Essential reading for designers, shelved in one place.
54 books

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

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

Typography: A Manual of Design
Emil Ruder

Visual Grammar
Christian Leborg
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