Notable Books of 2011
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| African Metropolitan Architecture | Adjaye, David | Rizzoli International Publications | $100.00 |
| A House for an Art Collector | Adjaye, David | Rizzoli International Publications | $50.00 |
| Cecil Beaton | Albrecht, Donald | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| Voiture Minimum | Amado Lorenzo, Antonio | The MIT Press | $49.95 |
| Spatial Agency | Awan, Nishat et al. | Routledge | $44.95 |
| Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture | Balmori, Diana et al. | The Monacelli Press | $50.00 |
| Rising Currents | Bergdoll, Barry | The Museum of Modern Art | $24.95 |
| Missed Connections | Blackall, Sophie | Workman | $13.95 |
| People | Blexbolex, | Enchanted Lion Books | $19.95 |
| Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty | Bolton, Andrew | Yale University Press | $50.00 |
| Design*Sponge at Home | Bonney, Grace | Artisan | $35.00 |
| TD 63-73: Total Design and Its Pioneering Role in Graphic Design | Bos, Ben | Unit Editions | $55.00 |
| How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive | Boucher, Christopher | Melville House | $15.00 |
| Balenciaga and Spain | Bowles, Hamish | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey | Brook, Tony et al. | Unit Editions | $27.00 |
| 344 Questions | Bucher, Stefan | New Riders Press | $11.99 |
| Living in the Endless City | Burdett, Ricky et al. | Phaidon Press | $69.95 |
| Typography for Lawyers | Butterick, Matthew | Jones McClure Publishing | $25.00 |
| Rethinking Design and Interiors | Caan, Shashi | Laurence King Publishing | $29.95 |
| Chi ha paura...?-Who’s afraid...? | Cappellieri, Alba | Electa | |
| New York Bikes | Castagnetti, Michele | Self Published | $19.99 |
| Identify | Chermayeff, Ivan et al. | Print Publishing | $45.00 |
| Architecture in Uniform | Cohen, Jean-Louis | Yale University Press | $50.00 |
| Usefulness in Small Things | Colin, Kim et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $29.95 |
| 100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists | Danchev, Alex | Penguin | $20.99 |
| High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky | David, Joshua et al. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | $29.95 |
| Spacesuit | de Monchaux, Nicholas | The MIT Press | $34.95 |
| Seven Books Grey | Dean, Tacita | Steidl | $98.00 |
| Flying Without a Net | DeLong, Thomas J. | Harvard Business Review Press | $29.95 |
| Cédric Delsaux: Dark Lens | Delsaux, Cédric | Editions Xavier Barral | $75.00 |
| Rebels in Paradise | Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter | Henry Holt and Company | $32,50 |
| Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape | El-Dahdah, Farès et al. | Actar | $49.95 |
| The Latin American Photobook | Fernández, Horacio et al. | Aperture | $52.00 |
| Bossypants | Fey, Tina | Little, Brown and Co. | |
| The Architectural Detail | Ford, Edward R. | Princeton Architectural Press | $40.00 |
| Bals | Foulkes, Nicholas | Assouline | $175.00 |
| Reveal: Studio Gang Architects | Gang, Jeanne | Princeton Architectural Press | $45.00 |
| Bob Gill, so far. | Gill, Bob | Laurence King Publishing | $50.00 |
| Collected | Gladwell, Malcolm et al. | Little, Brown and Co. | $80.00 |
| Triumph of the City | Glaeser, Edward | Penguin | $29.95 |
| Gerhard Richter: Panorama | Godfrey, Mark et al. | Tate Gallery Publishing | |
| Textiles, the Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significances | Gordon, Beverly | Thames & Hudson | $60.00 |
| Tomorrow’s Houses | Gorlin, Alexander et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| By the City/For the City | Guiney, Anne et al. | Institute for Urban Design | $35.00 |
| Why We Broke Up | Handler, Daniel et al. | Little, Brown and Co. | $19.99 |
| Menu Design in America | Heller, Steven et al. | TASCHEN | $59.99 |
| New York: The Story of a Great City | Henry, Sarah | André Deutsch | $39.95 |
| Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture | Hill, John | W. W. Norton | $29.95 |
| Pamphlet Architecture 11–20 | Holl, Steven | Princeton Architectural Press | $45.00 |
| Symbol | Hyland, Angus et al. | Laurence King Publishing | $40.00 |
| Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel | Immordino Vreeland, Lisa | Abrams | $55.00 |
| Steve Jobs | Isaacson, Walter | Simon & Schuster | $35.00 |
| The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition | Jacobs, Jane | Random House/Modern Library | $23.00 |
| California Design 1930–1965 | Kaplan, Wendy | The MIT Press | $60.00 |
| KieranTimberlake: Inquiry | Kieran, Stephen et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $55.00 |
| Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design | Kirkham, Pat et al. | Laurence King Publishing | $75.00 |
| Visual Storytelling | Klanten, Robert et al. | Gestalten | $68.00 |
| Project Japan | Koolhaas, Rem et al. | TASCHEN | $59.99 |
| Beauty Is in the Street | Kugelberg, Johan et al. | Four Corners Books; distributed by D.A.P. | $40.00 |
| Ootje Oxenaar: Designer + Commissioner | Kuijpers, Els | nai010 Publishers | $38.35 |
| Kissing Architecture | Lavin, Sylvia | Princeton University Press | $16.95 |
| The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living | Brostrom, Caitlin Lempres et al. | Princeton Architectural Press | $50.00 |
| Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible | Lovell, Sophie | Phaidon Press | $95.00 |
| Julius Shulman, Los Angeles | Lubell, Sam et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $60.00 |
| Graphic Design: Now in Production | Lupton, Ellen et al. | Walker Art Center; distributed by D.A.P. | |
| Katie Ridder: Rooms | MacIsaac, Heather | Abrams | $50.00 |
| Maharam Agenda | Maharam, Michael | Lars Müller Publishers | $65.00 |
| The Ruins of Detroit | Marchand, Yves et al. | Steidl | $125.00 |
| Wirrwarr | Mayer H., Jürgen et al. | Hatje Cantz | $300.00 |
| Combinatory Urbanism | Mayne, Thom | Stray Dog Cafe | $39.95 |
| Believing Is Seeing | Morris, Errol | Penguin | $40.00 |
| To Make a World | Nemerov, Alexander | Yale University Press | $45.00 |
| Floating Worlds | Neumeyer, Peter F. | Pomegranate Press | $35.00 |
| Ready to Print | Nickel, Kristina | Gestalten | $78.00 |
| OLIVE (A Handbook to Protect Your Life) | Nosigner, | Media Factory | ¥ 1,000 ($12.88) |
| Alexander Girard | Oldham, Todd et al. | AMMO Books | $200 |
| Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life | Oldham, Todd et al. | AMMO Books | $29.95 |
| A Taxonomy of Office Chairs | Olivares, Jonathan | Phaidon Press | $39.95 |
| The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture | Pallasmaa, Juhani | John Wiley & Sons | $45.00 |
| Redheaded Peckerwood | Patterson, Christian | MACK | $65.00 |
| Food Rules | Pollan, Michael et al. | Penguin | |
| Radioactive | Redniss, Lauren | HarperCollins | $29.99 |
| Atlas | Richter, Gerhard | Walther König Verlag | |
| Star Wars: The Blueprints | Rinzler, J. W. | Epic Ink | $500.00 |
| Cultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic Alphabets | Rjeily, Rana Abou | Mark Batty Publisher | $34.95 |
| And I Shall Have Some Peace There | Roach, Margaret | Grand Central Publishing | $25.99 |
| Richard Prince: American Prayer | Rubin, Robert | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| The Agile City | Russell, James | Island Press | $35.00 |
| Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention | Ryan, Zoë | Yale University Press | $60.00 |
| Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion and Sales Material | Sagmeister, Stefan et al. | Abrams | $40.00 |
| Maps | Scher, Paula | Princeton Architectural Press | $50.00 |
| Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul | Schultz, Howard et al. | Rodale | $25.99 |
| Urban Design Since 1945 | Shane, David Grahame | John Wiley & Sons | $45.00 |
| Helvetica and the New York City Subway System | Shaw, Paul | The MIT Press | $39.95 |
| Design with the Other 90%: Cities | Smith, Cynthia | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum | $29.95 |
| Edward Durell Stone | Stone, Hicks | Rizzoli International Publications | $85.00 |
| The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch | Thwaites, Thomas | Princeton Architectural Press | $19.95 |
| Less and More | Ueki-Polet, Keiko et al. | Gestalten | |
| Hussein Chalayan | Violette, Robert et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $85.00 |
| Gerrit Rietveld | van Zijl, Ida | Phaidon Press | $75.00 |
| Designing for Emotion | Walter, Aarron | A Book Apart | $18.00 |
| Toward a New Interior | Weinthal, Lois | Princeton Architectural Press | $45.00 |
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Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986 by Andrew Blauvelt
Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986
by Andrew Blauvelt
Publisher: Cranbrook Art Museum
Published: June 1, 2018
Explores the printed matter—posters, flyers, zines, and album covers—produced by and for the punk and post-punk music scenes in the United States and UK. Printed as a special, oversized, 52-page color newspaper, the catalogue has been published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name, curated by Andrew Blauvelt, on view at the Cranbrook Art Museum through October 7, 2018.
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