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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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Book cover featuring a magnified detail of an embroidered textile. Title in black serif letters in white field to the left

Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe

Typologie: The Wine Bottle

Typologie: The Wine Bottle

Typologie: The Cork Stopper

Typologie: The Cork Stopper

A medium-sized paperback book with a white cover. An image of four petanque boules is featured on the cover along with the title of the book in small text printed on the top half of the book.

Typologie: The Petanque Boule

Hardcover book with white cover that includes black and red text. The text reads 'Detail in Typography and is vertically placed on the lower left of the cover. The text is repeated and printed horizontally at the top left corner of the cover. The name of the publishing company is printed vertically down in small text at the top left corner of the cover.

Detail in Typography

A dark red cover with black text reading 'Virtual Reality'. An image surround by white trim at the top and bottom is placed in the center of the cover. The image depicts a forest with four dinosaurs drinking from a lake.

Virtual Reality: Edition Digital Culture 6

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

Cover of Designing the Department Store featuring a black and white photo of an early 20th century shoe parlor in a department store. The image is placed at the center of the book, with the title printed in red capital letters above the photo.

Designing the Department Store: Display and Retail at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

White cover with a centered gold rectangle containing title and publisher information bordered by six rows of 23 images associated with notable American women including portraits, clothing, banners, posters, products, publications and inventions.

Smithsonian: American Women

Book cover with an illustration of a pink seahorse among strands of pink coral on a white background under title in black serif font

Atlas of Poetic Zoology

Black and white cover with roughly illustrated title elements in green, blue, white, and orange

Graphic Style: From Victorian to Hipster

Book cover featuring white house on green grass with blue skies behind it

The Iconic House: Artchitectural Masterworks since 1900

Cut in Half: The Hidden World Inside Everyday Objects

Book cover with photograph of a crowded fridge. Title in white horizontal band across the middle

Inside Chefs' Fridges

Asia Imagined: In the Baur and Cartier Collections

Asia Imagined: In the Baur and Cartier Collections

Book cover with painterly image of wild horses running across an open field of green plants and yellow sand under purple rocks and a blue sky

The Art of Maynard Dixon

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

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

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

Book cover with modrian like grid of blue red and white fields among black and white photographs of modern angular furniture pieces

How To Construct Rietveld Furniture (Revised Edition)

Two square book covers side by side showing patterned ink marks in a blue and red gradient

Marker Workshop: Learn to Ink in 50 Experiments

Deep green book cover with penned overlapping plants covering the entire surface except for the title in white peeking through

Doodle Gardener

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

White book cover featuring a fantastical stream-of-consciousness line drawing. Blue title text at top.

WAVE: A Journey Through the Sea of Imagination for the Adventurous Colorist

Oblong vertical book title with spiraling ribbon with book title around stacked illustrated buildings gradating from yellow to red to purple

Vertical Worlds Coloring Book

White book cover with partially colored black print of grinning fantastical creatures in a design of curvilinear plants. Book title at bottom in green and black serif font

Fragile Beasts Coloring Book

Book cover with orange spine and elastic band featuring illustrations of three colorful butterflies around the title in gold serf letters

Paperscapes: The Butterfly Garden

Large coloring book cover with partially colored art deco illustration of peacock and figure with bob haircut and flowing scarf

Art Deco Giant Artists' Coloring Book

Large book cover featuring a scenic woodblock wallpaper. Text overlaid reads Zuber: Two Centuries of Panoramic Wallpapers.

Zuber: Two Centuries of Panoramic Wallpaper

Yellow rectangular book cover with a faint yellow-gray textile texture. Large text overlaid reads: Knoll Textiles: Nineteenhundredfortyfive – TwoThousandTen

Knoll Textiles: 1945-2010

Book cover featuring a magnified photograph of an antique book spine without a cover, pages splayed. Overlaid title in white serif font

The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity

Small book cover featuring a street-style photograph of a woman wearing stilettos, ripped jeans, a long coat with brocade detail, and a floral hijab. A white line border frames her. Text overlaid reads: Modest Street Fashion Vol. 1.

Modest Street Fashion

Book cover featuring portrait photo of a white bearded medium dark skin figure in a blue suit with golden yellow tie. Title in lower case golden letters above

A Fool's Errand

Book cover with grainy phograph of foods and forms with a variety of colors and textures partially covered by title in black serif letters

The Sausage of the Future

Volume 11: Apples

Book cover with white field on upper half and orange on lower. Words "Bauhaus Dessau The" in silver sans serif letters in white field and words "Collection Bauhaus Dessau" in white letters in the orange field

Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau: The Collections

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

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