Design Art Books
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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,193 ratings — published 1988
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as design-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 333,353 ratings — published 2012
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as design-art)
avg rating 3.92 — 14,913 ratings — published 1971
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,522 ratings — published 2004
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as design-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,908 ratings — published 1966
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.08 — 60,454 ratings — published 2014
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,750 ratings — published 1972
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,285 ratings — published 1996
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as design-art)
avg rating 3.94 — 430,984 ratings — published 1972
Logo Modernism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.51 — 594 ratings — published 2015
Designing Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.50 — 968 ratings — published 2003
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,229 ratings — published 2009
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,838 ratings — published 1983
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,624 ratings — published 2001
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as design-art)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,011 ratings — published 2005
CAPS LOCK (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.19 — 684 ratings — published 2021
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 5 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,132 ratings — published 2015
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.01 — 848 ratings — published 2011
Design Is Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as design-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,697 ratings — published 2017
Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,706 ratings — published 2003
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
by (shelved 5 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,115 ratings — published 2019
The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication
by (shelved 5 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,791 ratings — published 2016
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as design-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,260 ratings — published 2008
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,923 ratings — published 1993
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,038 ratings — published 1992
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as design-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 78,623 ratings — published 2023
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.21 — 101,872 ratings — published 2014
Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.28 — 510 ratings — published
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,947 ratings — published 2019
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 4 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,571 ratings — published 2000
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.01 — 20,943 ratings — published 2016
The Vignelli Canon (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.41 — 887 ratings — published 2010
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 4 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,402 ratings — published 1977
Graphic Design: A Concise History (World of Art)
by (shelved 4 times as design-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 824 ratings — published 1994
The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as design-art)
avg rating 3.81 — 339 ratings — published 2016
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as design-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 458,949 ratings — published 1950
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as design-art)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,468 ratings — published 2010
Information Graphics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.40 — 401 ratings — published 2011
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.17 — 536 ratings — published 2020
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-art)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,116 ratings — published 1947
Creating a Brand Identity: A Guide for Designers: (Graphic Design Books, Logo Design, Marketing)
by (shelved 3 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.03 — 297 ratings — published 2016
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,505 ratings — published 2020
Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,598 ratings — published 2013
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,112 ratings — published
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,256 ratings — published 2012
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.28 — 19,917 ratings — published 2018
The Visual History of Type: A visual survey of 320 typefaces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.57 — 67 ratings — published
Paul Rand: A Designer's Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-art)
avg rating 4.28 — 426 ratings — published 1985
The Architecture of Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-art)
avg rating 3.86 — 14,415 ratings — published 2006

