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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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Square book cover with yellow title in orange field over a engraved piece of metal studded with jewels showing a dragon

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 3

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

Bright orange book cover with title in lowercase bold black text centered vertically.

Dieter Rams: The Complete Works

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

Book cover with black and white photograph of a figure whose back is to us but twisting their head back to us. The figure is wearing a dark lip shade and a lacy dark veil. Title in orange and black font to the left

Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics

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

Borderwall as Architecture

Borderwall as Architecture

Horizontal book cover with oil painting of arctic iceberg scene. Title stacked and overlaid near top left in white serif letters

The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece

Design Life Now, SC

Design Life Now, SC

Revolution: The History of Turntable Design

Revolution: The History of Turntable Design

A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture, 2nd Edition

A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture, 2nd Edition

Pink textile book cover with large red title text, the word "MOTHERHOOD" broken up into multiple lines with o's of differing widths

Designing Motherhood: Things That Make or Break Our Births

Crafted Kinship

Crafted Kinship

Book cover with photograph of hairy legs in Birkenstock standing on wooden floor in a nest of tangled cords. Title on top in a white field with black letters, serif font for vowels, san serif font for consonants

Design Life Now, HC

Book cover featuring a block print illustration and a sepia photograph of three women looking through a pile of prints. Title text at top, subtitle to the left of the photo.

Trailblazing Women Printmakers: Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers

The Mellons Build a House

The Mellons Build a House

Book cover featuring a flat coral colored background layered with a "Regular Republican Ticket", centered, and the title to the left, rotated vertically at 90 degrees in a navy colored font.

This Is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot

Industrial Design in the Modern Age

Industrial Design in the Modern Age

Book cover with central white band with title in red and blue sans serf letters. White and blue polka dotted textile at top of cover and red and white floral textile at bottom

Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas

Book with a tan cover, and five untensils, the text and objects are all dark brown.

The Hard Life: Jasper Morrison

Iridescent book cover featuring black title text arranged in underlined rows, one word per line.

Architect and Designer Birthday Book

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 a black and white photograph of a young child frowning and wide-eyed, with the eyes colored blue. The word "Face" is printed over the eyes in a transparent greenish blue

Face: A Visual Odyssey

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

White book cover with messily handwritten title text in black ink

STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos

Book cover featuring a blue and black wrap-around image reminiscent of a stage curtain; large white title text at top.

Designing Motion: Automotive Designers 1890 to 1990

Black hardcover book with white, bold, sans-serif title text at top center.

New York City Transit Authority: Objects

White book cover with tall 'M A G' in red on top and 'M E N' in black on bottom with subtitle and author information between above and below

Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines

Art Is Art: Collaborating with Neurodiverse Artists at Creativity Explored

Art Is Art: Collaborating with Neurodiverse Artists at Creativity Explored

Off-white book cover featuring a black and white illustration of a parade of people wearing tunics and wreath crowns, carrying castle models. Title text in light green and light blue above.

The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse

Book cover with dense curvilinear maze like pattern punctuated by the title in black sans serif font

Joris Laarman Lab

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

The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

Orange book cover with light blue title text, surrounding an interior photograph of a colorful, textured living room

AphroChic: Celebrating the Legacy of the Black Family Home

Red book cover with central illustration showing black arrows circling a golden globe

The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design

Alexander Girard: Let the Sun In – Signed Copy

Alexander Girard: Let the Sun In – Signed Copy

Book cover with large brushstrokes of blue, under dimensional white title text styled to look hand-printed on blue cardboard rectangles.

Centered: People and Ideas Diversifying Design

Book cover with a grid of letters in cyan magenta black and yellow some overlaid in different directions in the middle is an amorphous black fibrous mass

Claudy Jongstra

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