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1,000 Marks by Pentagram book cover

1,000 Marks by Pentagram

Pentagram

A *New* Program for Graphic Design book cover

A *New* Program for Graphic Design

David Reinfurt

A Dictionary of Color Combinations Vol. 1 book cover

A Dictionary of Color Combinations Vol. 1

Sanzo Wada

A Dictionary of Color Combinations Vol. 2 book cover

A Dictionary of Color Combinations Vol. 2

Sanzo Wada

A Pattern Language book cover

A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein

A Philosophy of Software Design book cover

A Philosophy of Software Design

John Ousterhout

A Primer of Visual Literacy book cover

A Primer of Visual Literacy

Donis A Dondis

Abloh-isms book cover

Abloh-isms

Virgil Abloh, Larry Warsh

About Face book cover

About Face

Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, Christopher Noessel

Architectural Logos book cover

Architectural Logos

Counter-Print

Art and Visual Perception book cover

Art and Visual Perception

Rudolf Arnheim

Atomic Design book cover

Atomic Design

Brad Frost

Beautiful Evidences book cover

Beautiful Evidences

Edward Tufte

Color Problems book cover

Color Problems

Emily Noyes Vanderpoel

Content Design book cover

Content Design

Sarah Winters, Rachel Edwards

Creative Confidence book cover

Creative Confidence

Tom Kelley, David Kelley

Design as Art book cover

Design as Art

Bruno Munari

Design for Communication book cover

Design for Communication

Elizabeth Resnick

Design for the Real World book cover

Design for the Real World

Victor Papanek

Design Is a Job book cover

Design Is a Job

Mike Monteiro

Design Justice book cover

Design Justice

Sasha Costanza-Chock

Design Meets Disability book cover

Design Meets Disability

Graham Pullin

Design Systems book cover

Design Systems

Alla Kholmatova

Designing Design book cover

Designing Design

Kenya Hara

Designing Interfaces book cover

Designing Interfaces

Jenifer Tidwell, Charles Brewer, Aynne Valencia

Designing Programmes book cover

Designing Programmes

Karl Gerstner

Dieter Rams: The Complete Works book cover

Dieter Rams: The Complete Works

Klaus Klemp

Don't Make Me Think book cover

Don't Make Me Think

Steve Krug

Donald Judd: Artworks 1970–1994 book cover

Donald Judd: Artworks 1970–1994

Donald Judd

Emotional Design book cover

Emotional Design

Don Norman

Envisioning Information book cover

Envisioning Information

Edward Tufte

Good Services: How to Design Services That Work book cover

Good Services: How to Design Services That Work

Lou Downe

Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice book cover

Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice

Armin Hofmann

Graphic Design: The New Basics book cover

Graphic Design: The New Basics

Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Cole Phillips

Grid Systems in Graphic Design book cover

Grid Systems in Graphic Design

Josef Müller-Brockmann

How to Make Sense of Any Mess book cover

How to Make Sense of Any Mess

Abby Covert

IBM: Graphic Design Guide from 1969 to 1987 book cover

IBM: Graphic Design Guide from 1969 to 1987

Paul Rand

Identity Designed: The Process book cover

Identity Designed: The Process

David Airey

Inclusive Design for a Digital World book cover

Inclusive Design for a Digital World

Reginé M. Gilbert

Information Visualization: Perception for Design book cover

Information Visualization: Perception for Design

Colin Ware

Interaction of Color book cover

Interaction of Color

Josef Albers

Interviewing Users book cover

Interviewing Users

Steve Portigal

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be book cover

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be

Paul Arden

Japanese Graphic Design book cover

Japanese Graphic Design

Wang Shaoqiang

Just Enough Research book cover

Just Enough Research

Erika Hall

Know Your Onions: Graphic Design book cover

Know Your Onions: Graphic Design

Drew de Soto

Laws of UX book cover

Laws of UX

Jon Yablonski

Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams book cover

Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

Dieter Rams, Klaus Klemp, Keiko Ueki-Polet

Living with Complexity book cover

Living with Complexity

Don Norman

Logo Beginnings book cover

Logo Beginnings

Jens Mueller

Logo Design Love book cover

Logo Design Love

David Airey

Logo Modernism book cover

Logo Modernism

Jens Müller, R. Roger Remington

Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh book cover

Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh

Robin Givhan

Mapping Experiences book cover

Mapping Experiences

James Kalbach

Massive Change book cover

Massive Change

Bruce Mau

Meggs' History of Graphic Design book cover

Meggs' History of Graphic Design

Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis, Sandra Maxa, Mark Sanders

