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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 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

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

Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe

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

Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing

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

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

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

Horizontal book cover with black and white vertical stripes vaguely concealing icon of an eye in gray. Yellow dot near bottom right has title in black sans serif letters

Watched! Surveillance, Art and Photography

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

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

Isamu Noguchi: Archaic/Modern

Book cover with beige and black sketch of globe ship and large geometric forms. Title in white sans serif font in orange field near the top

Education Automation

Black book cover with illustration of a gray disc with white icons and symbols with spokes pointing to central white dot. Title in white in upper right

The Internet of Things

Yellow book cover with indigo illustrations of design objects above and below bold red and blue title

Design History Handbook

Light gray book cover with computer rendered hamburger in a white field, divided by a black line with the title words "food is fictie fiction" in green and black lowercase letters on top

Food Is Fiction

Plastic sleeve with red field in upper right corner showing title as negative space. Inside are several folded papers and booklets

Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931

Book cover with black white and red rectangular fields crossed by a white cross and title information in sans serif white and black letters in three of four corners

Piet Mondrian: New Design

White book cover with black square askew and a smaller white and red cube inside. Title in black sans serif font slanted with the square

Walter Gropius: International Architecture

Bright red book cover with gray keywords in a stencil-like font surrounding the white title in the center

100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design

Beige book cover with a red square bisected with a yellow triangle surrounded by a blue circle

The ABC's of Triangle, Square, Circle: The Bauhaus and Design Theory

Lime green book cover with white band black title in sans sarif font

Now Try Something Weirder

Square book cover in the form of a ceramic tile complete with crackling glaze. Blue and red floral shapes frame the title in red and green sans serif letters in the center

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

Square book cover showing a modern kitchen with blue appliances cabinets and flooring. Title overlaid at a slant with yellow sans serif letters

The Midcentury Kitchen

Beige book cover with vertically stacked title in red letters to the left of subtitle and author name in orange and green. Below is an image of a sleek black car on an orange road

Are We There Yet? The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless

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