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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, Queer, and Untold: A New Archive of Designers, Artists, and Trailblazers

Going Down Home with Daddy

Going Down Home with Daddy

Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories

Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories

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

Frances Elkins: Visionary American Designer

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 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

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

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

White book cover for a book about bookcovers featuring a photograph of a bookcover with the word "Cover" in black sans serif font overlaid in the center

Book cover in navy blue with title in various ornamental types in yellow/orange with white outlines.

New Ornamental Type: Decorative Lettering in the Digital Age

Book cover with over scaled black and white photograph of lips surrounding title in gray

Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric

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

Shantell Martin: Lines

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 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

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

Architecture, Not Architecture: Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Architecture, Not Architecture: Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change

Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change

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

Muslim Fashion book cover featuring a photograph of two women wearing denim and carrying large purses, one wearing a turban and one wearing a hijab, laughing as they crossing a street. Title in a blue band across the bottom of the cover.

Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures

Light gray book cover with title in yellow and medium gray left aligned with art deco ornamentation surrounding a photograph of an early radio

John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life

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

Light gray book cover with iridescent foil stamped title in upper right with simple sketches of figures standing around a chart filled with letters and numbers

An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures without Architecture

Book cover with diagonally divided fields of mint and a light wood pattern. Title in black and white letters overlaid in center

Snøhetta: People, Process, Projects

Yellow book cover with a yellow sculpture of a handgun suspended by rods in a handbag with missing sides. Title "Ted Noten" is in white letters above and below

Ted Noten: Ubiquist

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

Book cover with photograph of a compact blue car under a giant black pendant light emitting magenta light in a dark space. Title in white sans serif letters near top

Ingo Maurer: Light—Reaching for the Moon

Bright blue book cover with title in white letters at top in serif and sans serif fonts

Book cover with photograph of a distinctive white building peaking into frame in the lower right against a blue sky. Title in yello miami art deco font in the center

Four Florida Moderns: The Architecture of Alberto Alfonso, René González, Chad Oppenheim, and Guy Peterson

Book cover with black and white photograph of two figures one with their arm around the other and a gilded numeral 'one' with scalloped bulbous edges

The Haas Brothers

White book cover with gray illustrations of design objects. Title in green and black font near top right with fast forward icon

Rectangular book cover featuring a full length photo of two elderly men in drab suits staring blankly. Text overlaid reads: "What is Gilbert & George?"

What Is Gilbert & George?

Blue book cover with diagonal white lines around white title information and a black and white photograph of a modern chair design

Paul T. Frankl Autobiography

Book cover with photograph of a landscape with deep green grass angular hills and steel bridges. Title overlaid in white sans serif letters

Unearthed: The Landscapes of Hargreaves Associates

Book cover with title in oversized white letters stacked against left edge over an image of a design in gold and brown tones

Studio Job: Monkey Business

White book cover with evenly spaced cut out dots showing orange gradient underneath. Title in orange near top

Reproducing Scholten & Baijings

Book cover with illustration in collapsed perspective of a colorful artwork propped on two white plastic buckets over a veiny wooden floor in front of a gray wall. the word "McGinness" in tall white letters covers part of the artwork

Ryan McGinness: #metadata

Blue book cover with cutout circle in the center and title in light blue all caps sans serif letters in upper left

Less Is More (Difficult)

Book cover featuring a photograph of laundry drying on a clothesline, held up by a branch. Tall grasses in the foreground; a pipeline, house, and clouded blue sky in the background. Pixelated bright red-orange title text at top.

Making Home: Belonging, Memory, and Utopia in the 21st Century

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