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A *Co-* Program for Graphic Design

Published by Inventory Press.
By David Reinfurt. Text by Danielle Aubert, Tauba Auerbach, Barbara Glauber, Shannon Harvey, Adam Michaels, Philip Ording, Adam Pendleton.

Three new graphic design courses, detailed in this volume, comprise a critical companion to Reinfurt’s bestselling DIY textbook, A *New* Program for Graphic Design

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Inventory Press

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 290 color / 40 bw.

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Pub Date 7/15/2025
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ISBN 9781941753729 TRADE
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A New Program for Graphic Design

Published by D.A.P..
By David Reinfurt. Preface by Adam Michaels. Foreword by Ellen Lupton.

A toolkit for visual literacy in the 21st century

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D.A.P.

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 40 color / 180 bw.

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Pub Date 9/17/2019
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Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 45   

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ISBN 9781941753217 TRADE
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Design History Reader

An Emerging Vision for a New Narrative

Published by Onomatopee.
Edited by Kristen Coogan.

Created by students, for students, Design History Reader espouses a pluralistic, communal approach to tackling design issues

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Onomatopee

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 324 pgs / 300 duotone.

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Pub Date 6/17/2025
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ISBN 9789493382084 TRADE
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Hands on Research for Artists, Designers & Educators

Published by Set Margins’ publications.
Edited with text by Harma Staal, Jojanneke Gijsen, Miriam Rasch.

A user-friendly manual to research methods in art and design practices

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Set Margins’ publications

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 104 pgs.

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Pub Date 2/11/2025
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ISBN 9789083404165 TRADE
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Wicked Arts Education

Designing Creative Programmes

Published by Valiz.
Text by Melissa Bremmer, Emiel Heijnen, Folkert Haanstra.

A hands-on, practical guide to designing fun and accessible art curricula for all ages

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Valiz

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 8.75 in. / 192 pgs / 100 color / 10 bw.

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Pub Date 3/4/2025
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ISBN 9789493246386 TRADE
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Fantasy

Invention, Creativity, and Imagination in Visual Communications

Published by Inventory Press.
By Bruno Munari. Translation and annotations by Jeffrey Schnapp.

The first-ever English translation of Bruno Munari’s classic treatise on creativity, replete with new contextualizing annotations

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Inventory Press

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 4.5 x 7 in. / 240 pgs / 224 bw.

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Pub Date 12/31/2024
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ISBN 9781941753705 TRADE
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Radical Fashion Exercises

A Workbook of Modes and Methods

Published by Valiz.
Edited with text by Laura Gardner, Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran. Text by Laura & Deanna Fanning, Kate Fletcher, Nakako Hayashi, Elisa van Joolen, Maria Kley, Martine Rose, Clemens Thornquist, Otto von Busch, et al.

Over 100 tried and tested exercises to expand how we look at fashion, how we are part of its system and how we can practice fashion otherwise—for students of all ages and teachers of all disciplines

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Valiz

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 304 pgs / 150 bw.

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Pub Date 10/3/2023
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Catalog: FALL 2023 p. 69   

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ISBN 9789493246195 TRADE
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The Farm at Black Mountain College

Published by Atelier Éditions/Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
By David Silver. Edited by Ananda Pellerin.

A record of the rise and fall of the BMC farm that foregrounds the voices of a new cast of characters

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Atelier Éditions/Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 7 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 2 color / 60 bw.

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Pub Date 12/17/2024
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ISBN 9781954957114 TRADE
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Who Can Afford to Be Critical?

An Inquiry into What We Can’t Do Alone, as Designers, and into What We Might Be Able to Do Together, as People

Published by Set Margins' publications.
Edited with introduction by Afonso Matos. Text by Silvio Lorusso, J. Dakota Brown, Marianela D'Aprile, Evening Class, Somnath Batt, Danielle Aubert, Jack Henrie Fisher, Alan Smart, Greg Mihalko.

On the conditions and limits of critical thinking for design culture under capitalism

PUBLISHER
Set Margins' publications

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 8.25 in. / 92 pgs / 25 duotone.

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Pub Date 9/5/2023
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ISBN 9789083270630 TRADE
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Wicked Arts Assignments

Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education

Published by Valiz.
Edited with text by Emiel Heijnen, Melissa Bremmer. Interviews by Pavčl van Houten, Jorge Lucero, Nina Paim, Erik Schrooten, Stephanie Springgay.

