From an accessible history of design to a facsimile of a super rare architecture magazine, these are the books we loved this ...

Looking for design inspiration? With the ubiquitousness of online interior-design sources, it’s easy to comb through, say, thousands of wallpaper options in just a few minutes, but it can also be the ...

My day job is a design educator, so for me, this time of year is filled with writing syllabi, planning new classes, and thinking about what the next generation of designers might need to know as they ...

Every year, there are great design books released, and 2022 was no exception. But what is a design book, really? Is it a big, glossy coffee table book filled with full-bleed images—perhaps collecting ...

From Edith Wharton’s treatise on décor to a portrait of 1990s Tokyo, the books that designers return to again and again for inspiration. By Catherine Hong In our very online era, design trends seem to ...

The digital age may have streamlined design project timelines and workflows, but it has yet to replace a studio’s reference library. Spreading open large interior design books across a desk—whether ...

We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. If you’re enchanted by architecture, captivated by design, or you find joy somewhere in between, chances are ...

With a foreword by her wife Roxane Gay, Debbie Millman’s Why Design Matters contains over 80 of the writer, designer, and curator’s best interviews from her beloved podcast Design Matters. The richly ...

The marks and scars of difficult work underpin four new design books. By Eve M. Kahn This article is part of our Design special section about new interpretations of antique design styles. Some forms ...

On the first day of a required class for freshman design majors at Carnegie Mellon, my professor stood in front of a lecture hall of earnest, nervous undergraduates and asked, “Who here thinks that ...