Design Books
Graphic design, interiors, branding, typography, and visual culture — 228 titles curated for the discerning eye.
From mid-century airline identity manuals to contemporary studio monographs, the Design collection brought together works that shape how we see and inhabit the world. The selection spanned graphic design history, interior visionaries, typographic landmarks, and the visual language of brands.
About the Collection
The Design shelf at Owl Bureau reflected the sensibility of a creative agency — Chandelier Creative called the shop its LA headquarters. Selections ranged from scholarly surveys of corporate identity to playful monographs by contemporary illustrators and interior designers. The collection's 228 titles rewarded both the casual browser and the dedicated collector.
Notable holdings included Do You Compute?, a visual history of the early computing era by Ryan Mungia and Steven Heller, and Luke Edward Hall's Greco Disco, a riot of classical references filtered through a modern decorative-arts lens. The sold-out Chandelier Does Tokyo captured the agency's own creative travelogue through Japan's design landscape.
The Design collection at Owl Bureau gathers the essential texts that define how we see, build, and communicate through visual culture. Here, the graphic designer finds monographs on legendary identity systems, typographic pioneers, and the unsung architects of visual language. Interior enthusiasts discover volumes on the visionaries who shaped modern living spaces, from mid-century radicals to contemporary minimalists. Branding and advertising history lives alongside lush photography books that explore the intersection of art and commerce. Each title has been selected not merely for its subject matter but for its craft as an object itself — the paper, the binding, the layout. This is a library for the discerning eye, where design thinking meets the tactile pleasure of the printed page.