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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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Design Life Now, SC

Design Life Now, SC

A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture, 2nd Edition

A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture, 2nd Edition

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

Crafted Kinship

Crafted Kinship

The Mellons Build a House

The Mellons Build a House

Industrial Design in the Modern Age

Industrial Design in the Modern Age

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

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

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

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

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

Joris Laarman Lab

White book cover with messily handwritten title text in black ink

STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos

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

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

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

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

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

Alexander Girard: Let the Sun In – Signed Copy

Alexander Girard: Let the Sun In – Signed Copy

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

The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design

Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class

Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class

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

A white cover with the title Future-kind spread into two lines in bold, left aligned red lettering superimposed over ten variously sized color photographs of products and persons using products. Additional credits upper left, center and bottom left; subtitle all-caps black letters; author, publisher and additional credits all-caps red letters.

Futurekind: Design by and for the People

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

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

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

Book cover featuring a child on a pink fire escape, looking out into a night sky and a glowing arch in the distance, past city buildings.

The Perfect Place

Purple book cover, stylized in color halftone, featuring an illustration of a suited man with a pipe in his mouth, head turned backward, with binoculars. Large white title text at top.

Poster Man: 50 Years of Iconic Graphic Design

Pious Fashion book cover featuring a moody editorial photograph of a woman wearing luxurious textiles and head scarf, sipping a cup of tea while sitting on a counter in an amber kitchen. Minimal cover title at the upper right of the cover.

Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress

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 cover featuring a soft illustration of a child on a tire swing with a vibrant sunset in the background. English title text at top

Milton Glaser: POP

Milton Glaser: POP

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

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

Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim

Square book cover with image of a landscape design featuring a glossy red curving architectural element. Title in retro yellow font overlaid in the center

Futurescapes: Designers for Tomorrow's Outdoor Spaces

Black book cover with white layered burst or hole in the middle with the title in black sans serif font

Book cover with glass sculpture of elongated blue and white forms bursting in lines from center. Title in thick yellow letters in the center

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

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