 | Lingua Universalis: Global Wordless Understanding by Johannes Plass
Buy new: $27.58 / Used from: $10.06 Nontraditional compendium of iconography.
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 | The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $21.50 Just open it to any page and you'll find a dozen ideas waiting for you.
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 | Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design by Chris Lefteri
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $17.25 A encyclopedic volume of manufacturing methods for products. Explains in clear detail what materials are used and the methods of shaping, combining, and otherwise transforming materials into products and product packaging. You don't need to be a material scientist or a product designer to appreciate and be inspired by this book.
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 | Alan Fletcher: Picturing and Poeting by Alan Fletcher
Buy new: $29.16 / Used from: $13.95 Naivete and being unconcerned with what others think can lead to amazing results.
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 | How to Get Ideas by Jack Foster
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $4.48 Guide to converting random inputs into creative outputs by finding unlikely connections.
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 | Transit Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $10.00 Transportation maps make interesting metaphors for nonspatial network mapping, and are just generally cool to look at.
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 | Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion - Tokyo by Tiffany Godoy
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $12.00 Fashion guide for the unfashionable. Many ideas here that go way beyond clothing.
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 | Freepaper Graphics (Graphic Design) (Japanese Edition)
Buy used from: $73.77 An explosion of unrelated brochures, flyers, ads, and other paper graphics.
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 | Housing Flyer: Real Estate Advertising Graphics from Japan
Real estate graphics are always clean and informative, thus making excellent inspiration for other forms of advertising.
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 | Euro Deco: Graphic Design Between the Wars by Steven Heller
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $12.25 Art Deco advertising and product package design emphasises clean lines and layouts. A great inspiration for advertisers, package designers, as well as logo and icon designers.
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 | Designing Type by Karen Cheng
Buy new: $22.44 / Used from: $17.33 An under-the-hood look at font design - also handy for creating icons and logos.
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 | furi furi: what a happy life & death! by Furi Furi Company
Buy new: $42.00 / Used from: $13.98 Cuteness everywhere. Great for character designers, vector graphic artists, and even tattoo artists.
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 | Japanese Bookbinding: Instructions From A Master Craftsman by Kojiro Ikegami
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $16.98 Use simple materials and binding techniques to create pamphlets and books by hand.
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 | Paper Engineering: 3D Techniques for a 2D Material by Natalie Avella
Buy used from: $39.00 Paper folding and cutting techniques for 3D design.
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 | I Am Plastic: The Designer Toy Explosion by Paul Budnitz
Buy used from: $21.91 Page after page of collectible toys, great for toy or character design.
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 | Space: Japanese Design Solutions for Compact Living by Michael Freeman
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $11.92 Interior design for extremely small and awkward places. Highly useful and fun to look at.
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 | Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $13.99 A strange look at architecture that has the ability to inspire non-architects.
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 | Designing Design by Kenya Hara
Buy new: $32.97 / Used from: $32.75 Far-out perspectives on the design process.
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 | Signage Systems and Information Graphics by Andreas Uebele
Buy new: $40.95 / Used from: $32.50 Spatial graphic design (signage, maps, etc).
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 | The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs by Robert Beer
Buy new: $40.95 / Used from: $36.85 Line graphics to die for!
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 | Mark Lombardi: Global Networks by Robert Hobbs
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $16.00 Think and see in networks.
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 | Pen & Ink by Comikers
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $8.46 Do the exercises and read the drawing materials lists for great ideas and dramatic improvement in drawing ability!
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