Reading list
- BioColours: Sustainable Stories from Nature, Lab and Industry by Kirsi Niinimäki and Julia Lohmann 5 November 2026
- The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet by Carlos Moreno 4 October 2026
- Observations, Research, and Design by Todd Bracher 3 September 2026
- How to Speak Machine: A Gentle Introduction to Artificial Intelligence by John Maeda 4 August 2026
- Circular Materials: Innovation and Reuse in Design and Architecture by Joe Gibbs 2 July 2026
- Making Space: Interior Design by Women by Jane Hall 8 June 2026
- Textilepedia: The Complete Fabric Guide by Fashionary 4 May 2026
- Vanity Fair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age by Graydon Carter 3 April 2026
- Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury by Louis Vuitton 6 March 2026
- 1000 Design Classics by Phaidon Editors 10 February 2026
- Atlas of Interior Design by Dominic Bradbury 5 January 2026
- Green Architecture by Philip Jodidio 7 December 2025
Book reviews
- Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity by Sacha Kagan 4 November 2026
- Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City by Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Vinit Mukhija 5 October 2026
- Abundance Not Capital: The Lively Architecture of Anupama Kundoo by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny and Architekturzentrum Wien 4 September 2026
- Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby 3 August 2026
- The Primacy of Drawing by Deanna Petherbridge 5 July 2026
- Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock 5 June 2026
- Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution by Hanan Karaman Munayyer 6 May 2026
- Art for All. Art History 7 April 2026
- Ai Weiwei. Updated Edition 10 March 2026
- Mexico Modern: Architecture and Interiors 5 February 2026
- SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change by Florencia Rodriguez 8 January 2026
- Paolo Roversi by Sylvie Lécallier, Paolo Roversi 9 December 2025
BE OPEN Picks
- Broken: Mending and Repair in a Throwaway World by Katie Treggiden 3 November 2026
- Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow 2 October 2026
- Disorder by Chris Ashworth, Marvin Scott Jarrett and Adrian Shaughnessy 6 September 2026
- Glitches & Glory: The Digitally Rewired Art of David Szauder by David Szauder 6 August 2026
- Jeong: The Spirit of Korean Craft and Design by Hyo Jung Lee 7 July 2026
- The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero 4 June 2026
- A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture by Clara Erskine Clement 7 December 2025
- The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters 5 November 2025
- Costume and Fashion by Amy de la Haye, James Laver 8 October 2025
- The Landscape Painter’s Workbook: Essential Studies in Shape, Composition, and Color (Volume 6) 9 September 2025
- The Artist’s Guide to Sketching: The Classic Book about Making Art on Location by James Gurney, Thomas Kinkade 13 August 2025
- The Animator’s Survival Kit – A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators by Richard Williams 10 July 2025