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  • Colour Combinations: Tips, Tricks & Moodboards by Snijder, Marlous
    Marlous Snijder

    Colour Combinations: Tips, Tricks & Moodboards

    A worldwide selection of 27 high-end interiors that daringly, but tastefully combine colour. Includes tips and tricks. This book is for people who are fed up with white, beige and earth tones. Color in your interior has been a hot topic for some time...
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  • The Arts and Crafts: Essays Collected by William Morris by Morris, William
    William Morris

    The Arts and Crafts: Essays Collected by William Morris

    Curated by the pioneering designer William Morris, discover a compelling collection of essays on the Arts and Crafts Movement by some of the most influential figures of the period. Shining a light on one of the most important periods in the history of art...
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  • Tibetan Women's Jewelry by Levenberg, Lynn
    Lynn Levenberg

    Tibetan Women's Jewelry

    Tibetan Women's Jewelry describes the cultural history of Central Tibet told through traditional jewelry and trade from the 17th century of the 5th Dalai Lama through the 14th Dalai Lama's 1959 exile to India. Tibetan Women's Jewelry describes the cultural history of Central Tibet...
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  • The Collected Angers: Shitty Pulp Edition by Monteiro, Mike
    Mike Monteiro

    The Collected Angers: Shitty Pulp Edition

    For ten years or so I've been putting down my thoughts on design, and technology, and ethics. Essays after essay. Some of those essays get turned into talks, some of them get blown out into books, but the essay has always been the native...
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  • Shosa: Meditations in Japanese Handwork by Gomez, Ringo
    Ringo Gomez

    Shosa: Meditations in Japanese Handwork

    Twelve beautiful, mindfully created in-depth portraits of Japanese makers in words and photos, from a bamboo weaver to a tatami mat maker, from a ceramicist to a cook who specialises in puddings. Includes information about different regions to visit in Japan. When visiting Japan,...
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  • The New Design Museum: Co-Creating the Present, Prototyping the Future by Leanza, Beatrice
    Beatrice Leanza

    The New Design Museum: Co-Creating the Present, Prototyping the Future

    Explores how design and architecture museums have adapted to face contemporary concerns. The New Design Museum brings together theories and voices from leading international institutions and independent initiatives addressing the transformed--and continually transforming--nature of design in the twenty-first century and its planetary scope in...
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  • Of the Just Shaping of Letters by D?rer, Albrecht
    Albrecht D?rer

    Of the Just Shaping of Letters

    Discover the timeless art of crafting elegant letters with "Of the Just Shaping of Letters," a foundational text on Roman capitals attributed to Albrecht D?. This meticulously prepared edition explores the principles of Renaissance lettering, offering insights into the construction and aesthetics of these...
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  • Nobody Sits Like the French by Pappas, Charles
    Charles Pappas

    Nobody Sits Like the French

    A Paris travel guide and history book about how the World Expos of 1855-1937 shaped the city, from its architecture to its (culinary) customs. Paris is the physical memory of seven World Expos that took place in the city from 1855 to 1937. These...
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  • The Art of the People by Morris, William
    William Morris

    The Art of the People

    This early work by William Morris was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. William Morris was born in London, England in 1834. Arguably best known as a textile designer, he founded a design partnership...
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  • A New Art. Metamorphoses of Jewelry. by Froissart, Rossella
    Rossella Froissart

    A New Art. Metamorphoses of Jewelry.

    From the end of the 19th century onwards, jewelry became an important vehicle for the formal experimentation and plastic innovation of its time, thanks to the development of knowledge about stone, the techniques used to produce it and the development of the art of...
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  • The Country House: Past, Present, Future: Great Houses of the British Isles by Cannadine, David
    David Cannadine

    The Country House: Past, Present, Future: Great Houses of the British Isles

    This exciting new book on British country houses offers an unusual and magnificent look at the lifestyle, architecture, and interior design of the country house of the British Isles. From Brideshead to Downton Abbey, the country house is a subject of fantasy and curiosity,...
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  • The Education of a Design Writer by Heller, Steven
    Steven Heller

    The Education of a Design Writer

    From prolific design writers and educators at the SVA/NYC, Steven Heller and Molly Heintz, a compelling collection of essays and interviews for anyone interested in critiquing, explaining, or interpreting design Writing is designing, and writers are designers. Mastering the elements of different writing styles...
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  • Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists by Rocamora, Agn?s
    Agn?s Rocamora

    Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists

    A vital update to the definitive guide to fashion and cultural theory, featuring four new chapters and essential revisions throughout in light of key developments in fashion and fashion studies. Across 19 major thinkers from the 19th to the 21st century, the second edition...
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  • Design and Disability: 10 Tales of Accessible Design by Kane, Natalie
    Natalie Kane

    Design and Disability: 10 Tales of Accessible Design

    This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity, making the point that inclusive design is better for all This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity, acknowledging the significant contributions of disabled individuals and communities to design and making the point that, simply put, inclusive design...
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  • Volumes: Design Reviewed Remixed Revealed by Fitzgerald, Kenneth
    Kenneth Fitzgerald

    Volumes: Design Reviewed Remixed Revealed

    A wide-ranging and incisive look at the various issues of volume in designA revised and expanded edition of the original 2010 book by Kenneth FitzGerald, Volumes: Design Reviewed Remixed Revealed, explores the dynamics of volume in graphic design, from vernacular expressions to professional practice,...
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  • On Design: Theory, History, Education and Practice by Balcioglu, Tevfik
    Tevfik Balcioglu

    On Design: Theory, History, Education and Practice

    This volume presents for the first time a curated selection of essays written over the last 30 years by leading design thinker and educator, Tevfik Balcioglu. With a focus on Turkish and British design, his writing examines questions of national and transnational design history...
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  • Matter Matters: Designing with the World by Subir?s, Olga
    Olga Subir?s

    Matter Matters: Designing with the World

    Matter Matters reflects on the current environmental and social crises through the lens of materiality, positioning matter as the focal point to address the political ecology of objects in a society striving for carbon neutrality by 2050. The publication is based on the homonymous...
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  • Neglected Dimensions: Sketches for Public Space by Carter, Paul
    Paul Carter

    Neglected Dimensions: Sketches for Public Space

    Poet, dramaturge and public artist, Paul Carter, writes and draws public space as a movement form, representing the neglected dimensions of the meeting place. His poetics of the trace finds a superb visual metaphor in John Warwicker's book design.The essay is a drawing out...
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  • A Sign Is by Ludlow, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Ludlow

    A Sign Is

    An insightful collection of essays on the overlooked sign. Each chapter explores the extraordinary connection that culture and society have to this common object. The book blends historical overview, graphic taxonomy, and design criticism on eleven signage types, ranging from signs that say no,...
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  • Towards Good Lighting for the Stage: Aesthetic Theory for Theatrical Lighting Design by Doshi, Marcus
    Marcus Doshi

    Towards Good Lighting for the Stage: Aesthetic Theory for Theatrical Lighting Design

    Towards Good Lighting for the Stage: Aesthetic Theory for Theatrical Lighting Design explores the theoretical underpinnings of effective lighting design from conceptualization to live performance.Through an investigation of the author's own aesthetic point of view--grounded in a broad investigation of art and design that...
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  • Design History Reader: An Emerging Vision for a New Narrative by Coogan, Kristen
    Kristen Coogan

    Design History Reader: An Emerging Vision for a New Narrative

    Author: Kristen CooganISBN-10: 9493382087ISBN-13: 9789493382084Publisher: OnomatopeeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2025Pages: 324Format: Paperback
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  • Designerly Ways of Knowing: A Working Inventory of Things a Designer Should Know by Abdulla, Danah
    Danah Abdulla

    Designerly Ways of Knowing: A Working Inventory of Things a Designer Should Know

    Author: Danah AbdullaISBN-10: 9083449882ISBN-13: 9789083449883Publisher: Set Margins' PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2025Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.77h x 4.17w x 0.32d
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  • Surface and Apparition: The Immateriality of Modern Surface by Lee, Yeseung
    Yeseung Lee

    Surface and Apparition: The Immateriality of Modern Surface

    Surface is one of the most intensely debated topics in recent arts, humanities and social science scholarship. The changing technologies which manufacture the actual and virtual surfaces of today are radically altering our perception of thresholds and borders. In contrast to the responses to...
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  • Ruined by Design: The Shitty Pulp Edition by Monteiro, Mike
    Mike Monteiro

    Ruined by Design: The Shitty Pulp Edition

    Author: Mike MonteiroISBN-13: 9798989358786Publisher: Mule BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/10/2025Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.37w x 0.47d
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  • Value of Design: Creating Agency Through Data-Driven Insights by Dr Chegut, Andrea
    Andrea Dr Chegut

