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BOOKS ON DESIGN THEORY, AESTHETICS AND HISTORY

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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 255 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2023 p. 152   

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ISBN 9788419233417 FLAT40
List Price: $55.00 CAD $79.00 GBP £45.00

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THE FALL 2025 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG

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A Handmade Modernism

Artisanal Design in Mexico, 1952–2022

Edited with text by Ana Elena Mallet, Cuauhtémoc Medina. Text by Rosa Beltrán, Alonso de Garay Montero, Alejandro Legorreta González, Jorge F. Rivas, Deborah Dorotinsky, Clara Porset, Max Kerlow, Alfonso Soto Soria.

A Handmade Modernism

A treasure trove of Mexican modernist design uniting craft and industry from the past seven decades

In 1952, Cuban Mexican designer Clara Porset organized Mexico’s first design exhibition, El arte en la vida diaria: Objetos de buen diseño hechos en México (Art in Daily Life: Well-Designed Objects Made in Mexico). The show marked a turning point in the trajectory of Mexican design by envisioning the unification of local traditions and industrialization.
A Handmade Modernism reviews the notion of craft design produced and theorized in Mexico from 1950 to the present, tracing a genealogy of artists, designers and craftspeople who have created a hybrid, mestizo material culture, and thereby create an image of a new way of life. Through a series of essays, installation shots and archival images, the book examines the wealth of industrial graphic design, clothing, furniture, objects, jewelry and fashion created during the last 70 years in Mexico.


A Handmade Modernism

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FORTHCOMING AND NEW: DESIGN AND DECORATIVE ARTS

Design Struggles

DESIGN STRUGGLES

Valiz

ISBN: 9789493246522
USD $35.00
| CAD $49

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


Modern Americanness

MODERN AMERICANNESS

KANT

ISBN: 9788074374401
USD $75.00
| CAD $105

Pub Date: 10/7/2025
Forthcoming


Design and Visual Communication

DESIGN AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION

Inventory Press

ISBN: 9781941753712
USD $32.50
| CAD $45 UK £ 26

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


Post-Digital Print

POST-DIGITAL PRINT

Set Margins’ publications

ISBN: 9789083499376
USD $28.00
| CAD $38

Pub Date: 6/24/2025
Active | In stock


The Design Comedy: The Descent through Inferno

THE DESIGN COMEDY: THE DESCENT THROUGH INFERNO

Set Margins’ publications

ISBN: 9789083499369
USD $20.00
| CAD $28

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


The Last Basket Makers from Risa

THE LAST BASKET MAKERS FROM RISA

Set Margins’ publications

ISBN: 9789083499307
USD $25.00
| CAD $35

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


Ninety-Nine Graphic Design Workshops

NINETY-NINE GRAPHIC DESIGN WORKSHOPS

Set Margins’ publications

ISBN: 9789083499314
USD $30.00
| CAD $42

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


Visualization as Assemblage

VISUALIZATION AS ASSEMBLAGE

Set Margins’ publications

ISBN: 9789083499383
USD $27.00
| CAD $38

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


Disarming Design

DISARMING DESIGN

Valiz

ISBN: 9789493246447
USD $32.50
| CAD $45

Pub Date: 11/18/2025
Forthcoming


Designerly Ways of Knowing

DESIGNERLY WAYS OF KNOWING

Set Margins’ publications

ISBN: 9789083449883
USD $18.00
| CAD $27

Pub Date: 2/11/2025
Active | In stock


Splendours of the Atlas

SPLENDOURS OF THE ATLAS

Silvana Editoriale

ISBN: 9788836658930
USD $45.00
| CAD $68

Pub Date: 5/27/2025
Active | In stock


Folds

FOLDS

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783753307329
USD $39.95
| CAD $59.95

Pub Date: 4/15/2025
Active | In stock