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Books for designers

An unsorted list of some of the design books I've read over the years.

A New Program for Graphic Design
Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities
Barbican Residents
Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig
Case study houses, 1945-1966
Charles & Ray Eames : 1907-1978, 1912-1988 : pioneers of mid-century Modernism
Confessions of an Advertising Man
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Creative Strategy and the Business of Design
Dangerous Curves: Mastering logotype design
Design Basics Index
Designers on Design
Designing Design
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Dieter Rams

Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible
Don't Make Me Think!
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited
Do the F*cking Work
Graphic Design Manual: Principles And Practice
Hay
How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul
How to Live with Objects: A Guide to More Meaningful Interiors
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer
Logotypes & Letterforms
MacOS Icon Book
Made by MSCHF
Mapping Experiences
Max Bill
NASA Graphics Standards Manual Remastered Edition
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
No Style. Ernst Keller
The App Icon Book
The Art of Looking Sideways
The Design of Everyday Things
The Elements of Typographic Style
The Mom Test
The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes
The Shape of Design
Thinking with Type
Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition
Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
Understanding Comics
van der Rohe
Visual Thinking
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future