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  • Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil PattonTop This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton
    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...
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  • Digital Design Theory: Readings from the FieldDigital Design Theory: Readings from the Field
    Princeton Architectural Press

    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...
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  • Making Design Theory
    MIT Press

    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...
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  • Design and Designing: A Critical IntroductionDesign and Designing: A Critical Introduction
    Berg Publishers

    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...
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  • Serious Play: Design in Midcentury AmericaSerious Play: Design in Midcentury America
    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...
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  • Design Dictionary: Perspectives on Design TerminologyDesign Dictionary: Perspectives on Design Terminology
    Birkhäuser

    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...
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  • Bauhaus FuturesBauhaus Futures
    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...
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  • Adhocism: The Case for ImprovisationAdhocism: The Case for Improvisation
    MIT Press

    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...
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  • Sifting the Trash: A History of Design CriticismSifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism
    MIT Press

    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...
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  • A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern AgeA Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age
    Bloomsbury

    A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age

    Despina Stratigakos Hardcover | 17.02 x 1.4 x 24.26 cm | 264 pp Bloomsbury | 2022 | 9781472584304 Exploring the place of, and the cultural practices associated with, the home from 1920 to the present day.  In the last century, our understandings of home have...
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  • Pretense Design: Surface Over SubstancePretense Design: Surface Over Substance
    MIT Press

    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...
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  • Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Non-mint)Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Non-mint)
    Bloomsbury

    Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Non-mint)

    Alexndra Lange Hardcover | 16.64 x 3.05 x 24.13 cm | 320 pp Bloomsbury | 2022 | 9781635576023 Few places have been as nostalgised, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce, the agora...
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  • Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World WarsJan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars
    Yale University Press

    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...
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  • Not Quite Architecture: Writing Around Alison and Peter SmithsonNot Quite Architecture: Writing Around Alison and Peter Smithson
    MIT Press

    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....
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  • Reading Graphic Design History: Image, Text, and ContextReading Graphic Design History: Image, Text, and Context
    Bloomsbury

    Reading Graphic Design History: Image, Text, and Context

    David Raizman & Steven Heller Softcover | 19 x 1.52 x 24.79 cm | 320 pp Bloomsbury | 2020 | 9781474299411 Reading Graphic Design History uses a series of key texts from the history of print culture to address issues of class, race and gender. It...
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  • Chatter: Architecture Talks BackChatter: Architecture Talks Back
    Yale University Press

    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,...
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  • Graphic Design: The New BasicsGraphic Design: The New Basics
    Princeton Architectural Press

    Graphic Design: The New Basics

    Ellen Lupton & Jennifer Cole Phillips Hardcover 20.96 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 248 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2008 | 9781568987705 How do designers get ideas? Many spend their time searching for clever combinations of forms, fonts, and colours inside the design annuals and...
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