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Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as design-reference)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,618 ratings — published 2004
Draplin Design Co.: Thick catalog of logo work, personal projects, and brash design opinions from a Portland legend. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 1,153 ratings — published 2016
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 2,849 ratings — published 1983
Architectural Graphic Standards (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 272 ratings — published 1946
The Hot Garden: Landscape Design for the Desert Southwest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 40 ratings — published 2009
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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avg rating 4.42 — 5,499 ratings — published 1977
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 5,017 ratings — published 2005
From Memen to Mori (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 87 ratings — published
The History of Graphic Design Vol. 1. 1890-1959 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.58 — 165 ratings — published 2017
The History of Graphic Design. Vol. 2, 1960–Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.68 — 114 ratings — published 2018
The Night Giant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.07 — 69 ratings — published
The Future Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.16 — 470 ratings — published 2026
Fireworks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,045 ratings — published 2025
Croco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.04 — 97 ratings — published 2025
Rumpelstiltskin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.18 — 364 ratings — published 2026
The New Design Source Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.18 — 11 ratings — published 1987
To Activate Space Portal, Lift Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 3.70 — 143 ratings — published
The Shindig Is Coming! (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 3.58 — 80 ratings — published
Lots of Dots (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 3.92 — 845 ratings — published 2010
The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 3.62 — 47 ratings — published 2009
1000 New Designs and Where to Find Them: A 21st-Century Sourcebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.14 — 14 ratings — published 2006
Skateboarding and the City: A Complete History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.40 — 30 ratings — published
Brutal Outer London (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.67 — 6 ratings — published 2023
What is Architecture?: And 100 Other Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 3.72 — 106 ratings — published 2013
Basics Landscape Architecture 01: Urban Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 18 ratings — published 2009
Museo del Design Italiano. Triennale Milano 1946 -1981. Ediz. illustrata (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published
MUSEO DEL DESIGN IT. GUIDA ING. CART. (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
European Business Design 01: Top Creative Solutions for Today's Business Challenges (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2009
Information Design Workbook: Graphic approaches, solutions, and inspiration + 30 case studies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 130 ratings — published 2008
Fast Company Innovation by Design: Creative Ideas That Transform the Way We Live and Work (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 20 ratings — published
Graphic Fest 2: Spot-on Identities for Festivals & Fairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 3.33 — 6 ratings — published 2023
Hands on Research for Artists, Designers & Educators (Set Margins, 35)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.26 — 38 ratings — published
If We Were Dogs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.13 — 488 ratings — published
A Lost Cause (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 83 ratings — published
Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 82 ratings — published
Don't Eat Eustace (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 404 ratings — published
Piccolo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 128 ratings — published
Architectural Detailing: Function - Constructibility - Aesthetics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 60 ratings — published 1992
Design Integration Using Revit 2012 (Perfect Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published
Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,598 ratings — published 2013
The Complete Language of Flowers: A Definitive and Illustrated History (Volume 3) (Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia, 3)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.37 — 619 ratings — published 2020
Print + Production Finishes for Cd + Dvd Packaging (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2006
The Boy Who Became a Parrot: A Foolish Biography of Edward Lear Who Invented Nonsense (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.12 — 99 ratings — published
Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.75 — 8 ratings — published
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,467 ratings — published 1982
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 444,439 ratings — published 1972
War Posters: Weapons of Mass Communication (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 64 ratings — published 2007
The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.11 — 554 ratings — published 2005
Barnbrook Bible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as design-reference)
avg rating 4.45 — 31 ratings — published 2005
