📚 Design

The making of the surfaces of the built world: the object, the poster and the interface, and the designers who decided how ordinary things look.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject design in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Pioneers of modern design from William Morris to Walter Gropius	Nikolaus Pevsner	1949	27
	The education of a gardener	Russell Page	1962	20
	Design through discovery	Marjorie Elliott Bevlin	1963	17
	How designers think	Bryan Lawson	1980	17
	The Psychology of Everyday Things	Donald A. Norman	1988	16
	Designing brand identity	Alina Wheeler	2008	16
	The bases of design	Walter Crane	1898	15
	The Art of Game Design	Jesse Schell	2008	13
	Design of machine elements	Merhyle Franklin Spotts	1948	12
	Machine design	Joseph Edward Shigley	1956	12
	Design Patterns	Erich Gamma	1995	12
	Design basics	David A. Lauer	2002	10
	The art of color and design	Maitland E. Graves	1941	9
	Graphic design basics	Amy E. Arntson	1988	8
	Design and Development Research	Rita C. Richey	2007	8
	Shaping space	Paul Zelanski	1987	7
	Graphic design	Milton Glaser	1973	6
	Don't Make Me Think	Steve Krug	2000	6
	Emotional Design	Donald A. Norman	2003	6
	HTML & CSS	Jon Duckett	2011	6
	Responsive Web Design	Ethan Marcotte	2011	6
	Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty	David Kadavy	2011	5
	Articulating Design Decisions	Tom Greever	2015	5
	The green imperative	Victor J. Papanek	1995	4
	1000 Chairs	Charlotte Fiell	1997	4
	Graphic Design	Ellen Lupton	2008	4
	Logo design love	David Airey	2010	4
	Fashion designer	Patricia Wooster	2011	4
	Design as art	Bruno Munari	1971	3
	Principles of form and design	Wucius Wong	1993	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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