An index of art
and design.
01Graphic Design02Typography03Fashion04Photography05Film06Architecture07Contemporary08SoundTake a seatOne email, one link, no password. The whole exchange opens from here.
8 shelves, 85 works, a line of argument for each. The people reading them are the other half of the library.
HelveticaGraphic Design: The New BasicsFirst Things FirstWays of SeeingDesign as ArtMeggs' History of Graphic DesignObjectifiedGrid Systems in Graphic DesignThe Vignelli CanonThe Elements of Typographic StylePaul Rand: A Designer's ArtInteraction of ColorA Primer of Visual LiteracyRamsThe New TypographyDesigning ProgrammesEmigreDesigning DesignThe Politics of DesignHow to Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your SoulDelirious New YorkMy ArchitectComplexity and Contradiction in ArchitectureLearning from Las VegasS,M,L,XLWays of SeeingSeven Days in the Art WorldThe Painted WordMarina Abramović: The Artist Is PresentThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionRelational AestheticsArt Since 1900MythologiesHow Music WorksSisters with TransistorsOcean of SoundRetromaniaSilenceNoise: The Political Economy of Music
Gary Hustwit—Ellen Lupton & Jennifer Cole Phillips—Ken Garland—John Berger—Bruno Munari—Philip B. Meggs—Josef Müller-Brockmann—Massimo Vignelli—Robert Bringhurst—Paul Rand—Josef Albers—Donis A. Dondis—Jan Tschichold—Karl Gerstner—Rudy VanderLans & Zuzana Licko—Kenya Hara—Ruben Pater—Adrian Shaughnessy—Johanna Drucker—Bierut, Drenttel, Helfand & Poynor—Rick Poynor, founding editor—Jarrett Fuller—Debbie Millman—Stefan Sagmeister—Ellen Lupton—Simon Garfield—Matthew Butterick—Jost Hochuli—Alexander Lawson—Eric Gill—Robin Kinross—Fred Smeijers—Gerrit Noordzij—Coles, Sherman & Berlow—Rob Saunders—Frédéric Tcheng—R.J. Cutler—Alicia Drake—Ian Bonhôte & Peter Ettedgui—Reiner Holzemer—Caroline Evans—Elizabeth Wilson—Roland Barthes—Andrew Bolton—Susan Sontag—Robert Frank—Richard Press—William Eggleston—John Maloof & Charlie Siskel—Nan Goldin—Laura Poitras—François Truffaut—Walter Murch—Andrei Tarkovsky—Robert Bresson—André Bazin—Amos Vogel—Stewart Brand—Juhani Pallasmaa—Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa & Murray Silverstein—Rem Koolhaas—Nathaniel Kahn—Robert Venturi—Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown & Steven Izenour—Rem Koolhaas & Bruce Mau—Sarah Thornton—Tom Wolfe—Matthew Akers—Walter Benjamin—Nicolas Bourriaud—Foster, Krauss, Bois & Buchloh—David Byrne—Lisa Rovner—David Toop—Simon Reynolds—John Cage—Jacques Attali—