Essays
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Value of Design: Creating Agency Through Data-Driven Insights
$45.00 Add to cartIn 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
- Author: Dr Chegut, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1951541979
- Language: English
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Shosa: Meditations in Japanese Handwork
$45.00 Add to cartTwelve 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. Incl… [more below]
- Author: Gomez, Ringo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 9460583806
- Language: English
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Design and Disability: 10 Tales of Accessible Design
$35.00 Add to cartThis 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 contri- Author: Kane, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1838510575
- Language: English
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A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens
$29.95 Add to cartBack 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 biosphere
Plas
- Author: Nova, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9083404188
- Language: English
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Just Enough Design: Reflections on the Japanese Philosophy of Hodo-Hodo
$16.95 Read moreA Japanese designer offers a compelling alternative way to engage with our possessions, our history, our environment, and each other.
The Japanese phrase “hodo-hodo” originates in ancient times. When- Author: Satoh, Taku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1797209906
- Language: English
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The Responsible Object: A History of Design Ideology for the Future
$28.95 Read moreA selected history of socially committed design strategies within the Western tradition, from the past 150 years
Within the design discipline, calls for sustainability and social responsibility have be… [more below]
- Author: Van Helvert, Marjanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 949209519X
- Language: English
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The Failed Painter: Or: Unchained by Material Anxiety
$20.00 Read more“Ian Lynam is the Hunter S. Thompson of design writing.” -Sereina Rothenberger
A personal book about material anxiety in creative work, The Failed Painter discusses singular and multiple production pro
- Author: Lynam, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9083318826
- Language: English
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Design Emergency: Building a Better Future
$29.95 Read moreAlice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli, two of the world’s most influential design figures, meet the visionary designers whose innovations and ingenuity give us hope for the future by redesigning and rec
- Author: Rawsthorn, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1838664270
- Language: English
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Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design
$23.00 Add to cartRethinking the intimate relationship between humans and design, from primitive tools and ornamentation to the constant buzz of modern social media
The question “are we human?” is both urgent and ancien
- Author: Colomina, Beatriz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 15 2017
- ISBN10: 303778511X
- Language: English
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How to Be a Design Student (and How to Teach Them)
$25.95 Read moreDesigner, artist, and educator Mitch Goldstein’s experience as student and teacher gives guidance and inspiration to help students get the most out of design school.
Life as a design student is filled- Author: Goldstein, Mitch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1797222295
- Language: English
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On Creating Things Aesthetic
$16.00 Read moreThis is a
pared-down, demystified overview of the mental operations involved with
creating things aesthetic, i.e., art, design, and the like. It is a
disarmingly clearheaded and unsentimental look at the… [more below]- Author: Koren, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1734914319
- Language: English
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What It Means to Be a Designer Today: Reflections, Questions, and Ideas from Aiga’s Eye on Design
$40.00 Read moreAIGA’s Eye on Design presents a provocative collection of essays and interviews that cover a wide-reaching examination of the profession of design today and its impacts on society and culture.
Eye on
- Author: Stinson, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1797224557
- Language: English
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Design as an Attitude: New Edition
$29.95 Add to cartAcclaimed author Alice Rawsthorn revises her bestselling field guide to design in the wake of a pandemic, technological change and the escalating climate emergency
Acclaimed author Alice Rawsthorn revi
- Author: Rawsthorn, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 3037645822
- Language: English
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Cleaning
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the celebrated MUJI designer and bestselling author of 100 Whites and Designing Japan, a compact and beautifully designed guide to the art of cleaning
Cleanliness is a core value of societies arou
- Author: Hara, Kenya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 3037787325
- Language: English
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Where Must Design Go Next?
$20.00 Read moreOver the last 85 years, the Institute of Design’s pioneering approach has brought about three distinct design eras–experimentation, systems design, and human-centered design–and each of these eras b… [more below]
- Author: Fuller, Jarrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1961856093
- Language: English
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Design Is Storytelling
$19.95 Add to cartEllen Lupton, award-winning author of Thinking with Type and How Posters Work, demonstrates how storytelling shapes great design
Good design, like good storytelling, brings ideas to life. The latest bo
- Author: Lupton, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 194230319X
- Language: English
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Kaufmann Mercantile Gde: How to Split Wood, Shuck an Oyster, and Master Other Simple Pleasures
$27.95 Add to cartA visual field guide to what we ought to know how to do, and what we’d like to learn how to do, from beloved craftsmanship-focused online shop Kaufmann Mercantile.
Kaufmann Mercantile thoughtfully cur- Author: Kaufmann, Sebastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1616893990
- Language: English
