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Books on graphic design, product design, fashion, architecture, history. A collection of essential reads on accessibility, how we design for the future, and exhibition catalogs.

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Dark pink, light pink, and orange color-blocked book cover featuring a black ink fashion illustration, with title text to the right.

Bonnie Cashin: Chic Is Where You Find It

Black book cover with lyrical, folk-art-inspired illustration in red, white, and blue hues, of a child and a woman in conversation. Title text in blue, hand-drawn script above.

Woven of the World

Book cover featuring a black-and-white photograph of Florence Knoll at a presentation surrounded by men in suits. De Stijl - style color blocking frames the photo. Black title text above.

No Compromise: The Work of Florence Knoll

Book cover featuring a black and white vintage photograph of a luxe home interior.

Frances Elkins: Visionary American Designer

Orange book cover with large white title text cropped off at the right edge. Small, black subtitle text below.

A Handbook of California Design, 1930-1965: Craftspeople, Designers, Manufacturers

Mossy green book cover with neon green, debossed title text, and a small b&w photograph of a weaving being made on a loom.

A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes

Yellow book cover with large, black title text. Subtitle text is treated with a blue highlight and text cursors at either end.

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Turquoise book cover featuring illustrations of varying emoji and Chinese characters. Title text in yellow above illustrations.

The Hanmoji Handbook: Your Guide to the Chinese Language Through Emoji - Hardcover

The Society of Signs: Pictograms, Signs of Life, Emojis

Chartreuse book cover featuring large, white, sans-serif title text, with stacked CMYK offset text layers.

How to Be a Design Student (and How to Teach Them)

Orange book cover featuring a grid of various black icons. Wide white margin at top features title text in black.

Iconism: Designing Modern Icons and Pictograms

Red and white color-blocked book cover with large title text and a sketched line drawing of a figure inside a triangle inside a circle inside a square.

Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols

Book cover featuring a b&w photo on top of a stack of papers and photos. Photograph depicts a young, afroed man showing off the back of a distressed denim jacket. Red title text in a gothic typeface overlaid.

Heated Words: Searching for a Mysterious Typeface

Off-white book cover featuring an illustration of a person walking and painting a large, yellow peace symbol. He is followed by a parade of people with peace flags. Title text in a sketchy style above.

Three Lines in a Circle: The Exciting Life of the Peace Symbol

Book cover in a gradient of blues; large text "BLUE" at the top, subtitle text in all caps below.

Blue: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions

Design Emergency : Building a Better Future

Design Emergency : Building a Better Future

A black book cover featuring a b&w photo of a balding man with a goatee, wearing a suit. Large text overlaid at center reads "DuBois." Below a red, white, and blue stripe, small text reads "Black Reconstruction," "An Essay Toward a History of the Part which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880"

W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction

Green book cover featuring white, serif title text, each word punctuated by a silhouetted photo of an unusual, contemporary, design object.

How to Live with Objects

Orange book cover featuring a black and white image of a raised fist; white text, rotated 90 degrees, overlaid, reads "STRIKETHROUGH"

Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest

A black book cover featuring a graphic illustration in white of two figures bending toward each other to clasp hands, encircling golden-yellow title text: Art Nouveau

Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition

Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition

Graphic book cover with red, pink, and yellow blocks of color emphasizing the title text..

Extra Bold : A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers

Textured blue book cover featuring a photograph of large 3D letters spelling “ACT” on a street, in front of a group of protestors holding signs. White title text overlaid reads “Designing Peace” “Building a Better Future Now.”

Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now

The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity

The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity

A rectangular book cover, taupe with a full-length strip of dark green, textured binding on the left, and a sepia toned photograph showing the curvy iron art nouveau railings, entranceway and signage for a Paris Metro station against a pale image of a multi-story apartment building in the background. The book’s title appears to the left of one of the sign supports in four lines of white text.

Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism

Purple book cover with gold debossed text "COVETED" at center, casting a sharp, mirrored, shadow below.

Coveted: Art and Innovation in High Jewelry

A cover with a rhythmic pattern of intersecting and overlapping triangles in complementary shades of red, plum and pink. Anni is spelled in white letters in the upper right and Albers in the lower left, sans serif.

Cover of Black Landscapes Matter featuring a mostly black cover with a small section at the bottom of the cover that features a landscape drawing of an urban environment. 6 people are placed into the drawing, which includes a bike path, some trees, and street signage.

Black Landscapes Matter

A black and white photograph of a light-skinned woman seated in a chair. The woman wears thick black round-framed glasses and a black long sleeve dress. She has a sly smile on her face and is posed in a direction that looks slightly passed the viewer. A navy trim covers the spine of the book.

Essays on Jane Jacobs

3 vertical stripes make up the background for the cover of In Search of African American Space. The stripes are red and include geometric detailing. The title of the book is printed vertically across the cover and is made up of bold purple text.

In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism

Book cover vertically divided into two parts: the top features an architectural sketch of gallery space with several visitors confronted by a colorful painting. The lower beige part presents the title 'How Architecture Works' and the author's name in a dark-brown font. The subtitle 'A Humanistic Toolkit' is visible via a red handwritten type.

How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit, Paperback

Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide

Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide

A small book with a royal blue spine. There is matching blue text on the front of the book that reads 'STEVEN HOLL Inspiration and Process in Architecture'. The text is printed over a green and white illustration of a blueprint for a building. There are scribbled notes in pencil included in the illustration.

Steven Holl: Inspiration and Process in Architecture

Book cover featuring solid black background and six rows of seven small button pins (from top to bottom). Each button pin is different, also, they are set up in a rainbow color assortment , with red, yellow, pink, purple, green, blue, grey, and black pins.

Button Power: 125 Years of Saying It with Buttons

White book cover features a circular graphic image consisted of different patterns such as dots, lines, and ska at the lower center. The title and author's name is visible at the right top near the center in black font.

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design, Paperback

Black book cover features iridescent bold font of the title at the bottom in two lines, the editor's names with a smaller font situated on the top in a single line.

Book cover features an image of skyscrapers looking up to the sky, buildings engage the open skyspace at the center on all four sides. the title and author's name centrally grouped in five lines using a white bold font. The subtitles are visible in between in a smaller typewritten black font.

What Goes Up: The Rights and Wrongs to the City

Book cover features a graphic collage designed from three black and white photography and blue, yellow, white, and red rectangular elements. Images from the top left: glass window; group portrait of three women and men; female figure captured motion. The title featured in Bowfin font in black bold.

Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective

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