Design Books to Win

“Design Books to Win” is an ongoing series of drawings in which we give away to our site visitors design books that have been written, designed, and/or recommended by well-known and respected members of the international design community.
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Design Books to Win
December 5, 2018

Update, December 19, 2018: This drawing has now concluded. The winners are Kevin Degano, Chis Lott, Lynn Robb, and Richard Stanley. Congratulations! Thank you to everyone who entered by signing up at bit.ly/boltedbooksignup. Signing up gets you access to a free custom-designed book display stand and early information on the best price for the Bolted Book, second printing on our upcoming Kickstarter. By signing up you’ll help get our Kickstarter for the 2nd printing off the ground in January 2019. More...

Design Books to Win
April 9, 2015

This drawing is now closed. The winner is Joseph Swerdlin— congratulations! To mark the contribution that Kickstarter is making to design book publishing, we are giving away one copy of an enormously successful and much talked-about design book recently launched on Kickstarter (and no longer available): The New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual. Designed by Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda in 1970, it was re-created in book form in 2014 by Pentagram designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth.  More...

Design Books to Win
December 10, 2014

The designers of the Pentagram consultancy—founded in London in 1972 and New York in 1978 and today with offices in San Franciso, Austin, and Berlin—include some of most well-known graphic design practitioners working today. To highlight the company’s work in book design, in collaboration with Pentagram, we are offering you the chance to win five books published in 2014 designed by Pentagram’s graphic designers. The giveaway runs through Tuesday, December 16, 11:59 PM. More...

Design Books to Win
December 3, 2014

Win two new books on digital photography. Five winners will each receive copies of David Hume Kennerly on the iPhone: Secrets and Tips from a Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer, from GOFF Books, and The Instagram Book, from AMMO Books. Enter to win until Tuesday, December 9, 11:59 PM (EST). More...

Design Books to Win
November 19, 2014

In this new giveaway we’re offering five winners each a total of six books that introduce young and school-age children to architecture and design. The books include a three-volume gift set of “Design Dossiers” from Paintbox Press, Who Built That? Modern Houses and Who Built That? Skyscrapers from Princeton Architectural Press, and The Future Architect’s Handbook from Schiffer Publishing. More...

Design Books to Win
November 12, 2014

Fans of uniquely designed children’s books have the chance to win a five-book library of both classic and new books for children interpreted by modern and contemporary illustrators and designers. The five books come courtesy of AMMO Books and Gestalten’s newly launched children’s line, Little Gestalten. The giveaway drawing runs through through Tuesday, November 18, 11:59 PM (EST). Three winners will receive all five books. More...

Design Books to Win
November 5, 2014

The London-based publisher Unit Editions is celebrating the life and work of Herb Lubalin (1918–81), one of the most influential typographers and logo designers of the 20th century. We’re joining the celebration and giving away five copies of the compact edition of Herb Lubalin: American Graphic Designer 1918–81 written by Adrian Shaughnessy, designed by Spin, and published by Unit Editionsa book that visual culture critic Rick Poynor has called “a gorgeous, meticulously produced compendium.” More...

Design Books to Win
October 29, 2014

In partnership with Knoll, we’re offering you the chance to win three newly published books featuring the work of three designers who have collaborated with the noted design company. Through November 11, 11:59 PM (EST), enter to win a copy of Abbott Miller: Design and Content (Princeton Architectural Press); the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale catalogue, Fundamentals (Marsilio, distributed by Rizzoli) by Rem Koolhaas, the Biennale’s curator; and Lella and Massimo Vignelli: Two Lives, One Vision (RIT Press). Five winners will each receive a copy of all three books. More...

Design Books to Win
October 22, 2014

We’re giving away books on the lives and work of two major early modernist designers: pioneering architect Adolf Loos (1870–1933) and Art Deco furniture and interiors designer Paul T. Frankl (1886–1958).  Five winners will each receive a copy of Adolf Loos: A Private Portrait, by Claire Beck Loos, and Paul T. Frankl: Autobiography, published by Doppelhouse Press. Enter to win (you need a U.S. postal address) through Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 11:59 PM (EST). More...

Design Books to Win
October 15, 2014

Enter the giveaway to win a newly published book exploring five exceptionally creative decades in illustration—from the 1960s to the early 2000s—plus a new book on the design of some classic logos. The giveaway drawing for Fifty Years of Illustration and TM: The Untold Stories Behind 29 Classic Logos is open through Tuesday, October 21, 11:59 PM (EST). Two winners will each receive both books. More...