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Art Design Books
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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,610 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 3.96 — 337,782 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 — 12,556 ratings — published 2004
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.94 — 436,712 ratings — published 1972
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,053 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 4.08 — 61,427 ratings — published 2014
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,425 ratings — published 1971
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,663 ratings — published 2010
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,991 ratings — published 1966
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 120,184 ratings — published 2002
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,313 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 — 5,012 ratings — published 2005
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.00 — 21,696 ratings — published 2016
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 43 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,719 ratings — published 2000
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.77 — 104,599 ratings — published 1994
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 463,886 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 — 380,519 ratings — published 1979
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.85 — 235,685 ratings — published 2005
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.00 — 131,907 ratings — published 1993
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,883 ratings — published 2003
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 118,729 ratings — published 2002
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,845 ratings — published 1983
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,669 ratings — published 1983
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 33 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,145 ratings — published 2015
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 84,222 ratings — published 2023
Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,706 ratings — published 2003
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 30 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.08 — 19,391 ratings — published 2010
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,628 ratings — published 2001
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.86 — 167,345 ratings — published 1997
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,236 ratings — published 2009
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,012 ratings — published 2006
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 27 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,496 ratings — published 2003
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,259 ratings — published 2011
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,091 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 — 17,376 ratings — published 2019
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,951 ratings — published 1990
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,852 ratings — published 1973
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,900 ratings — published 1994
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,475 ratings — published 1933
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,214 ratings — published 1993
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,867 ratings — published 1912
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,862 ratings — published 2003
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.79 — 72,847 ratings — published 2003
Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,915 ratings — published 2007
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,377 ratings — published 1988
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,261 ratings — published 2008
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.61 — 71,443 ratings — published 2008
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,013 ratings — published 1995
The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication
by (shelved 18 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,850 ratings — published 2016
Logo Modernism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.50 — 598 ratings — published 2015
“I like a rule which regulates emotion. I like an emotion which offsets the rule”
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