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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

Orange book cover with white and blue woodcut-like illustrations of three different knots

40 Knots and How to Tie Them

Volume 13: Lemons

Lime green book cover with white band black title in sans sarif font

Now Try Something Weirder

Volume 25: Avocados

Book cover with honeycomb pattern and an ornate cartouche of beekeeping implements, flowers, and bees

The Beekeeper's Bible

[From left to right] Book cover featuring a mint colored background layered with the title and a cut out image of a wooden green pencil. To the left, the word 'pencils' in all-caps is rotated 90 degrees vertically, reading from bottom of the book cover to top. To the right, the rest of the title mirrors.

Pencils You Should Know

Stark black and white book cover with numerous ink sketches of figures intermingled with a bold handwritten title

Every Person In New York

Volume 11: Apples

White book cover with watercolor swatches in many shades

Make Ink: A Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking

Volume 31: Cauliflower

Beige book cover with a colorful floral cartouche surrounding the book title information

The Botanical Bible

White book cover with a centered, overhead photograph of a full-to-the-brim vegetable bowl. Jumbled letters overlaid read "LUNCH!" Black text around the bowl reads "Playful, Colorful, Powerful Lunch-Bowls to Reclaim your Midday Meal.

White book cover showing a hand holding a small potted plant with circular green leaves

The New Plant Parent

Square book cover in the form of a ceramic tile complete with crackling glaze. Blue and red floral shapes frame the title in red and green sans serif letters in the center

Volume 30: Butter

Volume 8: Honey

Book cover with illustration of figures interacting indoors and out doors in colorful horizontal bands. Title in black in white field at top

New Aging: Live Smarter Now to Live Better Forever

Red square book cover with the words "New York City Transit Authority" printed in white sans serif font at top and the words "Graphics Standards Manual" printed in the same font near the middle

New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual

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

Volume 15: Summer Squash

Book cover vertically divided into two parts: the top features an architectural sketch of gallery space with several visitors confronted by a colorful painting. The lower beige part presents the title 'How Architecture Works' and the author's name in a dark-brown font. The subtitle 'A Humanistic Toolkit' is visible via a red handwritten type.

How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit, Paperback

Small brown book cover with scratchy handwritten text that reads "Keith Haring" at the top and "Manhattan Penis Drawings For Ken Hicks" below.

Keith Haring: Manhattan Penis Drawings for Ken Hicks

Black book cover with title in white in upper right and light blue band at bottom. Illustration in the center is a smaller image of the book's cover which has a smaller image on its cover and so on

Volume 20: Rhubarb

Red book cover with curved edges and bold sans serif title dominating cover space

The Designer Says

Book cover featuring a full-bleed photograph of two vibrant red paper flowers on a marble background. Stencil-style text above reads: "Build a Flower"

Build a Flower: A Beginner's Guide to Paper Flowers

3/4 view of a bright red rectangular paperback emerging from a light brown slipcase with a minimalist cover featuring a circle of black spokes with a red center. The slipcase contains a white, right-centered rectangle with black type and a column of five design icons.

Japanese Design Since 1945: A Complete Sourcebook

A white rectangle with a light blue title and black subtitle above a half-blue, half-yellow square containing a white circle.The right 1/2 of the circle contains a pattern of yellow horizontal lines, the left 1/2 has a pattern of vertical green zig zag lines.

Make Time for Creativity: Finding Space for Your Most Meaningful Work

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

Book cover featuring an all-white paper model of the modernist home Villa Savoye, designed by famed architect Le Crobusier. the model display sits in a dark grey to light grey gradient background. The title is centered at the top of the book cover, using a cut-out font with yellow edging.

Le Corbusier Paper Models

Small, deep, white book with black cover text "Palette Mini Series No. 1 Black & White"

Palette Mini Series 01: Black & White

Volume 28: Cucumbers

A black square book cover that has a centered, large, white coffee lid that has "caution contents hot!" debossed on it. The book title is at the top of the cover and the subtitle at the bottom, with the authors' names below. The font is white, sans serif, and all caps.

Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture

Volume 16: Peaches

The Future of Public Space

The Future of Public Space

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

A photo of a loaf of bread stacked vertically on a white plate and featuring tiny cut out cubes placed on the top slice. The photo is surrounded by a bright yellow frame. The title of the book is also a bright yellow and is printed at the center of the photo. The author's name is printed in bold black text at the bottom right corner of the book.

Max Siedentopf: Home Alone, A Survival Guide

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

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