Fun, poetical and inspiring challenges for teaching the arts—for students of all ages and teachers of all disciplines

PUBLISHER
Valiz

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 8.75 in. / 304 pgs / 140 color / 30 bw.

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Pub Date 2/2/2021
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ISBN 9789492095756 TRADE
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Paul Klee: Bauhaus Master

Published by La Fábrica/Fundación Juan March.
Text by Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Marianne Keller Tschirren, Wolfgang Thöner.

Comprehensive in scope and elegant in design, Paul Klee: Bauhaus Master is a landmark publication resulting from several years of work in collaboration with the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, and based on a recent critical publication on Klee's "pedagogical legacy." The book contextualizes a selection of 137 works--including paintings, watercolors and drawings, made between 1899 and 1940--with nearly 100 handwritten notes selected from classes Klee gave at the Bauhaus, alongside an extensive array of archival objects and documents ranging from archival photographs to the artist's herbaria through to his reading, sketchbooks and publications. Demonstrating the unity of Klee's art and pedagogy--the unity of his hand and mind--Bauhaus Master presents an artist thinking with and through his materials and image-making practices, endlessly testing both.

Paul Klee (1879-1940) was born in Switzerland and studied at Munich's Academy of Fine Arts. Klee participated in several exhibitions between 1911 and 1913, but the breakthrough in his career was a 1914 trip to Tunis with August Macke and Louis Moillet, after which he painted his first abstract work. From 1919 he was represented by influential dealer Hans Goltz. Klee taught at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1931; when the ascent of Nazism forced the closure of the Bauhaus, Klee emigrated to Switzerland. Although still working, he was in ill health until his death in 1940.

PUBLISHER
La Fábrica/Fundación Juan March

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 292 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Pub Date 9/30/2013
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ISBN 9788415691266 TRADE
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R. Buckminster Fuller: Pattern-Thinking

Published by Lars Müller Publishers.
By Daniel López-Pérez.

For Fuller, nature is the most exquisite technology we know; and what underlies all of his work is the quest to uncover nature's fundamental principles—in order to foster their manifestation as a pattern integrity 'for successfully regenerating all life aboard our planetary spaceship.'" –Jaime Lawrence Snyder, Lars Müller Fuller Series Editor

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Lars Müller Publishers

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs / 150 color / 150 bw.

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Pub Date 12/10/2019
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ISBN 9783037786093 TRADE
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Design Is Storytelling

Published by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
By Ellen Lupton.

Ellen Lupton, award-winning author of Thinking with Type and How Posters Work, demonstrates how storytelling shapes great design

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 250 color.

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Pub Date 11/21/2017
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ISBN 9781942303190 TRADE
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Yale: History of an Art School

Published by Walther König, Köln.
By Marta Kuzma. Edited by Angie Keefer. Text by Angela Y. Davis, Linda Nochlin.

A political history of the fabled institution and its intersections with feminist representation in art

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 296 pgs / 145 color / 150 bw.

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Pub Date 7/5/2022
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Notes on My Dunce Cap

Published by Pioneer Works Press.
By Jesse Ball.

A text for those curious about education as a context for creativity and collaboration, and for teachers who want to reconsider hierarchy in their classrooms, Jesse Ball’s Notes on My Dunce Cap includes advisory material regarding the creation of syllabi and the manner in which groups may evaluate the work of an individual without harm. Ball is renowned for the unique courses he teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago, which are compiled in this volume along with extended notes on pedagogy. His meditations consider pedagogy in terms that are at once usefully broad and insightfully profound: "When it is possible for any of us to simply go and sit somewhere in the grass, and when it is such a delightful thing to do, to go and sit in the grass, whether by oneself or with others, then it is important to remember that anytime we think about teaching, or indeed, about any other activity—that we do it instead of sitting somewhere in the grass. We are passing up on the joy of solitude, and all its virtues and pleasures. Therefore, it is crucial that what happens when we teach be of the same value as time spent alone. And that is true both for ourselves and for those we teach."
Jesse Ball (born 1978) is the author of five novels, including The Curfew, Silence Once Begun and A Cure for Suicide, which was longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award, as well as several collections of poetry, including March Book. His work has appeared in numerous publications including The New Republic, The Paris Review, Oberon, Circumference and Guernica Magazine.

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Pioneer Works Press

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 4.75 x 7.25 in. / 150 pgs / 1 bw.

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Pub Date 2/23/2016
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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 66   

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ISBN 9780990593546 TRADE
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