IAN ANDERSON

The Designers Republic is the design group that changed design But there s never been a book that tells its story until now Led by founder and born rebel Ian Anderson The Designers Republic has shaped graphic communication over the past thirty years through rule defying music work provocative self initiated projects and a fierce commitment to conceptual thinking over style Now for the first time in book form Anderson explores the studio s output and its influence on a generation of graphic designers AZTDR spans over three decades of work from the studio s earliest designs for the FON label in the mid 1980s and sleeves for Age of Chance Chakk and Cabaret Voltaire right up to its recent projects for The Cinematic Orchestra Led Bib and the Gulbenkian Foundation Alongside classic self initiated TDR projects the 512 page book features an A to Z of everything from campaigns for Evolution Print Coca Cola and Nike through to the studio s celebrated designs for video games such as Wipeout and Formula Fusion TDR s special relationship with print is explored through its celebrated contributions to IDEA and Emigre magazines and its 3D 2D book alongside its work for Manchester School of Art Gatecrasher NY Sushi and the studio s array of music clients

A tale of kings and conquests and high-sea adventures A must-read for those interested in the history of spices. Shrabani Basu, author of Victoria and Abdul and Curry: The Biography of the Nations Favourite DishHumans have crossed the oceans and traversed the unknown in search of spice and flavour for thousands of years. Mustard has been found at Neolithic sites in Iran, Germany and Denmark; the Romans love affair with black pepper was insatiable; pepper, saffron, cinnamon, ginger, galangal and grains of paradise were ordered in large quantities for Richard IIIs coronation feast; and vanilla was credited as helping 342 eighteenth-century men become astonishing lovers.Although the Romans had imported black pepper, and Eastern spices had trickled through to the West for centuries, it was only after Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape that huge quantities of spices were brought back from India and the Far East, starting vicious trade wars between the Portuguese, Dutch and English as they established their colonial empires. Spices came from the West too: when Columbus reached the Americas in the fifteenth century, he brought back chilies to Europe, and from there they spread rapidly across the globe.The History and Natural History of Spices looks at spices from both a botanical and historical perspective, from their uses and classification to their influence on trade, war and global events. Both comprehensive and entertaining, it is the story of how our passion for spices helped to change the world.