Best Design Books
4. 
Educational Game Design Fundamentals: A Journey to Creating Intrinsically Motivating Learning Experiences 4.33 avg rating β 42 ratings
7. 
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities
by:
David Airey
4.20 avg rating β 4,205 ratings 8. 
The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web
by:
Dave Shea
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 871 ratings 9. 
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by:
Edward R. Tufte
4.39 avg rating β 8,576 ratings 10. 
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
by:
Peter Morville
3.93 avg rating β 3,823 ratings 
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) 4.42 avg rating β 5,326 ratings
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The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics
by:
Milton Glaser
4.11 avg rating β 551 ratings 
20. 
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
by:
Edward R. Tufte
4.29 avg rating β 3,089 ratings 
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Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises 4.12 avg rating β 845 ratings
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Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS
by:
Dan Cederholm
4.12 avg rating β 921 ratings 25. 
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The Language of Graphic Design: An Illustrated Handbook for Understanding Fundamental Design Principles
by:
Richard Poulin
3.93 avg rating β 107 ratings 30. 
Creative Culture: Human-Centered Interaction, Design, & Inspiration
by:
Justin Dauer
4.26 avg rating β 19 ratings 31. 
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
by:
Henry Petroski
3.68 avg rating β 2,389 ratings 
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Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design 4.02 avg rating β 826 ratings
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Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design
by:
John Clifford
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 53 ratings 
41. 
Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion
by:
Ben Hunt
3.92 avg rating β 127 ratings 
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Above the Fold: Understanding the Principles of Successful Web Site Design
by:
Brian D. Miller
3.95 avg rating β 389 ratings 
41. 
How to Set Up Photography Lighting for a Home Studio
by:
Amber Richards
3.70 avg rating β 172 ratings 
41. 
Design to Renourish: Sustainable Graphic Design in Practice
by:
Eric Benson
4.43 avg rating β 7 ratings 
41. 
The Future of Extraordinary Design: Where are we going and how will we get there?
by:
Nik Parekh
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 6 ratings 41. 
Neon Spectacular: Japan: A Photographic Documentary of the Japanese Neon Industry
by:
Kody Shafer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 62. 
Hong Kong Apothecary: A Visual History of Chinese Medicine Packaging
by:
Simon Go
4.19 avg rating β 31 ratings 62. 
Fingerprint: The Art of Using Hand-Made Elements in Graphic Design 4.05 avg rating β 1,064 ratings
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Scratch your niche: Fun and fulfillment through Web-based projects
by:
Nate Burgos
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 62. 
Type Idea Index: The Designer's Ultimate Tool for Choosing and Using Fonts Creatively
by:
Jim Krause
3.98 avg rating β 127 ratings 
62. 
The Push Pin Graphic: A Quarter Century of Innovative Design and Illustration
by:
Seymour Chwast
4.30 avg rating β 80 ratings 62. 
Web Typography: A handbook for designing beautiful and effective responsive typography
by:
Richard Rutter
4.67 avg rating β 43 ratings 72. 
The Anatomy of Design: Uncovering the Influences And Inspirations in Modern Graphic Design
by:
Steven Heller
4.04 avg rating β 153 ratings 
72. 
Make Your Own Luck: A DIY Attitude to Graphic Design
by:
Kate Moross
3.79 avg rating β 131 ratings 72. 
Panel Discussions: Design In Sequential Art Storytelling
by:
Durwin Talon
4.16 avg rating β 51 ratings 76. 
Illusive 2: Contemporary Illustration and Its Context
by:
Robert Klanten
4.38 avg rating β 50 ratings 76. 
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Unleashing the Ideavirus: Stop Marketing AT People! Turn Your Ideas into Epidemics by Helping Your Customers Do the Marketing thing for You.
by:
Seth Godin
3.93 avg rating β 5,956 ratings 
83. 
All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
by:
Seth Godin
3.88 avg rating β 16,199 ratings 83. 
86. 
Surf Craft: Design and the Culture of Board Riding
by:
Richard Kenvin
4.33 avg rating β 51 ratings 
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Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1)
by:
Lewis Mumford
4.23 avg rating β 320 ratings 90. 
Discover Design Pattern Thinking: Applying New Design Techniques to Improve our Mental Operacy
by:
Rudy A. Magnan
4.40 avg rating β 5 ratings 92. 
Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers
by:
Anna M. Lewis
3.69 avg rating β 93 ratings 93. 
The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson
by:
Lewis Blackwell
4.07 avg rating β 756 ratings 
93. 
Adapt: How Humans Are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future
by:
Amina Khan
3.99 avg rating β 103 ratings 96. 
Designed to Go The Distance: A Survival Guide for the Creative Professional
by:
Mitch Dowell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 17 ratings 97. 
The Design of Dissent: Greed, Nationalism, Alternative Facts, and the Resistance
by:
Milton Glaser
4.21 avg rating β 34 ratings 
98. 
Classic Book Jackets: The Design Legacy of George Salter
by:
Thomas Hansen
4.11 avg rating β 19 ratings 100. 
Thinking in Icons: Designing and Creating Effective Visual Symbols
by:
Felix Sockwell
3.61 avg rating β 31 ratings