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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,974 ratings — published 1988
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 348,791 ratings — published 2012
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,660 ratings — published 2004
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.94 — 452,076 ratings — published 1972
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,095 ratings — published 1992
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.07 — 63,626 ratings — published 2014
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.89 — 16,388 ratings — published 1963
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,232 ratings — published 1966
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 62,300 ratings — published 2010
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,380 ratings — published 1996
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,236 ratings — published 2002
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 45 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,061 ratings — published 2000
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,025 ratings — published 2005
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,331 ratings — published 2016
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.77 — 107,803 ratings — published 1994
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 477,309 ratings — published 1950
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.87 — 386,585 ratings — published 1979
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,255 ratings — published 1993
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,896 ratings — published 2003
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.94 — 96,643 ratings — published 2023
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.85 — 237,768 ratings — published 2005
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,967 ratings — published 2002
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,855 ratings — published 1983
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,772 ratings — published 1983
Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,732 ratings — published 2003
How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry, and (every once in a while) change the world
by (shelved 31 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,164 ratings — published 2015
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,762 ratings — published 2010
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,261 ratings — published 2009
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,631 ratings — published 2001
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.86 — 169,578 ratings — published 1997
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,105 ratings — published 2003
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 27 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,591 ratings — published 2003
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
by (shelved 26 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,130 ratings — published 2019
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,312 ratings — published 2011
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.86 — 59,040 ratings — published 1973
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,067 ratings — published 2006
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,125 ratings — published 1994
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,976 ratings — published 1990
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,223 ratings — published 1993
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.83 — 94,457 ratings — published 1912
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.79 — 73,777 ratings — published 2003
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.99 — 32,490 ratings — published 1933
79 Short Essays on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,922 ratings — published 2007
The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication
by (shelved 21 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,010 ratings — published 2016
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 43,228 ratings — published 2003
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,955 ratings — published 1995
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,710 ratings — published 1988
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,722 ratings — published 2008
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,297 ratings — published 2008
Logo Modernism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.51 — 609 ratings — published 2015
“I like a rule which regulates emotion. I like an emotion which offsets the rule”
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