Valerie Steele, of the Museum of Fashion at FIT, created a huge tome – Fashion Designers, A-Z, with six different editions of the book bound in fabrics from designers like Stella McCartney and Prada. It’s Nice That recently unveiled the first edition of a new magazine – “Printed Pages” – championing creativity in art and design. And a fun new title from Index Books – DIY Gift Wrapping, providing tutorials and inspiration to create magical gifts.

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Paul Rand’s iconic, genius-in-its-simplicity poster for IBM (above) is one of the many great designs of the last 50 years, collected by Graphic Design magazine. Some are immediately familiar – Milton Glaser’s psychedelic Bob Dylan poster, and Shepard Fairey’s Hope poster for the Obama 2008 campaign. Seymour Chast’s humorously powerful Vietnam Antiwar Poster (End Bad Breath) is also included, along with Steff Geissbuhler’s fantastic Alvin Ailey dancer font.

Starting last Friday, May 10 to next Tuesday, May 21, there are so many art and design events taking place around NYC, there’s no way we’ll see even half of what’s showing. For the first time, all of these events are being collected under NYCxDesign, which is promoting the shows, providing lists and a handy app too. Last weekend, the Frieze Art Fair took over Randall’s Island, and Pulse took over 18th street (Rune Guneriussen’s work was included, shown above). The first annual Collective Design Fair was also held last weekend, a high-end, well-curated collection of talented international designers. ICFF takes place this coming weekend – check out designboom’s guide for exhibitions, events and shows happening all over the city.