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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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A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture, 2nd Edition

A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture, 2nd Edition

Gray book cover with orange and brown mixed media sculpture under clay brown title

Isamu Noguchi: Archaic/Modern

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

Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels - Paperback

Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels - Paperback

Book cover in a gradient of blues; large text "BLUE" at the top, subtitle text in all caps below.

Blue: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions

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 book cover with black and white photograph of mansion with rectilinear volumes and geometric ornamentation. Title in black sans serif letters above

Basic Architecture: Hoffmann

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

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 black and white vintage photograph of a luxe home interior.

Frances Elkins: Visionary American Designer

Book cover features a photo of a green tree captured with a concrete wall on the background. Title and subtitle are placed in two lines on the bottom of the cover using a slender white font.

Coen+Partners: Contextual Minimalism

Book cover features three rectangles in red and black colors over a yellow background. A rounded fold of black mesh material is visible on the top. The title and subtitle in white bold font are placed at the center closer to the left.

Italian Types: Graphic Designers from Italy in America

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

Yellow book cover with title in hollow stenciled modern font

Design Rehearsals: Conversations about Bauhaus Lessons

White book cover with black and white photograph of a modernist building and lawn with lawn chairs and pool in front of a mountain range. Title in black sans serif letters at top

Basic Architecture: Neutra

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

Book cover with illustration of a receding tunnel of soil and tree branches rendered in psychedelic colors splicing the title in white letters in the center

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Bright yellow cover with bold text "Muslim Women" through which illustrations of various muslim women shine through.

Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure

White book cover with title in very small black sans serif font near upper right

Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams (Signed)

Gray book cover with a photograph of a tree stump with an ax and other tools on it in a carpeted bedroom

Carve! A Book on Wood, Knives and Axes

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

Black book cover with dense array of animal silhouettes in different colors patterns and textures. Title through middle in large white sans serif letters.

Animal: Exploring the Zoological World

Book with lots of colors, shapes, patterns, and designs, title in white text

Project Rainbow by Ryan McGinness

Alexander Girard: Let the Sun In – Signed Copy

Alexander Girard: Let the Sun In – Signed Copy

Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels

Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels - Hardcover

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

Bright orange horizontal book cover with the words "Los Logos" diagonally placed in an intertwined font colored in orange blue and white

Chipboard cover with gold foil icon of a trash can and gold foil spine with words "Pure gold" in black sans serif letters

Pure Gold: Upcycled! Upgraded!

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

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

Joris Laarman Lab

Square white book cover with two rotund glazed ceramic pitchers, one yellow, one orange. Title above in gray and orange letters

100 Designs for a Modern World: Kravis Design Center

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 cover with a gradient color of purple to green left to right. Title centered in white sans serif font with main title in a heavier font weight than the subtitle

Culture Is Not Always Popular: Fifteen Years of Design Observer

Gray book cover with a white spine, featuring black line drawings. White text overlaid reads: "Shantell Martin. Lines"

Shantell Martin: Lines

Book cover featuring fragments of various wood chips scattered with 2 rows of 2 large green letters emerging from the center: C A (first row) M O (second row).

Camo Mania: New Disruptive Patterns in Design

Bright pink book cover with a colorful bird in a collage of textures behind a thinly printed white title

Printing Colors in Graphic Design: CMYK & PMS

Book cover with photographs of square cloths with red paisley patterns laid over an enlarged detail of a similar pattern. Title in white italicized script font near the top

Victorian Paisley Shawls

Official Symbol of the American Revolution Bicentennial: Official Graphics Standards Manual

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

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