| FORTHCOMING TITLES & RECENT RELEASES Part personal memoir and part professional manual by designer and creative strategist Matt Owens, A Visible Distance addresses the common challenges faced when building a practice in graphic design or branding. The book provides concrete >>more
Set Margins’ publications
ISBN 9789083404141
US $26.00 CAN $39.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 236 pgs / 34 color.
Pub Date: 12/10/2024 In stock
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|  Oscar Wilde was one of the most influential writers on art and design in the late 19th century. Alongside his acclaimed plays, novel and short stories, he wrote and lectured extensively on the subject. This >>more
Art / Books Vintage Classics
ISBN 9781908970541
US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Clth, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 216 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/24/2025 Awaiting stock
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|  In this collection of essays and musings, Freek Lomme shares his collected and sometimes contradictory experiences of striving for independent, progressive and sustainable creative production. Using a grassroots approach based on activist engagement, entrepreneurship, design >>more
Set Margins’ publications
ISBN 9789083404158
US $22.00 CAN $33.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5 x 7.75 in. / 132 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/11/2025 Awaiting stock
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|  Commons in Design
Edited with text by Christine Schranz. Text by Rachel Armstrong, Max Stearns, Nathalie Attallah, Yuhe Ge, Juan Gomez, Luis Guerra, Katherin Gutiérrez Herrera, Cyrus Khalatbari, Rilla Khaled, Cindy Kohtala, Elpitha Tsoutsounakis, et al. The scarcity of resources, climate change and the digitalization of everyday life are fuelling the economy of swapping, sharing and lending: all of which are in some way linked to a culture of commoning. In >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789493246300
US $33.00 CAN $47.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 352 pgs / 30 duotone.
Pub Date: 02/27/2024 In stock
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|  Decolonising Design Education
Edited with text by Regina Bittner, Katja Klaus, Philipp Sack, JJ Adibrata, Farid Rakun. Text by Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan, Load Na Dito, Salikhain Kolektib, Omnikolektif, Pangrok Sulap, Nina Paim, Serrum, Pedro J.S. Vieira de Oliveira, Ola Uduku. Addressing the histories and speculating on the futures of radical design and art education, Decolonising Design Education looks at the role that different institutional modes play in these endeavors. Developed in a dialogue among Regina >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959057479
US $20.00 CAN $28.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 5.75 in. / 200 pgs / 10 color.
Pub Date: 03/05/2024 Out of stock
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|  Design for All?
Edited by Petra Schmidt, Evelyn Steiner, Sara Zeller. Text by Quemuel Arroyo, Tom Bieling, Jos Boys, Hua Dong, Rama Gheerawo, Elizabeth Guffey, Aimi Hamraie, Grace Jun, Joe Manser, Florence Okoye, Joel Sanders, Gabrielle Schaad, Markus Schefer, Cecile Shellman. Can design cater to a diverse society? How does it respond to the disparate demands of the people using it? Since the 1980s, debates about inclusion and participation have been an important part of the >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959057950
US $40.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Flexi, 6.25 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 140 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/24/2024 In stock
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|  In 2018, the architect and activist Michael Sorkin published the now beloved essay-list "Two Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect Should Know." Struck by the compelling form of this text, Danah Abdulla compiled a version >>more
Set Margins’ publications
ISBN 9789083449883
US $18.00 CAN $27.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 64 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/11/2025 Awaiting stock
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|  Moving beyond the usual forms endemic to the graphic design canon, Designing History studies bureaucratic instruments such as money, passports, certificates, property deeds and more. Such documents produce identity, assign ownership and ascribe value. They >>more
Set Margins’ publications
ISBN 9789083404103
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Pbk, 5 x 7.75 in. / 126 pgs / 50 duotone.
Pub Date: 03/25/2025 Awaiting stock
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|  This volume collects contemporary artworks and projects that use data, diagrams, maps and visualizations as ways of challenging dominant narratives and supporting the resilience of marginalized communities.
The artists and designers featured critique conventionalized and established >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083350196
US $30.00 CAN $44.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 308 pgs / 382 color / 58 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2024 In stock
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|  Dutch Designers Yearbook 2023
Edited by Barbara van Santen, Sophie Tijssen, Pao Lien Djie, Diana Janssen, Jean-Louis Goossens, Rita van Hattum, Madeleine van Lennep. The theme of this year’s Dutch Designers Yearbook, published annually by the Association of Dutch Designers (BNO), is “naturing.” More than just designing with natural materials, the book highlights the collaboration of designers with nature >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462087958
US $40.00 CAN $58.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 192 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 03/26/2024 In stock
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|  Free the Map
By Henk van Houtum. Contributions by Rodrigo Bueno Lacy, Tofe Al-Obaidi, Catalogtree, Yishay Garbasz, Susanne Khalil Yusef, Nicolas Lambert, Sarah Mekdjian, Ruben Pater, Philippe Rekacewicz, Malkit Shoshan, Jonas Staal, Irene Straccuzi, Annelys de Vet, Jasmijn Visser, Denis Wood. A map is a visual story of the world. It feeds our imagination and shapes our view of the world. A standard atlas, however, predominantly tells only one story: that of the nation-state. It depicts >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462088122
US $49.95 CAN $71.95 TRADE
Pbk, 7.75 x 10.75 in. / 150 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 03/26/2024 Out of stock
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|  Print on demand has revolutionized publishing. Digital printing and online platforms such as Blurb, Lulu and Kindle Direct Publishing allow anyone to publish work immediately and without financial risk, opening up spaces beyond the trade >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959056977
US $50.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Hbk, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 600 pgs / 500 color.
Pub Date: 06/24/2025 Awaiting stock
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|  Prem Krishnamurthy: Past Words
Introduction by Krist Gruijthuijsen. Text by Prem Krishnamurthy. Based in Berlin and New York, designer and curator Prem Krishnamurthy (born 1977) is head of the artist group Department of Transformation and of the design consultancy Wkshps. In 2015 he was the recipient of >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783753306940
US $40.00 CAN $60.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 360 pgs / 167 color / 47 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/25/2025 Awaiting stock
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|  Steve: A Framework for AI and Identity Design
By Melani De Luca. Conversations with Studio FM, Serious Business, Off Office, Kellenberg-White, Studio Temp, Zaina, Post Noviki, Parco Studio, Studio Mucca, Studio Dumbar, Base Design, Aktiva, Left Loft, e-Types, Bld Studio, Pentagram Hudson Powell, Field Systems, London, Leslie David, Other Means, Roosje Klap. Using the voice of AI in the persona of “Steve,” this book grows out of Melani De Luca's PhD research. Featuring testimonies from other graphic designers, the book offers practical support and a conceptual framework >>more
Set Margins’ publications
ISBN 9789083404172
US $28.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5 x 8.25 in. / 330 pgs / 11 color / 10 duotone / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/11/2025 Awaiting stock
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|  Superstorm
Edited with text by Noemi Biasetton. Preface by Silvio Lorusso. Over the past two decades, the relationship between politics and new media has tightened steadily, giving rise to a “superstorm” of sorts. Within this intersection, politics mingles with entertainment and communication is hyper-mediated through algorithms, >>more
Onomatopee
ISBN 9789083362175
US $23.00 CAN $34.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 6.75 in. / 256 pgs / 20 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/18/2024 In stock
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|  The New Designer: Design as a Profession
Edited by Regina Bittner, Katja Klaus, Philipp Sack, Catherine Nichols. Text by Yaa Addae, Claudia Banz, Regina Bittner, Shannan Clark, Alison J. Clarke, et al. This book explores the emergence of the artist and designer profession after the First World War and the further development of this career in close proximity to capitalist industrial production. The book features articles on >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959057486
US $20.00 CAN $28.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 5.75 in. / 200 pgs / 10 color.
Pub Date: 03/05/2024 Out of stock
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|  Through Witnessing
Edited by Nida Abdullah, Chris Lee, Xinyi Li. Text by Ahmed Ansari, Danielle Aubert, Hayfaa Chalabi, John Jennings, Elaine Lopez, Silvio Lorusso, Maya Ober, Uzma Z. Rizvi, Kelly Walters, Lauren Williams. How does design give form to social fictions? How does design and the professionalization of design schooling maintain the priorities of nations and capital? Through Witnessing names and wrestles with institutional design education’s pseudo-neutral relationship >>more
Set Margins' Publications
ISBN 9789083350127
US $27.50 CAN $39.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/24/2025 Awaiting stock
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|  Hot on the heels of his books The Impossibility of Silence and The Failed Painter, designer, writer and teacher Ian Lynam’s latest body of work is an urgent and impassioned examination of the contemporary condition. >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083404110
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Pbk, 4 x 7 in. / 238 pgs / 53 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/16/2024 In stock
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|  In focusing on creating preferable conditions, the discipline of design is optimistic by default. And yet, vernacular manifestations of skepticism, dissatisfaction and even resentment toward design abound. Instead of systematically discarding them, can these "sad >>more
Set Margins' Publications
ISBN 9789083350134
US $25.00 CAN $37.50 TRADE
Pbk, 5 x 8 in. / 352 pgs / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/26/2024 In stock
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| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST  White not only plays an important role in Japanese cultures in general but also in the work of Kenya Hara, art director for Muji. In 100 Whites, Hara gives 100 examples of white, such as >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785799
US $32.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Hbk, 5.25 x 7.75 in. / 224 pgs / 5 color.
