Chosen Books

Invited designers and commentators have chosen these as the books that inspire them and that have shaped their worldview or their ideas about design.
2000 books
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Nicolai Gogol
The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
E. D. Hirsch et al.
The Dictionary of Visual Language
Philip Thompson et al.
Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
Dr. Seuss
Diderot Encyclopedia
Denis Diderot
Die Spiele (The Games)
Herbert Kunze
Die Welt als Labyrinth (The World as a Labyrinth)
Gustav René Hocke
Differences
Ignasi Solà-Morales Rubió
Digital Water Pavilion
Carlo Ratti
Disappearing Architecture
Georg Flachbart et al.
Discovering the Vernacular Landscape
John Brinckerhoff Jackson
Disegno industriale: Un riesame (Industrial Design: A Review)
Tomás Maldonado
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens
Donald Judd: Complete Writings 1959–1975
Donald Judd
Donald Judd Furniture: Retrospective
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen
Donald Judd: Raume Spaces
Donald Judd et al.
Dora Bruder (The Search Warrant)
Patrick Modiano
Dorfsman & CBS
Dick Hess et al.
Double-Face: The Story about Fashion and Art from Mohammed to Warhol
Christoph Doswald, ed.
The Dramatic Imagination
Robert Edmond Jones
The Dream of the Red Chamber
Cao Xueqin
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris
Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design
Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Duchamp: A Biography
Calvin Tomkins
Dunbar: Fine Furniture of the 1950s
Leslie Piña
Dutch Graphic Design
Kees Broos et al.