Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen

by Barbara Maria Stafford, Frances Terpak, Isotta Poggi, J. Paul Getty Museum
published by Getty Ctr for Education in the Arts
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Minimum

by John Pawson
published by Phaidon Press Inc.
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The Art of Looking Sideways

by Alan Fletcher
published by Phaidon Press Inc.
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The Art of Looking Sideways is an instruction manual of sorts for adults to deconstruct their preconceived belief systems of reality. Readers are encouraged to look, see, explore, turn upside down, rip apart, and to ultimately rebuild that which everyday people believe to be true through a series of word… [More]

Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

by Leonard Koren
published by Stone Bridge Press
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As a graphic designer, I was very intrigued by the title of this book, and the philosophies contained inside, so I decided to give the book a shot. This is the type of book you blaze through in about 30 minutes, but will most likely want to keep for a… [More]

The Shock of the New

by Robert Hughes
published by Knopf
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