Pub Date: 06/18/2019 In stock
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|  100 Years of Swiss Design
Edited by Christian Brändle, Renate Menzi, Arthur Rüegg. 100 Years of Swiss Design offers a new perspective of Switzerland’s achievements in furniture and product design. The book presents the essential historical designs in chronological sequence, from the regional roots of the early days >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784419
US $65.00 CAN $97.50 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 12.75 in. / 376 pgs / 927 images.
Pub Date: 02/20/2015 Out of stock
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|  A Designed Life: Contemporary American Textiles, Wallpapers and Containers & Packaging, 1951–54
Edited by Charles Gute, Margaret Re. Foreword by Symmes Gardner. Preface & text by Margaret Re. Text by Virginia Gardner Troy, Greg Castillo, Jan Logemann, Emily A. Margolis, Stuart W. Leslie. This revelatory volume recovers and presents the history of three exhibitions organized by the US State Department’s Traveling Exhibition Service almost 70 years ago: Contemporary American Textiles, curated by Florence Knoll, Contemporary American Wallpapers, curated >>more
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC
ISBN 9780960088508
US $35.00 CAN $49.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 12 in. / 122 pgs / 42 color / 17 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/10/2020 In stock
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|  A Handmade Modernism
Edited with text by Ana Elena Mallet, Cuauhtémoc Medina. Text by Rosa Beltrán, Alonso de Garay Montero, Alejandro Legorreta González, Jorge F. Rivas, Deborah Dorotinsky, Clara Porset, Max Kerlow, Alfonso Soto Soria. In 1952, Cuban Mexican designer Clara Porset organized Mexico’s first design exhibition, El arte en la vida diaria: Objetos de buen diseño hechos en México (Art in Daily Life: Well-Designed Objects Made in Mexico). The >>more
RM/MUAC
ISBN 9788419233417
US $55.00 CAN $79.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 255 color.
Pub Date: 11/07/2023 Out of stock
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|  A New Program for Graphic Design
By David Reinfurt. Preface by Adam Michaels. Foreword by Ellen Lupton. A New Program for Graphic Design is the first communication-design textbook expressly of and for the 21st century. Three courses—Typography, Gestalt and Interface—provide the foundation of this book.
Through a series of in-depth historical case studies >>more
Inventory Press/D.A.P.
ISBN 9781941753217
US $25.00 CAN $34.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 40 color / 180 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/17/2019 In stock
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|  A Place to Stay
Edited with text by Shay Raviv. Preface by David Hamers. Text by Guus Kusters, Gert Staal. This book documents the work of designers who embedded themselves in and around the former penal colony in Veenhuizen, in the Netherlands, soon to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It reveals the experience gained >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148536
US $25.00 CAN $34.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 136 pgs / 213 color / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/16/2021 In stock
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|  A Progressive Bauhaus Legacy
Edited by Wolfgang Thöner, Claudia Perren. Text by Wolfgang Thöner, Christin Müller-Wenzel. When the Bauhaus departed Dessau in 1932, there was no Bauhaus collection left in its wake. Apart from the files in the city archive, some works in the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie and artworks in private hands, >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052788
US $30.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 112 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 02/11/2020 In stock
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|  This book is the first monograph dedicated to the designer Rolf Müller who is known above all for his design of the visual identity of the Munich Olympic Games in 1972. Shortly after graduating from >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784143
US $28.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 128 pgs / 350 images.
Pub Date: 02/27/2014 In stock
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|  During the 1920s and 1930s, the speed of modern life in the United States, accelerated by advances in transportation, communication, technology and advertising, changed how people lived their lives, and the objects they chose to >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468850
US $45.00 CAN $61.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7 x 10.5 in. / 192 pgs / 110 color.
Pub Date: 08/30/2022 In stock
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|  First published in 1976, issued in a new edition in 2008, and now back in print, And It Came to Pass—Not to Stay brings together a selection of Buckminster Fuller's (1895–1983) lyrical and philosophical best, >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786215
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 192 pgs / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 In stock
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|  For 40 years, Andrea Vallicelli and his studio have conceived some of the most daring yacht designs in the history of the craft. His creations have been so influential that a history of Vallicelli is >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857241944
US $75.00 CAN $108.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 9.5 in. / 312 pgs / 216 color / 140 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock
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|  Anni and Josef Albers
Edited by Karen Stein. Text by Lake Verea, Brenda Danilowitz. In 1925, textile artist Anni Fleischmann (1899–1994) married multimedia artist Josef Albers (1888–1976) and thus began one of the most artistically fruitful marriages of the 20th century. Both students-turned-masters of the Bauhaus and later attendees >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775748889
US $26.00 CAN $35.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 6 in. / 192 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 05/11/2021 In stock
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|  Apple
By Ken Miki. With Apple, Ken Miki playfully presents a complete basic course in visual communication — all based on a simple and familiar object: the apple. First, all five senses are activated in a step-by-step analysis of >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037783863
US $28.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 6.5 in. / 164 pgs / 224 images.
Pub Date: 01/21/2014 In stock
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|  The question “are we human?” is both urgent and ancient. Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley offer a multilayered exploration of the intimate relationship between human and design and rethink the philosophy of design in a >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785119
US $23.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 288 pgs / 181 images.
Pub Date: 01/15/2017 In stock
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|  Atelier Oï: How Life Unfolds
Text by Carlotta de Bevilacqua, Albrecht Bangert, Christian Brändle, Francis Kéré, Suzanne Schwarz, Yasushi Yamazaki. How Life Unfolds looks at the methods and processes of the popular award-winning design studio Atelier Oï, based in La Neuveville, Switzerland. Atelier Oï—consisting of the trio of Aurel Aebi, Armand Louis and Patrick Raymond—presents >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785652
US $50.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 384 pgs / 511 color.
Pub Date: 06/12/2018 In stock
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|  This gorgeous, oversize volume documents the Baranger Motion Displays of the R.F. Collection housed at the Vitra Design Museum. “Motion Displays,” as they were known, were conceived as eye-catching and novel moving objects, which were >>more
Vitra Design Museum
ISBN 9783945852484
US $75.00 CAN $102.00 TRADE
Hbk, 13.5 x 12.75 in. / 140 pgs / 60 color / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2022 In stock
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|  Bauhaus News: Contemporary Remarks
Contributions by Greg Castillo, Felipe Hernandez, Partha Mitter, Wolfgang Schäffner, Marion von Osten, Eva Forgacs, Mary Jane Jacob, Angelika Kollert, Lillet Breddels, Pedro Alonso, Hugo Palmarola, Boris Buden, Dasha Paramonova. In 2019 the Bauhaus will celebrate its hundredth anniversary! Preparations for the centenary have raised a host of questions: To what extent is the Bauhaus tied to a place, and how can its essence be >>more
Spector Books/Bauhaus Kooperation Berlin Dessau Weimar
ISBN 9783959050579
US $29.00 CAN $39.50 TRADE
Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 160 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2015 In stock
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|  Bauhaus N° 1: Artist
After 80 years it’s back! BAUHAUS—the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s magazine, anyway. Everything from the Bauhaus world: essays, interviews and more. The first issue of bauhaus magazine was published in December 1926 to coincide with the >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783940064189
US $15.00 CAN $21.50 TRADE
Pbk, 8 x 11 in. / 148 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/01/2013 In stock
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|  Bauhaus N° 2: Israel
The architecture of Jerusalem, called the “White City,” has long been associated (rightly or wrongly) with Bauhaus émigrés. In the homes of German-speakers, one can still find material vestiges of European modernism and sometimes even >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783940064295
US $15.00 CAN $21.50 TRADE
Pbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 152 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/01/2013 In stock
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|  Bauhaus N° 3: Things
The third issue of the magazine bauhaus is dedicated to things. A thing is defined by its essence, wrote Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius in 1925. The current issue has committed itself to exploring the essence >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783940064486
US $15.00 CAN $21.50 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 152 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/01/2013 In stock
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|  Bauhaus N° 4: Photo
The fourth issue of the new Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s new journal is dedicated to photography at the Bauhaus and exclusively features twenty-six works from Thomas Walther’s collection that one day will expand the collection in >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783940064639
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Pbk, 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 152 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/01/2013 In stock
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|  Bauhaus N° 5: Tropics
The fifth issue of Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau’s new periodical focuses on the role of the tropics as an ideal of modernism. Torsten Blume explores aspects of nudity in modernism, Zvi Efrat writes about Arieh Sharon’s >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783940064684
US $15.00 CAN $21.50 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 152 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/01/2013 In stock
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|  Bauhaus N° 7: Collective
As of 2015 bauhaus journal will be published once a year, with that year’s selected topic as the central feature of the issue. The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is devoting its 2015 edition of the magazine >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959050586
US $17.00 CAN $24.00 TRADE
Pbk, 11.75 x 8.25 in. / 152 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 05/01/2016 In stock
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|  Bauhaus N° 8: Movement
Bauhaus 8 is given over to the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s annual theme for 2016: Movement. Its focus is on new departures in society, change and speed, migration and mobility as well as art and dynamism, >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959051248
US $17.00 CAN $24.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 12/01/2016 In stock
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|  Beirut: the Eras of Design
Edited by Marco Costantini, Nour Salame, Gregory Buchakjian. Foreword and introduction with text by Marco Costantini. Text by Gregory Buchakjian, Charif Majdalani, Hala Moubarak. Interview by Marc Baroud, Hala Abdel Malak, Cherine Magrabi Tayeb. A city at the crossroads of East and West, said to have been destroyed and rebuilt seven times since antiquity, Beirut continues to nourish the imagination of many creative artists. The vibrancy of Lebanese design >>more
Kaph Books
ISBN 9786148035432
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 13.25 in. / 304 pgs / 187 color / 46 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/19/2022 Out of stock
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|  From drawings, designs, collages, paintings, sculptures, readable and not-so-readable books to new image reproduction techniques, industrial design, editorial graphics, architecture and new pedagogical ideas, the scope of Bruno Munari's (1907–98) activities is dauntingly vast. This >>more
Corraini Edizioni
ISBN 9788875706333
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.25 x 11.75 in. / 304 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 Out of stock
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|  Brutal Beauty: Violence and Contemporary Design
Edited by Marta Herford. Text by Max Borka, Friederike Fast, Roland Nachtigäller. Whether in political conflicts or conflicts in everyday life, the subject of violence is ever-present. But how do designers deal with violence? This book explores this topic, including works by Barnaby Barford, Ray and Charles >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783735602169
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE
Pbk, 4.75 x 7.75 in. / 176 pgs / 129 color / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/27/2016 In stock
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|  Can You Feel It?
