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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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Vendor: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...- £15.00
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Vendor: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...- £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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Vendor: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...- £24.00
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Vendor: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...- £15.00
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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...- £17.50
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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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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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Vendor: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....- £25.00
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Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design: Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut Softcover | 15.88 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 272 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2012 | 9781616890612 This collection includes writings from the 1980s through today by Michael Bierut - one of the best-respected and most-loved writers within the graphic design field. Bierut is...- £8.50
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How Design Makes Us Think and Feel and Do Things (Non-mint)
Sean Adams Softcover | 19.18 x 2.41 x 24.51 cm | 256 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2021 | 9781616899776 Design is everywhere. It’s visceral. It’s intellectual. It’s emotional. While we often discuss the aesthetics of design, we don't always dig deeper into the ways...- £20.00
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Vendor: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...- £10.00
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Vendor: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,...- £7.00
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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...- £17.50
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