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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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New Book Release (U.S.), June 30, 2014: BMW Art Cars
Traces the development of the BMW Art Cars, the so-called “rolling sculptures” designed by artists including Alexander Calder, David Hockney, and Andy Warhol over the last 40 years.
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Thomas Girst, editor
Texts by Carl Magnusson, Phil Patton, et al.
Published by Hatje Cantz
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New Book Release: Platform 6, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Platform 6 presents a sampling of the work produced at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) during the past academic year. This work is indicative of the School’s commitment, as a global leader in the field, to exploring and articulating transformative ideas through the power of design.
Rosetta S. Elkin, Editor
Published by Actar
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New Book Release, March 31, 2014: Manuals 1: Design & Identity Guidelines
The first comprehensive study of corporate identity design manuals, featuring examples from the 1960s to early 1980s—the golden era of identity design.
Texts by Adrian Shaughnessy, et al.
Published by Unit Editions
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New Book Release, April 21, 2014: Drawing and Reinventing Landscape, AD Primer
Explores notions of representation in the discipline of landscape architecture at large and across time.
Diana Balmori
Published by John Wiley & Sons
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New Book Release (U.S.), May 20, 2014: The Duchamp Dictionary
More than 200 alphabetical illustrated entries on the most interesting and important artworks, relationships, people, and ideas in influential artist Marcel Duchamp’s life, including chess puns, the fourth dimension, love, genius, ready-mades such as Bicycle Wheel and Fountain, Peggy Guggenheim, Max Ernst, Man Ray, and Arturo Schwarz.
Thomas Girst
Published by Thames & Hudson (distributed in the U.S., by W. W. Norton)
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New Book Release (U.S.), May 1, 2014: Shape of Sound
Architect Victoria Meyers analyzes the shape of sound; architecture and sound; form; materiality; windows; the urban soundscape, its politics, aesthetics and social character; reflection; virtuality; sound art; and silence.
Victoria Meyers
Published by Artifice Books on Architecture
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