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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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Purple book cover, stylized in color halftone, featuring an illustration of a suited man with a pipe in his mouth, head turned backward, with binoculars. Large white title text at top.

Poster Man: 50 Years of Iconic Graphic Design

White book cover with black and white photograph of mansion with rectilinear volumes and geometric ornamentation. Title in black sans serif letters above

Basic Architecture: Hoffmann

Pink book cover with photograph of Leah Vernon standing centered in yellow pants and purple shirt.

Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim

Pious Fashion book cover featuring a moody editorial photograph of a woman wearing luxurious textiles and head scarf, sipping a cup of tea while sitting on a counter in an amber kitchen. Minimal cover title at the upper right of the cover.

Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress

Square book cover with image of a landscape design featuring a glossy red curving architectural element. Title in retro yellow font overlaid in the center

Futurescapes: Designers for Tomorrow's Outdoor Spaces

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

Isamu Noguchi: Archaic/Modern

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

AphroChic: Celebrating the Legacy of the Black Family Home

AphroChic: Celebrating the Legacy of the Black Family Home

Book cover featuring an close-up image of tree bark with the name "HUGH" carved into the wood

Hugh Hayden: American Vernacular

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

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

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

Shepard Fairey Inc. book cover featuring three layers of black and red graffiti. The title text in a gothic font at the center of the page.

Shepard Fairey Inc.: Artist/Professional/Vandal

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

Black hardcover book with white, bold, sans-serif title text at top center.

New York City Transit Authority: Objects

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

The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

Alexander Girard: Let the Sun In – Signed Copy

Alexander Girard: Let the Sun In – Signed Copy

Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class

Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class

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

Frances Elkins: Visionary American Designer

A bright red cover featuring 5 yellow lines that are drawn diagonally across the cover. The title of the book along with the publisher are printed in bold white text across the cover of the book.

Snøhetta: Collective Intuition

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

Black book cover with white layered burst or hole in the middle with the title in black sans serif font

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

White book cover with central illustration of transparent overlaid colorful shapes and opaque black lines. Title information in black serif letters above and below

The Art of Graphic Design: 30th Anniversary Edition

Going Down Home with Daddy

Going Down Home with Daddy

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)

Book cover with dense curvilinear maze like pattern punctuated by the title in black sans serif font

Joris Laarman Lab

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

Project Rainbow by Ryan McGinness

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

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

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

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 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

Book cover featuring a child on a pink fire escape, looking out into a night sky and a glowing arch in the distance, past city buildings.

The Perfect Place

Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories

Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories

Purple book cover with gold debossed text "COVETED" at center, casting a sharp, mirrored, shadow below.

Coveted: Art and Innovation in High Jewelry

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