Our designers, commentators, guest bloggers, and specially invited guests have chosen these as the most notable design books of 2011.
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Keiko Ueki-Polet et al.
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Chi ha paura...?-Who’s afraid...?
Alba Cappellieri
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The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
Thomas Thwaites $19.95
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Usefulness in Small Things
Kim Colin et al. $29.95
On Daijiro Mizuno’s Notable Books of 2011 list
On list of Books by Sam Hecht
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Spacesuit
Nicholas de Monchaux $34.95
On Paul Makovsky’s Notable Books of 2011 list
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Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson $35.00
On Alissa Walker’s Notable Books of 2011 list
On Gail Anderson’s Current Reading list
On Carola Zwick’s Current Reading list
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A Taxonomy of Office Chairs
Jonathan Olivares $39.95
On Paul Makovsky’s Notable Books of 2011 list
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Voiture Minimum
Antonio Amado Lorenzo $49.95
On Phil Patton’s Notable Books of 2011 list
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California Design 1930–1965
Wendy Kaplan. ed. $60.00
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Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible
Sophie Lovell $95.00
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Alexander Girard
Todd Oldham et al. $200
On Jonathan Adler’s Book List
On Wendy Goodman’s Notable Books of 2011 list
On list of Books by Todd Oldham
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Best-Selling Design Books at Van Alen Books, New York

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Building Seagram
Phyllis Lambert
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Clog 6: Brutalism
Kyle May et al., eds.
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Project Journal Issue 1
Project
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Matteo Thun
Architect, Interior Designer, Product/Industrial Designer, Lighting Designer; Italy
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Writer; Executive; United States
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Product/Industrial Designer; Germany
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British Textiles: 1700 to the Present
Linda Parry
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Katsuji Wakisaka
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Kokyo Hatanaka
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Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, and Charles Renfro
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Stephen Burrows
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Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
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Contributors Who Chose...

Delirious New York
Rem Koolhaas
On 8 lists
Jeanne Gang
Architect; United States
Mohsen Mostafavi
Designer; Educator; United States
Galia Solomonoff
Architect; United States
Adam Tihany
Architect, Interior Designer, Product/Industrial Designer; United States
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