History & Criticism
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Design: Mid-Century Modern: Design Inspiration from Copenhagen to California
$19.99 Add to cartYour handy, inspirational reference guide to the iconic Mid-Century Modern Style.
Spanning the mid-1940s to the 1980s, the mid-century modern movement was an influential era celebrated for its clean l
- Author: McKnight, Jenna M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1964786452
- Language: English
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Design: Art Deco: Design Inspiration from Paris to New York
$19.99 Add to cartYour handy, inspirational reference guide to the iconic Art Deco Style.
Art Deco was the antithesis to all that came before it. Where art nouveau sprawled out in arabesques, art deco’s lines were cle
- Author: Craswell, Penny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1964786460
- Language: English
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Modeline of California: Pioneer of Modern Lighting
$60.00 Add to cartReaders step into the history of Modeline, the brand that revolutionized midcentury modern lighting. Modeline of California: Pioneer of Modern Lighting unveils Bernie Roberts’s journey from a penniles… [more below]
- Author: Ferrell, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0764370286
- Language: English
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Bending the Rules: Fashion Beyond the Binary
$29.95 Add to cartBending the Rules is a fascinating, provocative, and highly entertaining visual exploration of identity and gender through fashion.
Celebrated costume designer Camille Benda seamlessly weaves together- Author: Benda, Camille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1797227610
- Language: English
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Graphic Design. 1890-Today
$20.00 Add to cartThrough the turbulent events of the last century-and-a-half, graphic design–with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea–has distilled the spirit of each age. It surrounds us every minute of the
- Author: Müller, Jens
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 11 2025
- ISBN10: 375440024X
- Language: English
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Nobody Sits Like the French
$30.00 Add to cartA 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 to- Author: Pappas, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9460583792
- Language: English
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The Shakers: A World in the Making
$85.00 Add to cartA close look at the creative production of the United States Shaker communities and their influence on designers and artists past and present
Established in the 18th century, the Shakers were a Christi
- Author: Adamson, Glenn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 3945852668
- Language: English
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Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination
$39.95 Add to cartWhat it means to design at a time when, for many people, the future seems to have become an impossibility.
When reality fails us, what can designers do? Question design’s relationship to reality, as A- Author: Dunne, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 026204966X
- Language: English
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Design Against Racism: Creating Work That Transforms Communities
$24.95 Add to cartA historical and philosophical exploration of the impact of design on underserved communities, examining the field’s shortcomings as well as its potential to create positive change. Through essays tha… [more below]
- Author: Souza, Omari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1797223585
- Language: English
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Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
$43.43 Add to cartIn Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design’s world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attun… [more below]
- Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
- Author: Escobar, Arturo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0822371057
- Language: English
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El Libro del Dise?o (the Design Book)
$29.99 Add to cartDescubre las innovaciones, los avances y los hitos que marcaron la historia del dise?o.
Este libro analiza las ideas y principios detr?s de los primeros dise?os de la historia hasta la actualidad, exp- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 593848136
- Language: Spanish
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The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History
$30.00 Add to cartA critical history of the idea of design–and its utopian promise
Design has penetrated every dimension of contemporary society, from classrooms to statehouses to corporate boardrooms. It’s seen as- Author: Gram, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1541600630
- Language: English
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Paula Scher: Works
$75.00 Add to cartPaula Scher: Works presents the most extensive monograph of Scher’s career to date, featuring over three hundred projects from her early days in the music industry as an art director with CBS and Atl
- Author: Scher, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0500297703
- Language: English
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From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech
$26.95 Add to cartA radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI and tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world.
When it comes to tech, the mainstream head
- Author: Arora, Payal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049309
- Language: English
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Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902-1911
$75.00 Read moreA landmark of graphic modernism, the Vienna Secession’s magazine is brought to life in a complete facsimile reprint with new essays and translations
The brainchild of Koloman Moser, Alfred Roller, Jose
- Author: Silverthorne, Diane V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1736863312
- Language: English
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What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion
$25.00 Add to cartA witty, tongue-in-cheek discussion of design’s potentials and pitfalls
In focusing on creating preferable conditions, the discipline of design is optimistic by default. And yet, vernacular manifestati
- Author: Lorusso, Silvio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 9083350134
- Language: English
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Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History
$27.50 Read moreBaseline Shift captures the untold stories of women across time who used graphic design to earn a living while changing the world.
Baseline Shift centers diverse women across backgrounds whose work ha- Author: Scotford, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1648960065
- Language: English
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Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s
$150.00 Read moreAlastair Duncan’s Art Deco Complete is the last word in Art Deco, the most glamorous decorative arts style and the one that shaped popular ideas of modern luxury.
“For those who wish they could live- Author: Duncan, Alastair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0810980460
- Language: English
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The New Designer: Rejecting Myths, Embracing Change
$29.95 Read moreHow to develop an ethical design practice and build a better world.
The choices made by designers have a significant effect on the world. Yet so much of the discourse on design focuses on aesthetics r- Author: Lima, Manuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047632
- Language: English
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Fashion: A Manifesto
$21.95 Read moreWith a critical eye trained on the capitalistic allure and environmental impact of the fashion industry, this timely and stirringly argued book puts forward a radical new approach to the way we repres… [more below]
- Author: Grose, Anouchka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1912559498
- Language: English
