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Collections of Nothing
William Davies King
University of Chicago Press, 2008
Nearly everyone collects something, unless you're William Davies King, in which case you collect, well, pretty much everything — from broken bits of furniture to retro cereal boxes, his tales of aggregating so much stuff are at turns funny, poignant, deeply human and delightfully visual. [JH]
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The Altered Landscape
Edited by Ann M. Wolfe, with contributions by Lucy R. Lippard, Geoff Manaugh, and W.J.T. Mitchell
Skira Rizzoli, 2011
A comprehensive catalogue of an exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art incorporating the work of dozens of contemporary photographers, all focused on revealing, in the words of curator Ann M. Wolfe, "the ways that individuals and industries have marked, mined, toured, tested, developed, occupied, and exploited landscapes over the last fifty years." [NL]
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Marina City: Bertrand Goldberg's Urban Vision
Igor Marjanovic and Katerina Rüedi Ray
Princeton Architectural Press, 2010
Marina City is a handsome monograph on Chicago's beloved corncob towers. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, anyone? [ML]
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Guaranteed to Last: L.L. Bean's Century of Outfitting America
Jim Gorman

A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
Errol Morris

Collage Culture: Examining the 21st Century's Identity Crisis
Aaron Rose and Mandy Kahn

Sustainable Design: A Critical Guide
David Bergman

In Search of the Miraculous: Or, One Thing Leads to Another
Milton Glaser

Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character
Jack Hitt

Portfolio Design
Harold Linton

Toward a Minor Architecture
Jill Stoner

Up on the Roof: New York's Hidden Skyline Spaces
Alex MacLean

Princeton: America's Campus
W. Barksdale Maynard

Grete Prytz Kittelsen: The Art of Enamel Design
Karianne Bjellås Gilje

Kapow!
Adam Thirlwell

Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art
Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel

Alphabet Everywhere
Elliott Kaufman

100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design
Steven Heller and Veronique Vienne

American Urban Form: A Representative History
Sam Bass Warner and Andrew H. Whittemore

The Color Revolution
Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Playful Design
John Ferrara

Stop, Think, Go, Do: How Typography & Graphic Design Influence Behavior
Steven Heller and Mirko Ilic

INVENTARIO 04: Everything is a project
Beppe Finessi, editor

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