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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,228 ratings — published 1988
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,883 ratings — published 2003
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,787 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 — 11,060 ratings — published 2009
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,004 ratings — published 2013
Designing Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.49 — 987 ratings — published 2003
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,070 ratings — published 1992
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,953 ratings — published 1963
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 — 212 ratings — published 2015
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,126 ratings — published 1947
The Sciences of the Artificial (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 675 ratings — published 1969
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 4 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,499 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 4.40 — 342 ratings — published 2015
Designing for People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 235 ratings — published 1967
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,291 ratings — published 2011
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 859 ratings — published 2011
79 Short Essays on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,923 ratings — published 2007
The Vignelli Canon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 912 ratings — published 2010
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,961 ratings — published 2011
The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 116 ratings — published 2003
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,040 ratings — published 2006
Living With Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 961 ratings — published 2010
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,421 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 — 12,617 ratings — published 2004
Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 557 ratings — published 2005
Design Is Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,797 ratings — published 2017
ABC's of the Bauhaus: The Bauhaus and Design Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 183 ratings — published 1993
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,602 ratings — published 2016
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,223 ratings — published 1993
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,849 ratings — published 1983
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,010 ratings — published 1994
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,016 ratings — published 2005
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,521 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 — 1,210 ratings — published 2008
Discursive Design: Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 25 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 4.18 — 550 ratings — published 2020
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,629 ratings — published 2001
Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 445 ratings — published
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,520 ratings — published 1996
This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,946 ratings — published 2010
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,043 ratings — published 2019
The Shape of Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 239 ratings — published 1993
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,583 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 — 2,145 ratings — published
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,558 ratings — published 2002
Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 103 ratings — published 2015
Now You See It and Other Essays on Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 363 ratings — published
The Nature and Aesthetics of Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as design-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 42 ratings — published
“Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.”
― European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design
― European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design
“Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast extent upon gardens derive from sun, earth, art, water, history, civilization, family, anything.”
― City as Landscape
― City as Landscape
