Books by Contributors

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

Fiction, Children’s

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25 books


Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything	Kalman, Maira	Penguin
First Shapes	Chermayeff, Ivan et al.	Abrams
First Words	Chermayeff, Ivan et al.	Abrams
Ups and Downs	Gill, Bob	Addison-Wesley
Charley Harper’s Animal Kingdom	Harper, Charley et al.	AMMO Books
The Present	Gill, Bob	Chronicle Books
Feathery Facts	Chermayeff, Ivan	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Furry Facts	Chermayeff, Ivan	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Scaly Facts	Chermayeff, Ivan	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Fishy Facts	Chermayeff, Ivan	Houghton Mifflin
Bob Gill’s A–Z	Gill, Bob	Little, Brown
The Brownstone	Scher, Paula et al.	Pantheon Books
Looking at Lincoln	Kalman, Maira	Penguin
A Balloon for a Blunderbuss	Gill, Bob et al.	Phaidon Press
The Green-eyed Mouse and the Blue-eyed Mouse	Gill, Bob	Phaidon Press
Smartypants (Pete in School)	Kalman, Maira	Putnam
Fireboat	Kalman, Maira	Putnam/Puffin
What Pete Ate	Kalman, Maira	Puffin
I Keep Changing	Gill, Bob	Scroll Press
The Hole Story	Chermayeff, Ivan et al.	Simon & Schuster
Girls Standing on Lawns	Kalman, Maira et al.	The Museum of Modern Art
Max Makes a Million	Kalman, Maira	Viking
Ooh-la-la (Max in Love)	Kalman, Maira	Viking
Sayonara, Mrs. Kackleman	Kalman, Maira	Viking
Swami on Rye (Max in India)	Kalman, Maira	Viking

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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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.

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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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