Beautiful Pages



Beautiful Pages is an Australian design store located at 114 Oxford Street Darlinghurst, Sydney. Beautiful Pages was originally started-up as an online store in 2011 by a local graphic designer with a love and obsession of books, paper, language and all things related to art and design. The business opened its Oxford Street shop space in August 2012.
The store currently offers a very carefully curated selection of graphic design, typography, architecture, interior design, fashion design and art-related books, magazines, posters, DVDs and gifts — sourced from around the world. Beautiful Pages is constantly striving to inspire and motivate their customers through a constantly expanding collection of over 2500 inspirational products.
114 Oxford St
Darlinghurst NSW 2010
Sydney, Australia
+61 2 9356 2331
Best-Selling Design Books (January)
Palette 04: Neon Add to My Reading List
Neon emits light on whichever surface it goes. Daring, aggressive and intrinsically captivating, these artificial tones that once channelled rave now transmits much more than verve.
The App & Mobile Case Study Book Add to My Reading List
Julius Wiedemann Editor
This guide focuses on what is a must for all brands if they are to be leaders in the future: being mobile. The book includes over 80 stories of how each has cracked into the newest market on the Internet.
The Designer Says Add to My Reading List
The Designer Says, the follow-up to the best-selling The Architect Says, is a compendium of quotations from more than one hundred of history's leading practitioners.
Banksy: You Are an Acceptable Level of Threat Add to My Reading List
Patrick Potter
The single best collection of photographs of Banksy's street work. Period.
Brand Magazine Issue #11 Add to My Reading List
The first ever Typography issue from BranD. It is packed full of beautiful use of typography in branding. A must have for all typography fans.
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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.
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.
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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