Books Received: Summer 2008

New books have been piling up again at Design Observer. We thought we’d share some of the many recently published titles we have received over the past couple of months — with a few older titles just stumbled upon. Maybe you’ll find a surprise or two…

	Dan Ariely Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions Harper Collins, 2008 Elizabeth Armstrong The Birth of Cool: California Art, Design and Culture at Midcentury Prestel Publishing, 2007
	Barbara Bloom, Dave Hickey & Susan Tallman The Collections of Barbara Bloom Steidl/ICP, 2008
	Mel Bochner Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews, 1965–2007 The MIT Press, 2008
	Ricky Burdett & Deyan Sudjic The Endless City Phaidon Press, 2008
	Stefanie Burger, Jorre Both & Cees W. de Jong New Poster Art Thames & Hudson, 2008
	Jean M. Burks Shaker Design: Out of this World Yale University Press, 2008
	R. V. Branham Curse and Berate in 69+ Languages Soft Skull Press, 2008
	Pauline Van Mourik Broekman, Damian Jaques & Simon Worthington Mute Magazine Eight Books, 2008
	Rob Carter Meggs: Making Graphic Design History Wiley, 2007
	Lucy Creagh, Helena Kaberg & Barbara Miller Lane, editors Modern Swedish Design: Three Founding Texts The Museum of Modern Art, 2008
	Daab Books Broadcast Design Daab/Mul Edition, 2007
	Graham Davis The Designer’s Toolkit: Thousands of Color Combinations Chronicle Books, 2008
	Michael Dooley & Steven Heller Teaching Motion Design: Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Undergraduate and Graduate Programs Allworth Press, 2008 Nathan Dunne, editor Tarkovsky Black Dog Publishing, 2008
	Johanna Drucker & Emily McVarish Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide Prentice Hall, 2008
	Gabrielle Esperdy Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal University of Chicago Press, 2008
	Ed Fella & Geoff McFetridge Two Lines Align: Drawings and Graphic Design Redcat, 2008 Robert S. P. Fripp & R. Roger Remington Design and Science: The Life and Work of Will Burtin Ashgate, 2007
	Joseph Grima & Karen Wong, editors Shift: SANAA and the New Museum Lars Müller Publishers, 2008 Juergen Gulbins & Uwe Steinmueller Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with Inkjet Printers Rocky Nook, 2008 Robert Poque Harrison Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition University of Chicago Press, 2008
	K. Michael Hays & Dana A. Miller Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe Yale University Press, 2008
	Steven Heller Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalarian State Phaidon Press, 2008
	Steven Heller & Mirko Ilic Icons of Graphic Design, Second Edition Thames & Hudson, 2008
	Hesign, editor The Master of Design: Pierre Bernard Page One Publishing, 2007 Roxanne Jubert Typography and Graphic Design: From Antiquity to the Present Flammarion, 2006
	Christina Kiaer Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism (Life and Mind Series) The MIT Press, 2008
	William Davies King Collections of Nothing University of Chicago Press, 2008
	Sanford Kwinter & Cynthia Davidson, editor Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture Actar, 2008
	Alix Lambert Crime Fuel Publishing, 2008
	Tod Lippy, editor Esopus 10 Esopus Foundation, 2008
	Ellen Lupton & Phillips Jennifer Cole Graphic Design: The New Basics Princeton Architectural Press, 2008
	Josh MacPhee & Favianna Rodriguez, editors Reproduce and Revolt Soft Skull Press, 2008
	Josh MacPhee Stencil Pirates Soft Skull Press, 2004
	Alberto Manguel The Library at Night Yale University Press, 2008
	Daniel Mason Materials, Process, Print: Creative Ideas for Graphic Design Laurence King Publishers, 2007
	Susan Meiselas Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History Random House, 1997 Grant McCracken Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture Indiana University Press, 2008
	Craig Mod & Ashley Rawlings, editors Art Space Tokyo Chin Music Press, 2008 Laurent Pflughaupt Letter by Letter Princeton Architectural Press, 2008
	Phaidon Editors Area 2 Phaidon Press, 2008 Ramon Prat & Tomoko Sakamoto Super Holland Design Actar, 2007
	Christian de Portzamparc & Philippe Sollers Writing and Seeing Architecture University Of Minnesota Press, 2008
	Graham Rawle Woman’s World: A Novel Counterpoint, 2008
	Robynne Raye & Michael Strassburger Modern Dog: 20 Years of Poster Art Chronicle Books, 2008
	Darrel Rees How to be an Illustrator Laurence King Publishers, 2008
	Robert J. Richards The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought University of Chicago Press, 2008
	Joseph Rosa Figuration in Contemporary Design Art Institute of Chicago, 2008
	Elizabeth Royte Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It Bloomsbury USA, 2008
	Zoe Ryan Graphic Thought Facility Art Institute of Chicago, 2008
	Sam Sarowitz Translating Hollywood Mark Batty Publisher, 2008
	William S. Saunders, editor Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader University of Minnesota Press, 2008
	Jutta Schickore The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections, 1740-1870 University of Chicago Press, 2007
	Paul Schimmel, editor Murakami Rizzoli, 2007
	Dean Schwarz & Geraldine Schwarz, editors Marguerite Wildenhain and the Bauhaus: An Eyewitness Anthology South Bear Press, 2007
	Felicity Scott Ant Farm: Living Archive Actar, Columbia Gsapp, 2008
	Richard Sennett The Craftsman Yale University Press, 2008 Adrian Shaughnessy Cover Art By: New Music Graphics Laurence King Publishers, 2008 Aaris Sherin SustainAble: A Handbook of Materials and Applications for Graphic Designers and Their Clients Rockport Publishers, 2008
	Stoltze Design 1,000 Music Graphics: A Compilation of Packaging, Posters and Other Sound Solutions Rockport Publishers, 2008
	Sherry Turkle Falling for Science: Objects in Mind The MIT Press, 2008
	Tom Vanderbilt Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us) Knopf, 2008
	Anthony Vidler Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism The MIT Press, 2008 Rob Walker Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are Random House, 2008
	David Watkin Thomas Hope: Regency Designer Yale University Press, 2008
	Luke Wroblewski Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks Rosenfeld Media, 2008
	Indi Young Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior Rosenfeld Media, 2008