Mental Models book cover

Mental Models

Indi Young

Mismatch book cover

Mismatch

Kat Holmes

Notes on the Synthesis of Form book cover

Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Christopher Alexander

Orchestrating Experiences book cover

Orchestrating Experiences

Chris Risdon, Patrick Quattlebaum

Passenger Information System: Design Manual for the Swiss Federal Railways book cover

Passenger Information System: Design Manual for the Swiss Federal Railways

Josef Müller-Brockmann

Principles of Form and Design book cover

Principles of Form and Design

Wucius Wong

Shikake book cover

Shikake

Naohiro Matsumura

Sketching User Experiences book cover

Sketching User Experiences

Bill Buxton

Strategic Writing for UX book cover

Strategic Writing for UX

Torrey Podmajersky

Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920–1965 book cover

Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920–1965

Richard Hollis

The Art of Looking Sideways book cover

The Art of Looking Sideways

Alan Fletcher

The Creative Act: A Way of Being book cover

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin

The Design Book book cover

The Design Book

Phaidon

The Design of Everyday Things book cover

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

The Designer's Dictionary of Color book cover

The Designer's Dictionary of Color

Sean Adams

The Elements of Typographic Style book cover

The Elements of Typographic Style

Robert Bringhurst

The Fashion Design Reference & Specification Book book cover

The Fashion Design Reference & Specification Book

Jay Calderin, Laura Volpintesta

The Functional Art book cover

The Functional Art

Alberto Cairo

The Humane Interface book cover

The Humane Interface

Jef Raskin

The Industrial Design Reference & Specification Book book cover

The Industrial Design Reference & Specification Book

Dan Cuffaro, Isaac Zaksenberg

The Language of Graphic Design book cover

The Language of Graphic Design

Richard Poulin

The Laws of Simplicity book cover

The Laws of Simplicity

John Maeda

The Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design book cover

The Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design

Alvin R. Tilley, Henry Dreyfuss Associates

The New Typography book cover

The New Typography

Jan Tschichold, Ruari McLean

The Politics of Design book cover

The Politics of Design

Ruben Pater

The Shape of Design book cover

The Shape of Design

Frank Chimero

The User Experience Team of One book cover

The User Experience Team of One

Leah Buley

The Vignelli Canon book cover

The Vignelli Canon

Massimo Vignelli

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information book cover

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward Tufte

The War of Art book cover

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

Thinking in Systems book cover

Thinking in Systems

Donella H. Meadows

Thinking with Type book cover

Thinking with Type

Ellen Lupton

This Is Service Design Doing book cover

This Is Service Design Doing

Marc Stickdorn, Markus Edgar Hormess, Adam Lawrence, Jakob Schneider

Thoughts on Design book cover

Thoughts on Design

Paul Rand

Typography: A Manual of Design book cover

Typography: A Manual of Design

Emil Ruder

Universal Principles of UX book cover

Universal Principles of UX

Irene Pereyra

User Friendly book cover

User Friendly

Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant

Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech book cover

Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech

Michael Darling, Virgil Abloh

Virgil Abloh. Icons book cover

Virgil Abloh. Icons

Virgil Abloh

Visual Grammar book cover

Visual Grammar

Christian Leborg

Visual Thinking book cover

Visual Thinking

Rudolf Arnheim

Ways of Seeing book cover

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

Work for Money, Design for Love book cover

Work for Money, Design for Love

David Airey

Writing Is Designing book cover

Writing Is Designing

Michael J. Metts, Andy Welfle