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Neuland: The Future of German Graphic Design
Twopoints.net
Actar, 2009
Can graphic design have national characteristics in the age of the internet and globalisation? Although much of what’s on show here could come from anywhere in modern Europe, a legacy of Germanic self-belief hangs about this collection of confident work by confident young German graphic designers. Look in vain, however, for wine labels or menu cards: this is the graphic design of self-exploration and cultural enquiry. [AS]
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Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance
Geoffrey Batchen
Princeton Architectural Press, 2004
Meditations on photography as a mnemonic device by one of our premier critics. Batchen examines the emotional appeal of photographs by revealing the many ways they are embellished — with text, paint, frames, embroidery, fabric, string, hair and more — to create strange and often beautiful memento mori. [JH]
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The L.A. Earthquake Sourcebook
Judith Lewis & David Ulin, editors
Designmatters at Art Center College of Design, 2009
Anything anyone could want to know about earthquakes and not only L.A. earthquakes, but earthquakes in general. This book covers such topics as the myth of “earthquake weather,” to preparedness, to the art of living in perpetual denial of the inevitable. Created by the students and faculty of Art Center College of Design, designed by Stefan Sagmeister and including various essays and illustrations by many notables. [JSC]
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Art of McSweeney's
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Six Books of Euclid
Werner Oechslin

Type Rules!
Ilene Strizver

Thoughts on Interaction Design
Jon Kolko

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Petah Coyne
Denise Markonish

Vintage Magazine
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Amazing Public Domain Images Sourcebook
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Revolution and War
Karl Marx

Of the Dawn of Freedom
W. E. B. DuBois

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Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations
Ingrid Schaffner

The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition
University of Chicago Press Staff, editors

Governing for Sustainable Urban Development
Yvonne Rydin

Unit: Design/Research 02
Tony Brook & Adrian Shaughnessy

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Tony Brook & Adrian Shaughnessy, editors

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