|  AC/DC: Contemporary Art/Contemporary Design Text by Paola Antonelli, Anthony Dunne, Alice Rawsthorn, Hal Foster, Gaetano Pesce, Wava Carpenter, Alexandra Midal, et al. AC/DC: Contemporary Art/Contemporary Design tackles the difficult, traditionally divisive relationship between art and design. Recently, new practices and perspectives in both worlds have surfaced, putting this division under new scrutiny. An over >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037640128
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 280 pgs / 94 color / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/In stock
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|  As Long as It's Pink By Penny Sparke. What is the legacy of the architectural and design movement of the mid-twentieth century? Did it deliver its promised vision of an egalitarian, democratic society supported by aesthetically simple, mass-produced goods whose forms fulfilled their >>more
The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
ISBN 9780919616516
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Chasing The Perfect: Thoughts On Modernist Design In Our Time By Natalia Ilyin. Foreword by Susan S. Szenasy. In Chasing the Perfect writer/designer Natalia Ilyin delivers her astute, incisive and humorous observations on design and the world it has molded. According to Ilyin, “Modern design is based on deeply idealist notions, and its >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781933045214
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Hardcover, 6 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 25 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/15/2005 Active/In stock
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|  Contemporary Glass Art Foreword Chantal Prod'Hom. Text by Bettina Tschumi, Rosmarie Lippuner, Gabrielle Guth, Susanne K. Frantz, Jean Luc Olivié, Catherine Vandour, Helmut Ricke, Catherine Montouchet-Zoritchak. At more than 400 pages, this catalogue of the amazing contemporary glass collection of the MUDAC, or Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland, features work by 310 artists from the 1960s >>more
La Bibliothèque des Arts
ISBN 9782884531276
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Hardcover, 8.75 x 9 in. / 405 pgs / illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Criss & Cross: Design from Switzerland 1860-2007 Texts by Ariana Pradal, Köbi Gantenbein. From Le Corbusier to the Helvetica font, Switzerland has produced some of the most influential product and graphic design of the twentieth century. This sleek volume collects the best examples spanning from the early twentieth >>more
La Bibliothèque des Arts
ISBN 9782884531344
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Hardcover, 7.5 x 9.5 / 176 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People By Emily Pilloton. Foreword by Allan Chochinov. In January of 2008, with a thousand dollars, a laptop and an outsized conviction that design can change the world, rising San Francisco-based product designer and activist Emily Pilloton launched Project H Design, a radical >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781933045955
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Pbk, 8 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Design and the Elastic Mind Edited by Paola Antonelli. Text by Paola Antonelli, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Peter Hall, Ted Sargent. Over the past few decades, we have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter and individuality. Today our minds must be able to synthesize such transformations, >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707322
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Paperback 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/Not available
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|  Dutch Design Yearbook 2009 Edited by Timo de Rijk, Vincent van Baar, Bert van Meggelen. Whether in industrial design, fashion, graphic design or architecture, Dutch design has won international acclaim in recent years. This first edition of the Dutch Design Yearbook, which comes in four different-colored covers, presents an overview >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056626983
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Pbk, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 216 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Dutch Design Yearbook 2010 Edited by Timo de Rijk, Vincent van Baar, Antoine Achten, Bert van Meggelen. Text by Glenn Adamson, Rick Poynor, Aaron Betsky. Following the success of the first Dutch Design Yearbook (2009), produced to record the recent ascent of the Netherlands to the forefront of European design, the editorial team of Timo de Rijk, Antoine Achten, Vincent >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056627553
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Pbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 216 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Every Thing Design Edited by Christian Brändle, Verena Formanek. Text by Christian Brändle, Glenn Adamson. The great Dutch book designer Irma Boom designed this handsome, hefty gem, which features 700 prints, posters and other objects from the collection of Zurich's Gestaltung Museum. It is a collection renowned worldwide for its >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775723312
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Hbk, 4.75 x 6 in. / 800 pgs / 600 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Foundation Design Studio Text by Gilead Duvshani. What is design? How is design taught? What is the starting point for a design course? Is there a clear method for teaching design? In this volume, professor Gilead Duvshani engages these questions, introducing a >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803032119
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Pbk, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 244 pgs / 300 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Active/In stock
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|  From the South Seas Edited by Christraud M. Geary. Essays by Michael Gunn and Christraud M. Geary. From New Guinea to New Zealand, Easter Island to Hawaii, the Pacific region known as Oceania has long excited the Western imagination, but its traditional sculptures, pots and paintings have only recently been studied and >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466979
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Clothbound, 9 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 90 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2006 Active/In stock
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|  How to Break the Rules of Brand Design in 10+8 Easy Exercises Introduction by Beppe Finessi. Text by Stefano Caprioli, Pietro Corraini. For many years, the concept of "branding" involved the creation of a distinct graphic element that could be produced on everything involved with a particular brand. This cheeky handbook, produced under the welcome influence of >>more
Edizioni Corraini
ISBN 9788875701642
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Pbk, 4.5 x 6.5 in. / 88 pgs / 33 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Josef Hoffmann: Autobiography By Josef Hoffman. Edited by Peter Noever, Marek Pokorn. Text by Martina Straková, Rainald Franz. As a co-founder of the Secession, the Wiener Werkstätte and the Österreichischer Werkbund, Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) had a decisive influence on modern Viennese architecture and design. Around 1948, Hoffmann wrote this autobiography, tracing his life >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775724739
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 144 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Modern Essays by Elisabetta Bresciani, Marco de Michelis and Cath»rine de Smet. Conversation with Elisabetta Bresciani and Edigio Marzona. Over 500 books on twentieth-century architecture from the Marzona Collection are represented here via bibliographic information, photographic documentation, and notes on architectural and typographic history. A focus on the parallels between typography a >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783851600315
