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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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Black book cover with lyrical, folk-art-inspired illustration in red, white, and blue hues, of a child and a woman in conversation. Title text in blue, hand-drawn script above.

Woven of the World

Fifth Avenue: From Washington Square to Marcus Garvey Park

Fifth Avenue: From Washington Square to Marcus Garvey Park

Book cover with image of seemingly crumpled or warped paper with the word' beauty' printed in several places and iridescent patches in the letters and subtitle at top

Beauty - Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

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

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

Book cover featuring a vibrantly colorful crayon-textured illustration of flowers, a child, and a dog, with white space at center for hand-written title text.

Have You Ever Seen a Flower?

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

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 a colorful illustration of a city moment full of movement, illustrated title text at top.

The Locavore Guide to Shopping New York City

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

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

Interaction of Color

Interaction of Color

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

Design Life Now, SC

Design Life Now, SC

Crafted Kinship

Crafted Kinship

Cover is bold red with with a grid of white icons

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 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

Borderwall as Architecture

Borderwall as Architecture

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Designing Motion: Automotive Designers 1890 to 1990

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

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

The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design

Cream colored book cover with a playful elf Christmas ornament hanging in the center with title information in green letters above and author in red letters below

Tree of Treasures: A Life in Ornaments

Contemporary Art Underground: MTA Arts & Design New York

Contemporary Art Underground: MTA Arts & Design New York

A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture, 2nd Edition

A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture, 2nd Edition

Book cover with white border around a transparent pink square over a white chandelier made of broken porcelain plates and heads. Title in center in white

Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer Signed Copy (1st Edition)

White book cover with photograph of an architectural interior with stone and wooden banisters and disc shaped hanging light fixture. Title above in black sans serif letters

Basic Architecture: Adolf Loos

Navy blue book cover with white silhouette of the Concorde, a long plane with triangular wingspan, above title in thin white letters

Supersonic: Design and Lifestyle of Concorde

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