Edited with introduction and afterword by Freek Lomme. Text by Lars Bang Larsen, Christopher Breu, Johanna Drucker, Alessandro Ludovico, Esther Krop, Juliette Pepin, Rik Peters, Marieke Sonneveld. How does a book feel in the hand? What does its tactility mean in a world in which rising technocracy dominates the designed environment our bodies move through? The essays in this volume—by Lars Bang >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083270609
US $20.00 CAN $29.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4 x 6 in. / 192 pgs / 10 color / 12 duotone / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 In stock
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|  Charas: The Improbable Dome Builders
Introduction by Buckminster Fuller. Text by Syeus Mottel. Interview by Ben Estes. In 1970 a meeting took place in an empty loft on the Lower East Side of Manhattan between R. Buckminster Fuller, the revolutionary architect and inventor of the geodesic dome, and six ex-gang members who >>more
Pioneer Works Press/The Song Cave
ISBN 9781945711053
US $27.00 CAN $37.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 Out of stock
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|  Cleaning
Edited with text by Kenya Hara. Photographs by Yoshihiko Ueda, Taiki Fukao. Cleanliness is a core value of societies around the globe. With beautiful photography and short, poetical observations, acclaimed author and designer Kenya Hara explores and illustrates the concept of cleaning in all of its aspects: >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037787328
US $35.00 CAN $50.50 TRADE
Pbk, 4.75 x 6.25 in. / 504 pgs / 374 color.
Pub Date: 10/03/2023 In stock
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|  Criss & Cross: Design from Switzerland 1860-2007
Texts by Ariana Pradal, Köbi Gantenbein. From Le Corbusier to the Helvetica font, Switzerland has produced some of the most influential product and graphic design of the twentieth century. This sleek volume collects the best examples spanning from the early twentieth >>more
La Bibliothèque des Arts
ISBN 9782884531344
US $65.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 In stock
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|  CriticAll!
Edited by Joannette van der Veer. Introduction by Alice Rawsthorn. Interview with Ellen Lupton. How can we encourage more people to become actively aware of and critical about the design of their environments? How can we make the realm of design criticism more inclusive? These were the questions that >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148499
US $18.00 CAN $24.50 TRADE
Pbk, 5 x 9.5 in. / 104 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/16/2021 In stock
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|  For almost 200 years, design biennials, exhibitions and festivals have become more and more popular across Europe. Here, British designer and writer Hannah Ellis asks: can design be meaningful at this kind of scale? How >>more
Onomatopee projects
ISBN 9789493148628
US $18.00 CAN $24.50 FLAT40
Clth, 4.5 x 7.5 in. / 64 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/15/2022 In stock
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|  Design Dedication
Edited with text by Annelys de Vet. Text by Hannes Bernard, Michèle Champagne, Pinar Demirdag, Liesbeth Fit, Rana Ghavami, Anja Groten, Agata Jaworska, Anastasia Kubrak, Sherida Kuffour, Chris Lee, Gui Machiavelli, Katja Novitskova, Derk Over, Rob Schröder, Daniel van der Velden/Metahaven. This book explores an attitude in and toward design education that is socially engaged, politically aware, generous in approach, lyrical in tone, experimental in form and collaborative in practice. How can we talk about and >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789492095732
US $25.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 05/19/2020 Out of stock
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|  Dedicated to the history of design from the mid-19th century to the present, Design History Handbook provides guidelines for the development of design, offering an overarching vision of the subject and at the same time >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836641321
US $49.95 CAN $69.95 TRADE
Flexi, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 296 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 10/08/2019 In stock
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|  Good design, like good storytelling, brings ideas to life. The latest book from award-winning writer Ellen Lupton is a playbook for creative thinking, showing designers how to use storytelling techniques to create satisfying graphics, products, >>more
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9781942303190
US $19.95 CAN $28.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 In stock
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|  Design against Design
By Kevin Yuen Kit Lo. Text by Philippe Vermes, Nancy Vermes, Sandy Kaltenborn, Kaie Kellough, Chadi Marouf, Sabine Friesinger, Sarah Auches, Jenn Clamen. Packed with conversational interviews, personal and critical essays, and a wide-ranging collection of graphic works, Design against Design examines the realities and relations that constitute a socially engaged design practice. Canadian designer Kevin Yuen Kit >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083318806
US $27.00 CAN $39.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/25/2024 In stock
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|  Acclaimed author Alice Rawsthorn revises her bestselling field guide to design in the wake of a pandemic, technological change and the escalating climate emergency.
Four years after its initial release, Alice Rawsthorn's bestselling book is >>more
JRP|Editions
ISBN 9783037645826
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 224 pgs / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/27/2022 In stock
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|  Design for the Good Society
Edited by Max Bruinsma. Text by Victor Margolin, Nynke Tromp, Bert van Meggelen. This publication celebrates the conclusion of five editions of the Utrecht Manifest, the biennial dedicated to social aspects of design. Compiling ten years of critical reflection on engaged design, the book also outlines possible future >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462082052
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 FLAT40
Pbk, 9 x 10 in. / 224 pgs / 225 color.
Pub Date: 08/25/2015 In stock
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|  Design in Conservative Times
Edited with introduction by Joanette van der Veer. Text by Annelys de Vet, Yamuna Forzani, Marjanne van Helvert, Ramon Tejada, Huda Smitshuijzen-AbiFares, Studio PMS. Sporting two front covers (i.e. one on the back, one on the front) for its two thematic sections—Graphic Design in Conservative Times and Fashion Design in Conservative Times—this pocket-sized volume deconstructs and analyzes various forms >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148178
US $17.00 CAN $24.00 TRADE
Pbk, 2 vols, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 104 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/25/2021 In stock
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|  In 2009, Ruedi Baur, Design2context, and the renowned Elisava School of Design in Barcelona launched a call for “Questions on Design” in order to create a typographical wall in the entrance area of Elisava. About >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037782804
US $22.00 CAN $33.00 TRADE
Hbk, 3 x 4 in. / 384 pgs / 15 images.
Pub Date: 05/01/2012 In stock
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|  In 2018, the architect, urban designer, activist and critic Michael Sorkin published the now much-loved poetical essay-list “Two Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect Should Know.” Struck by the compelling form of this text, and >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148802
US $18.00 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 64 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/15/2022 Out of stock
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|  Representing a new generation of designers in Japan, Kenya Hara (born 1958) pays tribute to his mentors, using long overlooked Japanese icons and images in much of his work. In Designing Design, he impresses upon >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784501
US $60.00 CAN $82.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 472 pgs / 389 images.
Pub Date: 03/20/2018 Out of stock
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|  Designing Peace
Edited with text by Cynthia E. Smith. Preface by Darren Walker. Foreword by Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar. Poem by John Paul Lederach. How might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a future we want to live in and take action to create it now? Designing Peace is an intersectional snapshot of the actions—culturally diverse >>more
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9781942303329
US $45.00 CAN $61.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 12 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/26/2022 In stock
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|  Johanna Drucker’s Diagrammatic Writing is a poetic demonstration of the capacity of format to produce meaning. The articulation of the codex as a site for meaning-makinghas rarely (if ever) been subject to such highly focused >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083270616
US $15.00 CAN $21.50 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 36 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 In stock
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|  The brainchild of Koloman Moser, Alfred Roller, Josef Hoffmann, Bertold Loffler and others—the leading graphic artists of the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte—Die Fläche (German for The Surface) laid out an extraordinary group vision >>more
Letterform Archive Books
ISBN 9781736863312
US $75.00 CAN $102.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.75 x 13.25 in. / 344 pgs / 400 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/03/2023 In stock
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|  Don't Brand My Public Space is a critical investigation of the visual strategies employed to identify and brand political spaces. Isn't it about time to look at their often banal images as part of a >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037783481
US $38.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 288 pgs / 1669 images.
