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The most-recommended design titles in our index, ranked by how many people recommend each.

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A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander · 1977
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6 people
Designing Brand Identity
Alina Wheeler · 2024
6 recommenders
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6 people
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Marie Kondō · 2014
6 recommenders
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5 people
How To
Michael Bierut · 2015
5 recommenders
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3 people
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
Susan Weinschenk · 1920
3 recommenders
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3 people
Design Is a Job by Mike Monteiro
Mike Monteiro · 2012
3 recommenders
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3 people
The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0: 20th Anniversary Edition
Robert Bringhurst · 2015
3 recommenders
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3 people
The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander · 1979
3 recommenders
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3 people
Just Enough Research
Erika Hall · 2013
3 recommenders
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2 people
How To Draw
Scott Robertson · 2013
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Education of a Gardener
Russell Page · 1962
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2 people
Designing for the Digital Age
Kim Goodwin · 2009
2 recommenders
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2 people
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior
Indi Young · 2008
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2 people
Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Philip B. Meggs & Alston W. Purvis · 2025
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2 people
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin
Lawrence Weschler · 1982
2 recommenders
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2 people
Universal Principles of Design
William Lidwell · 2003
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2 people
The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard · 1964
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2 people
Thinking with Type, 2nd revised ed.: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
Ellen Lupton · 2010
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2 people
Refactoring UI
Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger · 2018
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2 people
CSS Secrets
Lea Verou · 2015
2 recommenders
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2 people
The Anatomy of Type: A Graphic Guide to 100 Typefaces
Stephen Coles · 2012
2 recommenders
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2 people
Thoughts on Design
Paul Rand · 2014
2 recommenders
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2 people
Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett · 2013
2 recommenders
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1 person
FourStudios
Ann Pendleton-Jullian · 2010
1 recommender
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1 person
No No No No Yes -book Design Uncovered
Edited
1 recommender
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1 person
Practical Empathy
Indi Young · 2015
1 recommender
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1 person
Designing Obama
Scott Thomas · 2009
1 recommender
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1 person
Unsafe at Any Speed
Ralph Nader · 1991
1 recommender
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1 person
Little Book of Lettering
Emily Gregory · 2012
1 recommender
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1 person
The Soft Revolution
Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner · 1971
1 recommender
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1 person
Palatino: The Natural History of a Typeface
Robert Bringhurst · 2016
1 recommender
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1 person
What Artists Wear
Charlie Porter · 2021
1 recommender
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1 person
The Non-Materiality of the Material
Claudio Silvestrin · 2011
1 recommender
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1 person
American Ground
William Langewiesche · 2002
1 recommender
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1 person
While Youre Reading
Gerard Unger · 2007
1 recommender
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1 person
Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Philip B. Meggs · 2016
1 recommender
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1 person
In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector (Hand Lettering Books, Learn to Draw Books, Calligraphy Workbook for Beginners)
Jessica Hische · 2015
1 recommender
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1 person
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming (Renowned Designer Ellen Lupton Provides New Techniques for Creative Thinking About Design Process with Examples and Case Studies) (Design Briefs)
Jennifer Cole Phillips · 2011
1 recommender
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1 person
Drawing Type: An Introduction to Illustrating Letterforms
Alex Fowkes · 2014
1 recommender
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1 person
Designing For Social Change: Strategies for Community-Based Graphic Design (Design Briefs)
Andrew Shea · 2012
1 recommender
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1 person
Designing Sustainable Packaging
Scott Boylston · 2009
1 recommender
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1 person
Conversation Design: A blueprint for voice interface design
Ashvin Naik
1 recommender
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1 person
What to Wear, Where
Hillary Kerr · 2011
1 recommender
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1 person
Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work
Nigel Cross · 2011
1 recommender
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1 person
Characteristics of Games
George Skaff Elias · 2012
1 recommender
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1 person
The End of Traffic and the Future of Access
David Levinson, Kevin Krizek · 2015
1 recommender
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1 person
The Irish Country House
Peter Somerville Ross
1 recommender
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1 person
Kaj Franck
Susanna Vakkari
1 recommender
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1 person
Letterform Collected
published by Grafik Magazine & various contributors
1 recommender
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1 person
The Pevsner Guide to London 4
Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry
1 recommender
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1 person
Architectural Judgement
Peter Collins · 1971
1 recommender
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1 person
Graphic Design Manual
Armin Hofmann · 1965
1 recommender
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1 person
Graphic Design
Milton Glaser · 1973
1 recommender
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1 person
Signs
Phil Baines and Catherine Dixon
1 recommender
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1 person
Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Josef Müller-Brockmann · 1981
1 recommender
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1 person
Tapio Wirkkala: A Poet in Glass and Silver
Jack Dawson
1 recommender
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1 person
A Designer's Art
Paul Rand · 1985
1 recommender
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Villa Kerylos
Karl Lagerfield
1 recommender
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1 person
Learning from Las Vegas
Robert Venturi et al.
