook is a caring cook
In his new book, Nilsson describes how an intimate dinner in Paris led him to realise that hospitality is all about being truly hospitable
How Herman Melville worked from home
The novelist found nautical inspiration in this modest farmhouse far from the sea, where he wrote Moby-Dick, its whale inspired by the snowy curves of Mount Greylock
How Philip Johnson and America saved Anni and Josef Albers
Our new book describes how a chance meeting in the street and the invention of Black Mountain College helped the couple escape Nazi Germany
Cecily Brown takes on English country life in her new Blenheim Palace show
The artist retains a love for her homeland, though she admits, Britain is going through a traumatic time with Brexit right now
Magnus Nilsson's Momentous Moments: The day he met Joel Meyerowitz
A walk with New York’s greatest street photographer taught Magnus Nilsson something crucial about craft, as he recalls in Fäviken: 4015 Days, Beginning to End
All you need to know about Flower
Take a trip across continents and cultures to discover how artists and image makers have employed floral motifs throughout history
The school that changed Anni and Josef Albers forever
The Bauhaus had a crucial influence on both their careers, though Josef had a slightly easier time than Anni. . .
How a boyhood bike purchase inspired Paul Smith to find beauty in the details
In our book Paul describes how a teenage cycle upgrade led him to appreciate simple design finesse
The love that drove Anni and Josef Albers
Our new book, Anni & Josef Albers, describes the couple’s courtship, honeymoon and their romantic challenges
Sir Terence Conran on the founding of the Design Museum
The great designer and entrepreneur, who died at the weekend, said the museum was the single most rewarding achievement of his long and illustrious career
How Charlie Chaplin worked from home
The film star edited films, created music and wrote his autobiography at his home on the shore of Lake Geneva
How Jony Ive inspired Paul Smith to be curious
The tech designer met Smith before joining Apple, and the two have remained mutual admirers ever since
Mark Bradford on the lockdown, LA and how his latest paintings ended up in a grain silo
The Los Angeles artist tells the New York Times that Covid-19 has pushed him into survival mode
Join Jeanne Gang and Jane Hall at RIBA this Monday!
The Studio Gang founder is in conversation with Breaking Ground author Jane Hall and you're invited
How Jean Cocteau worked from home
The French artist mixed business with pleasure when he painted the walls of this Mediterranean villa
How Yves Saint Laurent inspired Paul Smith to show his love
In our book Paul describes commissioning perhaps the last, genuine YSL tuxedo for his supportive, loving wife
Does the new Xbox owe a debt to Dieter Rams?
Er, yes! Commentators point out the similarities between Microsoft’s next-gen gaming console and Dieter's 20th century classics
Eater loves our new Fäviken book
The authoritative food and fine dining site praises Magnus Nilsson’s new book for its passionate but measured take on modern gastronomy
All you need to know about Nonstop
We're proud to publish world-famous children’s author Tomi Ungerer's final book this season. It is, without doubt, a masterpiece
Adam Pendleton helps save Nina Simone’s home
The contemporary artist has helped preserve the singer’s childhood home
How Dieter Rams inspired Paul Smith to be brave
The British designer admires the way the German minimalist managed to resist the allure of decoration
How René Magritte worked from home
A simple Belgian apartment was all the great surrealist needed to create some of his best-known works, as our new book explains
How Christo and Jeanne-Claude inspired Paul Smith to believe in the unbelievable
The art duo’s audacious, site-specific works left a big impression on the British designer, as he explains in our new book
All you need to know about Cecily Brown
Our vital new book is the first to truly chart the rise of one of the most influential painters of our time
Try this tasty, child-friendly Labor Day recipe
Get that end-of-summer flavor without the leaping flames, courtesy of our kids' cookbook, United Tastes of America
How Elvis Presley worked from home
Graceland might be better suited to play rather than work, but the singer still recorded his last two albums here
All you need to know about Adam Pendleton
Appreciate and understand the work of this groundbreaking American artist in his first all-encompassing publication
Five things we learned from Snacky Tunes' Frieze Sessions
The podcast hosts and Phaidon authors tell Frieze’s publisher how they put their hit show on the printed page
Okwui Enwezor on art, race and school uniform
As the late curator and Phaidon author is awarded a Special Golden Lion, we look back at his radical life and work
All you need to know about Flower Color Theory
Get the ultimate flower arrangement reference book from the greatest contemporary floral design studio
All you need to know about Fäviken: 4015 Days, Beginning to End
Magnus Nilsson lifts the lid on what it was really like to run one of the world's most successful restaurants, in this wonderfully detailed cookbook and memoir
How Anni and Josef Albers holidayed
Newly unearthed vacation photographs from the artist couple prove that they were inveterate explorers
Philip Johnson’s religious side
Our new book highlights the American architect’s surprising enthusiasm for houses of worship
8 Martinis with a twist
Yes of course you should never really drink more than two, but, as our book Spirited makes clear, there’s a lot of great variations on this classic to sample
Yoshitomo Nara on his worst studio, his favourite chocolate, and why his forthcoming LA show will be a class reunion
The painter shares his thoughts on his art, diet and well-known works with the New York Times
How JR and Yayoi Kusama are guiding gallery goers towards a new type of art
Pace’s new public art venture focuses more on the ticket-buying public and less on rich patrons
Cocktail makers get mobile in New York and London
Is this the way we should be enjoying our mixed drinks during the pandemic? Or would a copy of our new book Spirited make things a little easier?
All you need to know about The Best of Nest
The beautiful, much-loved, much-missed interiors magazine, Nest, is brought back to life in this lavish overview of exciting and unusual home décor
All you need to know about Coveted: Art and Innovation in High Jewelry
The first comprehensive book on jewelry as an art form shows the beauty, and explores the craft, behind some of today’s most precious creations
Dreaming of entertaining again?
In this clip the floral designer and Phaidon author Michael Putnam shows how a display can become an interactive experience for every guest
How Gianni Versace worked from home
Versace’s place in Miami Beach managed to combine Old World motifs with a New World easiness
Annie Leibovitz curates Henri Cartier-Bresson
It was Cartier-Bresson’s photobook that made the photographer pick up a camera. Now she repays the debt by co-curating a new show of his work
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Betak stages the perfect pandemic fashion show
The fashion show master moved everything to a field outside Paris, in a beautifully simple response to Covid-19
All you need to know about Anni & Josef Albers
A moving, Modernist life story told with wit, precision and beauty, our new book is a fitting tribute to these two Bauhaus pioneers
How Eliel Saarinen worked from home
The Finnish architect was born on this day, 20 August. His studio home, on the shores of Lake Vitträsk, is a masterpiece of early 20th century architecture
All you need to know about In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials
Our new book looks at some of the most beautiful, moving and thoughtful memorials of the past four decades
All you need to know about Snacky Tunes
Discover the delicious and unexpected interplay between stove and stereo in this tasty new overview of great chefs and their love of music
A Phaidon guide to New York’s museum reopenings
Heading out to admire art in Manhattan again? Then pack these books alongside a face mask and hand sanitizer
How our Casa Mi Casa co-author wants to change the restaurant business
In a New York Times profile Daniela Soto-Innes explains why she wants to make restaurants kinder, less gruelling, places to work post-Covid