Pub Date: 11/25/2013 In stock
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|  Dust & Data
Edited by Ines Weizman. Text by Pep Avilés, Anna Bokov, Peter Bernhard, Nicholas de Monchaux, Marija Dremaité, Christopher T. Green, Hamed Khosravi, Norbert Korrek, Michael Kubo, Jörg Paulus, Alina Payne, Robin Schuldenfrei, Bernhard Siegert, Ines Sonder, Daniel Taliesnik, Georg Vrachliotis, Anselm Wagner. Dealing with the hundred year history of the Bauhaus, this book is framed by two material concepts: dust & data. While dust foregrounds new approaches to the material analysis of objects and ruins, data designates >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052306
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 480 pgs / 100 color / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/18/2020 In stock
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|  Dutch Design Yearbook 2009
Edited by Timo de Rijk, Vincent van Baar, Bert van Meggelen. Whether in industrial design, fashion, graphic design or architecture, Dutch design has won international acclaim in recent years. This first edition of the Dutch Design Yearbook, which comes in four different-colored covers, presents an overview >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056626983
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 216 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Out of stock
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|  Dutch Design Yearbook 2011
Edited by Timo de Rijk, Antoine Achten, Hans van de Markt. The third Dutch Design Yearbook offers an overview of more than 60 of the best designs produced in the Netherlands in 2010 and 2011 in the fields of spatial design, product design, fashion and graphic >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628314
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 216 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 Out of stock
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|  Dutch Design Yearbook 2012
Edited by Timo de Rijk, Antoine Achten, Hans van de Markt. Text by Damon Taylor, Angelique Spaninks et al. The fourth Dutch Design Yearbook presents an overview of more than 60 of the best projects in urban design, product design, fashion and graphic design produced in the Netherlands in 2011–2012. This substantial publication is >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462080225
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 FLAT40
Pbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 216 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 Out of stock
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|  Dutch Design Yearbook 2013
Edited by Timo de Rijk, Antoine Achten, Joost Alferink, Hans van de Markt. Text by Koert van Mensvoort, Louise Schouwenberg, Henk Oosterling. The Dutch Design Yearbook surveys more than 60 of the best product, fashion and graphic designs produced in the Netherlands from 2012 to 2013. The yearbook also attempts to predict which designs will prove the >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462081000
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 FLAT40
Pbk, 9 x 10 in. / 200 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2014 Out of stock
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|  Dutch Design Yearbook 2014
Edited by Timo de Rijk, Joost Alferink, Jan Konings, Richard van der Laken. The Dutch Design Yearbook offers a multifaceted survey of the best designs produced in the Netherlands in the fields of spatial design, product design, fashion and graphic design. This year's edition additionally focuses on those >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462081666
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 03/24/2015 Out of stock
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|  This year’s yearbook theme, Horizons, summarizes design in 2021 and looks to the future. The book offers a candid take on what designers are thinking and making now, through essays and interviews, remarkable graduation projects >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462086579
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 192 pgs / 192 color.
Pub Date: 06/21/2022 In stock
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|  This annual publication takes an uncensored look at what Dutch designers are thinking and making today, presenting award-winning work, essays and interviews, striking projects from design students and portraits of iconic designers such as Petra >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462087774
US $40.00 CAN $58.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 192 pgs / 175 color.
Pub Date: 10/03/2023 In stock
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|  Empathy Revisited
Edited by Mariana Pestana, Sumitra Upham, Billie Muraben. The task of designers is often to connect us with one another but also with the world around us, with other species, with the planet: in other words, to practice empathy. In this book, readers >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148598
US $28.00 CAN $38.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 408 pgs / 171 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2022 In stock
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|  Essays on Kitchens
Edited by Ania Rosinke & Maciej Chmara. Text by Klara Czerniewska-Andryszczyk, Olga Drenda, Sarah Dorkenwald, Claudia Banz, Jörg Wiesel, Agata Szydlowska, Anna Carnick. Summarizing contemporary discourses on the kitchen from the realms of sociology, design and gastrosophy, Essays on Kitchens features six kitchens designed by the German-Austrian design studio chmara.rosinke. The project examines different facets of the kitchen: >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959053280
US $30.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6.41 x 9.25 in. / 112 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 12/17/2019 In stock
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|  For Kenya Hara, design begins with comprehension of the unknown. In contrast to 'information,' 'exformation' describes how little we really know and thus becomes the starting point for any type of design. Based on a >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784662
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Hbk, 4.75 x 6.25 in. / 480 pgs / 500 images.
Pub Date: 11/30/2015 In stock
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|  Fiction Practice
Edited with text by Mariana Pestana. Text by Malique Mohamud, Marina Otero Verzier, Ibiye Camp, Dunne & Raby, Dani Admiss, Gillian Russell, Jan Boelen, Vera Sacchetti, Alexandra Midal, Jose Bartolo. Translated by Hugo Pinto Santos. This book chronicles the workshops for the first edition of the Porto Design Biennale, called the Young Curators Lab. The project explored fiction as a curatorial tool for social change through speculative design, afro-surrealism and >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148154
US $18.00 CAN $25.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 128 pgs / 19 color / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2020 In stock
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|  Based on the idea that creativity and curiosity are fundamental to both art and science, PARS presents their third work in their “Findings on . . .” series. It presents works centered around the topic >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784907
US $35.00 CAN $52.50 TRADE
Pbk, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 208 pgs / 280 images.
Pub Date: 12/05/2016 In stock
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|  Floppy Disk Fever
Edited by Niek Hilkmann, Thomas Walskaar. Foreword by Lori Emerson. Preface with text by Niek Hilkmann. Glossary by Jason Curtis. This volume explores the curious afterlives of the floppy disk in the 21st century through the work of those involved with the medium today. The book reflects on notions of obsolescence, media preservation and nostalgia, >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148864
US $18.00 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8 x 8 in. / 160 pgs / 61 color.
Pub Date: 11/15/2022 In stock
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| Foundation Design Studio
Text by Gilead Duvshani. What is design? How is design taught? What is the starting point for a design course? Is there a clear method for teaching design? In this volume, professor Gilead Duvshani engages these questions, introducing a >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803032119
US $42.00 CAN $55.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 244 pgs / 300 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 In stock
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|  French Design
By Alain Lardet, Anne Bony. A tribute to excellence in the know-how of leading French firms. This book is a tribute to the excellence of twenty-five leading French firms, such as Baccarat, Christofle, Hermès, and S.T. Dupont, which have succeeded >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857214092
US $65.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 280 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 12/26/2012 In stock
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|  German Design 1949–1989
Edited by Mateo Kries, Thomas A. Geisler, Erika Pinner, Klara Nemecková. Text by Paul Betts, Greg Castillo, Petra Eisele, Siegfried Gronert. The cheap, colorful plastic designs of East Germany pitted against the cool functionalism of West German design: German Design 1949–1989: Two Countries, One History does away with such clichés. More than 30 years after German >>more
Vitra Design Museum
ISBN 9783945852446
US $99.00 CAN $140.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 320 pgs / 320 color.
Pub Date: 06/15/2021 In stock
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|  German Design Glossary
Edited by Esra Aydin, Benita von Maltzahn, Martin Roth. Text by Josie Thaddeus-Johns, Gabriele Thiels. In this elegant, efficient introduction to German design, the big ideas, personalities and objects of German design and industrial culture are presented in a glossary format, with concise and readable entries for a wide range >>more
Koenig Books
ISBN 9783960982791
US $20.00 CAN $27.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 224 pgs / 62 color / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/19/2018 In stock
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|  Global Design
Edited by Angeli Sachs. Contributions by Beatriz Colomina, Angeli Sachs, Philip Ursprung, Jeroen van Rooijen. This volume surveys the ways in which our globalized world has manifested itself in design since ca 1970, and the ways in which design has evolved to serve a globalized world. The point of departure >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037782101
US $28.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 320 pgs / 350 images.
Pub Date: 03/25/2010 Out of stock
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|  Good Design
Text by Fernando Ticoulat, João Paulo Siqueira Lopes, Livia Debbane. In 20th-century design, Germany and Brazil have shared a rich history of cross-cultural fertilization. Good Design traces the origins of Brazilian design in Ulm, Germany, at the Ulm School of Design (HfG), which was founded >>more
Art Consulting Tool/TURNER
ISBN 9788418895289
US $35.00 CAN $49.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 100 color / 160 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/08/2022 In stock
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|  Combining case studies with critical essays, Graphic Design Is (…) Not Innocent asks: who is graphic design for? Who does it exclude, in its seemingly neutral labor? What social and political effects does it bring >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789492095909
US $29.50 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 9.5 in. / 352 pgs / 70 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/01/2022 In stock
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|  Handle with Care: Unpacking a Bulky Table
Text by Lisa Andreani, Simon Mitchel, Hanan Kataw, Roxanna Brands, Marianna Mitchell, Louise Rietvink, Gabriela Szalanska, Mara Trübenbach, Regina Bittner. In 1936, Hungarian-born Bauhaus designer Marcel Lajos Breuer (1902-81) used cut and bent plywood to fashion a prototype of a wide, soft-edged table for the Isokon Furniture Company in London. Today a fixture of the >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959053556
US $15.00 CAN $21.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4 x 6 in. / 176 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2020 In stock
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|  Hannes Meyer: New Bauhaus Teaching Methodology
Edited with text by Philipp Oswalt. Text by Peter Bernhard, Gui Bonsiepe, Ute Brüning, Brenda Danilowitz, Zvi Efrat, Tatiana Efrussi, Norbert Eishold, Anthony Fontenot, Raquel Franklin, Peter Galison, Gregor Grämiger, Simone Hain, Gregor Harbusch, Hubert Hoffmann, Sebastian Holzhausen, Dara Kiese, Martin Kipp, Norbert Korrek, Hannes Meyer, Handke Oosterhof, Ingrid Radewaldt, Lutz Schöbe, et al. Swiss architect Hannes Meyer (1889–1954) was the second director of the Bauhaus (then at its Dessau location) from 1928 to 1930. Though he held the post but briefly, Meyer made substantial changes to the school’s >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959053068
US $45.00 CAN $62.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 400 pgs / 250 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/13/2021 In stock
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|  Hello, Robot
Edited with text by Amelie Klein, Mateo Kries, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein. Introduction by Amelie Klein. Text by Daniele Belleri, Rosi Braidotti, Fredo De Smet, Christoph Engemann, Paul Feigelfeld, Thomas Geisler, Lea Hilsemer, Gesche Joost, Olivia Parkes, Erika Pinner, Carlo Ratti, Aline Lara Rezende, Bruce Sterling, Tina Thiel, Marlies Wirth. This volume investigates how robotics has become an integral part of life: in industry, in the military and in everyday settings; at nurseries and retirement homes; in our bodies; when shopping and when having sex; >>more
Vitra Design Museum
ISBN 9783945852507
US $85.00 CAN $119.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 336 pgs / 260 color.
