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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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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

Book cover features a fold of several unusual textiles over the natural linen background. The total and subtitles are visible on the top right.

Threads around the World: From Arabian Weaving to Batik in Zimbabwe

Indigo: The Color that Changed the World cover in indigo blue with white lace dye detailing at the top and bottom of the cover. Indigo is printed in all caps in white and is centrally located on the cover. The Color that Changed the World is printed in smaller capitalized text underneath.

Indigo: The Color that Changed the World

White book cover with a brightly colored title that covers all central space. Playful font with rainbow gradation each of the letters featuring objects related to the topic of the book.

The V&A Book of Color in Design

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

Light grey book cover printed on a craft paper. The top right corner features a printed fold, demonstrating green background. Two-third of the cover present: THE PROJECTS IN THIS BOOK ARE MADE OUT OF PAPER. THEY FEATURE THE BEST ART & DESIGN FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD TODAY. The book title and subtitle are placed below in silver. Four horizontal lines in green are visible at the lower-left corner.

Material Matters: Paper

Book cover features a vintage black and white portrait of a woman in a black top and a headpiece decorated with metallic sequins. Yellow, orange, and red thread embroidery highlights her face with a geometric pattern. The book title is placed at the bottom of the cover in two lines.

From Thread to Needle: Contemporary Embroidery Art

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

Behind the Album: Design for Vinyl and CD

Black book cover feating a small blue blur at center, white white and blue text above reading "The Neri Oxman Material Ecology Catalogue"

Neri Oxman: Material Ecology

Book cover appears to be a partially opened chocolate bar, as the top right corner 'reveals' chocolate portions and the inside foil of the wrapper is also partially revealed; the rest of the book cover is a vibrant red-orange color, centered title, and an open mouth that blends in with the background color.

Wrappers Delight

White book cover featuring stylized, Art Nouveau organic text that reads: "Thonet Design", and is mirrored below

Thonet & Design

Book cover featuring a vibrant yellow background and 4 light grey colored lines that create two small grids. overlayering the background are twelve different black and yellow images of textiles patterns, clothing, and people wearing the clothing. The book title is centered at the top and continued at the bottom center of the book.

Unfolding Fashion Tech: Pioneers of Bright Futures

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

Book cover featuring a full-bleed photograph of two vibrant red paper flowers on a marble background. Stencil-style text above reads: "Build a Flower"

Build a Flower: A Beginner's Guide to Paper Flowers

A bright blue book cover with a silhouette of a woman in a ball gown placed at the center. There is text at the top left of the cover that reads 'THE FASHION BOOK'. The word FASHION as well as the silhouette of the woman are both a very bright blue.

The Fashion Book

A medium-sized hardcover book in red with bold red text that reads 'MAU MC24'. There is small silver text centered between the two larger texts that read 'Bruce Mau's 24 principles for designing Massive Change in your life and work'. The publishing company's name is printed, also in silver text, at the bottom left of the cover.

Bruce Mau: MC 24

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 book with a dark green cover. The cover features text that reads 'Studio Gang, in white text, and 'Architecture' in green. The text is surrounded by a series of curved lines that cover the book, including certain sections of the text. Phaidon, the name of the publishing company is printed in green text on the bottom left of the cover.

Studio Gang: Architecture

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

White book cover with a square framing an arial photograph of islands outlined by a flat, wide, pink material. Text above reads "Christo and Jeanne-Claude"

Basic Art: Christo and Jeanne-Claude

White book cover with a square framing a graphic painting of dogs leaping through a hold in a stick figure's torso. Text above reads "Haring"

Basic Art: Haring

20 Years of Style: The World According to Paper

Black book cover featuring white line drawings in comic frames. Text at the center reads: Keith Haring Journals.

Keith Haring Journals

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

Rectangular book cover featuring a full length photo of two elderly men in drab suits staring blankly. Text overlaid reads: "What is Gilbert & George?"

What Is Gilbert & George

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

Bright yellow book cover featuring all-over Keith Haring black line drawing. Small text at the bottom reads: Keith Haring.

White criss-crossed strips resembling packing tape say “Figure It Out, Designer Toys & Their Makers” in blocky black type, with cartoon drawings and Japanese text. Age 13+ and international symbols, upper right. Recycle symbol, lower left. Open Here with arrows on either side, middle right. Lower right, an orange rectangle with text and illustrations including 150+, 5 toy figures, and “Designer Toys Featured With Interviews, Insights and More”.

Figure It Out: Designer Toys and Their Makers

Navy blue book cover features thirty elaborately designed letters and symbols in a grid. The title is placed at the lower right corner using a tiny minimalistic font.

Type for Type: Custom Typeface Solutions for Modern Visual Identities

A white cover with a cube-shaped arrangement of letters red T, orange Y, blue P and green E. Small black marks reveal hidden faces within negative spaces.

Borderwall as Architecture

Borderwall as Architecture

Small book with white paperback cover. An image of a wooden crate is centrally located on the cover with small black text above reading 'The Wooden Crate'. The series name 'Typologie' is printed on the top left of the cover.

Typologie: The Wooden Crate

Square book cover featuring a photograph of a woman wearing yellow shoes and a yellow head scarf, walking in front of a vibrant blue corrugated wall. Text overlaid reads: Tehran Streetstyle.

Tehran Streetstyle

Shepard Fairey Inc. book cover featuring three layers of black and red graffiti. The title text in a gothic font at the center of the page.

Shepard Fairey Inc.: Artist/Professional/Vandal

Fashion Tribes book cover featuring a photograph of three people in unique outfits and hats in front of barbed wire and a brick wall.

Fashion Tribes: Global Street Style

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

Connecting Afro Futures book cover with bold text against a pale, gray-blue background, with a black line illustration of a person with a sculptural hair style at the bottom of the page.

Connecting Afro Futures: Fashion x Hair x Design

Pink book cover with photograph of Leah Vernon standing centered in yellow pants and purple shirt.

Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim

African Apparel book cover featuring a photograph of an intricate beaded textile with the title centered in a green rectangle.

African Apparel: Threaded Transformations across the 20th Century

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