Invited designers (including architects, fashion designers, graphic designers, interior designers, landscape architects, product designers, urban designers, and other design professionals) have chosen these as the most notable design books of 2011. See complete Notable Design Books list
8 books
| Balenciaga and Spain | Bowles, Hamish | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| Reveal: Studio Gang Architects | Gang, Jeanne | Princeton Architectural Press | $45.00 |
| Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design | Kirkham, Pat et al. | Laurence King Publishing | $75.00 |
| Kissing Architecture | Lavin, Sylvia | Princeton University Press | $16.95 |
| Katie Ridder: Rooms | MacIsaac, Heather | Abrams | $50.00 |
| Atlas | Richter, Gerhard | Walther König Verlag | |
| Richard Prince: American Prayer | Rubin, Robert | Rizzoli International Publications | $65.00 |
| Less and More | Ueki-Polet, Keiko et al. | Gestalten |