    Value of Design: Creating Agency Through Data-Driven Insights

    In the context of architecture and real estate, the value of design--be it financial or social value--remains largely unmeasured, overlooked, and inadequately researched. By failing to acknowledge the potential of design, we miss opportunities to address the wide-ranging social and sustainability challenges at play...
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  • Design Research for Uncertain Futures by Vanucchi, Jamie
    Jamie Vanucchi

    Design Research for Uncertain Futures

    Design Research for Uncertain Futures assembles a diverse group of thinkers and makers, and thinking-through-makers, to situate design research as a form of knowledge generation that is complementary to science, and especially needed now, given changing climates and uncertain futures. Our model of design...
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  • Through Witnessing: Threading the Critiquing, Making, Teaching of Design by Abdullah, Nida
    Nida Abdullah

    Through Witnessing: Threading the Critiquing, Making, Teaching of Design

    Essays and lectures on design pedagogy from a group founded by faculty members of Pratt InstituteHow 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...
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  • Design for All?: Inclusive Design Today by Steiner, Evelyn
    Evelyn Steiner

    Design for All?: Inclusive Design Today

    Revamping the concepts of Universal Design and Design for All for a more participatory, community-based design practiceCan 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...
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  • 50 Design Ideas You Really Need to Know by Jervis, John
    John Jervis

    50 Design Ideas You Really Need to Know

    Master the design ideas that shape the world we live in today. In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Jervis introduces and explains the centralmovements, inventions and creative geniuses of design, tracing its evolution from the 19th century to the present day. From...
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  • Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability by Lee, Chris
    Chris Lee

    Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability

    On graphic design's complicity in power and what can be done to transform the fieldMoving 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...
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  • Prem Krishnamurthy: Past Words by Krishamurthy, Prem
    Prem Krishamurthy

    Prem Krishnamurthy: Past Words

    Collected writings and collaborations from award-winning designer, artist, activist and curator Prem KrishnamurthyBased 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...
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  • Marcus & Co.: Three Generations of New York Jewelers by Carver Wees, Beth
    Beth Carver Wees

    Marcus & Co.: Three Generations of New York Jewelers

    Author: Beth Carver Wees, Shelia Barron SmithieISBN-10: 3897907178ISBN-13: 9783897907171Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbHLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/29/2025Pages: 304Format: Hardcover
    $85.00
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  • Threads of Time by Brewster, Daniel
    Daniel Brewster

    Threads of Time

    - A journey around the world through the medium of textiles- Full-color photos of rare textiles from 16 regions- Stunning location photography- Bringing together over 30 voices to tell textile stories- Must-have for the culturally curious, textile lovers, interior designers, and travel enthusiastsThreads of...
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  • A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens by Nova, Nicholas
    Nicholas Nova

    A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens

    Back in a new compact edition, this field guide to our new world of hybrid specimens--gorgeously printed in silver ink on black paper--catalogs the conflation of the technosphere and the biospherePlastiglomerates, surveillance robot dogs, fordite, artificial grass, antenna trees, Covid, decapitated mountains, drone-fighting eagles,...
    $29.95
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  • Form And Function A Contribution To The History Of Animal Morphology by Russell E S
    Russell E S

    Form And Function A Contribution To The History Of Animal Morphology

    "Form and Function" by E. S. Russell is a seminal work in the field of biology that explores the fundamental relationship between the structure (form) and the purpose (function) of organisms. This significant literature has had a long-lasting impact on morphology and physiological research....
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  • On Design: Theory, History, Education and Practice by Balcioglu, Tevfik
    Tevfik Balcioglu

    On Design: Theory, History, Education and Practice

    This volume presents for the first time a curated selection of essays written over the last 30 years by leading design thinker and educator, Tevfik Balcioglu. With a focus on Turkish and British design, his writing examines questions of national and transnational design history...
    $34.95
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  • War with Myself: Essays on Design, Culture & Violence by Lynam, Ian
    Ian Lynam

    War with Myself: Essays on Design, Culture & Violence

    A wide-ranging collection of essays spanning design, decolonization and historyHot 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....
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  • Public Interiority: Exploring Interiors in the Public Realm by Teston, Liz
    Liz Teston

    Public Interiority: Exploring Interiors in the Public Realm

    Public Interiority reconsiders the limits of the interior and its perceived spaces, exploring the notion that interior conditions can exist within an exterior environment, and therefore challenging the very foundations of the interior architecture field. Public Interiority contains eight chapters and 16 visual essays...
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  • Son of Greg Girard by Girard, Thomas
    Thomas Girard

