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Ai Weiwei’s Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006–2009
Ai Weiwei
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Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement
Leonard Koren et al.
On Zuzana Licko’s Book List
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Biomimicry
Janine M. Benyus
On Zoë Ryan’s Book List
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Cleopatra’s Nose
Daniel J. Boorstin
On Jens Holm’s Book List
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The Craftsman
Richard Sennett
On Milton Glaser’s Book List
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Creating with Paper
Pauline Johnson
On Todd Oldham’s Book List
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The Decline of the West
Oswald Spengler
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Design for the Real World
Victor Papanek
On Tim Brown’s Book List
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On Gijs Bakker’s Book List
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Design Now!
Peter and Charlotte Fiell
On Jens Martin Skibsted’s Book List
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Diderot Encyclopedia
Denis Diderot
On Michael Graves’s Book List
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The Dream Society
Rolf Jensen
On Freeman Lau’s Book List
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Elements of Design
Gail Greet Hannah
On Tucker Viemeister’s Book List
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Fantasia
Bruno Munari
On Giuseppe Lignano’s Book List
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Grammatica della Fantasia (The Grammar of Fantasy)
Gianni Rodari
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Heraldry
Ottfried Neubecker
On Kit Hinrichs’s Book List
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The Hidden Dimension
Edward T. Hall
On Nancye Green’s Book List
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How Brands Become Icons
Douglas B. Holt
On Jens Martin Skibsted’s Book List
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How to See
George Nelson
On Stanley Abercrombie’s Book List
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How to See: A Guide to Reading Our Manmade Environment
George Nelson
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I Seem To Be a Verb
R. Buckminster Fuller
On Jennifer Morla’s Book List
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Image/Music/Text
Roland Barthes
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Interface Culture
Steven A. Johnson
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The Kimono Mind
Bernard Rudofsky
On Tom Geismar’s Book List
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Kitsch
Gillo Dorfles
On Inga Sempé’s Book List
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Language of Vision
György Kepes
On Massimo Vignelli’s Book List
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The Laws of Form
G. Spencer-Brown
On Neil Denari’s Book List
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The Laws of Simplicity
John Maeda
On Tim Brown’s Book List
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Le système des objets (The System of Objects)
Jean Baudrillard
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Makers: The New Industrial Revolution
Chris Anderson
On Daijiro Mizuno’s Notable Books of 2012 list
On Massimo Pitis’s Notable Books of 2012 list
On Hugh Hardy’s Book List
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McMaster-Carr Catalog
McMaster-Carr
On Craig Hodgetts’s Book List
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Meine Lieblings-Flops, gefolgt von einem Ideen-Magazin
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise, The Interface Model
Ray C. Anderson
On Susan S. Szenasy’s Book List
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The Modern Ideal
Paul Greenhalgh
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Module, Proportion, Symmetry, Rhythm (Vision + Value Series)
György Kepes
On Niels Diffrient’s Book List
On Stanley Abercrombie’s Book List
On James Biber’s Book List
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Nature Design
Angeli Sachs
On Zoë Ryan’s Book List
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Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Christopher Alexander
On Niels Diffrient’s Book List
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
R. Buckminster Fuller
On Norman Foster’s Book List
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Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
On Gail Anderson’s Book List
On Lisa Jenks’s Book List
On Jeffrey Bernett’s Book List
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Pasta by Design
George L. Legendre et al.
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Pedagogical Sketchbook
Paul Klee
On Jürgen Mayer H.’s Book List
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