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Design Theory Books
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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,162 ratings — published 1988
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,870 ratings — published 2003
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,748 ratings — published 1972
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 10,977 ratings — published 2009
Designing Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.50 — 968 ratings — published 2003
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 967 ratings — published 2013
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,039 ratings — published 1992
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 14,834 ratings — published 1971
Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 209 ratings — published 2015
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,115 ratings — published 1947
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,391 ratings — published 1977
Understanding Design (revised edition)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 60 ratings — published 2006
The Pocket Universal Principles of Design: 150 Essential Tools for Architects, Artists, Designers, Developers, Engineers, Inventors, and Makers (Rockport Universal)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.39 — 341 ratings — published 2015
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,011 ratings — published 2005
Designing for People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 228 ratings — published 1967
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,228 ratings — published 2011
The Sciences of the Artificial (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 652 ratings — published 1969
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 848 ratings — published 2011
Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,911 ratings — published 2007
The Vignelli Canon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 886 ratings — published 2010
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,897 ratings — published 2011
The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 115 ratings — published 2003
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,993 ratings — published 2006
Living With Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 959 ratings — published 2010
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,072 ratings — published 1957
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,520 ratings — published 2004
Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 556 ratings — published 2005
Design Is Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,696 ratings — published 2017
ABC's of the Bauhaus: The Bauhaus and Design Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.70 — 174 ratings — published 1993
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 20,817 ratings — published 2016
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,206 ratings — published 1993
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,839 ratings — published 1983
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,816 ratings — published 1994
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,482 ratings — published 2018
The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,174 ratings — published 2008
Discursive Design: Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 23 ratings — published
Designerly Ways of Knowing (Board of International Research in Design)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 71 ratings — published 2003
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 534 ratings — published 2020
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,624 ratings — published 2001
Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 421 ratings — published
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,317 ratings — published 1996
This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,932 ratings — published 2010
The Shape of Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 235 ratings — published 1993
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,694 ratings — published 1933
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,112 ratings — published
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,472 ratings — published 2002
Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 99 ratings — published 2015
Now You See It and Other Essays on Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 358 ratings — published
The Nature and Aesthetics of Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 40 ratings — published
Design, Form, and Chaos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.20 — 263 ratings — published 1993
“Think of it this way: if you wandered into a cave and saw scratched into the wall some markings which on closer inspection read "Gary woz ere", how would you think that they got there? Would you guess that a river had run through and eroded the wall into a shape? Would you think that perhaps a bear had been sharpening his claws on the rough surface? Or would you be sensible and immediately recognise that someone called Gary, who was probably a bit of a yob, had been through and wanted to leave a message for the world?”
― From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand
― From A To Theta: Taking The Tricky Subject Of Religion And Explaining Why It Makes Sense In A Way We Can All Understand
“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.”
― City as Landscape
― City as Landscape
