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

A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein

A Primer of Visual Literacy
Donis A Dondis

Art and Visual Perception
Rudolf Arnheim

Design as Art
Bruno Munari

The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst

Information Visualization: Perception for Design
Colin Ware

Living with Complexity
Don Norman

The Art of Looking Sideways
Alan Fletcher

The Functional Art
Alberto Cairo

The New Typography
Jan Tschichold, Ruari McLean

Thinking with Type
Ellen Lupton

Typography: A Manual of Design
Emil Ruder

Visual Grammar
Christian Leborg

Visual Thinking
Rudolf Arnheim

The War of Art
Steven Pressfield

Ways of Seeing
John Berger

Helmut Newton. SUMO
Taschen

Helvetica Forever
Lars Müller Publishers
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