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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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The Four Books of Architecture
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Graphic Design: The New Basics
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Neon Spectacular: Japan: A Photographic Documentary of the Japanese Neon Industry
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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Thinking With Type
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Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung
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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
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100 More Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
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4.11 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Towards a New Architecture
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Cradle to Cradle
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Digital Design Theory: Readings from the Field
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Helen Armstrong (Editor)
4.05 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Secret Lives of Color
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The Design of Everyday Things
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About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
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Design as Art
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Meggs' History of Graphic Design
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Thinking Architecture
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The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
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Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture
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Experiencing Architecture
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Square Circle Triangle
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4.15 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 19,818 ratings
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Graphic Design Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design
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4.17 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Graphic Design: A Concise History
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Design: The History, Theory and Practice of Product Design
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3.93 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Design: History, Theory and Practice of Product Design
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Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography
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On Web Typography
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4.15 avg rating — 470 ratings
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Better Web Typography for a Better Web
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Matej Latin (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Universal Methods of Design: 100 Ways to Research Complex Problems, Develop Innovative Ideas, and Design Effective Solutions
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Bella Martin (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 820 ratings
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HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites
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4.30 avg rating — 4,880 ratings
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