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The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,096 ratings — published 1988
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 331,920 ratings — published 2012
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,519 ratings — published 2004
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.94 — 429,015 ratings — published 1972
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,192 ratings — published 2014
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,040 ratings — published 1992
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,752 ratings — published 1971
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,309 ratings — published 2010
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,884 ratings — published 1966
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 118,603 ratings — published 2002
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,010 ratings — published 2005
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 20,715 ratings — published 2016
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,279 ratings — published 1996
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.77 — 102,854 ratings — published 1994
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 — 30,537 ratings — published 2000
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 457,317 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 — 377,275 ratings — published 1979
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,693 ratings — published 1993
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.85 — 234,472 ratings — published 2005
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,869 ratings — published 2003
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 116,549 ratings — published 2002
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,627 ratings — published 1983
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,840 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 — 2,705 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 30 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,130 ratings — published 2015
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,624 ratings — published 2001
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 77,390 ratings — published 2023
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 28 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 18,559 ratings — published 2010
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.86 — 166,086 ratings — published 1997
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,227 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 — 4,226 ratings — published 2009
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,990 ratings — published 2006
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 26 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,451 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 — 17,059 ratings — published 2019
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,932 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 — 4,083 ratings — published 2003
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.87 — 55,709 ratings — published 1973
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,583 ratings — published 1933
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,807 ratings — published 1994
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,003 ratings — published 1912
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,102 ratings — published 2003
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,206 ratings — published 1993
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,271 ratings — published 2003
Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,911 ratings — published 2007
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,254 ratings — published 2008
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 56,540 ratings — published 1988
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as art-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,120 ratings — published 2007
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.61 — 70,633 ratings — published 2008
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.89 — 49,357 ratings — published 1995
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as art-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,137 ratings — published 2013
“I like a rule which regulates emotion. I like an emotion which offsets the rule”
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