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Colours May Vary

Colours May Vary is based in Leeds and is an independent shop stocking a range of beautiful, useful, and inspirational wares. We opened our doors in  November 2012 and we are proud to say we were the first shop in Leeds to focus on design publications. 

Our main focus is graphic art and design, typography, illustration, and product design but we have an ever-changing curated collection of books and journals as well as stationery and printed goods. 

We have recently relocated to Leeds most beautiful building, and home to the city's best independent retailers, Leeds Corn Exchange! 

 

Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
Basta Now
Leigh Bowery: The Life and Times of an Icon
Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture
1984: The Year Pop Went Queer
Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories
Zanele Muholi
None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
Derek Jarman: Protest!
Androgyne: Fashion and Gender
Talk Art: Everything you wanted to know about contemporary art but were afraid to ask
Eat What You Grow
ReWild: The Art of Returning to Nature
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-eye View of the World
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
The Plant Rescuer: The book your houseplants want you to read
Shade: Bloom Gardener's Guide: Work with the light, grow the right plants, bring dark corners to life
Cut Flowers: Bloom Gardener's Guide: Prepare the ground, sow seed, nurture, harvest, fill your vases
A Natural History of the Hedgerow: and ditches, dykes and dry stone walls
Food for Free: 50th Anniversary Edition
Food For Free
Make Ink: A Forager’s Guide to Natural Inkmaking
Wild and Sweet: How to forage your own dessert
The Urban Forager
The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests
Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field
Graphic Design: The New Basics, revised and expanded
The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters
Graphic Design School: A Foundation Course for Graphic Designers Working in Print, Moving Image and Digital Media
Graphic Design For Everyone: Understand the Building Blocks so You can Do It Yourself
Graphic Design Rules: 365 Essential Design Dos and Don'ts
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming
FireSigns: A Semiotic Theory for Graphic Design
A New Program for Graphic Design
Design as Art
The Art of Graphic Design: 30th Anniversary Edition
Now You See It and Other Essays on Design
Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design
Thoughts on Design
Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice
Mid-Century Modern Design: A Complete Sourcebook
Graphic Fest: Identities for Festivals & Fairs
Graphic Style: From Victorian to Hipster
The History of Graphic Design. Vol. 2. 1960–Today
The History of Graphic Design: 1890-1959
Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design
Graphic Design, Third Edition: A History
Graphic Design: A Concise History
Mid-Century Modern Graphic Design
Greetings from Retro Design: Vintage Graphics Decade by Decade
The Graphic Art of the Underground: A Countercultural History
Graphic Design before Graphic Designers: The Printer as Designer and Craftsman 1700 - 1914
Reading Graphic Design History: Image, Text, and Context
100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design
Graphic Design History
Oh Sh*t... What Now?: Honest Advice for New Graphic Designers
Graphic Design: A User's Manual
Don't Get a Job...Make a Job: How to make it as a creative graduate
How to Do Great Work Without Being an Asshole
Make Your Own Luck: A DIY Attitude to Graphic Design and Illustration
Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design
Burn Your Portfolio: Stuff they don't teach you in design school, but should
How to be a Graphic Designer...2nd edition
Becoming a Successful Graphic Designer
What They Didn't Teach You in Design School: What you actually need to know to make a success in the industry
The Graphic Design Process: How to be successful in design school
The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930
Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design
Things I have learned in my life so far, Updated Edition
Anthony Burrill: Look & See: Collected Ephemera and Printed Material
The Graphic Language of Neville Brody
Beware Wet Paint
Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything
Paul Rand: a Designer's Art
Paula Scher: Twenty-Five Years at the Public, A Love Story
Bittersweet: Noma Bar
Two-Dimensional Man
Erick Bruun: Finnish Graphic Design
Bob Noorda Design
Max Huber
Marian Bantjes Pretty Pictures
The Visual History of Type
Designing Type Second Edition
On the Road to Variable: The Flexible Future of Typography
TYPE FOR TYPE: Custom type solutions for identity design
Why Fonts Matter: a multisensory analysis of typography and its influence from graphic designer and academic Sarah Hyndman
The Typography Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters
FEMME TYPE
Typography Essentials Revised and Updated: 100 Design Principles for Working with Type
Designing Fonts: An Introduction to Professional Type Design
Shadow Type: Classic Three-Dimensional Lettering
Stencil Type
Revival Type: Digital typefaces inspired by the past
Let's Talk Type: An Essential Lexicon of Type Terms
The Geometry of Type: The Anatomy of 100 Essential Typefaces
New Modernist Type
Sign Painters
House Industries Lettering Manual (new edition)
Hand Job
The Golden Secrets of Lettering: Letter Design from First Sketch to Final Artwork
Creative Lettering and Beyond (Creative and Beyond): Inspiring tips, techniques, and ideas for hand lettering your way to beauti
Sign Painting: A practical guide to tools, materials, and techniques
Hand Lettering: Creative Alphabets for Any Occasion
The Art of Lettering: Perfectly Imperfect Hand-Crafted Type Design
Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age
Free Hand New Typography Sketchbooks
Scripted: Custom Lettering In Graphic Design
The Graphic Art of Tattoo Lettering: A Visual Guide to Contemporary Styles and Designs
Round and Round and Square
Henri's Walk to Paris
Listen! Listen!
Pezzettino
The Brownstone
Puff
Miffy at the Gallery
Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design