Pub Date: 01/24/2023 In stock
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|  Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia
Edited with text by Andrew Blauvelt. Text by Greg Castillo, Esther Choi, Alison Clarke, Hugh Dubberly, Ross Elfline, Craig Peariso, Tina Rivers Ryan, Catharine Rossi, Simon Sadler, Felicity Scott, Lorraine Wild with David Karwan. Interviews by Adam Gildar, Susan Snodgrass, Elizabeth Glass. Hippie Modernism examines the art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The catalog surveys the radical experiments that challenged societal norms while proposing new kinds of technological, ecological and >>more
Walker Art Center
ISBN 9781935963097
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 448 pgs / 200 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/24/2015 Out of stock
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|  How to Design a Revolution
Edited by Hugo Palmarola, Eden Medina, Pedro Alonso. During Salvador Allende's tenure as president (1970–73), graphic and product design in Chile expressed powerful socialist messages of solidarity and social cohesion. This volume looks at a range of innovative items made in this era, >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037787335
US $55.00 CAN $82.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 336 pgs / 403 color.
Pub Date: 04/16/2024 In stock
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|  Imagine Moscow
Edited with introduction by Eszter Steierhoffer. Text by Richard Anderson, Jean-Louis Cohen, Deyan Sudjic. After the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin moved the Russian capital from the imperial, westward-looking city of St. Petersburg back to Moscow, the traditional heart of Russia. Moscow was to be the ideal Soviet city, >>more
The Design Museum
ISBN 9781872005348
US $24.95 CAN $34.95 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 7 in. / 160 pgs / 75 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/29/2019 In stock
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|  In Pursuit of Color
By Lauren MacDonald. Edited by Ananda Pellerin. Over the centuries our manipulation of the natural world has resulted in an explosion of synthetic dye production and application globally. To gain insight into the history of how folk practices have been lost and >>more
Atelier Éditions/D.A.P.
ISBN 9781954957008
US $49.95 CAN $66.95 TRADE
Hbk, 7 x 9.25 in. / 272 pgs / 50 color / 10 duotone / 90 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/04/2023 In stock
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|  In Reserve: The Household!
Edited with text by Regina Bittner, Elke Krasny. Text by Rosie Cox, Adam Drazin, Katherine Gibson, Rania Ghosn, Hilde Heynen, Maliha Safri, Stefani Bardin, Katja Szymczak. Contributions by Gemma Savio, Chloé Roubert, Irma del Valle, Iris Lacoudre, Alison Hugill, Andres Jaque, Sarah Bonnemaison, Zissis Kotionis, Phoebe Giannisi, Yane Calovski, Mauro Gil-Fournier, et al. “How are we to live in a way that is healthy and economical?” One answer to this question was provided by Ernst Jahn’s film of the same name ("Wie wohnen wir gesund und wirtschaftlich?," 1926–28), >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959050913
US $39.00 CAN $52.50 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 6.5 in. / 270 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 01/09/2016 In stock
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|  In the Name of <3
Edited by Charlie-Camille Thomas, Amy Gowen. Text by Charlie-Camille Thomas. The ubiquitous, benign and seemingly innocuous heart symbol hides a much more complex story than its appearance suggests. The heart is often described as a universal symbol for love, yet its history suggests otherwise; it >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148369
US $16.00 CAN $22.50 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 6 in. / 152 pgs / 59 color.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 Out of stock
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|  Irma Boom: Book Manifest
Text by Irma Boom, Rem Koolhaas, Michael Rock, Mathieu Lommen, Louwrien Wijers, Nina Stritzler-Levine, Johan Pijnappel. In Book Manifest, world-renowned Dutch designer Irma Boom presents her vision on the essence, meaning and relevance of the book. Based on the in-depth research that Boom conducted into the development of the book in >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783753300917
US $45.00 CAN $61.00 SDNR40
Boxed, pbk, 4.5 x 6 in. / 1000 pgs / 500 color.
Pub Date: 01/10/2023 Out of stock
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|  Swiss designer and artist Karl Gerstner (1930–2017) had a significant influence on typography and the history and development of postwar graphic design. Designing Programmes is one of his most important and influential works. It was >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785782
US $45.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Pbk, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 96 pgs / 50 color / 150 duotone.
Pub Date: 10/29/2019 In stock
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|  As Art Director for Muji since 2002, Japanese graphic designer Kenya Hara (born 1958) and his aesthetic of pared-back, beautifully functional objects has taken the world by (quiet) storm. With Kenya Hara: Designing Japan, the >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786116
US $35.00 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 7.25 in. / 208 pgs / 45 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/29/2019 In stock
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|  The international touring exhibition “Die gute Form” was conceived by Max Bill on behalf of the Swiss Werkbund and was shown for the first time in 1949 at the Basel Mustermesse trade fair. The exhibition >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037783726
US $50.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / 106 images.
Pub Date: 02/20/2015 In stock
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|  This small-format volume presents more than 200 furniture and objects made between 1981 and 1986 for the Memphis collection. Memphis was an Italian design and architecture collective founded by Ettore Sottsass, a leading exponent of >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836652716
US $25.00 CAN $34.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 64 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 11/15/2022 Out of stock
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|  Modern Swedish Design
Edited by Lucy Creagh, Helena Kåberg, Barbara Miller Lane. Text by Lucy Creagh, Kenneth Frampton, Barbara Miller Lane, Helena Kåberg. Although modern Swedish design has exercised an extraordinary influence on international architecture and interior furnishings since the early twentieth century, some of the crucial generative writings on the subject have not been widely translated, and >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707223
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Paperback, 7.25 x 10.5 in. / 320 pgs / 18 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 In stock
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|  Modes of Criticism #3
Edited by Francisco Laranjo. Text by Els Kuijpers, Angela Mitropoulos, Laura Gordon, Decolonising Design Group, Silvio Lorusso, Luke Pendrell, James Trafford. Modes of Criticism is a design criticism journal published annually. It examines what is meant by "criticality" in design, and works towards the politicization of its discourse and practice through a variety of disciplinary intersections.The >>more
Onomatopee
ISBN 9789491677779
US $15.00 CAN $24.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.1 x 8.2 in. / 96 pgs / 23 color / 71 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/20/2017 In stock
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|  Modes of Criticism 4: Radical Pedagogy
Edited by Francisco Laranjo. Text by Hannah Ellis, Danah Abdulla, Tanveer Ahmed, Anne-Marie Willis, Kenneth FitzGerald, Anja Groten, depatriarchise design. This book argues that, over the past 15 years, there has been a consistent deterioration of democracy in tandem with the establishment of the marketization and monetization of design education. Navigating difficult external political contexts >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148130
US $18.00 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 96 pgs / 96 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2020 Out of stock
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|  Modes of Criticism 5
Edited with text by Francisco Laranjo. Text by Luiza Prado, Pedro Oliveira, ACED, Ruben Pater, Demystification Committee, Shannon Mattern, Ian Lynam, Georgina Voss. In graphic design, the concept of systems is profoundly rooted in form. Starting from a series of design research residencies in the context of the Porto Design Biennale, this volume proposes a variety of social >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148215
US $14.00 CAN $20.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 118 pgs / 9 color / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2020 In stock
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|  Moving to Mars
Edited by Andrew Nahum, Justin McGuirk, Eleanor Watson. Foreword by Deyan Sudjic. Text by Mike Ashley, Stephen Petranek, Fred Scharmen, Lydia Kallipoliti, Daisy Ginsberg, Kim Stanley Robinson. Moving to Mars is the first book ever to thoroughly explore the crucial role that design will play in the collective endeavor to travel to and inhabit Mars.
A comprehensive overview of both past and current >>more
The Design Museum
ISBN 9781872005461
US $35.00 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 6.75 in. / 220 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 12/17/2019 In stock
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|  Nature: Collaborations in Design
Edited by Caitlin Condell, Andrea Lipps, Matilda McQuaid, Gene Bertrand, Hans Gubbels. Foreword by Caroline Baumann, Hans Gubbels. Text by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, George Church, Suzanne Lee, Nadine Bongaerts, Michael John Gorman, Koert van Mensvoort, Alejandro Vial, Guillermo Parada, Tamara Pérez . Designers today are striving to transform our relationship with the natural world. Although humans are intrinsically linked to nature, our actions have frayed this relationship, forcing designers to think more intentionally and to consider the >>more
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9781942303237
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11.5 in. / 240 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 In stock
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|  New Grammar of Ornament
By Thomas Weil. Text by Heinz Schütz, Manuel Will. Ornaments are omnipresent: they can be found on buildings, fabrics, jewelry, tiles, ceramics and wallpaper. Scorned at the outset of the modern age, ornament has long since returned to architecture and influences design drafts as >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786536
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 336 pgs / 386 color.
