George Lois, the master communicator of the advertising world soups up around 120 life lessons in his new Phaidon book, Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!), which delivers a slew of insightful thoughts on making things work for you. Now, Mr. Lois clearly singles out “people with talent” as the group he is speaking with with the book; that means everyone reading this here site.

Put Damn Good Advice on your coffee table and thumb through it daily for some insight on how to make your work and world better. Though some of the mantras delivered by Lois are obvious, it is rather nice to be reminded of them. Forthcoming on Phaidon March 26. Available from Amazon.

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Since arriving on bookshelves in 2010, the Master of Cinema series titles have worked introductions to the world’s most well known directors including Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Orson Wells, and Akira Kurosawa to name a few. Each volume is filled with interviews, biographies and a wide range of film stills and movie ephemera – many rarely seen outside these volumes.

The Master of Cinema series books pack nicely into around 100 pages each and sit as continuing volumes on your bookshelf. Forthcoming director volumes for 2012 include Michael Mann and Quentin Tarantino. Available from Amazon.

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Take a moment, if you will, and listen to Amanda Renshaw, Phaidon Press’ editorial director, on NPR this week discussing their new massive book, The Art Museum. A 10 year project in the making, The Art Museum is as the title states: a comprehensive “museum” collection of the world’s most important works of art, cataloged, freshly photographed, and referenced across nearly 1000 pages of print. More than 2,700 works are shown across pages that occasionallt fold-out for even richer and larger looks. Did we mention it measures 16 1/2 by 12 5/8 inches?

The Art Museum is a virtual walkthrough the world of art and may be the only art resource book you will need. Published by Phaidon and available now through all great bookstores and Amazon. #essential

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Fans of architecture across the globe will be happy to discover Phaidon’s latest pocket-sized book. Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture is a traveling reference guide to important buildings across the globe, broken down by continent and location.

Key guides inside the Atlas alert the reader to the accessibility of each building including information on public hours, interior viewing building types (sports, private, government, etc…), and much more. Highly recommended for travel junkies looking for a modern guide to architecture at their choice destinations. Available from Amazon.

Photography: Jeff Carvalho/Selectism.com

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While we usually would share the cover of a new book that has us talking, these internal photographs from The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adria, out now on Phaidon, really helps outline the story inside this cookbook. Those looking for a historical, comprehensive look inside of Adria’s incredibly famous El Bulli restaurant will need to wait a bit longer. The Family Meal is very focused on showcasing more than 100 dishes prepared and inspired by the very meals eaten by El Bulli staff daily before service began.

As Adria’s first cookbook, The Family Meal offers easy to prepare dishes for home dining –  using affordable ingredients available in almost any supermarket. An absolute treat of a book that shows us all that great food can be had inside your own home. Available now from Amazon.

Photography: Jeff Carvalho/Selectism.com

Many more looks at the pages and images inside The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adria after the click.

Forthcoming from Phaidon, David Bailey: Look is the first full overview of the famed fashion photographers career. Essays contextualize Bailey’s work in the history of fashion photography and reveal small stories about each shot. Included are portraits of notables like the Rolling Stones and the Kray Twins, along with candid family snaps and London street scenes. From the 1960s to the present each component of a rich career is covered.

Expect some great looks… though perhaps not all as brilliant as the young bloke pictured above.

Available for pre-order on Amazon.

Following up on our original post on the addition of the Phaidon Wallpaper* City Guides for the iTouch/iPhone hitting the App Store, we’re happy to announce that we have a handful of promo codes to pass onto our Facebook Fans. Join up and follow this discussion for your chance to win.

Released last week The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture is one of the many compendium we mention earlier. The book comes complete with carrying case, it is a MASSIVE survey after all, and covers a vast range of buildings from over 80 countries. 653 architects are represented, and 1037 buildings. The diversity of buildings highlighted is the strength, moving from the new Wembley Stadium to some outstanding structures on the outskirts of Patagonia.

The book is, of course, from Phaidon, and retails at $195.

Cover image and page shots from The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture follow.

The power of graphic design was well understood by 20th-century dictators. Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the USSR and China all employed distinct graphics, typography and color schemes in their propaganda art. Steven Heller, in his new book IRON FIST, provides the first comprehensive overview of how graphic design was conceived and promoted in totalitarian states. Heller is co-chair of the MFADesigner as Author program at the New York School of Design and was art director of the New York Times for 33 years. His book is out from Phaidon.