Our designers, commentators, guest bloggers, and specially invited guests have chosen these as the most notable design books of 2011.
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| Toward a New Interior | Weinthal, Lois | Princeton Architectural Press | $45.00 |
| Designing for Emotion | Walter, Aarron | A Book Apart | $18.00 |
| Gerrit Rietveld | van Zijl, Ida | Phaidon Press | $75.00 |
| Hussein Chalayan | Violette, Robert et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $85.00 |
| Less and More | Ueki-Polet, Keiko et al. | Gestalten | |
| The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch | Thwaites, Thomas | Princeton Architectural Press | $19.95 |
| Edward Durell Stone | Stone, Hicks | Rizzoli International Publications | $85.00 |
| Design with the Other 90%: Cities | Smith, Cynthia | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum | $29.95 |
| Helvetica and the New York City Subway System | Shaw, Paul | The MIT Press | $39.95 |
| Urban Design Since 1945 | Shane, David Grahame | John Wiley & Sons | $45.00 |
| Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul | Schultz, Howard et al. | Rodale | $25.99 |
| Maps | Scher, Paula | Princeton Architectural Press | $50.00 |
| Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion and Sales Material | Sagmeister, Stefan et al. | Abrams | $40.00 |
| Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention | Ryan, Zoë | Yale University Press | $60.00 |
| The Agile City | Russell, James | Island Press | $35.00 |
| Richard Prince: American Prayer | Rubin, Robert | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| And I Shall Have Some Peace There | Roach, Margaret | Grand Central Publishing | $25.99 |
| Cultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic Alphabets | Rjeily, Rana Abou | Mark Batty Publisher | $34.95 |
| Star Wars: The Blueprints | Rinzler, J. W. | Epic Ink | $500.00 |
| Atlas | Richter, Gerhard | Walther König Verlag | |
| Radioactive | Redniss, Lauren | HarperCollins | $29.99 |
| Food Rules | Pollan, Michael et al. | Penguin | |
| Redheaded Peckerwood | Patterson, Christian | MACK | $65.00 |
| The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture | Pallasmaa, Juhani | John Wiley & Sons | $45.00 |
| A Taxonomy of Office Chairs | Olivares, Jonathan | Phaidon Press | $39.95 |
| Alexander Girard | Oldham, Todd et al. | AMMO Books | $200 |
| Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life | Oldham, Todd et al. | AMMO Books | $29.95 |
| OLIVE (A Handbook to Protect Your Life) | Nosigner, | Media Factory | ¥ 1,000 ($12.88) |
| Ready to Print | Nickel, Kristina | Gestalten | $78.00 |
| Floating Worlds | Neumeyer, Peter F. | Pomegranate Press | $35.00 |
| To Make a World | Nemerov, Alexander | Yale University Press | $45.00 |
| Believing Is Seeing | Morris, Errol | Penguin | $40.00 |
| Combinatory Urbanism | Mayne, Thom | Stray Dog Cafe | $39.95 |
| Wirrwarr | Mayer H., Jürgen et al. | Hatje Cantz | $300.00 |
| The Ruins of Detroit | Marchand, Yves et al. | Steidl | $125.00 |
| Maharam Agenda | Maharam, Michael | Lars Müller Publishers | $65.00 |
| Katie Ridder: Rooms | MacIsaac, Heather | Abrams | $50.00 |
| Graphic Design: Now in Production | Lupton, Ellen et al. | Walker Art Center; distributed by D.A.P. | |
| Julius Shulman, Los Angeles | Lubell, Sam et al. | Rizzoli International Publications | $60.00 |
| Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible | Lovell, Sophie | Phaidon Press | $95.00 |
