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December 16, 2008

Books Received: Winter 2009

New books keep piling up here at Design Observer. During this winter season, we thought we’d share some of the many recently published titles we have received over the past couple of months. Maybe you’ll find a surprise or two…


Salar Abdoh & Charlotte Noruzi
Urban Iran
Mark Batty, 2008
Vince Aletti, editor
Look at me: Photographs from Mexico City by Jed Fielding
University Of Chicago Press, 2009
Nathan Troi Anderson & J. K. Putnam
Decay
Mark Batty, 2008
Helen Armstrong
Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field
Princeton Architectural Press, 2009
Bryan Bell & Katie Wakeford, editors
Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism
Metropolis Books, 2008
Alexis Bernier, Yorgo Tloupa & Adrian Shaughnessey(
H5: This is the End
JRP Ringier, 2009
Gabrielle Brainard, Rustam Mehta & Thomas Moran, editors
Perspecta 41 “Grand Tour”
MIT Press, 2008
Martha Cooper
Going Postal
Mark Batty Publisher, 2009
Timothy Donaldson
Shapes for sounds (cowhouse)
Mark Batty, 2008
Brian Dougherty
Green Graphic Design
Allworth Press, 2009
Sylvia A. Earle & Linda K. Glover
Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas
National Geographic, 2008
Michael Erlhoff & Timothy Marshall, editors
Design Dictionary: Perspectives on Design Terminology
Birkhäuser Basel, 2008
Susan Greenberg Fisher
Picasso and the Allure of Language
Yale University Press, 2009
Conny Freyer, Sebastien Noel, Eva Rucki & Paola Antonelli
Digital by Design: Crafting Technology for Products and Environments
Thames & Hudson, 2009
Kay Gardiner & Ann Meador Shayne
Mason-Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitters’ Guide: Stories, Patterns, Advice, Opinions, Questions, Answers, Jokes, and Pictures
Potter Craft, 2006
David Gibson
The Wayfinding Handbook: Information Design for Public Places
Princeton Architectural Press, 2009
Milton Glaser
Drawing is Thinking
Overlook Hardcover, 2008
Seth Godin
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Portfolio Hardcover, 2008
Michael J. Golec & Aron Vinegar, editors
Relearning from Las Vegas
University Of Minnesota Press, 2008
Sarah Greenough, editor
Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, Expanded Edition
National Gallery Of Art, 2009
Steven Heller, editor
Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned
Allworth Press, 2009
Hannah B Higgins
The Grid Book
MIT Press, 2009
Ada Louise Huxtable
On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
Walker & Company, 2008
R. Klanten & H. Hellige
Playful Type: Ephemeral Lettering and Illustrative Fonts
Die Gestalten Verlag, 2008
Robert J. Krawczyk
The Codewriting Workbook: Creating Computational Architecture in AutoLISP
Princeton Architectural Press, 2008
Daniel Libeskind & Paul Goldberger
Counterpoint: Daniel Libeskind in Conversation with Paul Goldberger
Monacelli Press, 2008
Zeina Maasri
Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War
I. B. Tauris, 2009
Maggie Macnab
Decoding Design: Understanding and Using Symbols in Visual Communication
How, 2008
Sadako Ohki
Tea Culture of Japan
YU Art Gallery, 2009
Martin Parr
Everybody Dance Now: Photographs by Martin Parr
Editions 2wice, 2009
Pentagram
Pentagram: Marks: 400 Symbols and Logotypes
Laurence King, 2009
Graham Pullin
Design Meets Disability
MIT Press, 2009
Ake Rudolf
Urban Guerilla Protest
Mark Batty, 2008
Gerlinde Schuller
Designing Universal Knowledge: The World as Flatland — Report 1
Lars Müller Publishers, 2008
Paul Rudolph & Robert A. M. Stern
Writings on Architecture
Yale School of Architecture, 2008
Neil Spiller
Digital Architecture Now: A Global Survey of Emerging Talent
Thames & Hudson, 2009
The Junior League of Houston
Peace Meals
The Junior League of Houston, 2008
Type Directors Club
Typography 29
Collins Design, 2009
Paul Virilio
Bunker Archaeology
Princeton Architectural Press, 2008
Emily Warn
Shadow Architect
Copper Canyon Press, 2008
Richard Saul Wurman
Understanding Children
TOP, 2002