The Designers & Books Online Book Fair 2014 Holiday Gift Guide
Over 145 titles specially selected for holiday shopping lists. Over 850 books to browse every day
November 21, 2014
Our first Online Book Fair Holiday Gift Guide is here! Featuring over 145 new and newly selected books in architecture, design, art, and photography, including many titles with discounts, the Holiday Gift Guide is designed to make this year’s holiday shopping (or shopping any time of year) for design and book lovers easy, informative—and fun.
The Holiday Gift Guide brings you books from close to 20 participating design book publishers and rare and out of printbook dealers, including: AMMO Books, Doppelhouse Press, Gestalten, Lars Müller, Laurence King, The MIT Press, ORO Editions (GOFF Books, Applied Research + Design), Paintbox Press, Phaidon, Prestel, Princeton Architectural Press, RIT Press, Rockport, Schiffer, Strelka, The Wolfsonian-FIU, and Carnegie Hill Books, F.A. Bernett, Modernism 101, and Optos Books.
Highlights include:
Holiday Bargains: special holiday discounts from 35 to 50% off, good through December 31, on new for 2014 and selected backlist books. In addition, several publishers have extended these discounts to their entire list of offerings on the Online Book Fair
— and Gifts Under $20: even easier on the wallet!
Gift Ideas for Architecture Lovers of all kinds
Gift Ideas for Graphic Design Students...and the practicing graphic designer
Gifts for Kids: books, games, and more
Ideas for Vintage Gifts: our rare and out of print book dealers offer great ideas for collectible design and photography books with a wide range of prices. Discounts from 10 to 15% off are offered through December 31 on many items.
See all Holiday Gift Guide 2014 book selections.
In addition, these publishers and book dealers have extended their special limited-time holiday discounts to all of their titles on the Online Book Fair: Lars Müller, Paintbox Press, Prestel, Modernism 101, and Optos Books.
A unique feature of the Online Book Fair and the Holiday Gift Guide is the variety of enjoyable ways you can find just what you’re looking for—whether it’s a specific subject or a recently published book. Looking for recently published books on graphic design in Europe? Graphic design books for children? Or even books for a designer-foodie? You can find it all at the Designers & Books Online Book Fair.
The Holiday Gift Guide will continue to grow, so keep checking back through December!
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Understanding Understanding: New from Richard Saul Wurman
Understanding Understanding
by Richard Saul Wurman
Publisher: Richard Saul Wurman and Jack Dangermond
Published July 30, 2017
From the author of Information Architecture, who says about his newest book: “This is a book for people to dip into, as they would walk in and out of the room of a dinner party and embrace their interests. . . Before the rules on how to organize information, before you learn grammar, before you work hard at expanding your vocabulary and go through the exercises of parallel meanings of things as using a Thesaurus and as one writes papers in class, before any learning one must understand.”
The Hard Life by Jasper Morrison
The Hard Life
by Jasper Morrison
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Published in US: May 22, 2017
Photographs taken by designer Jasper Morrison of objects in the collection of the National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon, Portugal. “The objects photographed and described may be appreciated both for their beauty and for the example they set of design at its purest. The Hard Life is a continuation of Morrison’s celebration of the ordinary and offers a new perspective on his design philosophy.”
Paula Scher: Works - Order from Unit Editions
Paula Scher: Works
Editors: Tony Brook & Adrian Shaughnessy
Design: Spin
Publisher: Unit Editions
Published April 2017
New book covering the career of of master designer Paula Scher, called “the most influential woman graphic designer on the planet.” (Ellen Lupton), This definitive, chronological visual record spans Paula’s early days in the music industry as an art director with CBS and Atlantic records; the launch of her first studio, Koppel & Scher; and her 25-year engagement with Pentagram.
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Type Tells Tales: New from Steven Heller and Gail Anderson
Type Tells Tales
by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published May 30, 2017
Reveals how type can become both content and illustration, as letters take the form of people, animals, cars, or planes. With numerous illustrations by F. T. Marinetti, Bruno Munari, and Francis Picabia, among others, as well as by contemporary designers such as Richard Eckersley, John Hendrix, Maira Kalman, and Corita Kent.
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