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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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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

Delirious New York : A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

Delirious New York : A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

Fifth Avenue: From Washington Square to Marcus Garvey Park

Fifth Avenue: From Washington Square to Marcus Garvey Park

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

Pink book cover featuring an art nouveau illustration of a woman in black lifting the hem of her skirts as if to dance. San serif ext above reads "The Belle Epoque," dancing text to the left reads " A cultural History, Paris and Beyond"

The Belle Époque: A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond

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

White book cover with a cut-paper illustration of a colorful, postmodern bookshelf. Multicolored text overlaid reads "What is Good Design?" , "A Simple Question Without a Simple Answer."

What Is Good Design? : A Simple Question without a Simple Answer

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

Pale blue book cover with a faint blue grid background. Single line contour drawing abstractly depicts a stethoscope, turning into hands, turning into geometric shapes in one hand and a heart in the other. Underlined text at top left reads: “Health Design Thinking.”

Health Design Thinking, second edition

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

Book cover features a photo of contemporary architectural structure. The title is visible in the left top corner.

Urban Interventions: Design Ideas for the Public Space

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.

Beige book cover with rounded squares in different colors each containing an architectural sketch of a ramp. Title in black letters near the top

Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design, Paperback

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

The beige book cover features a graphic image of a perspectival view on a house layout in red, yellow, and light blue colors. The title, the subtitle, and the author's name are places at the top in three rows using bold font.

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness

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

Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals

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

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.

Green book cover features an elaborate imperial gold necklace at the top that frames the title at the lower center in light yellow font. The subtitle and the author's name gradually appears under the title in smaller font.

Jewels That Made History: 101 Stones, Myths, and Legends

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

Book cover featuring a close up, ghostly double exposure image of two children; the image is in black and white with a green filter overlay. Of the two children, one is lying faced up with their eyes slightly open, and a bright light shinning upon their face, the other child lies beside the other with their eyes closed and head faced toward the book viewer. There is a narrow red trimming along the left edge of the book, and in yellow text towards the lower left is the book title.

Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School

A bright red cover featuring 5 yellow lines that are drawn diagonally across the cover. The title of the book along with the publisher are printed in bold white text across the cover of the book.

Snøhetta: Collective Intuition

Cover of Herbert Bayer Inspiration and Process in Design featuring a composition book style cover with black bound spine. The upper portion of the cover is bright red with white text at bottom left that reads 'HERBERT BAYER Inspiration and Process in Design'. The lower half of the book is an image of a newspaper. A cone, sphere, and cube shaped objects are placed on top of the paper along with a pencil and square set ruler.

Herbert Bayer: Inspiration and Process in Design

Book cover features a photo of a green tree captured with a concrete wall on the background. Title and subtitle are placed in two lines on the bottom of the cover using a slender white font.

Coen+Partners: Contextual Minimalism

Book cover features three rectangles in red and black colors over a yellow background. A rounded fold of black mesh material is visible on the top. The title and subtitle in white bold font are placed at the center closer to the left.

Italian Types: Graphic Designers from Italy in America

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