Books by Contributors

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

Nonfiction, General

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37 books


Waiting for the Weekend	Rybczynski, Witold	Viking
Voyager	Yeager, Jeana et al.	Knopf
The Virtuoso: Face to Face with 40 Extraordinary Talents	Carbone, Ken	Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Understanding Understanding	Wurman, Richard Saul	Richard Saul Wurman and Jack Dangermond
True Prep	Birnbach, Lisa et al.	Knopf
The Ten Faces of Innovation	Kelley, Tom et al.	Doubleday
Taming The Tiger: The Struggle to Control Technology	Rybczynski, Witold	Viking
Spalding’s World Tour	Lamster, Mark	Public Affairs
$ellebrity	Lois, George	Phaidon Press
Razzle-Dazzle	Patton, Phil	Dial Press
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain	Wolf, Maryanne	HarperCollins
Perspectives on Cognitive Science	Norman, Donald	Erlbaum
Paper Heroes: A Review of Appropriate Technology	Rybczynski, Witold	Anchor Press/Doubleday
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw	Rybczynski, Witold	Scribner
A Night in Tunisia	Weinstein, Norman	Hal Leonard Corporation, Limelight Editions
Nicky D. From L.I.C.: A Narrative Portrait of Nicholas DeTomasso	Lehrer, Warren	Bay Press
My Two Polish Grandfathers: and Other Essays on the Imaginative Life	Rybczynski, Witold	Scribner
Models of Human Memory	Norman, Donald	Academic Press
Memory and Attention	Norman, Donald	Wiley
Learning and Memory	Norman, Donald	W.H. Freeman
Human Information Processing	Norman, Donald et al.	Academic Press
GRRRHHHH: A Study of Social Patterns	Lehrer, Warren et al.	EarSay
Gertrude Stein and the Literature of the Modern Consciousness	Weinstein, Norman	Ungar
Food Rules	Pollan, Michael et al.	Penguin
Fighter	Krakoff, Reed	Viking
Explorations in Cognition	Norman, Donald et al.	W.H. Freeman
Ellis Island: An Illustrated History of the Immigrant Experience	Chermayeff, Ivan et al.	Macmillan
Dyslexia, Fluency, and the Brain	Wolf, Maryanne	York Press
Dreamland	Patton, Phil	Villard
Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America	Lehrer, Warren et al.	W. W. Norton
Claude: A Narrative Portrait of Claude Debs	Lehrer, Warren	Bay Press
Charlie: A Narrative Portrait of Charlie Lang	Lehrer, Warren	Bay Press
Catullus	Hurley, Amanda Kolson	Bloomsbury
Brother Blue: A Narrative Portrait of Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill aka Brother Blue	Lehrer, Warren	Bay Press
Baseball Field Guide	Formosa, Dan et al.	Da Capo Press
The Art of Innovation	Kelley, Tom et al.	Doubleday
Ali Rap	Lois, George	TASCHEN

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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