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By Steve Kroeter September 30, 2015

Meet over 25 of your favorite design book authors at Designers & Books Fair 2015™this weekend—October 2 through 4—at the Fashion Intitute of Technology in New York City. And that’s not all: designated book purchases you make at the Fair automatically enter your name in more than 20 drawings to win unique Experiences with Authors.™ Would you like a private visit to graphic designer Louise Fili’s studio plus gelato with the designer? Your portrait drawn by the fashion illustrator for Bloomingdale’s? More...

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By Steve Kroeter September 30, 2016

We are happy to announce the launch of Designers & Books Festival: Onstage and Offstage — a daylong celebration of the very special relationship that exists between the design and creative communities and books, Saturday, November 12, 2016, in New York City.

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April 28, 2015

June 4, 2015: Successfully funded! Watch for updates. We’ve launched a Kickstarter to help bring back into print Ladislav Sutnar: Visual Design in Action. If we’re successful, this 1961 graphic design classic will be reissued in a facsimile edition, with the first copies going to our Kickstarter backers this October. To support this project, visit our page on Kickstarter: More...

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By Steve Kroeter February 3, 2016

We’re starting a publishing program for facsimile editions of important out-of-print books on architecture, fashion, graphic design, interior design, landscape architecture, product design, photography, and urban design. These books, all launched on Kickstarter, will be part of a new program called Designers & Books Network. More...

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By Stela Razzaque, Superscript November 27, 2013

Architects convert a former steel plant in Mexico into an awe-inspiring children’s library. More...

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By Stela Razzaque, Superscript November 8, 2013

On November 11, 2013, some of the world’s most acclaimed architects and designers will present their vision of a 21st-century doll house, in an effort to raise money for children with disabilities. More...

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By Stephanie Salomon January 14, 2020

Neo.Life: 25 Visions for the Future of Our Species, a new book just launched on Kickstarter, is a collection of 25 essays, interviews, and works of fiction and art offering a big-picture perspective on the profound changes made possible by the merging of biology and technology. Fresh thinking for designing a new year!

Update, February 18, 2020: Following a successful Kickstarter, Neo.Life: 25 Visions for the Future of Our Species is now avaialable on neo.life/visions. More...

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By Bryn Smith, Superscript October 25, 2013

From gowns to digital pottery, a new exhibition illustrates how computer-assisted production techniques are changing the way we think about design. More...

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By Jennifer Krichels, Superscript August 30, 2013

Designers are developing ways to improve the efficiency and convenience of our travel, opening up new possibilities to create smart cities around the world. More...

Rare & Beautiful
By Steve Kroeter September 22, 2016

We’ve just launched a new website dedicated to Italian Futurist artist Fortunato Depero’s tour de force of avant-garde book design, Depero Futurista, also know as The Bolted Book because it is famously bound by two industrial aluminum bolts.

Visit wwww.boltedbook.com to explore this 1927 gem page by page and learn about our Kickstarter to support publication of a new facsimile edition of the book launching on October 18. More...