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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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Horizontal book cover with photograph of a warmly colored wood clad interior covered with bold san serif title information

Life of a Mansion

Mossy green book cover with neon green, debossed title text, and a small b&w photograph of a weaving being made on a loom.

A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes

Textured blue book cover featuring a photograph of large 3D letters spelling “ACT” on a street, in front of a group of protestors holding signs. White title text overlaid reads “Designing Peace” “Building a Better Future Now.”

Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now

Red and white color-blocked book cover with large title text and a sketched line drawing of a figure inside a triangle inside a circle inside a square.

Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols

Cream colored book cover with black trim. Center of cover dominated by spiraling infographic with red, yellow, pink and purple lines. Above the spiral, three alternating lines of centered text in black, red, and black contain the title and subtitle ”the color line at the turn of the century,” which is in all caps. Editors names appear in black below the spiral.

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America

Greenish blue textured book cover with title information in a white field with black serif letters. cream colored belly band near bottom with colorful square swatches and descriptive text in modern black font

Werner's Nomenclature of Colours

Book cover with white black and gray computer icon-like illustrations of the books design themes inside a cross hatched black and white border all surrounding the title in cross hatched comic-like speech bubble

Design Is Storytelling

Book cover with poster detail showing arching brown and yellow fields leading to a black and white image of a figure on wheeled contraption partially obscured in the bottom right. Title above in red and light blue bold sans serif letters

E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising

Rectangular book cover featuring a photograph of three fashion models. The two on the right wear oversized garments and headpieces with dramatic makeup while the model on the left wears graphic black-and-white fabric and sunglasses. Overlaid in white is the text "Willi Smith: Street Couture."

Willi Smith: Street Couture

White book cover that has four lines of large text that says "Nature: Collab-orations in Design" laid over an amorphous shape that is a gradient of vibrant blue and orange.

Nature: Collaborations in Design

Pink book cover with white borders. "Making Design" in white san serif font on thick spine and "210,000" and "1145" on front cover

Making Design Limited Edition

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

Catalog cover of Tools: Extending our Reach. Yellow spine, natural chipboard face with "TOOLS" in white and centered image of a wood clip

Tools: Extending our Reach

A rectangular book cover, taupe with a full-length strip of dark green, textured binding on the left, and a sepia toned photograph showing the curvy iron art nouveau railings, entranceway and signage for a Paris Metro station against a pale image of a multi-story apartment building in the background. The book’s title appears to the left of one of the sign supports in four lines of white text.

Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism

Square white book cover with detailed black ink drawing of new york city from above with the title above in red bold sans serif letters

New York, Line by Line: From Broadway to the Battery

Illustrated book cover with red cloth spine. Illustration shows two figures standing on a beach in red and white striped suits. Title information below in hand written black letters

My Favorite Things

The Man Who Loved Libraries: The Story of Andrew Carnegie

The Man Who Loved Libraries: The Story of Andrew Carnegie

Chartreuse book cover featuring large, white, sans-serif title text, with stacked CMYK offset text layers.

How to Be a Design Student (and How to Teach Them)

Book cover featuring black and white photograph of a figure with a white beard top hat and long coat and gloves. Title in thin all caps black letters above

Andrew Carnegie

White book cover with tiled title in tall bold letters in lime orange and magenta

Oh Sh*t... What Now?

White book cover with low resolution images of design objects falling around title in black serif font

Top This and Other Parables of Design

Atlas of Amazing Architecture: The most incredible buildings you’ve (probably) never heard of

Atlas of Amazing Architecture: The most incredible buildings you’ve (probably) never heard of

Book cover featuring solid black background and six rows of seven small button pins (from top to bottom). Each button pin is different, also, they are set up in a rainbow color assortment , with red, yellow, pink, purple, green, blue, grey, and black pins.

Button Power: 125 Years of Saying It with Buttons

Book cover with images rendered in tones of blue red and purple. Title in white bisects the middle

By the People: Designing a Better America

Book cover with vertical bands of eight colors making a rainbow with the words "queer" and "design" in white fields and black sans serif letters with an x between the two fields

Graphic book cover with red, pink, and yellow blocks of color emphasizing the title text..

Extra Bold : A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers

Light gray book cover with photograph in bottom left showing a light green jewelry piece. Title information printed above in small serif font.

Jewelry of Ideas: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection

Blue book cover with bold san serif title over opaque font detail pattern at the bottom

Enwheeled: History, Design, and the Wheelchair

Spread of five media pieces, a pink spiral bound book titled "government in plain sight" a white and red illustrated book called "what the cell?" a DVD with the same title, a yellow book with an illustration titled "Field Guide to Federalism" and a white book with red white and blue illustrations titled "The Deciders"

CUP Classics Box Set for Educators

White book cover features a circular graphic image consisted of different patterns such as dots, lines, and ska at the lower center. The title and author's name is visible at the right top near the center in black font.

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design, Paperback

Dark blue book cover with photograph of a figure wearing ornately patterned and embroidered dress and headcovering. Title overlaid in white modern font

Contemporary Muslim Fashions

Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto

Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto

New Design From Israel

New Design From Israel

Off-white book cover featuring an illustration of a person walking and painting a large, yellow peace symbol. He is followed by a parade of people with peace flags. Title text in a sketchy style above.

Three Lines in a Circle: The Exciting Life of the Peace Symbol

Interaction of Color

Interaction of Color

Book cover with image of seemingly crumpled or warped paper with the word' beauty' printed in several places and iridescent patches in the letters and subtitle at top

Beauty - Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

Black book cover with lyrical, folk-art-inspired illustration in red, white, and blue hues, of a child and a woman in conversation. Title text in blue, hand-drawn script above.

Woven of the World

New York Textile Month, Talking Textiles: Issue 3

Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking

Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking

Cover of Black Landscapes Matter featuring a mostly black cover with a small section at the bottom of the cover that features a landscape drawing of an urban environment. 6 people are placed into the drawing, which includes a bike path, some trees, and street signage.

Black Landscapes Matter

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