Books
Essential reading for designers, shelved in one place.
63 books
A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein
A Primer of Visual Literacy
Donis A Dondis
Art and Visual Perception
Rudolf Arnheim
Creative Confidence
Tom Kelley, David Kelley
Design as Art
Bruno Munari
Dieter Rams: The Complete Works
Klaus Klemp
The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst
The Industrial Design Reference & Specification Book
Dan Cuffaro, Isaac Zaksenberg
Information Visualization: Perception for Design
Colin Ware
Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
Dieter Rams, Klaus Klemp, Keiko Ueki-Polet
Living with Complexity
Don Norman
Massive Change
Bruce Mau
The Art of Looking Sideways
Alan Fletcher
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin
The Functional Art
Alberto Cairo
The New Typography
Jan Tschichold, Ruari McLean
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward Tufte
Thinking with Type
Ellen Lupton
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