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California Design: The Legacy of West Coast Craft and Style by Jo Lauria Publisher Comments The furniture, jewelry, recreational objects, ceramics, fabric arts, and other designs that emerged from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s California would come to identify its outdoorsy, eccentric, sometimes entirely funky persona. And the best of these... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.97 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman Publisher Comments A popular, entertaining, and insightful analysis of why some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them. B & W photographs and illustrations throughout.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design by Henry Petroski Publisher Comments Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? What circuitous chain of improvements led to such innovations as the automobile cup holder and the swiveling vegetable peeler? With the same relentless... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design by Steven Heller Publisher Comments New in the 100 Ideas that Changed... series, this book demonstrates how ideas influenced and defined graphic design, and how those ideas have manifested themselves in objects of design. The 100 entries, arranged broadly in chronological order, range from... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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History of Graphic Design (4TH 06 - Old Edition) by Philip Meggs Publisher Comments Now in its Fourth Edition, this unrivaled, seminal work continues its long tradition of providing balanced insight and thorough historical background. Under the new authorial leadership of Alston Purvis, this authoritative book offers more than 450 new... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $54.00 Used - Hardcover
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Graphic Design: A History (Discoveries) by Alain Weill Publisher Comments This tightly knit account examines the birth, development, and evolution of graphic art, or commercial art, from its beginnings in late-19th-century Europe through the Information Age 100 years later. Graphic design began as artisan experimentation in... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Forms in Modernism - A Visual Set: The Unity of Typography, Architecture, and the Design Arts 1920's -1970's by Virginia Smith Publisher Comments What do typefaces and buildings have in common? A great deal, according to typographic design expert, and former university professor, Virginia Smith. Smith believes that typography is the unifying discipline through which we can understand, analyze, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Flexible
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The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to Be as They Are. by Henry Petroski Publisher Comments How did the table fork acquire a fourth tine? What advantage does the Phillips-head screw have over its single-grooved predecessor? Why does the paper clip look the way it does? What makes Scotch tape Scotch? In this delightful book Henry, Petroski takes... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design by Michael Bierut Publisher Comments Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writingserious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Covering... (read more) Your price: $27.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Toothpick: Technology and Culture (Vintage) by Henry Petroski Publisher Comments A celebration culture and technology, as seen through the history of the humble yet ubiquitous toothpick, from the best-selling author of The Pencil. From ancient Rome, where emperor Nero made his entrance into a banquet hall with a silver toothpick in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Designing Pornotopia: Travels in Visual Culture by Rick Poynor Publisher Comments Explicit sexual imagery has erupted in every medium and on every surface. While some react to it by pointing and laughing, hardly anyone has stopped to seriously consider its impact. Behind this phenomenon lies the normalization of pornography, which... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection by Deborah Rothschild Publisher Comments Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection Drawing from Merrill C. Berman's spectacular private collection of twentieth-century posters, ads, photomontages, and graphic ephemera, this book showcases more than two hundred examples of progressive... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mid Century Ads: Advertising from the Mad Men Era (25) by Jim Heiman Synopsis Consumerism galore in mid-century advertising In this TASCHEN 25 edition, you'll find ads for cars, travel, technology, liquor, cigarettes, movies, appliances, furniture, war bonds, toothpaste, you name it—the full spectrum of products and... (read more) List Price $59.99 Your price: $49.99 Sale - Trade Paper
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Emigre 67 by Rudy Vanderlans Publisher Comments In his essay "Style is Not a Four Letter Word," Mr. Keedy looks at the continuing feud in design between style and content, form and function, and even pleasure and utility, and tries to pin down how style got such a bad reputation, and how restoring its... (read more) Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski Synopsis How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s — the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Design of Everyday Things ((Rev)02 Edition) by Donald A. Norman Publisher Comments First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came service. Now, Donald A. Norman, former Director of the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of California, reveals how smart design is the new competitive frontier... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Graphic Design: A Concise History (World of Art) by Richard Hollis Publisher Comments This authoritative documentary history begins with the poster and goes on to chart the development of word and image in brochures and magazines, advertising, corporate identity, television, and electronic media, and the impact of technical innovations... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Industrial Design A-Z by Charlotte Fiell Publisher Comments If you take even the slightest interest in the design of your toothbrush, the history behind your washing machine, or the evolution of the telephone, you'll take an even greater interest in this new book. Individual designers and design firms can be... (read more) Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Graphic Style : From Victorian To New Century (3RD 11 Edition) by Steven Heller Publisher Comments This visual survey of graphic design styles through the ages is an essential resource for designers, art and design students, and art lovers. With more than 700 illustrations, it is the only wide-ranging history of graphic design to be completely visual,... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design (07 Edition) by Michael Bierut Publisher Comments "Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design" brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writing serious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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