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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Wirrwarr
Jürgen Mayer H. et al. $300.00
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Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey
Tony Brook et al. $27.00
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Why We Broke Up
Daniel Handler et al. $19.99
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Voiture Minimum
Antonio Amado Lorenzo $49.95
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Visual Storytelling
Robert Klanten et al. $68.00
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Usefulness in Small Things
Kim Colin et al. $29.95
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Urban Design Since 1945
David Grahame Shane $45.00
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Typography for Lawyers
Matthew Butterick $25.00
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Triumph of the City
Edward Glaeser $29.95
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Toward a New Interior
Lois Weinthal $45.00
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Tomorrow’s Houses
Alexander Gorlin et al. $65.00
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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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To Make a World
Alexander Nemerov $45.00
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344 Questions
Stefan Bucher $11.99
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Textiles, the Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significances
Beverly Gordon $60.00
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TD 63-73: Total Design and Its Pioneering Role in Graphic Design
Ben Bos $55.00
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A Taxonomy of Office Chairs
Jonathan Olivares $39.95
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Symbol
Angus Hyland $40.00
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Star Wars: The Blueprints
J. W. Rinzler $500.00
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Spatial Agency
Nishat Awan et al. $44.95
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Spacesuit
Nicholas de Monchaux $34.95
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Seven Books Grey
Tacita Dean $98.00
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Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design
Pat Kirkham et al. $75.00
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Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion and Sales Material
Stefan Sagmeister et al. $40.00
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The Ruins of Detroit
Yves Marchand et al. $125.00
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Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape
Fares El-Dahdah et al. $49.95
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Rising Currents
Barry Bergdoll et al. $24.95
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Richard Prince: American Prayer
Robert Rubin, ed. $65.00
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Reveal: Studio Gang Architects
Jeanne Gang $45.00
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Rethinking Design and Interiors
Shashi Caan $29.95
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Redheaded Peckerwood
Christian Patterson $65.00
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Rebels in Paradise
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp $32,50
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Ready to Print
Kristina Nickel $78.00
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Radioactive
Lauren Redniss $29.99
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Pamphlet Architecture 11–20
Steven Holl, introduction $45.00
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Ootje Oxenaar: Designer + Commissioner
Els Kuijpers $38.35
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Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Howard Schultz et al. $25.99
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100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists
Alex Danchev, ed. $20.99
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OLIVE (A Handbook to Protect Your Life)
Nosigner ¥ 1,000 ($12.88)
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New York: The Story of a Great City
Sarah Henry. ed. $39.95
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New York Bikes
Michele Castagnetti $19.99
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Missed Connections
Sophie Blackall $13.95
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Menu Design in America
Steven Heller et al. $59.99
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Maps
Paula Scher $50.00
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Maharam Agenda
Michael Maharam $65.00
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Living in the Endless City
Ricky Burdett et al. $69.95
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Less and More
Keiko Ueki-Polet et al.
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The Latin American Photobook
Horacio Fernández, ed. $52.00
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Kissing Architecture
Sylvia Lavin $16.95
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KieranTimberlake: Inquiry
Stephen Kieran et al. $55.00
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Katie Ridder: Rooms
Heather MacIsaac $50.00
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Julius Shulman, Los Angeles
Sam Lubell et al. $60.00
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Hussein Chalayan
Robert Violette, ed. et al. $85.00
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How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
Christopher Boucher $15.00
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The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living
Caitlin Lempres Brostrom et al. $50.00
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A House for an Art Collector
David Adjaye $50.00
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High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky
Joshua David et al. $29.95
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Helvetica and the New York City Subway System
Paul Shaw $39.95
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Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture
John Hill $29.95
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Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture
Diana Balmori et al. $50.00
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Graphic Design: Now in Production
Ellen Lupton
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Gerrit Rietveld
Ida von Ziji $75.00
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Gerhard Richter: Panorama
Mark Godfrey et al.
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Food Rules
Michael Pollan et al.
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Flying Without a Net
Thomas J. DeLong $29.95
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Floating Worlds
Peter F. Neumeyer $35.00
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The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture
Juhani Pallasmaa $45.00
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Edward Durell Stone
Hicks Stone $85.00
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Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible
Sophie Lovell $95.00
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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Lisa Immordino Vreeland $55.00
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Designing for Emotion
Aarron Walter $18.00
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Design*Sponge at Home
Grace Bonney $35.00
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Design with the Other 90%: Cities
Cynthia Smith $29.95
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jane Jacobs et al. $23.00
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Cultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic Alphabets
Rana Abou Rjeily $34.95
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Combinatory Urbanism
Thom Mayne $39.95
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Collected
Malcolm Gladwell et al. $80.00
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Chi ha paura...?-Who’s afraid...?
Alba Cappellieri
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Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
Todd Oldham et al. $29.95
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Cédric Delsaux: Dark Lens
Cédric Delsaux $75.00
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Cecil Beaton
Donald Albrecht $65.00
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California Design 1930–1965
Wendy Kaplan. ed. $60.00
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By the City/For the City
Anne Guiney et al. $35.00
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Bob Gill, so far.
Bob Gill $50.00
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Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention
Zoë Ryan, ed. $60.00
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Believing Is Seeing
Errol Morris $40.00
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Beauty Is in the Street
Johan Kugelberg et al. $40.00
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Balenciaga and Spain
Hamish Bowles $65.00
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Architecture in Uniform
Jean-Louis Cohen $50.00
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The Architectural Detail
Edward R. Ford $40.00
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And I Shall Have Some Peace There
Margaret Roach $25.99
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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Andrew Bolton et al. $50.00
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Alexander Girard
Todd Oldham et al. $200
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The Agile City
James Russell $35.00
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African Metropolitan Architecture
David Adjaye $100.00
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