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Art Design Books
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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.15 — 46,772 ratings — published 1988
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 327,699 ratings — published 2012
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,489 ratings — published 2004
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.94 — 423,194 ratings — published 1972
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,037 ratings — published 1992
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 59,314 ratings — published 2014
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 14,302 ratings — published 1971
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,879 ratings — published 2010
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,817 ratings — published 1966
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 117,675 ratings — published 2002
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,004 ratings — published 2005
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,257 ratings — published 1996
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.02 — 20,036 ratings — published 2016
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 40 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,423 ratings — published 2000
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.77 — 101,592 ratings — published 1994
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 452,413 ratings — published 1950
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.87 — 374,586 ratings — published 1979
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.00 — 129,974 ratings — published 1993
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.85 — 233,569 ratings — published 2005
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 115,184 ratings — published 2002
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,864 ratings — published 2003
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,605 ratings — published 1983
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,839 ratings — published 1983
Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,699 ratings — published 2003
How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry, and (every once in a while) change the world
by (shelved 31 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,128 ratings — published 2015
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 73,500 ratings — published 2023
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,624 ratings — published 2001
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 28 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,866 ratings — published 2010
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.86 — 165,191 ratings — published 1997
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,202 ratings — published 2011
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,216 ratings — published 2009
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,968 ratings — published 2006
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 26 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,421 ratings — published 2003
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
by (shelved 25 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 16,815 ratings — published 2019
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,922 ratings — published 1990
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,081 ratings — published 2003
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.87 — 54,945 ratings — published 1973
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,746 ratings — published 1994
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,036 ratings — published 1933
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.83 — 91,343 ratings — published 1912
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.08 — 40,495 ratings — published 2003
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,204 ratings — published 1993
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.80 — 71,812 ratings — published 2003
Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,913 ratings — published 2007
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,248 ratings — published 2008
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 55,940 ratings — published 1988
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,119 ratings — published 2007
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.90 — 48,922 ratings — published 1995
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.62 — 70,015 ratings — published 2008
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,733 ratings — published 1972
“I like a rule which regulates emotion. I like an emotion which offsets the rule”
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