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 African Metropolitan Architecture
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 Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
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 And I Shall Have Some Peace There
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 Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention
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 Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
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 Chi ha paura...?-Who’s afraid...?
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 Cultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic Alphabets
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 The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
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 Design with the Other 90%: Cities
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 Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
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 Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible
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 The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture
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 Graphic Design: Now in Production
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 Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture
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 Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture
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 Helvetica and the New York City Subway System
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 High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky
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 The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living
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 How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
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 New York: The Story of a Great City
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 OLIVE (A Handbook to Protect Your Life)
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 100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists
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 Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
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 Ootje Oxenaar: Designer + Commissioner
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 Rethinking Design and Interiors
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 Richard Prince: American Prayer
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 Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape
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 Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion and Sales Material
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 A Taxonomy of Office Chairs
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 TD 63-73: Total Design and Its Pioneering Role in Graphic Design
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 Textiles, the Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significances
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 The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
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 Usefulness in Small Things
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You Are Are What You Read . . .
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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