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
Antonio de Torres: Guitar Maker—His Life & Work
Jose L. Romanillos
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
L. T. C. Rolt
Esperienza dell’Architettura
Ernesto Rogers
The House in My Head
Dorothy Rodgers
Grammatica della Fantasia (The Grammar of Fantasy)
Gianni Rodari
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers
Giorgio Riello et al.
Dada: Art and Anti-Art
Hans Richter
The Functional Tradition in Early Industrial Buildings
J. M. Richards
The Theater Art of Boris Aronson
Frank Rich
An Engineer Imagines
Peter Rice
The Collected Short Stories of Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys
Curious George Rides a Bike
H. A. Rey
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Erich Maria Remarque
Grafika: Modern Design for Advertising and Printing
Imre Reiner
Ounce, Dice, Trice
Alastair Reid et al.
Legibility: A Typographic Book of Etiquette
Ernst Reichl
The Greening of America
Charles A. Reich
The Illustrator in America, 1860–2000
Walt Reed
The Big Book of Chic
Miles Redd
Design fai da te
Recession Design, ed.
Alex Steinweiss: The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover
Kevin Reagan et al.
Woman’s World: A Novel
Graham Rawle
Art Deco Jewelry
Sylvie Raulet
Digital Water Pavilion
Carlo Ratti
Supercrit #2—Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Kester Rattenbury et al.
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