Books like Design for life by Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

Steal Like an Artist is a visually engaging guide that translates Austin Kleon’s viral lecture into actionable advice for writers, artists, designers, entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to make things in the digital age.

A comprehensive guide to graphic design and typography, offering practical advice and design techniques for students and designers alike.

Creative Confidence shows how every person can unlock and apply their creative potential in business and everyday life, using insights and examples from IDEO’s design practice.

Bruno Munari, celebrated Italian designer, shares his vision that design should be beautiful, functional and accessible, exploring its impact on everyday objects from lamps to road signs and typography.

The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace. The Coca-Cola bottle and the McDonald's logo are known all over the world, and designs such as the modernist 'Frankfurt Kitchen' of 1924, the 1954 streamlined and tail-finned Oldsmobile, or 'Blow', the inflatable chair ubiquitous in the late 1960s, tell us more about our culture than a narrowly-defined canon of classics. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship (not only in design history but also in social anthropology and women's history), Jonathan M. Woodham takes a fresh look at the wider issues of design and industrial culture throughout Europe, Scandinavia, North America, and the Far East. He explores themes such as national identity, the 'Americanization' of ideology and business methods, the rise of the multi-nationals, Pop and Postmodernism, and contemporary ideas of nostalgia and heritage. In the history which emerges design is clearly seen for what it is: the powerful and complex expression of aesthetic, social, economic, political, and technological forces.