Design


The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Doom Guy: Life in First Person: Building DOOM and a Gaming Revolution
Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination
Minimalista: Your Step-by-Step Guide to a Better Home, Wardrobe, and Life
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness
Archive
My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
The Design of Everyday Things
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
Universal Principles of Design
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
The Elements of Typographic Style
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Design as Art
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Wreck This Journal by Keri SmithSteal Like an Artist by Austin KleonThis Is Not a Book by Keri SmithFinish This Book by Keri SmithMess by Keri Smith
Artsy & Cute Non-Fiction Books
166 books — 82 voters
Entwined by Heather Dixon WallworkWither by Lauren DeStefanoUnearthly by Cynthia HandAcross the Universe by Beth RevisDarkest Mercy by Melissa Marr
Beautiful Book Covers of 2011
724 books — 4,065 voters

Hers by Dawn  RobertsonVery Bad Things by Ilsa Madden-MillsConjuring Darkness by Melanie  JamesWhere I Need to Be by Kimberly KnightWanted by Kimberly Knight
Best Adult Indie Book Covers
801 books — 1,426 voters
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. NormanDesign Basics Index by Jim KrauseThe Elements of Typographic Style by Robert BringhurstEducational Game Design Fundamentals by George KalmpourtzisDesigning With Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
Best Design Books
122 books — 98 voters

Educational Game Design Fundamentals by George KalmpourtzisThe Micro Kids by Gary PlowmanZX Spectrum Games Code Club by Gary PlowmanThe Micro Kids by Gary Plowman
Game Design Library
4 books — 10 voters
Onyx Storm by Rebecca YarrosFourth Wing by Rebecca YarrosThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahLegends & Lattes by Travis BaldreeThe Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
52 Book Club 2025: #23 - A Sprayed Edge
164 books — 105 voters


R. Buckminster Fuller
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
Richard Buckminster Fuller, Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

Karl Lagerfeld
Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
Karl Lagerfeld

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