Pub Date: 12/28/2021 In stock
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|  Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Process displays the museum’s extensive collection of previously unseen drawings of artifacts from the 1500s to 1900. The book thoroughly discusses the artifacts—which include vases, chairs, >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462087354
US $80.00 CAN $112.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 402 pgs / 210 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2023 In stock
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|  Remaking the Crust of the Earth
Edited with text by Gavin Murphy, Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll, Chris Fite-Wassilak. This layered, intertextual, cultural history examines humankind’s relationship with glass and the ways in which glass has transformed society and the constructed world. Remaking the Crust of the Earth considers glass in its myriad >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083318837
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Pbk, 8.75 x 10.5 in. / 56 pgs / 48 color.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 In stock
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|  Repair
Edited with contributions by Silke Langenberg. Introduction by Klaus Kreulich. Text by Wolfgang M. Heckl, Andres Lepik, et al. Arising from a course on repair at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich, this book responds to our culture of disposability and built-in obsolescence, to encourage thinking and making, >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775743976
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 FLAT40
Hbk, 4.5 x 6.75 in. / 432 pgs / 305 color.
Pub Date: 06/12/2018 Out of stock
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|  Rights of Way
Edited with preface and introduction by Amy Gowen. Text by Pauline Agustoni, Elia Castino, Christa-Maria Lerm-Hayes, et al. Exploring the politics of access in public space, Right of Way features key voices in the fields of activism and politics, architecture, urban planning, poetry, art and design, and underscores the dynamic relationship between the >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148703
US $18.00 CAN $25.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 5.25 x 7.75 in. / 200 pgs / 51 color / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/15/2022 In stock
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|  Previously unpublished new projects are thematically integrated into the evolution of Baur's oeuvre. The book thus reveals a conceptual and design constant, or even fascination, in the work of Ruedi Baur.Five years after the success >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781340
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 480 pgs / 200 images.
Pub Date: 01/25/2010 In stock
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|  This small but substantial pocket-size book is an attempt to think through life and the universe in graphic-design terms. With concise drawings and brief texts, Chinese illustrator and designer Ruida Si quietly shows humanity in >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786888
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Pbk, 4.75 x 6.25 in. / 304 pgs / 160 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/03/2022 In stock
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|  Renowned philosopher Susan Buck-Morss collaborates with Kevin McCaughey of Boot Boyz Biz and Adam Michaels of Inventory Press on this experimental image-text renewal of McLuhan, Berger and Benjamin.
Seeing Making: Room for Thought both studies >>more
Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753538
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.75 in. / 400 pgs / 600 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/09/2024 Out of stock
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|  Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017
Edited with text by Kasper König, Britta Peters, Marianne Wagner. Text by Inke Arns, Claire Doherty, Mit Sanyal, Mark von Schlegell, Gerhard Vinken, Raluca Voinea. Held every ten years, its curatorial direction has been in the hands of Kasper König since its inception in 1977. International artists are invited to develop site-related works for Münster. The projects are as diverse >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959051309
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Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 480 pgs / 300 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/22/2017 In stock
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|  Challenging the way we look at, think of and interact with the social world, Social Matter, Social Design emphasizes the role of materiality. This enlarged field for engagement demands that design incorporates a more nuanced >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789492095848
US $25.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 8.75 in. / 240 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/24/2020 Out of stock
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|  Spector Cut + Paste: #1-4
Spector Cut + Paste was a magazine as permanent workshop; the beginnings of what would later become Leipzig-based publisher Spector Books. It was in these pages that Spector's editors discovered the themes that still emerge >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783944669045
US $27.00 CAN $37.00 TRADE
Pbk, 10 x 12 in. / 472 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/01/2013 In stock
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|  Studio Najbrt: Life Happiness Surprise
The Czech graphic design studio Najbrt has carved out an extraordinary spot in its home market: total ubiquity. Founder and principal Ales Najbrt designs books (Czech100 Design Icons), magazines (Raut), dinner plates (with abstract calligraphic >>more
Torst
ISBN 9788072152988
US $48.00 CAN $65.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 272 pgs / 1280 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 In stock
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|  Super Normal
By Naoto Fukasawa, Jasper Morrison. The designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of “super normal design”: alongside examples of anonymous design like the Swiss Rex vegetable peeler or a simple plastic bag, there >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781067
US $28.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5.75 x 7.75 in. / 128 pgs / 264 images.
Pub Date: 04/23/2007 In stock
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|  Surrealism and Design Now
Edited by Kathryn Johnson. Text by Susanna Brown, Glenn Adamson. This concise, affordable and visually striking publication, accompanying the Objects of Desire exhibition at the Design Museum in London, aims to embody the inventiveness and boldness of Surrealism in its design and production.
Departing from the >>more
The Design Museum
ISBN 9781872005621
US $35.00 CAN $49.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 70 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/20/2022 In stock
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|  Szenasy, Design Advocate
Edited by Ann S. Hudner, Akiko Busch. Foreword by John Hockenberry. Preface by Ann S. Hudner. Introduction by Akiko Busch. For more than 30 years, Susan S. Szenasy’s voice has resonated as an editor-in-chief, writer, teacher, moderator, filmmaker and lecturer. In all of these roles, her advocacy for ethical, sustainable, human-centered design has been her >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781938922398
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 353 pgs / 32 color / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2014 Out of stock
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|  Taking a Line for a Walk
Edited with text by Nina Paim, Emilia Bergmark, Corinne Gisel. Assignments can give instructions, describe an exercise, present a problem, set out rules, propose a game, stimulate a process, or simply throw out questions. Taking a Line for a Walk brings attention to something that is often neglected: >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959050814
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Pbk, 10 x 8.75 in. / 272 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 01/09/2016 Out of stock
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|  The "auto-ethnographic turn" in design is emerging from a growing recognition of design’s capacity to make sense of one’s world. This book’s first section, Ideas and Dialogues, compiles reflections and conversations between theorists, educators and >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789493246041
US $35.00 CAN $47.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 336 pgs / 150 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2022 In stock
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|  A personal book about material anxiety in creative work, The Failed Painter discusses singular and multiple production processes, perfectibility and imperfectability in times of virtual surface, and hunger for authenticity. Writing in the persona of >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083318820
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Pbk, 4 x 7 in. / 222 pgs / 44 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 In stock
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|  The Legacy of Transgressive Objects
Edited with text by Katja Müller-Helle. Contributions by Beatriz Colomina, Tacita Dean, Helmut Lethen, Dennis Göttel, Jeannie Moser, Claus Pias, Eva Wilson. The Legacy of Transgressive Objects traces the afterlife and historicization of the concept of transgression in the art, architecture, technology, music and psychedelic practices of 1968 and its legacy, by looking at the objects, materials >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783941360648
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Pbk, 5 x 7 in. / 180 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 In stock
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|  The Responsible Object
Edited by Marjanne van Helvert. Text by Andrea Bandoni, Ece Canli, Alison J. Clarke, Éva Forgács, Marjanne van Helvert, Susan R. Henderson, Ed van Hinte, Elizabeth C. Miller, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira. Within the design discipline, calls for sustainability and social responsibility have become some of the most common rallying cries of the past decade, generating countless new products, materials and technologies—all designed to change the course >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789492095190
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Pbk, 7 x 9.5 in. / 288 pgs / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2017 In stock
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|  Top This and Other Parables of Design
By Phil Patton. Introduction by Edward Tufte. Foreword by Caroline Baumann. In September 2015 the world lost Phil Patton--prolific design writer, teacher and tantalizing wordsmith. Patton’s insatiable curiosity, sense of humor and keen eye made for the most compelling reads. Whether he was chronicling design minutia, >>more
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9781942303152
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 296 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock
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|  Under the Radar
Edited by Jan-Frederik Bandel, Annette Gilbert, Tania Prill. The mid-1960s witnessed a boom in underground and selfpublished works. Hectographs, mimeographs, and offset printing not only allowed for the production of small, lowcost print runs but also promote a unique aesthetic: using wild mock-ups, >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959051040
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Spiralbound, 13.25 x 9.75 in. / 368 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/02/2017 Out of stock
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|  Upgrade: Making Things Better
Text by Arno Brandlhuber, Daniel Stockhammer, Eva Prats, Felix Lehner, Freek Persyn, Hans-Rudolf Meier, Silke Langenberg, Thomas Will, Adam Caruso & Helen Thomas, Inge Vinck & Jan De Vylder, Renaud Haerlingen & Tristan Boniver. This volume addresses the widespread tendency to discard broken items rather than to refurbish them. Despite the negative ecological effects of overconsumption, overproduction and waste, the habit of replacing rather than repairing goods has persisted >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775753340
US $55.00 CAN $76.00 TRADE
Hbk, 4.5 x 6.75 in. / 512 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 01/24/2023 In stock
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|  Utopia or Oblivion
By R. Buckminster Fuller. Edited by Jaime Snyder. Composed of lectures given by Buckminster Fuller throughout the world in the 1960s, Utopia or Oblivion presents the thesis that humanity, for the first time in its history, has the opportunity to create a world >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786222
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 448 pgs / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 In stock
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|  Visual Coexistence
Edited with text by Ruedi Baur, Ulrike Felsing. Text by Sébastien Fasel, Fabienne Kilchör, Eva Lu?di Kong, Marco Maione, Roman Wilhelm. In a globalized world, Asian, Latin and Arabic characters and visual cultures appear side by side and woven together. The coexistence of different visual cultures is now part of our daily lives and a given >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786130
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 312 pgs / 150 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/18/2020 In stock
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|  Who Can Afford to Be Critical?
