Design


The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less
Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
Doom Guy: Life in First Person
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
System Design Interview – An insider's guide
Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
The Grand Design
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
How to Be an Artist
The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
The Design of Everyday Things
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
Universal Principles of Design
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
The Elements of Typographic Style
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed.
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Envisioning Information
Educational Game Design Fundamentals by George KalmpourtzisThe Animator's Survival Kit by Richard   WilliamsGame Design Workshop by Tracy FullertonThe Art of Game Design by Jesse SchellZX Spectrum Games Code Club by Gary Plowman
Top Game Developer Books
10 books — 14 voters
Seasons by BlexbolexTokyo Digs a Garden by Jon-Erik LappanoAwake Beautiful Child by Amy Krouse RosenthalBeastly Verse by JooHee YoonHooray for Hat! by Brian Won
Graphic Design + Picture Books
35 books — 14 voters

Grace by Grace CoddingtonD.V. by Diana Vreeland#Girlboss by Sophia AmorusoWildchilds by Eugenia MelianLove, Loss, and What I Wore by Ilene Beckerman
Best Fashion World Books
81 books — 29 voters



Karl Lagerfeld
Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
Karl Lagerfeld

R. Buckminster Fuller
I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.
Richard Buckminster Fuller

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