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 Usefulness in Small Things
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 The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
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 Textiles, the Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significances
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 TD 63-73: Total Design and Its Pioneering Role in Graphic Design
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 A Taxonomy of Office Chairs
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 Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion and Sales Material
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 Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape
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 Richard Prince: American Prayer
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 Rethinking Design and Interiors
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 Ootje Oxenaar: Designer + Commissioner
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 Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
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 100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists
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 OLIVE (A Handbook to Protect Your Life)
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 New York: The Story of a Great City
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 How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
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 The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living
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 High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky
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 Helvetica and the New York City Subway System
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 Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture
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 Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture
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 Graphic Design: Now in Production
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 The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture
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 Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible
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 Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
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 Design with the Other 90%: Cities
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 The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
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 Cultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic Alphabets
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 Chi ha paura...?-Who’s afraid...?
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 Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
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 Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention
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 And I Shall Have Some Peace There
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 Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
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 African Metropolitan Architecture
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Announcements
Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy by John Lobell
Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy
By John Lobell
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Published: June 2020
Noted Louis I.Kahn expert John Lobell explores how Kahn’s focus on structure, respect for materials, clarity of program, and reverence for details come together to manifest an overall philosophy.
Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn by Harriet Pattison
Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
By Harriet Pattison
Publisher: Yale University Press
Forthcoming: October 2020
An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn. Harriet Pattison, FASLA, is a distinguished landscape architect. She was Louis Kahn’s romantic partner from 1959 to 1974, and his collaborator on the landscapes of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, and the F.D.R. Memorial/Four Freedoms Park, New York. She is the mother of their son, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn.
Louis I. Kahn: The Nordic Latitudes
Louis I. Kahn: The Nordic Latitudes
By Per Olaf Fjeld and Emily Randall Fjeld
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: October 4, 2019
A new and personal reading of the architecture, teachings, and legacy of Louis I. Kahn from Per Olaf Fjeld’s perspective as a former student. The book explores Kahn’s life and work, offering a unique take on one of the twentieth century’s most important architects. Kahn’s Nordic and European ties are emphasized in this study that also covers his early childhood in Estonia, his travels, and his relationships with other architects, including the Norwegian architect Arne Korsmo.
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Reading Graphic Design History: Image, Text, and Context by David Raizman
Reading Graphic Design History: Image, Text, and Context
By David Raizman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: December 2020
An innovative approach to graphic design that uses a series of key artifacts from the history of print culture in light of their specific historical contexts. It encourages the reader to look carefully and critically at print advertising, illustration, posters, magazine art direction, and typography, often addressing issues of class, race, and gender.
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian by Rick Poynor
David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian
By Rick Poynor
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 2020
A comprehensive overview of the work and legacy of David King (1943–2016), whose fascinating career bridged journalism, graphic design, photography, and collecting. King launched his career at Britain’s Sunday Times Magazine in the 1960s, starting as a designer and later branching out into image-led journalism, blending political activism with his design work.
Teaching Graphic Design History by Steven Heller
Teaching Graphic Design History
By Steven Heller
Publisher: Allworth Press
Published: June 2019
An examination of the concerted efforts, happy accidents, and key influences of the practice throughout the years, Teaching Graphic Design History is an illuminating resource for students, practitioners, and future teachers of the subject.
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