    Son of Greg Girard

    We arrived at a strange hour at Phnom Penh airport and used the Visa on Arrival option, where a raggedy man in a makeshift booth rubber stamped our Canadian passports after a short flight. It was late and my dad recalls trying to check...
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  • Love Letter to a Garden by Millman, Debbie
    Debbie Millman

    Love Letter to a Garden

    Debbie Millman--an award-winning writer, designer, and host of the podcast Design Matters--always thought of herself as a bad gardener. Nevertheless, she kept trying. Over the years she came to realize that no one is a bad gardener, we're all just questing for a garden,...
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  • The Arts and Crafts: Essays Collected by William Morris by Morris, William
    William Morris

    The Arts and Crafts: Essays Collected by William Morris

    Author: William MorrisISBN-10: 1528773578ISBN-13: 9781528773577Publisher: Read & Co. BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2024Pages: 206Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
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  • The Nuclear Chronicles: Design Research on the Landscapes of the Us Nuclear Highway by Madl, Andrew
    Andrew Madl

    The Nuclear Chronicles: Design Research on the Landscapes of the Us Nuclear Highway

    The Nuclear Chronicles: Design Research on the Landscapes of the US Nuclear Highway leverages fictional design narratives as devices for discussing the impact of nuclear technology within the territory of the western United States. Storytelling registers design research in a graphic novel format while...
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  • Margin and Text: Amplifying Diverse Voices in Architecture by West, Betsy
    Betsy West

    Margin and Text: Amplifying Diverse Voices in Architecture

    A broad range of diverse voices in architecture discuss issues of equity, access, and social justice embedded in and related to the built environment. Margin and Text is a collection of essays, interviews, and personal stories, as well as historical and current writings and...
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  • Spatialization Takes Command: Metaverse Urbanism: Notes on the Future of the Internet, Urbanism, and Life as We Live It by Safieddine, Firas
    Firas Safieddine

    Spatialization Takes Command: Metaverse Urbanism: Notes on the Future of the Internet, Urbanism, and Life as We Live It

    By weaving together a range of topics, the book takes readers on a journey through the evolution of the Internet, and its next generation--The Spatial Internet--and explores the current technosphere and terminology necessary to comprehend the metaverse. The author creatively delves into unique social,...
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  • Thomas Heatherwick: Making by Heatherwick, Thomas
    Thomas Heatherwick

    Thomas Heatherwick: Making

    Wallpaper* once described Thomas Heatherwick as having "the world at his feet," and the designer's bestselling monograph puts his world at ours. Filling almost 650 pages, this fully revised and updated edition illuminates the breathtaking imagination behind more than one hundred and fifty of...
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  • Author, No. 1 by Chanel, Oona
    Oona Chanel

    Author, No. 1

    AUTHOR No. 1 is emblazoned with four collectable covers that feature some of the most exciting top models in the fashion industry today: Chiharu Okunugi, Katlin Aas, Aymeline Valade, and Ajak Deng. Bringing together contemporary voices that celebrate diverse points of view and illustrated...
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  • Problem Invention: The Artistic Process in Architecture by Betram, Peter
    Peter Betram

    Problem Invention: The Artistic Process in Architecture

    This evocative and self-reflective book opens broader and pertinent questions about the physical nature of the architectural design process that will resonate with many of us who are prepared to work sympathetically with material. It is the conscious introduction of artistic experimentation in the...
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  • Craig Frazier Drawn by Frazier, Craig
    Craig Frazier

    Craig Frazier Drawn

    Drawn is a compendium of Frazier's illustrations for the most prominent publications and businesses in America and abroad. The book presents over 405 illustrations and sketches curated from a career spanning over 40 years. Respected by design peers and leaders in business, Frazier's illustrations...
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  • Survival Through Design by Neutra, Richard
    Richard Neutra

    Survival Through Design

    Richard Neutra's landmark publication Survival Through Design, in print again for the first time in decades, is a cycle of essays providing insights far ahead of their time. With a new introduction by Dr. Barbara Lamprecht and foreword by Dr. Raymond Neutra, it is...
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  • The Sound of Cherry Blossoms: Zen Lessons from the Garden on Contemplative Design by Noden, Alxe
    Alxe Noden

    The Sound of Cherry Blossoms: Zen Lessons from the Garden on Contemplative Design

    Contemplative design and Zen teachings--a look at how we can transform our lives and our work through the lens of Japanese garden design. Garden design is the way of discovering the garden. And the garden is a metaphor for life itself. Part garden design...
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