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Paperback, 9.25 x 7.25 in. / 280 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Active/In stock
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|  Modern Swedish Design Edited by Lucy Creagh, Helena Kåberg, Barbara Miller Lane. Text by Lucy Creagh, Kenneth Frampton, Barbara Miller Lane, Helena Kåberg. Although modern Swedish design has exercised an extraordinary influence on international architecture and interior furnishings since the early twentieth century, some of the crucial generative writings on the subject have not been widely translated, and >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707223
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Paperback, 7.25 x 10.5 in. / 320 pgs / 18 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  NeoCraft Edited by Sandra Alfondy. Text by Grace Cochrane, Elizabeth Cumming, Tanya Harrod, Janice Helland, David Howard, David Howes, Love Jönsson, Beverly Lemire, Joseph McBrinn, Bruce Metcalf, B. Lynne Milgram, Alla Myzelev, John Potvin, Mike Press, Larry Shiner. The crafts have long occupied a marginal role in Modernist discourse. Neo Craft challenges this assumption with a wide selection of scholarly essays exploring the historical and contemporary positions that the crafts hold within visual >>more
The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
ISBN 9780919616479
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Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 273 pgs / 65 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Pre-Specifics Edited by Vera Bühlmann, Martin Wiedmer. Text by Anthony Dunne, Greg Lynn. The demand for design competence crosses almost all disciplinary boundaries, making the designers of today particularly ubiquitous in their influence. Pre-Specifics argues that the most promising strategies for the design disciplines of tomorrow c >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905829303
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 390 pgs / 1 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Studio Najbrt: Life Happiness Surprise The Czech graphic design studio Najbrt has carved out an extraordinary spot in its home market: total ubiquity. Founder and principal Ales Najbrt designs books (Czech100 Design Icons), magazines (Raut), dinner plates (with abstract calligra >>more
Torst
ISBN 9788072152988
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 272 pgs / 1280 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  The Design Encyclopedia By Mel Byars. The Museum of Modern Art Design Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive design reference guide to date. Compiled over the last 15 years by Mel Byars, in consultation with an international team of design experts, The >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870700125
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Clothbound, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 832 pgs / 700 color.
Pub Date: 06/02/2004 Active/In stock
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|  Web Aesthetics By Vito Campanelli. The rise of social media and digital networks has been so dizzyingly swift that any cogent appraisal of the aesthetics of the web has, until now, been almost impossible to propose. A much-anticipated book, Web >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056627706
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 276 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Why Design Now? National Design Triennial Text by Ellen Lupton, Cara McCarty, Matilda McQuaid, Cynthia Smith. Why design now? As issues of ecology and sustainable living continue to gain in urgency and topicality, design has come to the forefront of the arts as the discipline best equipped to meet today's challenges. >>more
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 9780910503877
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11 / 192 pgs / 370 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Anni & Josef Albers Edited by Brenda Danilowitz, Heinz Liesbrock. Text by Brenda Danilowitz, Jenny Anger, Kiki Gilderhus, et al. Josef Albers (1888–1976) was a highly influential painter, color theorist and teacher--a monumental figure in international postwar art and aesthetics; his wife and artistic equal, Anni Albers (1899–1994), created important textile artworks as well as >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775720571
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Hardback, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 228 pgs / 172 color / 69 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2008 Out of print/Not available
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|  Collections/Connections Foreword by Pierre-Olivier Rollin. Introduction by Françoise Foulon. Text by Silvana Annicchiarico. This excellent collection of twentieth and twenty-first century design features key examples of the last century's best industrial objects from the Art Nouveau period to the present, with pieces by Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, Shiro Kuramata, Ettore >>more
Stichting Kunstboek
ISBN 9789058562333
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Hardcover, 9 x 9 in. / 120 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Out of print/Not available
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|  Hole In The Wall Edited by Judith M. Grieshaber. Text by Manfred Kr‡plien. This book comes right to the point, three pages in: Man becomes stupid and ugly when he is lacking utopian ideas. Thus, the Hole in the Wall means that behind the walls of our conventions >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775791212
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CD ROM.
Pub Date: 03/02/2003 Out of print/Not available
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|  Identities Contributions by Toon Lauwen. Text by Hugues Boekraad. >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056621421
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Paperback, 9.5 x 6.5 in. / 148 pgs / 69 color
Pub Date: 02/02/2000 Out of print/Not available
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|  Mood River Essays by Jeff Kipnis, Sanford Kwinter, Annetta Massie, Chee Perlman and Jose Oubrerie. Foreword by Philip Johnson. Introduction by Sherri Geldin. From an i-MAC computer to a Karim Rashid trashcan to a Philippe Starck stool to an Issey Miyake coat to a Frank Gehry building, design shapes our sense of being in today's world. Mood River >>more
Wexner Center for the Arts
ISBN 9781881390305
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Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 200 pgs / 138 color / 25 b&w
Pub Date: 02/02/2002 Out of print/Not available
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|  Siemens Industrial Design Essay by Christoph Hoesch. Siemens, one of the world's oldest and largest electrical companies, can boast of more than 100 years of product design history. This colorful past vividly illustrates the fact that design has played a more important >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775791816
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 12.5 in. / 304 pgs / 200 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Out of print/Not available
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|  Xavier Lust Text by Lise Coirier, Cristina Morozzi. Xavier Lust is one of the brightest lights in a recent wave of Belgian designers--such as Tom de Wulf, Jean Wauters and Frans van Praet--to achieve international recognition. Known in Belgium since the 1990s for >>more
Stichting Kunstboek
ISBN 9789058562111
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.25 in. / 160 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2007 Out of print/Not available
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