Design

Softcover | 14.6 x 1 x 23 cm | 96 pp FIU/Wolfsonian | 2015 | 9780967735993 Margin of Error explores cultural responses to mechanical mastery and engineered catastrophes of the modern age - the shipwrecks, crashes, explosions, collapses, and novel types of workplace injury that...

Roger Bargery Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.07 x 25.4 cm | 196 pp Unicorn Press | 2024 | 9781911397960 Prince Albert was the first Chairman of the first Royal Fine Art Commission, appointed by Queen Victoria to commission art for the new Houses of Parliament....

Dexter Sinister Softcover | 11.94 x 0.51 x 18.8 cm | 64 pp Sternberg Press | 2017 | 9783956793455 This book presents three interconnected palimpsest essays - A Note on the Type, Letter and Sprit and A Note on the Time. A Note on the...

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...

Per Mollerup Hardcover | 16.03 x 1.88 x 26.19 cm | 224 pp MIT Press | 2019 | 9780262039482 How some design appears to be something that it is not - by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving. Pretense design pretends to be something that it...

Jason Godfrey Hardcover | 24.77 x 2.54 x 29.85 cm | 224 pp Laurence King | 2014 | 9781780673363 100 Classic Graphic Design Journals surveys a unique collection of the most influential magazines devoted to graphic design, advertising and typography. These journals together span...

Nancy Williams Hardcover | 25.08 x 2.54 x 25.08 cm | 172 pp Phaidon | 2005 | 9780714843643 More Paperwork explores the myriad number of everyday and specialised objects that utilise the considerable strengths, diversity, adaptability and versatility of paper. The author’s selection of...

Carlo Vannicola Softcover |  24 x 1.65 x 16 cm | 208 pp Forma Edizioni | 2024 | 9788855211581 Text in English and Italian Just Enough: Design Microstories offers a collection of insights, a series of hypotheses about the transversality and interdisciplinarity that characterise the...

Softcover | 19.69 x 1.91 x 26.42 cm | 256 pp Phaidon | 2022 | 9781838664893 In collaboration with IKEA, this inspirational study explores how to live more sustainably and well based on the experience of both ordinary and extraordinary lives, showing how small...

Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.05 x 22.23 cm | 176 pp Laurence King | 2022 | 9789063695385 Internationally recognised and prize-winning design studio, Studio Kluif, never ceases to amaze with their magical and attractive designs. Ranging from graphic design, illustration, packaging and design for...

Michael Freeman Hardcover | 17.5 x 2 x 24 cm 208 pp 8 Books | 2016 | 9780957471771 Two design styles perfectly embrace tidiness. One was developed in the United States in the 18th century by a devout sect of Quakers who had emigrated...

Alison J. Clarke Hardcover | 18.57 x 2.49 x 23.65 cm | 344 pp MIT Press | 2021 | 9780262044943 The history and controversial roots of the social design movement, explored through the life and work of its leading pioneer, Victor Papanek. In Victor Papanek: Designer...

Tristran Hunt Hardcover | 19.43 x 3.05 x 23.37 cm | 256 pp V&A | 2019 | 9781851779727 In this intriguing insight into the work and history of a museum, V&A director and historian Dr Tristram Hunt brings together ten renowned V&A curators to tell...

Steven Heller & Gail Anderson Softcover |  24.1 x 2 x 33.8cm | 224 pp  Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500420577 A fresh look at typographic design as an art and as a storytelling device that expresses narratives, emotions, and voice.Stretching the boundaries...

Hardcover | 24.28 x 4.93 x 29.21 cm | 376 pp Distanz | 2017 | 9783954761807 Best of German Interior Design introduces the reader to the fifty most renowned German designers and fifty leading German manufacturers of home interior products. It portrays a scene...

Esther Choi Hardcover | 20.8 x 2.46 x 28.42 cm | 256 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791384726 It started as a series of dinner parties that Esther Choi - artist, architectural historian, and self-taught cook - hosted for friends after she stumbled across an...

Hardcover | 23 x 2.54 x 28.5 cm | 240 pp Arnoldsche Art Publishers | 2021 | 9783897906303 This is the first comprehensive presentation of the work of Danish furniture designer Jakob Berg (1958–2008). As a designer, he was ahead of his time and...

Hardcover | 19.69 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 300 pp Goff Books | 2024 | 9781957183916 Drawn is a compendium of Craig Frazier’s illustrations for the most prominent publications and businesses in America and abroad. The book presents over 250 illustrations and sketches curated...

Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.91 x 30.48 cm | 192 pp Jovis | 2006 | 9783939633044 German company Resopal have been pioneers in the manufacture and design of plastic laminates since their invention in the early twentieth century. Like Formica in the U.S., the...

6a architects Softcover | 21.59 x 1.52 x 15.24 cm | 80 pp Park Books | 2015 | 9783038600077 You may have braved IKEA, where the promise of a brighter and better living space comes sealed in a cardboard box. But what do we lose...