Books by Contributors

These are the books that our invited designers, commentators, and guest contributors have written.

Design, General

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44 books


Dictionnaire international des arts appliqués et du design	Barré-Despond, Arlette et al.	Editions du Regard
Change by Design	Brown, Tim	HarperCollins
Humanscale	Diffrient, Niels	The MIT Press
Speculative Everything	Dunne, Anthony et al.	The MIT Press
Dezeen Book of Ideas	Fairs, Marcus	Spotlight Press
21st Century Design: New Design Icons from Mass Market to Avant-Garde	Fairs, Marcus	Carlton Books
Dezeen Book of Interviews	Fairs, Marcus	Dezeen
The Millionaires	Gill, Bob et al.	Simon & Schuster
AC\|DC Contemporary Art/Contemporary Design	Greff, Jean-Pierre et al.	JRP Ringier with D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Charley Harper’s Animal Kingdom	Harper, Charley et al.	AMMO Books
Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility	Heller, Steven et al.	Allworth Press
The Art of Gaman	Hinrichs, Kit et al.	Ten Speed Press
Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag	Hinrichs, Kit et al.	Ten Speed Press
100 Baseball Icons: From the National Baseball Hall of Fame	Hinrichs, Kit et al.	Ten Speed Press
100 American Flags: A Unique Collection of Old Glory Memorabilia	Hinrichs, Kit et al.	Ten Speed Press
Vegetables	Hinrichs, Kit et al.	Chronicle Books
Creative Confidence	Kelley, Tom et al.	Crown
The Design of Childhood	Lange, Alexandra	Bloomsbury
Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things	Lupton, Ellen et al.	St. Martin’s Griffin
Swarm	Lupton, Ellen et al.	Fabric Workshop and Museum
Design for a Living World	Lupton, Ellen et al.	Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
The Laws of Simplicity	Maeda, John	The MIT Press
Redesigning Leadership	Maeda, John et al.	The MIT Press
Modern Design in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1890–1990	Miller, R. Craig	Abrams
USDesign: 1975–2000	Miller, R. Craig	Prestel Publishing
European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century	Miller, R. Craig et al.	Merrell Publishers
Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design	Millman, Debbie	HOW Books
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People	Millman, Debbie	Harper Design
Love Letter to a Garden	Millman, Debbie et al.	Timber Press
Design for a Better World	Norman, Donald	The MIT Press
Bedrock City	Oldham, Todd et al.	AMMO Books
Kid Made Modern: All About Collage	Oldham, Todd	AMMO Books
Hello World	Rawsthorn, Alice	Hamish Hamilton
Design Emergency	Rawsthorn, Alice et al.	Phaidon Press
Design as an Attitude	Rawsthorn, Alice	JRP Ringier with D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Multiple Signatures	Rock, Michael	Rizzoli International Publications
Pleasure	Rockwell, David	Universe
Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design	Ryan, Zoë et al.	Yale University Press
Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi	Rychlak, Bonnie et al.	Five Ties Publications in association with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
Tilbage til virkeligheden	Skibsted, Jens Martin et al.	Gyldendal Business
Szenasy, Design Advocate	Szenasy, Susan S. et al.	Metropolis Books
MADE 4 YOU: Design für den Wandel/Design for Change	Thun-Hohenstein, Christoph et al.	MAK, Vienna
Something to Be Desired: Essays on Design	Vienne, Véronique	Graphis
Isamu Noguchi: Sculptural Design	Vegesack, Alexander von et al.	Vitra Design Museum

Announcements

Now is Better by Stefan Sagmeister

Now is Better

By Stefan Sagmeister
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: October 2023

Combining art, design, history, and quantitative analysis, transforms data sets into stunning artworks that underscore his positive view of human progress, inspiring us to think about the future with much-needed hope.

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Design Emergency: Building a Better Future by Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli

Design Emergency: Building a Better Future

By Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: May 2022

Rawsthorn and Antonelli tell the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes—Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology—the authors present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology.

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Love Letter to a Garden by Debbie Millman

Love Letter to a Garden

By Debbie Millman
Contributions by Roxane Gay
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: April 15, 2025

From the award-winning artist, designer, and the host of the podcast Design Matters, Debbie Millman, this book tells the visual story of falling in love with gardening—and the philosophies that work conjures. Spread throughout are simple recipes using the garden’s ingredients from Millman’s wife, best-selling author Roxane Gay.

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Milton Glaser: POP by Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber

Milton Glaser: POP

By Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Published: March 2023

This collection of work from graphci design legend Milton Glaser’s Pop period features hundreds of examples of the designer’s work that have not been seen since their original publication, demonstrating the graphic revolution that transformed design and popular culture.

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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

By Alexandra Lange
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: June 2022

Chronicles postwar architects’ and merchants’ invention of the shopping mall, revealing how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. Publishers Weekly writes, “Contending that malls answer ‘the basic human need’ of bringing people together, influential design critic Lange advocates for retrofitting abandoned shopping centers into college campuses, senior housing, and ‘ethnocentric marketplaces’ catering to immigrant communities. Lucid and well researched, this is an insightful study of an overlooked and undervalued architectural form.”

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Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition) by Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller

Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition)

By Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller
Publisher: Letterform Archives Books
Published: October 2023

This facsimile edition of Die Fläche, recreates every page of the formative design periodical in full color and at original size, accompanied by essays that contextualize the work, highlighting contributions by pathbreaking women, innovative lettering artists, and key practitioners of the new “surface art,” including Rudolf von Larisch, Alfred Roller, and Wiener Werkstätte founders Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann.

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