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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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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

White book cover featuring an image of a post-modern wooden sculpture with colorful window-like sections.

Ettore Sottsass and the Social Factory

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

White square book cover with central photograph of a museum gallery with wood floors white walls and ceiling with skylights. Title in gray letters above.

Light in Nature: North Carolina Museum of Art: Fisher Island House

Book cover featuring a figure in a cave like interior with white porous panels casting intricate shadows on the floor

Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques

White book cover featuring a white chair. Both the cover and the chair are covered in handwritten words

Can Design Change Society?

White book cover with giant san serif A surrounded by smaller title and author information. Alphabet lines right side of cover

Moholy-Nagy and the New Typography

Large rectangular book cover featuring a graphic painting with letters a r d incorporated. Text at the top on a white band reads: Italian Design 1965–1985 RADICAL.

Radical: Italian Design 1965-1985

Large rectangular book cover featuring a vibrant, textured, abstract image that resembles a map. Text overlaid at the top reads: Designs for Different Futures.

Designs for Different Futures

A black book cover with white text and borders. Text: Where Architects Sleep: The Most Stylish Hotels in the World.

Where Architects Sleep: The Most Stylish Hotels in the World

Red book cover with two offset yellow orange lines in the center and large yellow orange text: Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women.

Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women

Beige book cover with three by three grid of science photographs over a sans serif black title

Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe

Book cover with green lime navy and cyan letterforms printed in various sizes some overlapping. Title in white field in center

The Essential Type Directory: A Sourcebook of Over 1800 Typefaces and Their Histories

White book cover with two unmatching eyes and title in multicolored font

Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing

Small, deep, gold book with outlined cover text "Palette Mini Series No. 3 Gold & Silver"

Palette Mini Series 03: Gold & Silver

Small, deep, white book with black cover text "Palette Mini Series No. 1 Black & White"

Palette Mini Series 01: Black & White

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

Dark red book cover featuring a mustard-colored 17th century suit and accessories with descriptions pointing to different parts of the costume

How to Read a Suit: A Guide to Changing Men's Fasion from the 17th to the 20th Century

Book cover colored in quads of green, blue, fuchsia, and orange; title in white bold type.

Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities

Black book cover with "ABC" large in orange and "Of Typography" below, and gray letters in various typefaces strewn across the cover.

The ABC of Typography

Dark gray book cover with "CARS" in silver italic front and center. Green and gray line drawings of car parts surround the title.

Cars: Accelerating the Modern World

Bright orange book cover with white schematic of obdey and design objects surrounded by different clock positions in a circle above sans serif title

Products That Last: Product Design for Circular Business Models

Book cover with red spine and title information accompanied by multiple ink illustrations of words and an anthropomorphized paperclip. Don't worry it's not Clippy

Paul Rand: Inspiration and Process in Design

Light gray book cover with embossed grid with playfully arranged letters at the bottom, sans serif title at the top, and densely listed featured designers in the middle

The Logo Design Idea Book

White square book cover with debossed circles, some connected and multicolored ribbons peeking from top and bottom of spine

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 4

Black book cover featuring a photo of a an elaborate, detailed, sculptural assemblage made up of found objects including nails, beads, razor blades, staples, with a dripping gold shape at its center. Text to the right reads "William Harper The Beautiful & the Grotesque."

William Harper: The Beautiful and the Grotesque

Book cover with a vibrant orange and magenta floral pattern, white and yellow san serif title at top and a navy spine

A Colorful Life: Gere Kavanaugh, Designer

Rectangular book cover featuring an abstract painting detail, with a horizontal pink band covering most of the painting. Small text overlaid reads: Design: The Invention of Desire.

Design: The Invention of Desire

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 a photograph of a bald figure walking on a highway overpass holding a phone to their ear, framed by a black and white square filled with black and white dots over the title in white sans serif font

Check In / Check Out: The Public Space as an Internet of Things

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