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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 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

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

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

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

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

Typologie: The Wine Bottle

Typologie: The Wine Bottle

Typologie: The Cork Stopper

Typologie: The Cork Stopper

A medium-sized paperback book with a white cover. An image of four petanque boules is featured on the cover along with the title of the book in small text printed on the top half of the book.

Typologie: The Petanque Boule

Hardcover book with white cover that includes black and red text. The text reads 'Detail in Typography and is vertically placed on the lower left of the cover. The text is repeated and printed horizontally at the top left corner of the cover. The name of the publishing company is printed vertically down in small text at the top left corner of the cover.

Detail in Typography

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

Book cover with layered strips of wallpaper in a gradient from yellow to red in a variety of patterns

Wolf-Gordon: Sample Book; 50 Years of Interior Finishes

White book cover with a black lacquered box encrusted with jewels in the form of an image of a black panther among trees. Title in thin magenta sans serif letters to the right

Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection

Light gray book cover with title in yellow and medium gray left aligned with art deco ornamentation surrounding a photograph of an early radio

John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life

Deep green book cover with penned overlapping plants covering the entire surface except for the title in white peeking through

Doodle Gardener

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

White book cover with partially colored black print of grinning fantastical creatures in a design of curvilinear plants. Book title at bottom in green and black serif font

Fragile Beasts Coloring Book

Book cover featuring a magnified photograph of an antique book spine without a cover, pages splayed. Overlaid title in white serif font

The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity

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

Book cover with white field on upper half and orange on lower. Words "Bauhaus Dessau The" in silver sans serif letters in white field and words "Collection Bauhaus Dessau" in white letters in the orange field

Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau: The Collections

White book cover with various sized circle pies in yellow and turquoise and title in black text.

Painted Diagrams: Bauhaus, Art, and Infographics

Dark purple-gray book cover featuring a gray amorphous shape made up of different grayscale collages materials. White text overlaid, broken up across the page, reads "Dust & Data"

Dust & Data: Traces of the Bauhaus Across 100 Years

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.

White book cover with red and black title information above a sepia toned photograph of figures playfully interacting at an outdoor gathering

Our Bauhaus: Memories of Bauhaus People

Salmon book cover with light pink illustrated title over a blue fabric swatch pierced by a sky blue needle trailing yellow thread

Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker's guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes

Illustrated book cover in cream black gray and red tones. Figures surround a pole with security cameras some looking at it and some at each other

The Machine Never Blinks: A Graphic History of Spying and Surveillance

Square book cover with a partially colored photograph of a modern living room interior. The title is overlaid in the center in white letters

The Iconic Interior: 1900 to the Present

Black book cover with title printed in white in upper right corner and recycling symbol lower left justified.

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

Black book cover with white lines forming intricate angles and geometries under a bold sans serif title in white

Bauhaus Futures

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