Our designers, commentators, guest bloggers, and specially invited guests have chosen these as the most notable design books of 2012. Also see Notable Design Books of 2011.
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20th-Century World Architecture: The Phaidon Atlas
Editors of Phaidon Press
Porsche: Origin of the Species
Karl Ludvigsen et al.
The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design
Editors of Phaidon Press
The Raw and the Cooked
Peter Bialobrzeski
Luca Barcellona: Take Your Pleasure Seriously
Luca Barcellona
Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color
Bernard Tschumi
The Dutch Photobook
Fritz Gierstberg and Rik Suermondt, eds.
Asia-Pacific Design No. 8
Sandu Publishing Co. Limited
Tree Houses
Philip Jodidio; Patrick Hruby (illustrator)
Information Graphics
Sandra Rendgen et al.
The Avant-Garde Applied (1890–1950)
Manuel Fontán del Junco, et al.
Graphic Design: A History, 2nd Edition
Stephen J. Eskilson
Norman Bel Geddes Designs America
Donald Albrecht, ed. et al.
Terunobu Fujimori
Hannes Rössler et al.
Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms
Alistair Gordon et al.
The Postcard Age
Lynda Klich and Benjamin Weiss; Preface by Leonard A. Lauder
City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age
P.D. Smith
Photo Gallery of Good Buildings: West
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