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“maggie gram”

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  • The Invention of Design

    A Twentieth-Century History

    by Maggie Gram ...
    **From a brilliant cultural historian, a fascinating history of the twentieth century told through the story of design and its utopian promises“Fascinating, rigorously researched.” ―AtlanticA New Yorker Best Book of the Year**Design has penetrated every dimension of contemporary society, from classrooms to statehouses to corporate boardrooms. It’s seen as a kind of mega-power, one that can solve ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Technological Republic

    Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

    by Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska ...
    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street JournalFrom the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and his deputy, a critically-acclaimed and sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Cult of Creativity

    A Surprisingly Recent History

    by Samuel W. Franklin ...
    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year. "A beautifully written and well-documented account of how creativity gained the societal value it has today." —Vlad Glăveanu, author of CreativityCreativity is one of American society's signature values, but the idea that there is such a thing as "creativity"—and that it can be cultivated—is surprisingly recent, entering our everyday speech in the 1950s. As S ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Design

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Heskett ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our breakfast cereal, and the car we drive to work in, to the medical equipment used to save lives. Design combines 'need' and 'desire' in the form of a practical object that can also reflect the user's identity and aspirations through its form and decoration ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Extra Bold

    A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers

    by Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Tobias ...
    **Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative (design) career guide for everyone!Part textbook and part comic book, zine, manifesto, survival guide, and self-help manual, Extra Bold is filled with stories and ideas that don't show up in other career books or design overviews.**• Both pragmatic and inquisitive, the book explores power structures in the workplace and how to navigate them ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A City Is Not a Computer

    Other Urban Intelligences

    by Shannon Mattern ...
    Series series Places Books
    A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how cities ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Profession 2011

    by Sidonie Smith, David Palumbo-Liu, Franoise Lionnet, Robert Warrior, Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer, Nancy K. Miller, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Hillary Chute, Gillian L. Whitlock, Brian Rotman, Susan Schreibman, Laura Mandell, Stephen Olsen, Steve Anderson, Tara McPherson, Geoffrey Rockwell, Bethany Nowviskie, Jerome McGann, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Reed Way Dasenbrock, Richard Yarborough, Joyce Kinkead, Laurie Grobman, Gillian Gane, David Porter ...
    This issue of Profession contains Sidonie Smith’s introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2011 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Hillary Chute, Marianne Hirsch, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy K. Miller, David Palumbo-Liu, Brian Rotman, Leo Spitzer, Robert Warrior, and Gillian L. Whitlock. The issue also features a section on evaluating ... Read more

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  • Art in the After-Culture

    Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy

    by Ben Davis ...
    It is a peculiar moment for art, as it becomes both increasingly rarefied and associated with elite lifestyle culture, while simultaneously ubiquitous, with the boom of "creative" industries and the proliferation of new technologies for making art. In these important essays, Ben Davis covers everything from Instagram to artificial intelligence, eco-art to cultural appropriation. Critical, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Looking Closer 4

    Critical Writings on Graphic Design

    Edited by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Steven Heller ...
    The most stimulating installment yet in the acclaimed Looking Closer series! This enthralling collection of essays assembles some of the most intriguing critical commentary published in professional and general interest design magazines from 1997 to 2000. Over thirty contributors, including Rick Poynor, Kathy McCoy, Lorraine Wild, Veronique Vienne, Jessica Helfand, and others discuss such ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Citizen Designer

    Perspectives on Design Responsibility (Second Edition)

    by Steven Heller, Veronique Vienne ...
    Balancing Social, Professional, and Artistic ViewsWhat does it mean to be a designer in today's corporate-driven, overbranded global consumer culture? Citizen Designer, Second Edition, attempts to answer this question with more than seventy debate-stirring essays and interviews espousing viewpoints ranging from the cultural and the political to the professional and the social. This new edition ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Princeton Guide to Historical Research

    by Zachary Schrag ...
    Series series Skills for Scholars
    The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries.Zachary Schrag begins by ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Victor Papanek

    Designer for the Real World

    by Alison J. Clarke ...
    The history and controversial roots of the social design movement, explored through the life and work of its leading pioneer, Victor Papanek.In Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World, Alison Clarke explores the social design movement through the life of its leading pioneer, the Austrian American designer, theorist, and activist Victor Papanek. Papanek's 1971 best seller, Design for the Real ... Read more

    $23.99 USD