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
Typographie
Walter Bangerter et al.
Typographie: A Manual of Design (Typographie: ein Gestaltungslehrbuch = Typography: A Manual of Design = Typographie: un manuel de création)
Emil Ruder
Typologies
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Ugly: The Aesthetics of Everything
Stephen Bayley
The Uncommon Numbers Trilogy
Brenda Casey Zoby
The Underpainter
Jane Urquhart
Underwear: Fashion in Detail
Eleri Lynn
The Unexpurgated Beaton
Hugo Vickers, ed.
The Unfashionable Human Body
Bernard Rudofsky
The Universal Traveler
Don Koberg et al.
The Unknown Craftsman
Soetsu Yanagi
Unless It Moves the Human Heart
Roger Rosenblatt
Unobtrusive Measures
Eugene Webb
Urban Traffic: A Function of Land Use
R. B. Mitchell et al.
V&A Pattern: Boxed Set
Yueh-Siang Chang et al.
Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James
Vas: An Opera in Flatland
Steve Tomasula et al.
The Velvet Room
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (Friday)
Michel Tournier
Venezia Minore
Egle Renata Trincanato et al.
The Venturesome Economy
Amar Bhidé
Vermilion Sands
J. G. Ballard
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
Victorian Publishers’ Book-Bindings in Cloth & Leather
Ruari McLean