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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 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

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

Book cover featuring a gridded collage, set at an angle, of floral patterns, framing a black and white photo of a woman in a sun hat blowing a kiss to camera. An opaque pink rectangle with white title text is overlaid at center.

Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Artist Behind an Iconic American Fashion Brand, 1962-1985

Book cover with poster detail showing arching brown and yellow fields leading to a black and white image of a figure on wheeled contraption partially obscured in the bottom right. Title above in red and light blue bold sans serif letters

E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising

Book cover with over scaled black and white photograph of lips surrounding title in gray

Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric

Bright yellow cover with bold text "Muslim Women" through which illustrations of various muslim women shine through.

Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure

Book cover with a black background and thin illusion-like white lines that follow along the perimeter of the title.

25 Years at the Public: A Love Story

Book cover featuring a white woman off-centered to the left, with long blond hair, glancing over to the left side of the book with her head tilted toward the same direction. Her body faces forward, dressed in an futuristic-like halter gown, which blends with her hair color. The background is a large flowing fabric which also is similarly colored to the gown and hair of the model. The title is in white text in the top right corner

The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion: 250 Years of Design

A white book cover featuring cut-out letters that spell out the title of the book. An illustration of a diverse group of women, some wearing burqas, can be seen peering through the cut-out letters. There is small text, in red and black, printed at the bottom of the cover.

It's Not about the Burqa

Black cover with pink scheme of symbols related to the topic of this book: internet, clothes, locations, water, parking, transportation, light, coffee cup.

The cover of Big: Hot to Cold, published by Taschen. The book features a fiery red center with the two corners of the book glaring out to blue mimicking a thermochromic surface.

BIG: HOT TO COLD

David Adjaye Works

Book cover featuring a photo of sakura branches, a small round clay vase on top of a dark wooden floor. The title of the book is designed with white font, a brief, 6-lines description is placed on the lower right corner using gray font.

Craftland Japan

Blue book cover features a graphic terrazzo pattern in grey, yellow, turquoise, and light green colors. The book title and subtitle are placed below in silver. Three horizontal light blue lines are visible at the lower-left corner.

Material Matters: Stone

Book cover featuring images of popular album covers from the past two decades.

Behind the Album: Design for Vinyl and CD

White book cover featuring an abstract loop graphic made up of yellow lines. Black and yellow text above reads "The Future of Transportation"

The Future of Transportation

A book featuring a rainbow on its cover against a dark backdrop. There is black text printed on the bottom left corner of the book cover.

Materialising Colour

A black and white book cover featuring a horizontal and vertical line display. The title of the books is printed in pink and displayed on the white horizontal lines.

Postmodern Architecture: Less Is a Bore

20 Years of Style: The World According to Paper

Book cover featuring an inverted color photo in pink and blue of a person lying on the ground surrounded by television sets and electronics and wires. Overlaid text at the top of the page reads: Nam June Paik.

Nam June Paik: The Future Is Now

Book cover featuring a collage of grainy black and white photos, including one of a rollerblading man wearing a kind of parachute, with faint cartography symbols overlaid. Black text on a white background flush to the left of the cover reads "Rauschenberg"

Robert Rauschenberg

Borderwall as Architecture

Borderwall as Architecture

Rectangular book cover featuring a photograph of three fashion models. The two on the right wear oversized garments and headpieces with dramatic makeup while the model on the left wears graphic black-and-white fabric and sunglasses. Overlaid in white is the text "Willi Smith: Street Couture."

Willi Smith: Street Couture

Dark blue book cover with photograph of a figure wearing ornately patterned and embroidered dress and headcovering. Title overlaid in white modern font

Contemporary Muslim Fashions

Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States

Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion: New Perspectives from Europe and North America

A dark red cover with black text reading 'Virtual Reality'. An image surround by white trim at the top and bottom is placed in the center of the cover. The image depicts a forest with four dinosaurs drinking from a lake.

Virtual Reality: Edition Digital Culture 6

Book cover has a solid white background layered with a red 'X' which reaches nearly each corner of the book. The title begins at the top of the book, running cross one side of the 'X' to the other; the title continues at the bottom, the text slightly larger than the text at the top, again, running across one side of the 'X' to the other. Both texts in black font. on the left and right side of the 'X', are small/fine texts in black as well, featuring the title of the book series and the authors namez.

Unmanned: Drone

White cover with a centered gold rectangle containing title and publisher information bordered by six rows of 23 images associated with notable American women including portraits, clothing, banners, posters, products, publications and inventions.

Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection

Greenish blue textured book cover with title information in a white field with black serif letters. cream colored belly band near bottom with colorful square swatches and descriptive text in modern black font

Werner's Nomenclature of Colours

The Art Deco Poster

The Art Deco Poster

Book with colorfully illustration of a farm with barn, figures, animals, fish in a pond and leaf-less trees. Title at top in heavy dark green font

The Heavenly Tenants

Small book cover featuring a street-style photograph of a woman wearing stilettos, ripped jeans, a long coat with brocade detail, and a floral hijab. A white line border frames her. Text overlaid reads: Modest Street Fashion Vol. 1.

Modest Street Fashion

Book cover featuring portrait photo of a white bearded medium dark skin figure in a blue suit with golden yellow tie. Title in lower case golden letters above

A Fool's Errand

Book cover with grainy phograph of foods and forms with a variety of colors and textures partially covered by title in black serif letters

The Sausage of the Future

Gray book cover with a white spine, featuring black line drawings. White text overlaid reads: "Shantell Martin. Lines"

Shantell Martin: Lines

Yellow book cover with title in hollow stenciled modern font

Design Rehearsals: Conversations about Bauhaus Lessons

Book cover with an orange band across the top with the title in yellow lowercase serif font. Below is a black and white photo of two women leaning on to each other, looking off to the side, cropped at their shoulders.

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