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The most-recommended design titles in our index, ranked by how many people recommend each.
- 6 people
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Marie Kondō · 2014
6 recommenders
- 3 people
The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0: 20th Anniversary Edition
Robert Bringhurst · 2015
3 recommenders
- 3 people
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
Susan Weinschenk · 1920
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander · 1979
3 recommenders
- 2 people
Thinking with Type, 2nd revised ed.: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
Ellen Lupton · 2010
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin
Lawrence Weschler · 1982
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior
Indi Young · 2008
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Anatomy of Type: A Graphic Guide to 100 Typefaces
Stephen Coles · 2012
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Philip B. Meggs & Alston W. Purvis · 2025
2 recommenders
- 1 person
Emergent Tokyo
Jorge Almazán, Joe McReynolds, Naoki Saito · 2022
1 recommender
- 1 person
Type on Screen: New Typographic Systems (Design Briefs)
Ellen Lupton · 2014
1 recommender
- 1 person
The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture: City, Technology and Society in the Information Age
Federico Soriano, Fernando Porras, José Morales, Manuel Gausa, Vicente Guallart & Willy Müller
1 recommender
- 1 person
The Secret Society: Modern Speakeasy Style and Design by Christian Alexander (2013-07-24)
Christian Alexander · 2012
1 recommender
- 1 person
Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition
Josef Albers · 1971
1 recommender
- 1 person
Spaces of Experience Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000
Charlotte Klonk · 2009
1 recommender
- 1 person
Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City
Anne Mikoleit · 2011
1 recommender
- 1 person
Types Best Remembered/Types Best Forgotten
Robert Norton · 1993
1 recommender
- 1 person
Kern and Burn: Conversations With Design Entrepreneurs
Tim Hoover · 2013
1 recommender
- 1 person
How to Zoom Your Room
Claude Taylor, Jessie Bahrey · 2022
1 recommender
- 1 person
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LUPI GEORGIA/POSAVEC · 2016
1 recommender
- 1 person
The Soft Revolution
Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner · 1971
1 recommender
- 1 person
Palatino: The Natural History of a Typeface
Robert Bringhurst · 2016
1 recommender
- 1 person
Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Philip B. Meggs · 2016
1 recommender
- 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
- 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
- 1 person
Drawing Type: An Introduction to Illustrating Letterforms
Alex Fowkes · 2014
1 recommender
- 1 person
Designing For Social Change: Strategies for Community-Based Graphic Design (Design Briefs)
Andrew Shea · 2012
1 recommender
- 1 person
Conversation Design: A blueprint for voice interface design
Ashvin Naik
1 recommender
- 1 person
Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work
Nigel Cross · 2011
1 recommender
- 1 person
The End of Traffic and the Future of Access
David Levinson, Kevin Krizek · 2015
1 recommender
- 1 person
Letterform Collected
published by Grafik Magazine & various contributors
1 recommender
- 1 person
The Pevsner Guide to London 4
Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry
1 recommender
- 1 person
Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Josef Müller-Brockmann · 1981
1 recommender
- 1 person
Designing History: The Evolutionary Art & Style of the Obama White House
Michael Smith · 2020
1 recommender
- 1 person
Windcliff: A Story of People, Plants, and Gardens
Dan Hinkley · 2020
1 recommender
- 1 person
Encyclopaedia of Typefaces
W. Pincus Jaspert et al. · 1970
1 recommender
- 1 person
Union Printers and Controlled Automation
Harry Kelber · 1967
1 recommender
- 1 person
Interiors
Alexandra Misczynski &Michael Misczynski · 2012
1 recommender
- 1 person
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
William H. Whyte · 2001
1 recommender
- 1 person
At Home in Renaissance Italy
Marta Ajmar-Wollheim and Flora Dennis · 2006
1 recommender
