Designers

New Book Release (U.S.), June 30, 2014: BMW Art Cars

Traces the development of the BMW Art Cars, the so-called “rolling sculptures” designed by artists including Alexander Calder, David Hockney, and Andy Warhol over the last 40 years.

Thomas Girst, editor
Texts by Carl Magnusson, Phil Patton, et al.
Published by Hatje Cantz
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New Book Release: Platform 6, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Platform 6 presents a sampling of the work produced at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) during the past academic year. This work is indicative of the School’s commitment, as a global leader in the field, to exploring and articulating transformative ideas through the power of design.

Rosetta S. Elkin, Editor
Published by Actar
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New Book Release, March 31, 2014: Manuals 1: Design & Identity Guidelines

The first comprehensive study of corporate identity design manuals, featuring examples from the 1960s to early 1980s—the golden era of identity design.

Texts by Adrian Shaughnessy, et al.
Published by Unit Editions
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New Book Release, April 21, 2014: Drawing and Reinventing Landscape, AD Primer

Explores notions of representation in the discipline of landscape architecture at large and across time.

Diana Balmori
Published by John Wiley & Sons
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New Book Release (U.S.), May 20, 2014: The Duchamp Dictionary

More than 200 alphabetical illustrated entries on the most interesting and important artworks, relationships, people, and ideas in influential artist Marcel Duchamp’s life, including chess puns, the fourth dimension, love, genius, ready-mades such as Bicycle Wheel and Fountain, Peggy Guggenheim, Max Ernst, Man Ray, and Arturo Schwarz.

Thomas Girst
Published by Thames & Hudson (distributed in the U.S., by W. W. Norton)
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New Book Release (U.S.), May 1, 2014: Shape of Sound

Architect Victoria Meyers analyzes the shape of sound; architecture and sound; form; materiality; windows; the urban soundscape, its politics, aesthetics and social character; reflection; virtuality; sound art; and silence.

Victoria Meyers
Published by Artifice Books on Architecture
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