Design


The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place
Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
How to Be an Artist
System Design Interview – An insider's guide
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love
Feng Shui Modern
Accidentally Wes Anderson
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
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
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Design as Art
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. NormanDon't Make Me Think, Revisited by Steve KrugUniversal Principles of Design by William LidwellAbout Face 3 by Alan CooperThe Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett
UX books
82 books — 140 voters
We, the Drowned by Carsten JensenThe Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil GaimanThe Chess Machine by Robert LöhrThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternWildwood by Colin Meloy
Beautiful Book Cover Design
911 books — 260 voters

Of Dice and Men by David M. EwaltPlaying at the World by Jon PetersonEducational Game Design Fundamentals by George KalmpourtzisDesigners & Dragons by Shannon AppelclineDesigners & Dragons by Shannon Appelcline
Best Books on RPGs
76 books — 37 voters
The Art of Spirited Away by Hayao MiyazakiThe Legend of Korra by Michael Dante DiMartinoThe Art of Pirates of the Caribbean by Wendy LefkonThe Making of Jurassic Park by Don ShayThe Art of Rise of the Guardians by Ramin Zahed
Movies, TV Shows & Games: The Art Of...
213 books — 22 voters

Seasons by BlexbolexTokyo Digs a Garden by Jon-Erik LappanoAwake Beautiful Child by Amy Krouse RosenthalBeastly Verse by JooHee YoonHooray for Hat! by Brian Won
Graphic Design + Picture Books
35 books — 14 voters
Web Hacking Arsenal by Rafay BalochAI Doctor by Ronald M. RazmiAI 2041 by Kai-Fu LeeThe Book of Why by Judea PearlA Brief History of Intelligence by Max Solomon Bennett
Future Technology (nonfiction)
100 books — 189 voters


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

Piet Hein
Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.
Piet Hein

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