In the Darkness of the Night: A Bruno Munari Artist's Book
Writing!
Alexander Girard Color
Round, Square, Triangle
A Trip to the Bottom of the World with Mouse
Typefaces
A History of Pictures for Children
Literally: Amazing Words and Where They Come From
A History of Words for Children
A History of Music for Children
The Song of the Nightingale
Barbara Hepworth What Do You See?
At This Very Moment
Bonkers About Beetles
I Want My Hat Back: The internationally acclaimed picture book from multiple award-winning author and illustrator Jon Klassen
All Kinds of Planes
Bauhaus Ballet
Goliath: The Boy Who Was Different
Masks in the Forest: A Story Told with Masks
The Night Watchman
Issun Boshi: The One-Inch Boy
Black and White
Wing on a Flea: A Book About Shapes
Story of Paul Bunyan
Do You Hear What I Hear?
What Do People Do All Day?
A Story About Ducks
Jenny the Jeep
Ben
This is London
CHARLEY HARPERS I AM WILD
One Wide River to Cross
Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found
Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records
Hey Hi Hello: Five Decades of Pop Culture from Britain's First Female DJ
Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace Book
Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
Devil in a Coma
Believe in Magic: 30 Years of Heavenly Recordings
The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The Fbi, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, Usa-1939-1956
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico
Wayward: Just Another Life to Live
This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History
You're History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Pop
Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music
Architectural Logos
The Women Who Changed Architecture: Women Who Changed Architecture
Bubbletecture: Inflatable Architecture and Design
Urban Geometry
Jutaku: Japanese Houses
Civilization: The Way We Live Now
Pre-Fab Living
Curved: Bending Architecture
Alexander Calder: Minimal Maximal
I See Faces
An Alphabet of Architectural Models
Red: Architecture in Monochrome
David Adjaye Adam Pendleton
Soviet Metro Stations
21st Century Houses: RIBA Award-Winning Homes
Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more
Varieties of Melancholy: a hopeful guide to our sombre moods
Who Am I?: Psychological exercises to develop self-understanding
The School of Life: On Failure: how to succeed at defeat
A Simpler Life: a guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity
Art Against Despair: pictures to restore hope
The School of Life: On Mental Illness: what can calm, reassure and console
The Good Enough Parent: how to raise contented, interesting and resilient children
The Emotionally Intelligent Office: 20 Key Emotional Skills for the Workplace
Costume and Fashion
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear
Sustainable Fashion: Responsible Consumption, Design, Fabrics, and Materials
Fashionpedia: The Visual Dictionary of Fashion Design
Africa Fashion
In Vogue: An Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Fashion Magazine
Women's Work: From feminine arts to feminist art
The Indian Textile Sourcebook: Patterns and Techniques
Lucienne Day: Textile Design
ANNI ALBERS
Ascher: The Mad Silkman
Alexander Girard Designs for Herman Miller
William Morris (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking
Pattern Design
Works on Cloth: Imagery by Artists of Baker Lake, Nunavut
Quilts of Gee's Bend
Modern Quilting: A Contemporary Guide to Quilting by Hand
Sheila Hicks: Off Grid
Anni & Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
Hayao Miyazaki
The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930
Belle and Sebastian: Illustrated Lyrics
The Quentin Blake Book
Tove Jansson
Six Fairy Tales from The Brothers Grimm
Children's Picturebooks Second Edition: The Art of Visual Storytelling
Moomin Pull-Out Prints: Tove Jansson's Art & Pictures
Beatrix Potter
Ralph Steadman: A Life in Ink
Judith Kerr
Reportage Illustration: Visual Journalism
Drawing for Illustration
The Americans
A Treasury of 8 Books
Through a Life
Where?
Internet Crusader
Heimat: A German Family Album
Alison: a stunning and emotional graphic novel unlike any other
The Artist
The Artist: The Circle of Life
Collapse Feminism: The Online Battle for Feminism's Future
The Rentier City: Making Modern Manchester
Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It
Superstorm
Sluts: The truth about slutshaming and what we can do to fight it
Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music
The Underground Sea
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life)
On Women: A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan Sontag
Capitalism, a Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination
Led by Donkeys: How four friends with a ladder took on Brexit
Act Now: A Vision for a Better Future and a New Social Contract
Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen writers on intersectionality, identity and finding the right way forward for feminism
Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement
This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth
What Climate Justice Means And Why We Should Care
Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present
Buy Better, Consume Less: Create Real Environmental Change
The Nerves and Their Endings: essays on crisis and response
Challenge Everything: An Extinction Rebellion Youth Guide to Saving the Planet
This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics & Pagans
Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology
Treasury of Folklore: Woodlands and Forests: Wild Gods, World Trees and Werewolves
Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive
A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens
Weird Walk: Wanderings and Wonderings through the British Ritual Year
Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth
Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites
Sheela-na-gig: Sacred Celtic Images of Feminine Divinity
Dark Folklore
The Burial of the Rats: And Other Tales of the Macabre by Bram Stoker
Sacred Britannia: The Gods & Rituals of Roman Britain
Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood
Ireland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered
Penny Bloods: Gothic Tales of Dangerous Women