Design Books

A selection of beautiful design books you’ll want to stack on your coffee table (and actually read).

When Book Jackets Were Bad, Hawkins’s Were Good

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The Importance of Impossible Structures

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An L.A. View of Meggs’s N.Y. School of Design

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Many Happy (Tax) Returns: A Marxist Doctrine

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Bauhaus For Sale

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Vandercook is Cookin’ at 100+

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Mastering Typography on the Cheap

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Ten (or More) Things You Didn’t Know About Herb Lubalin

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Survival Information Graphics

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Designers and Books: A Great Fair for Fair Weather

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Big Problem, Small Page

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Comics/FX Artist on Gore Garters, Sequential Paintings, and the Benefits of Taste Over Skill

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Ultimate Expression: Polaroid, Google, and A New American Picture

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Bucky Fuller’s Book: “I Seem To Be a Topsy-Turvy Design”

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My Ideal Bookshelf: The Books That Make the Designer

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Design Artifacts Are History

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The Disturbing, Ethereal Comics of C.S. Pego, a Mexican Artist in Exile

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The Graphic Canon: An Anthology to Read and Look At

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The Seventh Seal of Disapproval

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Max Bill and Die Gute Form

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Where Match Men Light the World

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Print is Still Dead (Again): Digital Textbooks

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R. Crumb’s Sketchbooks

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Branding & Identity Design

“We Hate Everything”: A Visual History of Punk