Design History Books

Books that document influential designers, movements, objects, and the evolution of design culture. 25 books.

1,000 Marks by Pentagram book cover

1,000 Marks by Pentagram

Pentagram

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

Architectural Logos book cover

Architectural Logos

Counter-Print

Color Problems book cover

Color Problems

Emily Noyes Vanderpoel

Design as Art book cover

Design as Art

Bruno Munari

The Design Book book cover

The Design Book

Phaidon

Dieter Rams: The Complete Works book cover

Dieter Rams: The Complete Works

Klaus Klemp

Donald Judd: Artworks 1970–1994 book cover

Donald Judd: Artworks 1970–1994

Donald Judd

IBM: Graphic Design Guide from 1969 to 1987 book cover

IBM: Graphic Design Guide from 1969 to 1987

Paul Rand

Virgil Abloh. Icons book cover

Virgil Abloh. Icons

Virgil Abloh

Japanese Graphic Design book cover

Japanese Graphic Design

Wang Shaoqiang

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

Logo Beginnings

Jens Mueller

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

Meggs' History of Graphic Design book cover

Meggs' History of Graphic Design

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

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

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 New Typography book cover

The New Typography

Jan Tschichold, Ruari McLean

Thoughts on Design book cover

Thoughts on Design

Paul Rand

Typography: A Manual of Design book cover

Typography: A Manual of Design

Emil Ruder

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

Ways of Seeing book cover

Ways of Seeing

John Berger