Notable Books of 2011
Toward a New Interior
Lois Weinthal
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Designing for Emotion
Aarron Walter
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Gerrit Rietveld
Ida von Ziji
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Hussein Chalayan
Robert Violette, ed. et al.
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Less and More
Keiko Ueki-Polet et al.
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The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
Thomas Thwaites
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Edward Durell Stone
Hicks Stone
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Design with the Other 90%: Cities
Cynthia Smith
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Helvetica and the New York City Subway System
Paul Shaw
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Urban Design Since 1945
David Grahame Shane
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Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Howard Schultz et al.
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Sagmeister: Another Book About Promotion and Sales Material
Stefan Sagmeister et al.
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Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention
Zoë Ryan, ed.
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Richard Prince: American Prayer
Robert Rubin, ed.
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And I Shall Have Some Peace There
Margaret Roach
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Cultural Connectives: Bridging the Latin and Arabic Alphabets
Rana Abou Rjeily
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Star Wars: The Blueprints
J. W. Rinzler
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Food Rules
Michael Pollan et al.
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Redheaded Peckerwood
Christian Patterson
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The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture
Juhani Pallasmaa
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A Taxonomy of Office Chairs
Jonathan Olivares
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Alexander Girard
Todd Oldham et al.
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Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
Todd Oldham et al.
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OLIVE (A Handbook to Protect Your Life)
Nosigner
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Ready to Print
Kristina Nickel
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Floating Worlds
Peter F. Neumeyer
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To Make a World
Alexander Nemerov
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Combinatory Urbanism
Thom Mayne
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Wirrwarr
Jürgen Mayer H. et al.
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The Ruins of Detroit
Yves Marchand et al.
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Katie Ridder: Rooms
Heather MacIsaac
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Graphic Design: Now in Production
Ellen Lupton
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Julius Shulman, Los Angeles
Sam Lubell et al.
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Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible
Sophie Lovell
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The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living
Caitlin Lempres Brostrom et al.
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Ootje Oxenaar: Designer + Commissioner
Els Kuijpers
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Beauty Is in the Street
Johan Kugelberg et al.
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Visual Storytelling
Robert Klanten et al.
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Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design
Pat Kirkham et al.
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KieranTimberlake: Inquiry
Stephen Kieran et al.
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California Design 1930–1965
Wendy Kaplan. ed.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jane Jacobs et al.
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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Lisa Immordino Vreeland
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Pamphlet Architecture 11–20
Steven Holl, introduction
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Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture
John Hill
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New York: The Story of a Great City
Sarah Henry. ed.
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Menu Design in America
Steven Heller et al.
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Why We Broke Up
Daniel Handler et al.
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By the City/For the City
Anne Guiney et al.
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Tomorrow’s Houses
Alexander Gorlin et al.
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Textiles, the Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significances
Beverly Gordon
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Gerhard Richter: Panorama
Mark Godfrey et al.
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Triumph of the City
Edward Glaeser
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Collected
Malcolm Gladwell et al.
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Bob Gill, so far.
Bob Gill
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The Architectural Detail
Edward R. Ford
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The Latin American Photobook
Horacio Fernández, ed.
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Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape
Fares El-Dahdah et al.
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Rebels in Paradise
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
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Cédric Delsaux: Dark Lens
Cédric Delsaux
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Flying Without a Net
Thomas J. DeLong
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High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky
Joshua David et al.
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100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists
Alex Danchev, ed.
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Usefulness in Small Things
Kim Colin et al.
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Architecture in Uniform
Jean-Louis Cohen
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New York Bikes
Michele Castagnetti
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Chi ha paura...?-Who’s afraid...?
Alba Cappellieri
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Rethinking Design and Interiors
Shashi Caan
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Typography for Lawyers
Matthew Butterick
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Living in the Endless City
Ricky Burdett et al.
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Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey
Tony Brook et al.
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Balenciaga and Spain
Hamish Bowles
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How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
Christopher Boucher
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TD 63-73: Total Design and Its Pioneering Role in Graphic Design
Ben Bos
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Design*Sponge at Home
Grace Bonney
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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Andrew Bolton et al.
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Missed Connections
Sophie Blackall
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Rising Currents
Barry Bergdoll et al.
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Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture
Diana Balmori et al.
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Voiture Minimum
Antonio Amado Lorenzo
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African Metropolitan Architecture
David Adjaye
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A House for an Art Collector
David Adjaye
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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.
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.
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People by Debbie Millman
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People
By Debbie Millman
Publisher: Harper Design
Published: February 22, 2022
Debbie Millman—author, educator, brand consultant, and host of the widely successful and award-winning podcast “Design Matters”—showcases dozens of her most exciting interviews, bringing together insights and reflections from today’s leading creative minds from across diverse fields.
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.
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.”
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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