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Art Design Books
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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,215 ratings — published 1988
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 343,150 ratings — published 2012
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,616 ratings — published 2004
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.94 — 444,014 ratings — published 1972
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,070 ratings — published 1992
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.07 — 62,594 ratings — published 2014
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,942 ratings — published 1963
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,123 ratings — published 1966
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,970 ratings — published 2010
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,903 ratings — published 2002
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,351 ratings — published 1996
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,016 ratings — published 2005
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,587 ratings — published 2016
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 44 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,886 ratings — published 2000
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.77 — 106,291 ratings — published 1994
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 470,272 ratings — published 1950
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.87 — 383,325 ratings — published 1979
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.85 — 236,713 ratings — published 2005
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,171 ratings — published 1993
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 91,024 ratings — published 2023
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,066 ratings — published 2002
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,884 ratings — published 2003
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,849 ratings — published 1983
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,718 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 — 2,719 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 32 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,151 ratings — published 2015
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,629 ratings — published 2001
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,074 ratings — published 2010
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.86 — 168,502 ratings — published 1997
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 28 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,544 ratings — published 2003
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,291 ratings — published 2011
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,251 ratings — published 2009
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,040 ratings — published 2006
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,033 ratings — published 1973
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,103 ratings — published 2003
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
by (shelved 25 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,759 ratings — published 2019
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,957 ratings — published 1990
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,010 ratings — published 1994
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.83 — 93,682 ratings — published 1912
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,223 ratings — published 1993
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,568 ratings — published 1933
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,481 ratings — published 2003
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.79 — 73,371 ratings — published 2003
79 Short Essays on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,923 ratings — published 2007
The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication
by (shelved 20 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,932 ratings — published 2016
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,552 ratings — published 1995
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,087 ratings — published 1988
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,278 ratings — published 2008
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,117 ratings — published 2008
Logo Modernism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.50 — 606 ratings — published 2015
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