Design


The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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
Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
Feng Shui Modern
The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Doom Guy: Life in First Person
Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
The Grand Design
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
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
Witch in the Woods by Taylor Ann BunkerStarshine by G.S. JennsenHeart of Oak by David        CookSelf-Publishing In the Eye of the Storm by Karl WigginsThe Cavalier by Israh Azizi
Best Cover Art - Indie/Self-Published
248 books — 268 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 — 4,067 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
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 Dot by Peter H. ReynoldsIsh by Peter H. ReynoldsHarold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett JohnsonBeautiful Oops [Board book] by Barney SaltzbergNot a Box by Antoinette Portis
Great Books for the Elementary Art Room
184 books — 50 voters
Lauren Conrad Style by Lauren ConradThe Devil Wears Prada by Lauren WeisbergerThe Seductive Shoe by Jonathan WalfordWildchilds by Eugenia MelianFifty Dresses That Changed the World by Design Museum
Fashion & Clothes
100 books — 56 voters


Steven Pinker
It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings. [Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005] ...more
Steven Pinker

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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