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
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Erich Maria Remarque
Tintin: Le scèptre d’Ottokar (Tintin: King Ottokar’s Sceptre)
Hergé
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
Too Much Is Never Enough
Morris Lapidus
Toothpicks and Logos
John Heskett
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Traditional Islamic Craft in Moroccan Architecture
André Paccard
Traditional Jewelry of India
Oppi Untracht
Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays
Robin Evans
The Transparency of Evil
Jean Baudrillard
Travels in Hyperreality
Umberto Eco
The Travels of Marco Polo
Rustichello da Pisa
A Treasury of Scandinavian Design
Erik Zahle, ed.
Tropical Modernism
James Grayson Trulove
Trotzdem, 1900–1930
Adolf Loos
The Troubled Man
Henning Mankell
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
The Turkish Embassy Letters
Mary Wortley Montagu
The Turning Point of Building
Konrad Wachsmann
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
Two Lines Align
Michael Worthington
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Janet Malcolm
Two Under the Indian Sun
Jon and Rumer Godden
Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles 1628-1900
Cees De Jong et al.
Typographers on Type
Ruari McLean, ed.
The Typographic Desk Reference
Theodore Rosendorf