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

A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein

Creative Confidence
Tom Kelley, David Kelley

Dieter Rams: The Complete Works
Klaus Klemp

The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst

The Industrial Design Reference & Specification Book
Dan Cuffaro, Isaac Zaksenberg

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 Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin

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

Ferrari: Art Edition
Taschen

Braun: Designed to Keep
Phaidon

Japanese Design Since 1945: A Complete Sourcebook
Thames & Hudson

Design of the 20th Century
Taschen

Helvetica Forever
Lars Müller Publishers
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