[ Design ]

Rhetoric of Logos: A Primer for Visual Language

After an overview of the history of logos and how corporate design has evolved since its inception, the author illustrates how designers can utilize the tools of rhetoric create persuasive marks. By Eduard Helmann.

[ Technology ]

Shuttle: The World's First Spaceship

The shuttle system is the key to unlocking the next era of technology and the forerunner of space transportation systems of tomorrow: The world’s first spaceship, the Enterprise, is here! By Robert M. Powers.

[ Design ]

Signs + Emblems

A collection of international examples. By Erhardt D. Stiebner and Dieter Urban.

[ Design ]

Soviet Logos: Lost Marks of the Utopia

A collection of more than 360 rediscovered and carefully redrawn Soviet marks, with accompanying analysis revealing their utopian nature. By Rokas Sutkaitis.

[ Culture ]

Space and the American Imagination

Tracing the emergence of space travel in the popular mind, its expression in science fiction, and its influence on national space programs. By Howard E. McCurdy.

[ Philosophy ]

Starry Speculative Corpse

Philosophy meets horror against the backdrop of an indifferent, unhuman cosmos. By Eugene Thacker.

[ Design ]

Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols

A practical reference for universally used symbols, assembled by famed industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss. Forward by R. Buckminster Fuller.

[ Art ]

Tales from the Dark Side of the City

This book series forms an atlas to the territories and stories of a city that stretches across the entire planet, a city that sits between documentary and fiction, a city of dislocated sites, of drone footage and hidden-camera investigations, of interviews and speculative narratives, of toxic objects and distributed matter from distant grounds. By Unknown Fields.

[ Design ]

TD 63-73

Total Design and its pioneering role in graphic design. An insider’s view by Ben Nos. Work by Ben Bos, Wim Crouwel, Friso Kramer, Benno Wissing and their teams.

[ Philosophy ]

Tentacles Longer Than Night

Systematic, comprehensive exploration of the links between philosophy, religion, and the horror genre. By Eugene Thacker.

[ Design ]

The Art of Looking Sideways

The Art of Looking Sideways is a primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination. By Alan Fletcher.

[ Science ]

The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective

Carl Sagan's 1973 classic, in which he aims to hook readers up with the cosmos and change their perspective, demonstrating that in spite of our Earth chauvinism, we are all starfolk.

[ Technology ]

The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space

Dr. O’Neill put his three-pronged plan of Space Colonization, Space Solar Power and Large Scale Space Construction into easily accessible form with the release of this book. By Gerard K. O’Neill.

[ Design ]

The History of Graphic Design. Vol. 1, 1890–1959

70 years of graphic design, designers, and developments from the late 19th century through the economic boom after World War II, spanning designs that would form the basis for further revolutions. By Jens Müller.

[ Design ]

The History of Graphic Design. Vol. 2, 1960–Today

The most comprehensive exploration of graphic design to date. With around 3,500 seminal pieces and 78 landmark projects, year-by-year spreads, and profiles of industry leaders. By Jens Müller.

[ Science Fiction ]

The Listeners

A classic of science fiction, this book predicted and inspired the creation of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). By James Gunn.

[ Design ]

The Moderns

Meet the men and women who invented and shaped Midcentury Modern graphic design in America. By Steven Heller and Greg D'Onofrio.