Glenn Adamson

An unprecedented look at the design archives of the iconic sportswear brand. In Autumn 2024, the Vitra Design Museum will present the first ever museum exhibition about Nike, the world's most revered sport brand. The exhibition, together with this accompanying catalogue, marks the milestones in Nike's six-decade history and explores its ascent into a global brand that holds a central...

The most comprehensive monograph available on the greatest living glassblower, Lino Tagliapietra. Lino Tagliapietra has been described as the world’s greatest glassblower, a figure born from the five-hundred-year-old culture of Venetian glass, but one who also revolutionised glass as a discipline, inventing new techniques to create his masterful works. Even more astonishing, as Tagliapietra hit his full stride, he has...

The definitive volume on Gaetano Pesce's incomparable life and career, as told in the artist-designer’s own words. In a category all his own, Gaetano Pesce is widely considered one of the most important and elusive creative figures of the last half century. Bridging numerous key art and design movements, while never belonging to any of them, Pesce's singular practice has...

This groundbreaking volume positions Liz Collins as a singular figure who not only synthesises fine art, craft and fashion and textile design, but also advocates fiercely for queer and feminist politics. Collins is a queer feminist artist known for her radical deployment of fibre, her activism around labour and gender politics, and her exploration of the borderlands between art, design...

From the canonical texts of the Arts and Crafts Movement to the radical thinking of today's "DIY" movement, from theoretical writings on the position of craft in distinction to Art and Design to how-to texts from renowned practitioners, from feminist histories of textiles to descriptions of the innovation born of necessity in Soviet factories and African auto-repair shops...The Craft Reader...

Co-published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. This book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today's visual arts, when high ‘production values’ are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft’s centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians....

Glenn Adamson's last book, Thinking Through Craft, offered an influential account of craft's position within modern and contemporary art. Now, in his engaging sequel, The Invention of Craft, his theoretical discussion of skilled work is extended back in time and across numerous disciplines. Adamson searches out the origins of modern craft, locating its emergence in the period of the industrial...