Some of the Best Books for Designers to instantly improve and expand your Design skills ( 2020–2021 )
Books every Designer should read to expand their existing skills, it’s worth investing in some good books.
Design is the very basis of universal creation and existence. In the human context, the design is the representation of the human imagination in a visual form. In the internet world, the design is at the core of messaging and communication. By nature, the human brain is wired to pick up, assimilate, and understand information more effectively and faster when presented in certain shapes, sizes, and colors.
A good design is an important aspect of any product — physical or digital. Besides the functionality of a product, design elements of a product appeal to the soft centers of the brain and have a tremendous impact on the psychological, aesthetic senses too, and it can make-or-mar a product’s success in the market.
Here are the Books -
1. Steal Like an Artist
Author: Austin Kleon
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative is a book on coming up with creative ideas written by Austin Kleon and published in 2012 from Workman Publishing. The book has since then become a New York Times Bestseller.
Price — ₹ 925.35
You can buy it from — Amazon.in
2. Hooked
How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Author: Nir Eyal
How do successful companies create products people can’t put down? Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?
Price — ₹ 431.00
You can buy it from — Amazon.in
3. Type Matters!
Author: Jim Williams
Once upon a time, only typesetters needed to know about kerning, leading, ligatures, and hanging punctuation. Today, however, most of us work on computers, with access to hundreds of fonts, and we’d all like our letters, reports, and other documents to look as good — and as readable — as possible.
Price — ₹ 2,233.00
You can buy it from — Flipkart.com
4. Show Your Work!
Author: Austin Kleon
In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey — getting known.
Price — ₹ 1,068.00
You can buy it from — Flipkart.com
5. Thinking with Type
Author: Ellen Lupton
Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking’sA Brief History of Time is to physics.”–I Love Typography The best-selling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded second edition: Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication.
Price — ₹ 1,399.00
You can buy it from — Amazon.in
