Our designers, commentators, guest bloggers, and specially invited guests have chosen these as the most notable design books of 2011.
102 books
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Toward a New Interior
Lois Weinthal
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Designing for Emotion
Aarron Walter
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Gerrit Rietveld
Ida von Ziji
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Hussein Chalayan
Robert Violette, ed. et al.
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Less and More
Keiko Ueki-Polet et al.
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The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
Thomas Thwaites
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Edward Durell Stone
Hicks Stone
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Design with the Other 90%: Cities
Cynthia Smith
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Helvetica and the New York City Subway System
Paul Shaw
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Urban Design Since 1945
David Grahame Shane
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Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Howard Schultz et al.
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Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion and Sales Material
Stefan Sagmeister et al.
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Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention
Zoë Ryan, ed.
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Richard Prince: American Prayer
Robert Rubin, ed.
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And I Shall Have Some Peace There
Margaret Roach
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Cultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic Alphabets
Rana Abou Rjeily
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Star Wars: The Blueprints
J. W. Rinzler
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Food Rules
Michael Pollan et al.
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Redheaded Peckerwood
Christian Patterson
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The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture
Juhani Pallasmaa
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A Taxonomy of Office Chairs
Jonathan Olivares
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Alexander Girard
Todd Oldham et al.
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Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
Todd Oldham et al.
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OLIVE (A Handbook to Protect Your Life)
Nosigner
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Ready to Print
Kristina Nickel
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Floating Worlds
Peter F. Neumeyer
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To Make a World
Alexander Nemerov
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Wirrwarr
Jürgen Mayer H. et al.
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The Ruins of Detroit
Yves Marchand et al.
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Maharam Agenda
Michael Maharam
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Katie Ridder: Rooms
Heather MacIsaac
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Graphic Design: Now in Production
Ellen Lupton
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Julius Shulman, Los Angeles
Sam Lubell et al.
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Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible
Sophie Lovell
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The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living
Caitlin Lempres Brostrom et al.
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Kissing Architecture
Sylvia Lavin
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Ootje Oxenaar: Designer + Commissioner
Els Kuijpers
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Beauty Is in the Street
Johan Kugelberg et al.
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Visual Storytelling
Robert Klanten et al.
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Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design
Pat Kirkham et al.
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KieranTimberlake: Inquiry
Stephen Kieran et al.
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California Design 1930–1965
Wendy Kaplan. ed.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jane Jacobs et al.
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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Lisa Immordino Vreeland
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Pamphlet Architecture 11–20
Steven Holl, introduction
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Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture
John Hill
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New York: The Story of a Great City
Sarah Henry. ed.
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Menu Design in America
Steven Heller et al.
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Why We Broke Up
Daniel Handler et al.
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By the City/For the City
Anne Guiney et al.
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Tomorrow’s Houses
Alexander Gorlin et al.
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Textiles, the Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significances
Beverly Gordon
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Gerhard Richter: Panorama
Mark Godfrey et al.
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Triumph of the City
Edward Glaeser
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Collected
Malcolm Gladwell et al.
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Bob Gill, so far.
Bob Gill
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The Architectural Detail
Edward R. Ford
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The Latin American Photobook
Horacio Fernández, ed.
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Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape
Fares El-Dahdah et al.
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Rebels in Paradise
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
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Cédric Delsaux: Dark Lens
Cédric Delsaux
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Flying Without a Net
Thomas J. DeLong
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High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky
Joshua David et al.
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100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists
Alex Danchev, ed.
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Usefulness in Small Things
Kim Colin et al.
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Architecture in Uniform
Jean-Louis Cohen
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New York Bikes
Michele Castagnetti
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Chi ha paura...?-Who’s afraid...?
Alba Cappellieri
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Rethinking Design and Interiors
Shashi Caan
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Typography for Lawyers
Matthew Butterick
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Living in the Endless City
Ricky Burdett et al.
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Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey
Tony Brook et al.
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Balenciaga and Spain
Hamish Bowles
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How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
Christopher Boucher
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TD 63-73: Total Design and Its Pioneering Role in Graphic Design
Ben Bos
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Design*Sponge at Home
Grace Bonney
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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Andrew Bolton et al.
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Missed Connections
Sophie Blackall
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Rising Currents
Barry Bergdoll et al.
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Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture
Diana Balmori et al.
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Voiture Minimum
Antonio Amado Lorenzo
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African Metropolitan Architecture
David Adjaye
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A House for an Art Collector
David Adjaye
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