Edited with introduction by Afonso Matos. Text by Silvio Lorusso, J. Dakota Brown, Marianela D'Aprile, Evening Class, Somnath Batt, Danielle Aubert, Jack Henrie Fisher, Alan Smart, Greg Mihalko. Design schools increasingly urge students to address social, political and environmental issues in their work. But who can afford to work in this way after graduation?
In a dynamic style that draws from multiple contributors, Who >>more
Set Margins' publications
ISBN 9789083270630
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 92 pgs / 25 duotone.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 In stock
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|  Why Design Now? National Design Triennial
Text by Ellen Lupton, Cara McCarty, Matilda McQuaid, Cynthia Smith. Why design now? As issues of ecology and sustainable living continue to gain in urgency and topicality, design has come to the forefront of the arts as the discipline best equipped to meet today's challenges. >>more
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9780910503877
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 370 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2010 In stock
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|  William Morris: Words & Wisdom
William Morris (1834-1896) was a radical thinker whose democratic vision for society and art has continued to influence designers, artists and writers to this day. He was a gifted poet, architect, painter, writer and textile >>more
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855144941
US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 7.5 in. / 144 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2014 In stock
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|  Ydessa Hendeles: From Her Wooden Sleep...
This artist’s book interprets From Her Wooden Sleep... Toronto-based artist-curator Ydessa Hendeles’ (born 1948) multilayered meditation on difference, diversity and group dynamics. Central to the show inspired by and mounted at London’s Institute of Contemporary >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775741033
US $95.00 CAN $127.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 480 pgs / 312 color.
Pub Date: 08/23/2016 Out of stock
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|  Éloj Kréyol
Edited by Sophie Krier. Text by André Lucrèce, Thomas Golsenne, Lucy Cotter. This fourth edition of Field Essays explores the decolonial approach of Parisian design duo dach&zephir. Dimitri Zephir and Florian Dach have extensively researched the French Caribbean and have transformed neglected cultural forms. >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148055
US $25.00 CAN $34.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 112 pgs / 68 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock
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| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT  The Ulm School of Design (HfG Ulm) ranks among the world’s most important institutions of the 20th century in modernist design. Its founders Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aicher and Max Bill wanted to contribute to the >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784136
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 128 pgs / 182 images.
Pub Date: 02/27/2014 Not available
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|  AC/DC: Contemporary Art/Contemporary Design
Text by Paola Antonelli, Anthony Dunne, Alice Rawsthorn, Hal Foster, Gaetano Pesce, Wava Carpenter, Alexandra Midal, et al. AC/DC: Contemporary Art/Contemporary Design tackles the difficult, traditionally divisive relationship between art and design. Recently, new practices and perspectives in both worlds have surfaced, putting this division under new scrutiny. An overview of the topic >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037640128
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 280 pgs / 94 color / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Not available
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|  Anni & Josef Albers
Edited by Brenda Danilowitz, Heinz Liesbrock. Text by Brenda Danilowitz, Jenny Anger, Kiki Gilderhus, et al. Josef Albers (1888–1976) was a highly influential painter, color theorist and teacher--a monumental figure in international postwar art and aesthetics; his wife and artistic equal, Anni Albers (1899–1994), created important textile artworks as well as >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775720571
US $60.00 CAN $70.00 TRADE
Hardback, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 228 pgs / 172 color / 69 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2008 Not available
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|  This kaleidoscopic book documents the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley in the words of the curators and all the participants, starting with the polemical Biennial Manifesto that launched the >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785126
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 576 pgs / 904 images.
Pub Date: 01/25/2017 Not available
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|  As Long as It's Pink
By Penny Sparke. What is the legacy of the architectural and design movement of the mid-twentieth century? Did it deliver its promised vision of an egalitarian, democratic society supported by aesthetically simple, mass-produced goods whose forms fulfilled their >>more
The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
ISBN 9780919616516
US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Not available
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|  Bauhaus N° 6: Schlemmer!
Oskar Schlemmers work is more closely associated with the 20th century’s most important school of design than that of any other Bauhaus artist. 70 years after his death, bauhaus issue 6 casts a light on >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783944669137
US $15.00 CAN $21.50 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 152 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 05/01/2014 Not available
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|  Beyond the New on the Agency of Things
By Hella Jongerius & Louise SchouwenbergEdited with text by Angelika Nollert. In this engaging new book, design theorist Louise Schouwenberg (born 1954) and designer Hella Jongerius (born 1963) examine the meaning and agency of objects, exploring how things act as mediators between people and the world >>more
Koenig Books
ISBN 9783960982548
US $59.95 CAN $79.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 200 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 06/19/2018 Not available
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|  Can You Feel It?
Edited with introduction and afterword by Freek Lomme. Text by Lars Bang Larsen, Christopher Breu, Johanna Drucker, Alessandro Ludovico, Esther Krop, Rik Peters, Marieke Sonneveld. What exactly is the tactile, in a world in which a rising technocracy exploits the designed environment we feel? Who authorizes and who writes, what tradition do we stand in and how can we touch >>more
Onomatopee
ISBN 9789491677809
US $20.00 CAN $29.95 TRADE
Pbk, 4 x 6 in. / 192 pgs / 10 color / 10 b&w / 12 duotone.
Pub Date: 01/04/2017 Not available
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|  Chasing The Perfect: Thoughts On Modernist Design In Our Time
By Natalia Ilyin. Foreword by Susan S. Szenasy. In Chasing the Perfect writer/designer Natalia Ilyin delivers her astute, incisive and humorous observations on design and the world it has molded. According to Ilyin, “Modern design is based on deeply idealist notions, and its >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781933045214
US $30.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 6 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 25 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/15/2005 Not available
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|  Co-Op Principle: Hannes Meyer and the Concept of Collective Design
Edited by Raquel Franklin. Text by Claudia Perren, Astrid Volpert. Edition Bauhaus 48 Cooperatives, sharing communities, co-housing — the collective is in high demand. At the end of the 1920s the Bauhaus took a keen interest in addressing questions surrounding the relationship between society and >>more
Spector Books/Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
ISBN 9783959050104
US $20.00 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Hbk, 6 x 8 in. / 96 pgs / 97 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2016 Not available
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|  Contemporary Glass Art
Foreword Chantal Prod'Hom. Text by Bettina Tschumi, Rosmarie Lippuner, Gabrielle Guth, Susanne K. Frantz, Jean Luc Olivié, Catherine Vandour, Helmut Ricke, Catherine Montouchet-Zoritchak. At more than 400 pages, this catalogue of the amazing contemporary glass collection of the MUDAC, or Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland, features work by 310 artists from the 1960s >>more
La Bibliothèque des Arts
ISBN 9782884531276
US $80.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 8.75 x 9 in. / 405 pgs / illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Not available
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|  Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People
By Emily Pilloton. Foreword by Allan Chochinov. In January of 2008, with a thousand dollars, a laptop and an outsized conviction that design can change the world, rising San Francisco-based product designer and activist Emily Pilloton launched Project H Design, a radical >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781933045955
US $34.95 CAN $45.95 TRADE
Pbk, 8 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Not available
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|  Design as Learning
Edited by Jan Boelen, Nadine Botha, Vera Sacchetti. Text by Danah Abdulla, Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Nelly Ben Hayoun, Jan Boelen, Nadine Botha, João Ferreira, Corinne Gisel, Gabrielle Kennedy, Nahu Kubota, Peter Lang, Claudia Mareis, Deniz Ova, Nina Paim, Vera Sacchetti. Why do design? What is design for? In a world of dwindling natural resources, exhausted social and political systems, and an overload of information there are many urgent reasons to reimagine the design discipline, and >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789492095602
US $25.00 CAN $34.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 208 pgs / 50 color / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 Not available
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|  Design as an Attitude
By Alice Rawsthorn. Edited by Clément Dirié. Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives—and it has never been more exciting. At a time when so many aspects of our lives are changing at a relentless speed on an >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037645215
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 192 pgs / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 Not available
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|  Representing a new generation of designers in Japan, Kenya Hara (born 1958) pays tribute to his mentors, using long overlooked Japanese icons and images in much of his work. In Designing Design, he impresses upon >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037781050
US $70.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 472 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/23/2007 Not available
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|  Diagrams of Power
Edited by Patricio Dávila. Text by Laura Poitras, Margaret Pearce, Lawrence Lize Mogel, Josh Begley, Philippe Rekacewicz, Teddy Cruz, Patricio Dávila, Vincent Brown, W.E.B. DuBois, Joseph Beuys, Joshua Akers, Lucas Larochelle. Diagrams of Power collects contemporary artworks and projects that use data, diagrams, maps and visualizations as ways of challenging dominant narratives and supporting the resilience of marginalized communities.
