Design as an Attitude
By: Alice Rawsthorn
4.05
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
A subjective field guide to design from renowned design critic and author Alice Rawsthorn Design…
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1. Just Enough Research
By: Erika Hall , Jeffrey Zeldman
4.18
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
Design research is a hard slog that takes years to learn and time away from the real work of design… read more
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- art design
- nonfiction
- design
"A large corporation is more like Australia: it’s impossible to see the whole landscape at once and there are so many things capable of maiming or killing you."-Erika Hall, Just Enough Research
"Some websites are completely optimized for simple conversion, and it’s easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb."-Erika Hall, Just Enough Research
2. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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- nonfiction
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
3. Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
By: Victor Papanek
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Design for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. … read more
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- art
- art design
- nonfiction
- design
"You are responsible for what you put into the world."-Victor Papanek, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
"There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them."-Victor Papanek, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
"Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today."-Victor Papanek, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
"It would be tedious to continue piling example upon example, statistic upon statistic. For at a certain point, a feeling of deep lethargy sets in, and our reaction is: 'What's the use?' or 'What can …"-Victor Papanek, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
4. Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
By: Leonard Koren
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
Describes the principles of wabi-sabi, a Japanese aesthetic associated with Japanese tea ceremonies… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- design
5. Thinking Architecture
By: Peter Zumthor
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
In order to design a building with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- design
6. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
7. Design as Art
By: Patrick Creagh , Bruno Munari
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Paperback
One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an il… read more
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- art
- art design
- nonfiction
- design
8. Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
By: David Kelley , Tom Kelley
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner an… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- design
9. 1913 - Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts
By: Florian Illies
4.38
Format: None pages, Hardcover
1913 Die Geschichte eines ungeheuren Jahres Virtuos entfaltet Florian Illies das Panorama eines unv… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
10. B is for Bauhaus
By: Deyan Sudjic
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This book is not a dictionary, though it tells you all you need know about everything from Authenti… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- design
11. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
12. Speculative Everything - Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
By: Anthony Dunne
3.33
Format: None pages,
Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In "Speculative… read more
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13. Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary
By: None , None
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Paperback
-The designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of -… read more
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14. Da cosa nasce cosa: Appunti per una metodologia progettuale
By: Bruno Munari
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Tra i grandi libri di Munari, questo e quello che forse maggiormente rende felici i lettori per la … read more
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15. The Year of Magical Thinking
By: Joan Didion
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her min… read more
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16. The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Manual for Visual Communication
By: Ruben Pater
3.79
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
The Politics of Design shows the importance of visual literacy when communicating across borders an… read more
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17. Canto yo y la montaña baila
By: Irene Solà
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more
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"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Quan arribés a casa s'hauria de fer escalfar aigua per rentar-se el fred i la plutja"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
18. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
19. Afterlives
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. A… read more
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"... the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"He suffered his small share of the unavoidable indignities of childhood."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"I have nothing,’ he said. ‘Nor do I,’ she said. ‘We’ll have nothing together."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
20. Nachmittage
By: Ferdinand von Schirach
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Ferdinand von Schirach erzählt von milden Frühsommermorgen, verregneten Nachmittagen und schwarzen … read more
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"Ist das nicht merkwürdig?", sagt die Anwältin. "Kann man so sehr lieben, dass man vergisst, nicht schwimmen zu können?"-Ferdinand von Schirach, Nachmittage
21. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- design
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
22. The Beauty of Everyday Things
By: Soetsu Yanagi
3.52
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace sett… read more
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- art
- art design
- nonfiction
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"Disreputable and heinous acts are often carried out in the name of the nation. Nations do not always abide by the truth; instead truth is manipulated and distorted."-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
"These days, personal taste has suffered a decline. Colours have become garish, forms flimsy, and designs hideous. It is only natural that surrounded by such objects, our sense of beauty should be dul…"-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
"Under the snow's reflected light creeping into the houses, beneath the dim lamplight, various types of manual work is taken up. This is how time is forgotten; this is how work absorbs the hours and d…"-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
"What is the proper way of seeing? In brief, it is to see things as they are. However, very few people possess this purity of sight. That is, such people are not seeing things as they are, but are inf…"-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
23. Acts of Service
By: Lillian Fishman
3.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more
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"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
24. Design Is Storytelling
By: Ellen Lupton
3.97
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Ellen Lupton, award-winning author of Thinking with Type and How Posters Work, demonstrates how sto… read more
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- art
- art design
- nonfiction
- design
25. All Art is Ecological
By: Timothy Morton
3.39
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Provocative an… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
26. Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
By: Linda Nochlin
4.33
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" is a 1971 essay by American art historian Linda Nochl… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
27. Lo esencial: Una guía de diseño para la vida
By: Miguel Milá
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Miguel Milá por Miguel Milá, o una guía de diseño para la vida. Edición y epílogo de Anatxu Zabalbe… read more
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- art
- design
"Lo más importante en la vida consiste en saber volver a empezar."-Miguel Milá, Lo esencial: Una guía de diseño para la vida
"Las crisis son creativas. Así como la abundancia es más bien negativa, durante las crisis nos esmeramos en resolver problemas con el mínimo gasto posible."-Miguel Milá, Lo esencial: Una guía de diseño para la vida
"No debes imponerte nada que no sientas como propio. Aprendes que, si dejas de ser tú mismo ya has perdido, porque entonces no te queda nada. Y entonces sí que te pierdes para siempre."-Miguel Milá, Lo esencial: Una guía de diseño para la vida
28. The Extreme Self
By: Shumon Basar
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Extreme Self is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you’ve been morphing into something … read more
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- nonfiction
- design
29. The Shape of Things
By: Vilém Flusser
4.08
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This book presents for the first time in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media … read more
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- nonfiction
- design
30. Design as an Attitude
By: Alice Rawsthorn
4.05
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
A subjective field guide to design from renowned design critic and author Alice Rawsthorn Design… read more
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- art
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- design
31. Just Enough Design: Reflections on the Japanese Philosophy of Hodo-hodo
By: Taku Satoh
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A Japanese designer offers a compelling alternative way to engage with our possessions, our history… read more
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- nonfiction
- design
