ABRAMS STUDIO

New Media in Graphic Design (July, $29.95) by Tricia Austin and Richard Doust explores new opportunities for designers made possible by digital technology.

ATRIA

Men & Dogs: A Personal History from Bogart to Bowie and Women & Dogs: A Personal History from Marilyn to Madonna (July, $15 each) by Judith Watt and Peter Dyer are eclectic collections of photos and stories of famous folk and their canine companions. 30,000 each first printing.

BATSFORD (dist. by Sterling)

Print in Fashion: Design, Development and Technique in Fashion Textiles (May, $24.95) by Marnie Fogg explores cutting-edge print design for fashion through designers' eyes.

BERG PUBLISHERS (dist. by Palgrave Macmillan)

Language of Fashion (Apr.; paper $17.95, cloth $79.95) by Roland Barthes, edited by Andy Stafford and Michael Carter, explores the culture of fashion and the fashion of culture.

BIRKHUSER

Detail Practice: Lighting Design, 2nd Expanded Edition (May, $46.95) by Ulrike Brandi Licht is a systematic introduction to natural and artificial design.

CASSELL ILLUSTRATED (dist. by Sterling)

Draw Like da Vinci (Apr., $17.95) by Susan Dorothea White discusses da Vinci's creative techniques and devises simple projects for practice.

GETTY PUBLICATIONS

Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship (June, $40), edited by Anne Woollett, is the catalogue for an exhibition about the collaboration between these early 17th-century painters.

GIBBS SMITH

How to Work with an Architect (Apr., $24.95) by Gerald Lee Morosco reveals the criteria for a successful architect-client relationship.

HAMLYN (dist. by Sterling)

Watercolor in 10 Steps (Mar., $17.95) by Patricia Seligman suggests a new approach for beginning watercolor artists that's distilled in 10 easy sequences.

FRANCES LINCOLN (dist. by Antique Collectors' Club)

Monet's House: An Impressionist Interior (June, $29.95) by Heidi Michaels, photos by Guy Bouchet. Monet's restored Giverny home reflects his radical views on color and light.

METROPOLIS BOOKS (dist. by D.A.P.)

Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the Center for Land Use Interpretation (June, $34.95), edited by Matthew Coolidge and Sarah Simons, tours numerous unsung landmarks throughout the country.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

On Site: New Architecture in Spain (Mar., $45) by Terence Riley is the exhibition catalogue for a show spotlighting 36 important architectural projects.

NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND (dist. by Antique Collectors' Club)

Gauguin's Vision (Mar., $35) by Belinda Thomson examines Gauguin's iconic painting, Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel.

NEW VILLAGE PRESS

Performing Communities: Grassroots Ensemble Theaters Deeply Rooted in Eight U.S. Communities (Apr., $19.95) by Robert H. Leonard and Ann Kilkelly shows off case studies and critical essays from an emerging nationwide cultural movement.

NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS

Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance (July, $30) by George Quasha. Photos depicting this balance suggest the sometimes thin line between people and nature.

W.W. NORTON

Trompe l'Oeil Grisaille, Architecture, and Drapery (June, $29.95) by Ursula and Martin Benad introduces the techniques of painting with monochrome washes. A Norton Book for Architects and Designers.

PHAIDON

Tacita Dean (Apr., $39.95) by Jean-Christopher Royoux et al. is a monograph on an artist who works in a variety of media, including drawing and video.

P.I.E. BOOKS (dist. by Last Gasp Distributors)

Character Design Collection (Mar., $29.95) introduces 275 cartoon and CGI characters, mostly from Japan, along with products, concepts and profiles of each.

RED ROCK PRESS

To Mom, I Love You Because... (May, $9.95) by Tome Sasaki Farley. The work of this Kyoto-born artist suggests warm and amusing reasons for honoring mom.

ROCKPORT

30 Essential Typefaces for a Lifetime (Mar., $40) by Pao & Paws defines 30 of the most useful classic typefaces.

ROTOVISION

First Steps in Digital Design (May, $25) by David Dabner explains how to design and make business cards, CD and DVD covers, letterheads and more.

SOUVENIR PRESS

Venice, the Enchanted Mirror (Apr., $14.95) by Alain Buisine illuminates the ways artists and writers have reacted to and depicted Venice over the centuries.

TATE PUBLISHING (dist. by Abrams)

Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake, and the Gothic Imagination (Apr., $50), edited by Martin Myrone, explores the emergence and growth of the gothic in art.

TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIV. PRESS

From Wood to Linoleum: The Cuts and Prints of Barbara Matthews Whitehead (May, $29.95) by Barbara Matthews Whitehead showcases the woodcuts and linoleum prints of this Texas artist.

THAMES HUDSON

American Art and Architecture (May, $18.95) by Michael J. Lewis surveys from colonial beginnings to contemporary works. The World of Art series.

THUNDER BAY PRESS (dist. by PGW)

Architecture Styles Spotter's Guide: From Classic Temples to Soaring Skyscrapers (July, $12.95) by M. Jane Taylor et al. covers diverse building styles in a take-along handbook format.

UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875—1907 (Mar., $34.95) by Scott A. Shields discusses the eight principal founders of this major artists' retreat.

UNIV. OF GEORGIA PRESS

Neat Pieces: The Plain-Style Furniture of Nineteenth-Century Georgia (Mar., $39.95) returns to print a classic sourcebook on indigenous southern furniture.

UNIV. OF TEXAS PRESS

David Smith Drawing & Sculpting (Mar., $35) by Steven Nash and Candida Smith is the catalogue for an exhibition at Dallas's Nasher Sculpture Center.

WEIDENFELD NICOLSON (dist. by Sterling)

This Is Modern Art (Mar., $17.95) by Matthew Collings revisits the shock of the new with a look at major contemporary artists and movements.

WHITE STAR PUBLISHERS

Angkor and the Khmer Temples Art Guide (Apr., $24.95) by Marilia Albanese examines the distinctive temples and symbolic art of the Khmer dynasty in Cambodia.