1 recommender
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Alexander McQueen
Andrew Bolton · 2011
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Vision and Design
Roger Fry · 1920
1 recommender
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Portraits of Interiors
Axel Vervoordt · 2019
1 recommender
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The Designer’s Dictionary of Type
Sean Adams · 2019
1 recommender
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1 person
Brutal London
Zupagrafika · 2016
1 recommender
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The Great Indoors
Emily Anthes · 2020
1 recommender
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To Engineer Is Human
Henry Petroski · 1992
1 recommender
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Prioritizing Web Usability
Jakob Nielsen · 2006
1 recommender
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Stan Smith
Stan Smith · 2018
1 recommender
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African Metropolitan Architecture
David Adjaye · 2011
1 recommender
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Designing History: The Evolutionary Art & Style of the Obama White House
Michael Smith · 2020
1 recommender
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House
Diane Keaton · 2012
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Windcliff: A Story of People, Plants, and Gardens
Dan Hinkley · 2020
1 recommender
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Made in Russia
Michael Idov · 2011
1 recommender
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Encyclopaedia of Typefaces
W. Pincus Jaspert et al. · 1970
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1 person
Union Printers and Controlled Automation
Harry Kelber · 1967
1 recommender
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Why Design?
Anna Slafer · 1995
1 recommender
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Interiors
Alexandra Misczynski &Michael Misczynski · 2012
1 recommender
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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
William H. Whyte · 2001
1 recommender
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At Home in Renaissance Italy
Marta Ajmar-Wollheim and Flora Dennis · 2006
1 recommender
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Modern Architecture Since 1900
William Curtis · 1983
1 recommender
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Pillar to Post
Osbert Lancaster · 1938
1 recommender
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A Gentleman Gets Dressed Up
John Bridges · 2012
1 recommender
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Rendering in Pen and Ink
Arthur L. Guptill · 1997
1 recommender
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1 person
Remodelista
Julie Carlson · 2013
1 recommender
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1 person
Art Direction for the Web
Andy Clarke · 2019
1 recommender
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Inclusive Design Patterns
Heydon Pickering · 2016
1 recommender
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1 person
Responsible Responsive Design
Scott Jehl · 2014
1 recommender
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Weingart: Typography
Wolfgang Weingart · 2000
1 recommender
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1 person
Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide
Mohamed Elshahed · 2020
1 recommender
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1 person
The Senses
Ellen Lupton · 2018
1 recommender
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1 person
Racing and Sports Car Chassis Design
Michael Costin and David Phipps · 1971
1 recommender
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1 person
Designing with Type
James Craig & Irene Korol Scala · 2012
1 recommender
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Neutra. Complete Works
Barbara Lamprecht · 2000
1 recommender
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1 person
S,M,L,XL
Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau · 1997
1 recommender
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1 person
The Age of Spectacle: Adventures in Architecture and the 21st-Century City
Tom Dyckhoff · 2017
1 recommender
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1 person
Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design and the Nature of Cities
Nicholas de Monchaux · 2016
1 recommender
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1 person
Defensive Design for the Web
Matthew Linderman & Jason Fried · 2004
1 recommender
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1 person
Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia
June Williamson · 2020
1 recommender
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1 person
Eighty Years of Book Cover Design
Joseph Connolly · 2009
1 recommender
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1 person
The Sense of Order (Wrightsman Lectures 9)
Leonie Gombrich, EH Gombrich, New York University · 1994
1 recommender
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