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June 30, 2008

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