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Vendor:Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton
Softcover | 10.92 x 2.03 x 17.53 cm | 296 pp Cooper-Hewitt Museum | 2017 | 9781942303152 In September 2015 the world lost Phil Patton – prolific design writer, teacher and tantalising wordsmith. Patton’s insatiable curiosity, sense of humour and keen eye made for the...- £7.50
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Digital Design Theory: Readings from the Field
Helen Armstrong & Keetra Dean Dixon Softcover | 18.42 x 1.27 x 22.23 cm |152 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2016 | 9781616893088 Digital Design Theory bridges the gap between the discourse of print design and interactive experience by examining the impact of computation on the...- £13.00
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Making Design Theory
Johan Redström Hardcover | 22.86 x 16 x 1.52 cm | 192 pp MIT Press | 2017 | 9780262036658 A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design. Tendencies toward “academisation” of traditionally practice-based fields...- £15.00
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Design and Designing: A Critical Introduction
Steve Garner & Chris Evans Paperback | 24.4 x 18.9 cm | 512 pp | 218 bw and 32 colour illustrations Berg Publishers | 2012 | 9781847885760 Design and Designing provides a broad and critical understanding of what is essentially a practical subject. Designing today is less...- £12.50
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Vendor:Yale University Press
Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America
Hardcover | 25.15 x 2.54 x 28.45 cm | 264 pp Yale University Press | 2018 | 9780300234220 This spirited volume shows how postwar designers and architects embraced whimsy and eclecticism in their work, exploring playfulness as an essential construct of modernity. Following World War...- £20.00
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Design Dictionary: Perspectives on Design Terminology
Softcover | 17.86 x 3.81 x 22.48 cm | 472 pp Birkhäuser | 2008 | 9783764377397 This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorical foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested...- £25.00
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Vendor:MIT Press
Bauhaus Futures
Hardcover | 18.75 x 2.92 x 23.65 cm | 376 pp MIT Press | 2019 | 9780262042918 Essays, photo-essays, interviews, manifestos, diagrams, and a play explore the varied legacies, influences, and futures of the Bauhaus. What would keep the Bauhaus up at night if...- £22.50
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Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation
Charles Jencks & Nathan Silver Softcover | 18.26 x 1.63 x 25.55 cm | 256 pp MIT Press | 2013 | 9780262518444 The triumphant return of a book that gave us permission to throw out the rulebook, in activities ranging from play to architecture...- £15.00
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Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism
Alice Twemlow Hardcover | 18.75 x 2.34 x 23.65 cm | 312 pp MIT Press | 2017 | 9780262035989 This book looks at how product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill. Product design criticism operates...- £12.50
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Pretense Design: Surface Over Substance
Per Mollerup Hardcover | 16.03 x 1.88 x 26.19 cm | 224 pp MIT Press | 2019 | 9780262039482 PLEASE NOTE: This title has been remainder marked by the publisher - a small marker pen dot on one edge. See images. How some design appears...- £15.00
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Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars
Paul Stirton Softcover | 17.78 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm | 272 pp Yale University Press | 2019 | 9780300243956 Richly illustrated with images from Jan Tschichold’s little-known private collection of design ephemera, this important book explores a legendary figure in the history of modern...- £17.50
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Not Quite Architecture: Writing Around Alison and Peter Smithson
M. Christine Boyer Hardcover | 18.9 x 4.45 x 23.5 cm | 486 pp MIT Press | 2017 | 9780262035514 An exploration of published and unpublished writings of Alison and Peter Smithson, considering them in the context of the debates and discourses of postwar architecture....- £25.00
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Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
Karen Kice Softcover | 21.6 x 13.7 x 1 cm | 88 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300210637 A bold, theoretical look at an emerging generation of architects, this volume is devoted to five contemporary practices-Bureau Spectacular, Erin Besler, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Formlessfinder,...- £7.00
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Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers
Softcover | 15.37 x 2.41 x 22.99 cm | 176 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2021 | 9781616899189 Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative career handbook for designers that we've all been waiting for. Written collaboratively by a diverse team of authors, the...- £15.00
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Vendor:Thames & Hudson
Bauhaus Goes West: Modern Art and Design in Britain and America
Alan Powers Hardcover | 16.51 x 3.56 x 24.13 cm | 304 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500519929 Bauhaus Goes West is a story of cultural exchange – between the Bauhaus émigrés in the years following the school’s closure in 1933 and the countries...- £22.50
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Bauhaus Imaginista: A School in the World
Hardcover | 24.89 x 3.3 x 31.5 cm | 312 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500021934 Bauhaus Imaginista is a major international project marking the centenary of this fascinating and popular school, which championed the idea of artists working together as a community....- £25.00
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