Total Office Design

Fifty offices you wish you worked at in one comprehensive book

Focused on the intelligent collaborations between architects and interior designers, Total Office Design explores contemporary workplaces that are as visually striking as they are functional. The book categorizes the offices by budget—small, medium and large—with comprehensive floor plans, insightful texts and nearly 425 vibrant photographs accompanying the 50 total spaces. The smaller offices show that size doesn’t matter. One clear standout is the creative solution …

The Pegleg Givewaway

Unlock the secrets of NYC with an interactive guidebook and iPhone app

Anyone who grew up reading the Choose Your Own Adventure book series will delight in Italian publisher Whaiwhai‘s take on interactive storytelling. Part guidebook, part game, each book unlocks secrets to the city as you unravel the mystery page by page. The latest town to go under the microscope is New York, told by Big Apple aficionado Timothy Speed Levitch—star of the 1998 documentary The …

Susan Hiller

"Paraconceptual" art in Susan Hiller's new comprehensive book

Both intimate and cosmic in scope, as described by critic Lucy Lippard, Susan Hiller’s ruminative multimedia works are the result of a career change from anthropology to art forty years ago. The U.K.-based artist, thinking of her discipline as “value-free,” experiments with sculpture, photography, painting and more, letting the subject dictate media to give her abstract theories form. A through-line in Hiller’s works is what …