[ Science ]

Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth

Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity’s coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance to our fate on Earth. By Adam Frank.

[ Design ]

Logo Book Stefan Kanchev

The first detailed study of the life work of Bulgarian graphic designer Stefan Kanchev (1951–2001), the artist behind more than 2,000 socialist logos. By Magdalina Stancheva.

[ Design ]

Logo Modernism

Examine the distillation of modernism in graphic design with this vast collection of approximately 6,000 logos from 1940–1980. By Jens Müller and R. Roger Remington.

[ Design ]

Logo-A-Gogo

A compendium of designer and illustrator Rian Hughes’ best logo designs for the comic industry, with insights into the creative process behind his work.

[ Design ]

Los Alamos Rolodex: Doing Business with the National Lab 1967-1978

150 cards from seven rolodexes of the dispersed collection of former Los Alamos Lab employee Ed Grothus, who operated a salvage company of lab cast-offs, known as The Black Hole. By the Center for Land Use Interpretation.

[ Memoir ]

Man Without A Country

In a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this age — or any age — holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America’s soul. By Kurt Vonnegut.

[ Design ]

Manuals 1: Design and Identity Guidelines

Unit Editions’ comprehensive study of corporate identity design manuals, featuring 20 examples from the 1960s to early 1980s – the golden era of identity design. Edited by Adrian Shaughnessy and Tony Brook.

[ Design ]

Manuals 2: Design & Identity Guidelines

A companion to Unit Editions’ Manuals 1, Manuals 2 is a comprehensive study of corporate identity manuals from the golden era of identity design. Edited by Adrian Shaughnessy and Tony Brook.

[ Design ]

Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet Catalogue

The first book ever to thoroughly explore the crucial role that design will play in the collective endeavor to travel to and inhabit Mars.

[ Photography ]

NASA // PAST AND PRESENT DREAMS OF THE FUTURE

Nine years in the making. Over 200 images of space exploration’s most iconic objects, as you’ve never seen them before. By photographer Benedict Redgrove.

[ Technology ]

New Dark Age

A New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future, surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems, and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime. By James Bridle.

[ Science ]

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

The originator of the Gaia theory offers the vision of a future epoch in which humans and artificial intelligence together will help the Earth survive. By James Lovelock.

[ Technology ]

Omnibot Fan Book

A Japanese book on Tomy’s toy robots, from the 2007 i-SOBOT back to the Omnibot and other robots they produced in the 1980s.

[ Science Fiction ]

Out of the Cradle: Exploring the Frontiers Beyond Earth

This 1984 book, written and illustrated by planetary scientist William K. Hartmann, Ron Miller and Pamela Lee, visualizes the possible future of space exploration extending into the decades ahead.

[ Design ]

Paperback Pioneers: Sun Books (1965–81)

The independent paperback publisher Sun Books was founded in 1965, and this book brings together a significant chronology of cover designs. Published by Re:collection.

[ Design ]

Parks

Parks is a collection of over 300 United States national park maps, ephemera, and brochures spanning over 100 years. Published by Standards Manual.