Invited designers and commentators have chosen these as the books that inspire them and that have shaped their worldview or their ideas about design.
1646 books
Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography
Alice Rawsthorn
Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint
You Have to Pay for the Public Life
Charles, W. Moore et al.
Yohji Yamamoto: Talking to Myself
Carla Sozzani, ed.
A Year with Swollen Appendices
Brian Eno
The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Worlds in Collision
Immanuel Velikovsky
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
A World Without Time
Palle Yourgrau
The World of M. C. Escher
M. C. Escher et al.
The World of Gloria Vanderbilt
Wendy Goodman et al.
The World Must Change: Graphic Design and Idealism
Leonie Ten Duis et al.
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Friedman
World Dress Fashion in Detail
Rosemary Crill et al.
World Champion Openings
Eric Schiller
The Work of Hipgnosis
Storm Thorgerson
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin
Word and Image: Posters from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Alan M. Fern
Word and Image
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA)
Wooden Houses
Makoto Suzuki et al.
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wonder Bread & Ecstasy: The Life and Death of Joey Stefano
Charles Isherwood
Women Designers in the USA, 1900–2000
Pat Kirkham, ed.
Without Rhetoric
Alison and Peter Smithson
The Wisdom of Insecurity
Alan Watts
The Wine-Dark Sea
Leonardo Sciascia
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami