Here are our top 25 bestselling titles for the month: (Click here to see the same list for the year)
1.
Map as Art, The: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, by Katharine Harmon, Gayle Clemans
ISBN 9781568989723, paperback binding, $29.95
As seen in
O: The Oprah Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Cool Hunting, and countless other media outlets, The Map as ...
4.
Graphic Design: The New Basics, by Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Cole Phillips
ISBN 9781568987026, paperback binding, $35.00
How do designers get ideas? Many spend their time searching for clever combinations of forms, fonts, and colors inside the design annuals and monographs of ...
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5.
Manhattan Skyscrapers: Third Edition, by Eric P. Nash
ISBN 9781568989679, hardcover binding, $50.00
What do you picture when you think of New York City? For most, it is the city's distinctive skyline, made famous by countless movies and ...
6.
Stickwork, by Patrick Dougherty
ISBN 9781568989761, paperback binding, $34.95
Using minimal tools and a simple technique of bending, interweaving, and fastening together sticks, artist Patrick Dougherty creates works of art inseparable with nature and ...
7.
Projectionist, The, by Kendall Messick, Brooke Anderson
ISBN 9781568989334, hardcover binding, $40.00
"The ideal artist is unwilling to sacrifice his or her individuality to anything or anyone, particularly commercialism or outside control. Such artists often work in ...
8.
Inside the Painter's Studio, by Joe Fig
ISBN 9781568988528, paperback binding, $35.00
Inside an art gallery, it is easy to forget that the paintings there are the end products of a process involving not only creative inspiration, ...
9.
Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture, by Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams, and Jeroen Barendse
Series: Design BriefsISBN 9781568989372, paperback binding, $24.95
The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of artists whose primary medium is software. Algorithmic processes, harnessed through the medium of computer code,ÊallowÊartists to generate ...
11.
Visual Grammar, by Christian Leborg
Series: Design BriefsISBN 9781568985817, paperback binding, $21.95
Life in the image world has made us all voracious, if not always deliberate, consumers of visual messages. Easy access to computer graphic tools has ...
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13.
Stickwork, by Patrick Dougherty
ISBN 9781568988627, hardcover binding, $50.00
Using minimal tools and a simple technique of bending, interweaving, and fastening together sticks, artist Patrick Dougherty creates works of art inseparable with nature and ...
14.
Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type, by Kimberly Elam
Series: Design BriefsISBN 9781568984650, paperback binding, $21.95
Although grid systems are the foundation for almost all typographic design, they are often associated with rigid, formulaic solutions. However, the belief that all great ...
15.
D.I.Y. Design It Yourself, by Ellen Lupton
Series: Design BriefsISBN 9781568985527, paperback binding, $21.95
Not satisfied with the new T-shirts on sale at the local mall? Maybe you'd like a wedding invitation that expresses your own vision, not your ...
16.
Guerilla Art Kit, The, by Keri Smith
ISBN 9781568986883, hardcover binding, $19.95
We are living in a golden age of self-expression. The explosion of user-created content on blogs and social networking sites moved Time magazine to name ...
18.
Hand Job: A Catalog of Type, by Mike Perry
ISBN 9781568986265, paperback binding, $35.00
In this digital age of computer-generated graphics and typography, it's refreshing to find typographers who still believe in working by hand. No longer relegated to ...
20.
A Conversation with Frei Otto, by Juan María Songel
Series: Conversations with StudentsISBN 9781568988849, paperback binding, $19.95
One of the twentieth century's most important design visionaries, German architect and structural engineer Frei Otto (b. 1925) made his mark with a series of ...
21.
Exploring Materials: Creative Design for Everyday Objects, by Inna Alesina, Ellen Lupton
ISBN 9781568987682, paperback binding, $35.00
Exploring Materials invites you to get inspired by physical forms and substances. Materials are like words. The richer your design vocabulary, the more design solutions ...
23.
LEED Materials: A Resource Guide to Green Building, by Ari Meisel, Steven Winter
ISBN 9781568988856, paperback binding, $40.00
Leadership in Energy and Environment Design LEED is the most widely recognized green building rating system, and arguable the most coveted certification, in the world. ...
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2. Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students, by Ellen Lupton
3. From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association, by Kris Harzinski
10. Thinking with Type, second, revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students, by Ellen Lupton
12. Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition, by Kimberly Elam
17. You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, by Katharine Harmon
19. Elements of Design: Rowena Reed Kostellow and the Structure of Visual Relationships, by Gail Greet Hannah, Designed by Tucker Viemeister and Seth Kornfeld
22. Building Envelopes: An Integrated Approach, by Jenny Lovell
24. Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965–1995, by Kate Nesbitt
25. Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques, by Lisa Iwamoto