The artists and designers featured critique conventionalized and >>more
Onomatopee
ISBN 9789493148031
US $30.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 308 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 Not available
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|  Dutch Design Yearbook 2010
Edited by Timo de Rijk, Vincent van Baar, Antoine Achten, Bert van Meggelen. Text by Glenn Adamson, Rick Poynor, Aaron Betsky. Following the success of the first Dutch Design Yearbook (2009), produced to record the recent ascent of the Netherlands to the forefront of European design, the editorial team of Timo de Rijk, Antoine Achten, Vincent >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627553
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 216 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2011 Not available
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|  Every Thing Design
Edited by Christian Brändle, Verena Formanek. Text by Christian Brändle, Glenn Adamson. The great Dutch book designer Irma Boom designed this handsome, hefty gem, which features 700 prints, posters and other objects from the collection of Zurich's Gestaltung Museum. It is a collection renowned worldwide for its >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775723312
US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Hbk, 4.75 x 6 in. / 800 pgs / 600 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Not available
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|  First Read This
Text by Ed van Hinte, Michel van Tooren. Systems engineering is not an exact science, nor is it a guarantee of good quality. It is an aid design, which is itself predicated on many assumptions. More than anything, it is a medium for >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789064506437
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Not available
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|  Flying Lightness: Promises for Structural Elegance
Text by Adriaan Beukers, Ed van Hinte. Flying Lightness paints a picture of a heroic century of aircraft development against the background of steadily increasing travel speeds. Since the Wright brothers made their first brief flight over 100 years ago, aircraft construction >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789064505386
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 135 pgs / 30 color / 250 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Not available
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|  From the South Seas
Edited by Christraud M. Geary. Essays by Michael Gunn and Christraud M. Geary. From New Guinea to New Zealand, Easter Island to Hawaii, the Pacific region known as Oceania has long excited the Western imagination, but its traditional sculptures, pots and paintings have only recently been studied and >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466979
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Clothbound, 9 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 90 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2006 Not available
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|  Hole In The Wall
Edited by Judith M. Grieshaber. Text by Manfred Kr‡plien. This book comes right to the point, three pages in: Man becomes stupid and ugly when he is lacking utopian ideas. Thus, the Hole in the Wall means that behind the walls of our conventions >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775791212
US $30.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
CD ROM.
Pub Date: 03/02/2003 Not available
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|  Identities
Contributions by Toon Lauwen. Text by Hugues Boekraad. >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056621421
US $22.95 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9.5 x 6.5 in. / 148 pgs / 69 color
Pub Date: 02/02/2000 Not available
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|  Jasper Morrison's name is not associated with spectacular consumer design products. Instead, he has chosen to align himself from the start with an approach that designers often return to after careers spent otherwise: simple and >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037780640
US $59.00 CAN $76.50 TRADE
Pbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 300 images.
Pub Date: 06/12/2006 Not available
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|  Josef Hoffmann: Autobiography
By Josef Hoffman. Edited by Peter Noever, Marek Pokorn?. Text by Martina Straková, Rainald Franz. As a co-founder of the Secession, the Wiener Werkstätte and the Österreichischer Werkbund, Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) had a decisive influence on modern Viennese architecture and design. Around 1948, Hoffmann wrote this autobiography, tracing his life >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775724739
US $30.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 144 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Not available
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|  Less Is a Bore: Reflections on Memphis
Edited by Julia Höner, Monika Schnetkamp. Text by Julia Höner, Tido von Oppeln, Oliver Tepel. Less Is a Bore: Reflections on Memphis contextualizes the creative universe of the designers around Ettore Sottsass in relation to works by international artists, from Memphis’ predecessors to its present-day heirs. Memphis’ obsessive enthusiasm for >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959051293
US $28.00 CAN $38.50 TRADE
Hbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 144 pgs / 35 color / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/22/2017 Not available
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|  This publication casts light on the spectrum of the script poster, using consistent reduction to type and without any illustrative or geometrical elements. The script poster enjoyed its first heyday around 1915, with the discovery >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037782064
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 114 images.
Pub Date: 08/21/2010 Not available
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|  Léo Favier: What, You Don't Know Grapus?
Grapus [ \gra-´pUEs] is a French graphic design collective founded in Paris immediately following the student protests of May 1968. The group saw life as a field for experimentation, putting the new political, social, and >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783944669496
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 224 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 01/01/2015 Not available
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|  Made in the Americas
Text by Dennis Carr, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Timothy Brook, Mitchell Codding, Karina H. Corrigan, Donna Pierce. Made in the Americas reveals the overlooked history of Asia's profound influence on the arts of the colonial Americas. Beginning in the 16th century, European outposts in the New World, especially those in New Spain, >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468126
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 7.75 x 10.25 in. / 160 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 09/29/2015 Not available
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|  Making and Being
By Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard. Contributions by Leigh Claire La Berge, Stacey Salazar, Alta Starr. Making and Being draws upon the lived experience of Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, visual arts educators who have developed a framework for teaching art with the collective BFAMFAPhD that emphasizes contemplation, collaboration, and political >>more
Pioneer Works Press
ISBN 9781945711077
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 700 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/28/2020 Not available
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|  Modern
Essays by Elisabetta Bresciani, Marco de Michelis and Cath»rine de Smet. Conversation with Elisabetta Bresciani and Edigio Marzona. Over 500 books on twentieth-century architecture from the Marzona Collection are represented here via bibliographic information, photographic documentation, and notes on architectural and typographic history. A focus on the parallels between typography and architecture highlights >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783851600315
US $40.00 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9.25 x 7.25 in. / 280 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Not available
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|  Mood River
Essays by Jeff Kipnis, Sanford Kwinter, Annetta Massie, Chee Perlman and Jose Oubrerie. Foreword by Philip Johnson. Introduction by Sherri Geldin. From an i-MAC computer to a Karim Rashid trashcan to a Philippe Starck stool to an Issey Miyake coat to a Frank Gehry building, design shapes our sense of being in today's world. Mood River >>more
Wexner Center for the Arts
ISBN 9781881390305
US $39.95 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 200 pgs / 138 color / 25 b&w
Pub Date: 02/02/2002 Not available
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|  Exist, orient, store, inebriate, measure, exchange, store, recite, write, think, navigate, love, share, rule, play, boil, adore, pierce, kill . . . The curators Andrea Branzi and Kenya Hara selected one hundred verbs, connected to >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784938
US $39.00 CAN $52.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 9.5 in. / 288 pgs / 122 images.
Pub Date: 08/25/2016 Not available
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|  Painted Diagrams
Edited with text by Theres Rohde, Simone Schimpf. Text by Walter Krämer, Patrick Rössler, Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt, Michael Stoll. What is the relationship between information graphics and art? How can information and cognitive processes be organized aesthetically? What can artists learn from the work of graphic designers, and vice versa? Beginning with the Bauhaus >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783735605535
US $85.00 CAN $115.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 352 pgs / 111 color / 77 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/23/2019 Not available
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|  Pre-Specifics
Edited by Vera Bühlmann, Martin Wiedmer. Text by Anthony Dunne, Greg Lynn. The demand for design competence crosses almost all disciplinary boundaries, making the designers of today particularly ubiquitous in their influence. Pre-Specifics argues that the most promising strategies for the design disciplines of tomorrow can be >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905829303
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 390 pgs / 1 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Not available
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|  School For Design Fiction
A School for Design Fiction was convened on November 8, 2013 at the Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig. This itinerant school employs the curious genre of ‘design fiction’ to assert storytelling as the primary function >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783944669274
US $35.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 128 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 05/01/2014 Not available
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|  Siemens Industrial Design
Essay by Christoph Hoesch. Siemens, one of the world's oldest and largest electrical companies, can boast of more than 100 years of product design history. This colorful past vividly illustrates the fact that design has played a more important >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775791816
US $95.00 CAN $115.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 8.5 x 12.5 in. / 304 pgs / 200 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Not available
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|  Space For Visual Research
The Space for Visual Research was established at the Bauhaus-University Weimar in 2013 as a workshop and laboratory for experimental research into new graphic, abstract and visual worlds. The Space’s mission is to support the >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783944669809
US $42.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 12.75 in. / 184 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 05/01/2014 Not available
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|  This volume offers the most comprehensive overview of the extended concept of design that was initiated at the Bauhaus. Alongside rare exhibits from design, architecture, art, film and photography--some of which have never previously been >>more
Vitra Design Museum
ISBN 9783945852026
US $80.00 CAN $107.50 TRADE
Hbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 464 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 11/24/2015 Not available
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|  Thonet & Design
Edited with text by Angelika Nollert. Text by Peter Ellenberg, Polina Gedova, Sebastian Jacobi, Steffen Kehrle, Markus Frenzl, Xenia Riemann-Tyroller, Lili Schäfer, Josef Strasser, Jirí Uhlír. From the most humble suburban cafes to high fashion shoots and countless films, the ingenious design of the Thonet chair No. 14, created by Michael Thonet in 1859, has conquered the world. Its immanent beauty, >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960985822
US $45.00 CAN $62.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 168 pgs / 164 color.
Pub Date: 10/08/2019 Not available
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|  The designer, author and design activist Victor J. Papanek anticipated an understanding of design as a tool for political change and social good that is more relevant today than ever. He was one of the >>more
Vitra Design Museum
ISBN 9783945852262
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 392 pgs / 500 color.
Pub Date: 11/27/2018 Not available
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|  Web Aesthetics
By Vito Campanelli. The rise of social media and digital networks has been so dizzyingly swift that any cogent appraisal of the aesthetics of the web has, until now, been almost impossible to propose. A much-anticipated book, Web >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627706
US $30.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 276 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/31/2011 Not available
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