Design History & Criticism

Tom Ford has become one of fashion's great icons. In the past decade, he transformed Gucci from a moribund accessories label into one of the sexiest fashio...

A "sharp and entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our soc...

The definitive primer on the world’s most popular shoe: the basketball sneaker. Basketball shoes have a long and storied history both on and off the court...

A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, showing you how to identify key designers and details and characteristics that define the most influent...

A powerful new concept from brand design pioneer Marc Gobé. It is about innovation, intuition and risk. It explores how design is the new communication t...

We are now living in a world with over one hundred brands of bottled water. The United States alone is home to over 45,000 shopping malls. And there are mor...

Introduction : Graphic Design & Style -- Design And Sign : The Origin Of The Alphabet, C.34,000-1,100 Bc -- A Classical Education : Ancient Greece &...

Foreword by Roxane Gay "Debbie Millman brings her Design Matters podcast, 'about how the most creative people in the world create their lives,' to the pa...

Revealing The Secret History Of Punctuation, This Tour Of Two Thousand Years Of The Written Word, From Ancient Greece To The Internet, Explores The Parallel...

In The Design of Future Things, best-selling author Donald A. Norman presents a revealing examination of smart technology, from smooth-talking GPS units to ...

Design for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the...

This lavish volume invites the reader into the glamorous fashions of the 1920s. To coincide with the release of the film The Great Gatsby, we are pleased to...