Books

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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Borderwall as Architecture

Borderwall as Architecture

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

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

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

Book cover featuring a black and white vintage photograph of a luxe home interior.

Frances Elkins: Visionary American Designer

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 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

The Mellons Build a House

The Mellons Build a House

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

Square hot pink book cover with title in center in white and yellow letters

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

Project Rainbow by Ryan McGinness

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)

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The cover of Big: Hot to Cold, published by Taschen. The book features a fiery red center with the two corners of the book glaring out to blue mimicking a thermochromic surface.

BIG: HOT TO COLD

David Adjaye Works

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

Shantell Martin: Lines

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

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

White book cover with image of an oil painting of red yellow blue white and black fields bordered by black lines with book title in capital black serif letters above

Basic Art: Mondrian

David Adjaye: Constructed Narratives

David Adjaye: Constructed Narratives

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