Books by Contributors

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

Nonfiction, Art and Cultural History

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40 books


100 Secrets of the Art World	Girst, Thomas et al.	Koenig Books
Aesthetic Theory	Gage, Mark Foster	W. W. Norton
Art and the Power of Placement	Newhouse, Victoria	The Monacelli Press
The Artist’s Library	Batykefer, Erinn et al.	Coffee House Press
Bauhaus 1919–1933	Bergdoll, Barry et al.	The Museum of Modern Art
Bill Traylor: High Singing Blue	Traylor, Bill et al.	Hirschl & Adler Modern
Boundaries	Lin, Maya	Simon & Schuster
Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life	Oldham, Todd et al.	AMMO Books
Chris Ofili	Golden, Thelma et al.	Rizzoli International Publications
Christo and Jeanne-Claude	Goldberger, Paul	TASCHEN
Civic Action	Iovine, Julie	The Noguchi Museum
Deep Blues	Helfenstein, Josef et al.	Yale University Press
A Designer’s Guide to Italy	Fili, Louise	Louise Fili
The Duchamp Dictionary	Girst, Thomas	Thames & Hudson
Frieze Projects and Frieze Talks 2006–2008	Wakefield, Neville et al.	Frieze
Frieze Projects: Artists’ Commissions and Talks 2003–2005	Staple, Polly et al.	Frieze
Girls Standing on Lawns	Kalman, Maira et al.	The Museum of Modern Art
Guest Book	Mayer H., Jürgen	Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel
The Indefinite Duchamp	Girst, Thomas	Hatje Cantz
Irving Harper: Works in Paper	Maharam, Michael et al.	Rizzoli International Publications
Isamu Noguchi: Sculptural Design	Vegesack, Alexander von et al.	Vitra Design Museum
Marcel Duchamp in Munich 1912	Girst, Thomas	Schirmer/Mosel
Master of Shadows	Lamster, Mark	Nan. A. Talese/Doubleday; HarperCollins
Portrait d’une collection: Alexander von Vegesack	Jousset, Marie-Laure et al.	Editions du Centre Pompidou
Ricostruzione teorica di un artista: Bruno Munari	Danese, Bruno et al.	Association Jacqueline Vodoz et Bruno Danese
Rises in the East: A Gallery in Whitechapel	Schwarz, Katrina et al.	Whitechapel Gallery
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec: Drawing	Bouroullec, Ronan et al.	JRP Ringier with D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Rudolf Arnheim	Kleinman, Kent et al.	University of Michigan Press
The Seen and the Hidden: [Dis]covering the Veil	Stadler, Andreas et al.	Austrian Cultural Forum
Shazam!	Kidd, Chip et al.	Abrams
Solomon’s Temple	Balfour, Alan	John Wiley & Sons
Spectacle	Rockwell, David et al.	Phaidon Press
Spiritually Moving: A Collection of American Folk Art Sculpture	Geismar, Tom et al.	Abrams
Steven Holl—Color Light Time	Holl, Steven	Lars Müller Publishers
Vietato l’Ingresso agli addetti al lavoro	Romanelli, Marco	Edizioni Corraini
Wayne White	Oldham, Todd	AMMO Books
What Colour Is Your World?	Gill, Bob	Phaidon Press
Wirrwarr	Mayer H., Jürgen et al.	Hatje Cantz
Women in Art	Krakoff, Reed	Assouline
Your Black Horizon Art Pavilion	Adjaye, David et al.	Walther König Verlag

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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