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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 book cover juxtaposing a drawing of a cherry blossom branch with a jewel-encrusted bracelet with a cherry blossom motif

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

White book cover with simple illustrations of fifty well-known designs in a gradient of shades between red and blue. In the upper left is the title information in overscaled san serif font

Iconic Designs: 50 Stories about 50 Things

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

Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection

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

Colorful floral border circles the book cover with title text written in center

Draw Every Day, Draw Every Way

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)

Black book cover with photograph of four pieces of glassware with etched floral motifs all clear except one is green. Title above and to the right in white serif letters

J. & L. Lobmeyr: Between Tradition and Innovation

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

White Papier Machine Vol.0 book cover with small reflective text and a large circle cut-out revealing a geometric pattern in vibrant shades of red and blue.

Papier Machine Vol.0

White book cover with pink and purple rectangles with watercolor texture surrounding the title in the same style

Watercolor Workshop: Learn to Paint in 100 Experiments

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

Blue book cover with an illustration of a medium dark skinned dancer wearing a banana skirt and matching jewelry

Josephine Baker Graphic Novel

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

Blue box showing bold title information and a schematic map of lower Manhattan with a highlighted path

City Walks Deck: New York

Gift wrap book cover with intricate gold blue and red arabesque pattern. Title information in central horizontal band

Arabesques Gift and Creative Paper Book

Wrapping paper book cover with pattern of indigo koi fish dancing among spurts of water. Title information in gray horizontal band across the middle

Japanese Patterns Gift and Creative Paper Book

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

Wrapping paper book cover with densely packed illustrations of musical instruments in tan coral dark green and yellow. Title information in white horizontal band across the middle

Musical Instruments Gift and Creative Paper Book

Gift wrap book cover with numerous fashion illustrations from the 1920s on a cream colored background and a title information in a horizontal band across the middle with art deco font

1920s Fashion Gift and Creative Paper Book

Gift wrap book cover with yellow cream gray and black design and horizontal title band with art deco font

Art Deco Gift and Creative Paper Book

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

Zuber: Two Centuries of Panoramic Wallpaper

White, rectangular book cover featuring a striped, color blocked, textile cropped off the upper left corner. Text at the bottom right reads: Anni Albers.

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

A Fool's Errand

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

Dark gray book cover with title in segmented white font at top and bottom connected by a thin white spiral coil

The Responsible Object: A History of Design Ideology for the Future

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

Bauhaus 100: Sites of Modernism

Bauhaus 100: Sites of Modernism

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