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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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A white cover with the title Future-kind spread into two lines in bold, left aligned red lettering superimposed over ten variously sized color photographs of products and persons using products. Additional credits upper left, center and bottom left; subtitle all-caps black letters; author, publisher and additional credits all-caps red letters.

Futurekind: Design by and for the People

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

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

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

Book cover featuring a soft illustration of a child on a tire swing with a vibrant sunset in the background. English title text at top

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

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 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

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

Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim

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

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

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

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

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

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

Milton Glaser: POP

Milton Glaser: POP

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

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

Teal blue book cover with simple white title text surrounded by a red, coiled phone cord.

The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History

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

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

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

Project Rainbow by Ryan McGinness

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

Shantell Martin: Lines

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change

Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change

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

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