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