Notable Design Books of 2012

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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15 Years of Media Arts Kurando Furuya, ed. On Daijiro Mizuno’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Abstract City Christoph Niemann On Ken Carbone’s Notable Books of 2012 list On Maria Popova’s Notable Books of 2012 list On Thomas Girst’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Adversarial Design Carl DiSalvo On Zara Arshad’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color Bernard Tschumi On John Hill’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	The Art of Punk Russ Bestley et al. On Rick Poynor’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Asia-Pacific Design No. 8 Sandu Publishing Co. Limited On Zara Arshad’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	The Avant-Garde Applied (1890–1950) Manuel Fontán del Junco, et al. On Rick Poynor’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Bio Design William Myers et al. On Phil Patton’s Notable Books of 2012 list On Jens Holm’s Notable Books of 2012 list On Aric Chen’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List
Blown Covers Françoise Mouly On Ken Carbone’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	The Book of Books Mathieu Lommen, ed. On Rick Poynor’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Building Stories Chris Ware On John Hill’s Notable Books of 2012 list On Debbie Millman’s Book List Add to My Reading List	China’s Design Revolution Lorraine Justice On Phil Patton’s Notable Books of 2012 list On Zara Arshad’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Cinesi (The Chinese) Giampaolo Visetti On Stefano Giovannoni’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age P.D. Smith On Mark Lamster’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	The Color Revolution Regina Lee Blaszczyk On Phil Patton’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Concrete Leonard Koren et al. On Mark Lamster’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List
Confessions of a Generalist Niels Diffrient On Phil Patton’s Notable Books of 2012 list On list of Books by Niels Diffrient Add to My Reading List	Design Is a Job Mike Monteiro On Alissa Walker’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Designing Information Joel Katz On Richard Saul Wurman’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	The Dutch Photobook Fritz Gierstberg and Rik Suermondt, eds. On Rick Poynor’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Elegantissima Louise Fili On list of Books by Louise Fili On Maria Popova’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	English Graphic Tom Lubbock On Thomas Collins’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Fear of Music Jonathan Lethem On Neil Denari’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	The Fractalist Benoit Mandelbrot On Phil Patton’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List
FUSE 1-20 Neville Brody et al. On Rick Poynor’s Notable Books of 2012 list On list of Books by Adrian Shaughnessy Add to My Reading List	The Future Will Be…China Hans Ulrich Obrist et al. On Zara Arshad’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Futuro Marc Augé On Massimo Pitis’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Girls’ Fashion in Japanese Manga Mana Takemura On Daijiro Mizuno’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Graphic Design: A History, 2nd Edition Stephen J. Eskilson On Rick Poynor’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City Alan Ehrenhalt On Witold Rybczynski’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Herb Lubalin Adrian Shaughnessy On Rick Poynor’s Notable Books of 2012 list On list of Books by Adrian Shaughnessy Add to My Reading List	Hippopposites Janik Coat On Maria Popova’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List
House Diane Keaton On Alissa Walker’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	How to Make a Japanese House Cathelijne Nuijsink On Nathalie de Vries’s Notable Books of 2012 list On John Hill’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail Ramsingh Urveti On Maria Popova’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Ikko Tanaka and the Future/Past/East/West of Design Kazuko Koike On Daijiro Mizuno’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Imperfect Health Giovanna Borasi et al. On John Hill’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Information Graphics Sandra Rendgen et al. On Maria Popova’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Instant: The Story of Polaroid Christopher Bonanos On Mark Lamster’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List	Japan Japanese Helmut Schmid On Daijiro Mizuno’s Notable Books of 2012 list Add to My Reading List

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