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Most popular on Perlego

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  1. Design for a Better World
    Design for a Better World
    Don Norman
    2023
  2. The Senses
    The Senses
    Ellen Lupton, Andrea Lipps
    2018
  3. Picture This
    Picture This
    Molly Bang
    2016
  4. Thinking Through Fashion
    2025
  5. Fashionable Masculinities
    Vicki Karaminas, Adam Geczy, Pamela Church Gibson
    2022
  6. Dress Code
    Véronique Hyland, Veronique Hyland
    2022
  7. Designing the Department Store
    Emily M. Orr
    2019
  8. In the Blink of an Eye
    Stefana Sabin
    2021
  9. The Costumes of Burlesque
    Coleen Scott
    2019
  10. Graphic Idea Notebook
    Jan V. White
    2004
  11. Design for Resilience
    Stuart Walker
    2023
  12. Design Management
    Brigitte Borja de Mozota
    2003
  13. Thinking with Type
    Ellen Lupton
    2014
  14. AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design
    Tad Crawford
    2010
  15. Thoughts on Design
    Paul Rand
    2014
  16. The Handbook of Design for Sustainability
    Stuart Walker
    2013
  17. Encyclopedia of Interior Design
    1997
  18. Fashion under Fascism
    Eugenia Paulicelli
    2025
  19. The Bad Corset
    Rebecca Gibson
    2024
  20. Queer Style
    Adam Geczy, Vicki Karaminas
    2024
  21. The senses in interior design
    2023
  22. Henry Dreyfuss
    Russell A. Flinchum, Ralph O. Meyer
    2022
  23. Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads
    Sarah E. Braddock Clarke, Ryoko Yamanaka Kondo
    2022
  24. The Black Experience in Design
    Anne H. Berry, Kareem Collie, Penina Acayo Laker, Lesley-Ann Noel, Jennifer Rittner, Kelly Walters
    2022
  25. The Spirit of Design
    Stuart Walker
    2021
  26. Art Nouveau
    Charlotte Ashby
    2021
  27. No Compromise
    Ana Araujo
    2021
  28. Screen Interiors
    Pat Kirkham, Sarah A. Lichtman
    2021
  29. The Future of Museum and Gallery Design
    Suzanne MacLeod, Tricia Austin, Jonathan Hale, Oscar Ho Hing-Kay
    2018
  30. Critical Design in Context
    Matt Malpass
    2017
  31. Becoming Human by Design
    Tony Fry
    2013
  32. Cities and Design
    Paul L. Knox
    2010
  33. Thinking through Graphic Design History
    Aggie Toppins
    2025
  34. Humanize
    Thomas Heatherwick
    2023
  35. Westernwear
    Sonya Abrego
    2022
  36. Textile Design Theory in the Making
    Elaine Igoe
    2021
  37. Luxury and Visual Culture
    John Armitage
    2019
  38. Teaching Graphic Design
    Steven Heller
    2017
  39. Love Objects
    Anna Moran, Sorcha O'Brien
    2014
  40. Kimono
    Terry Satsuki Milhaupt
    2014
  41. The Universe of Design
    Jean-Pierre Protzen, David J. Harris, David Harris
    2010
  42. Bathroom
    Barbara Penner
    2014
  43. Metaphors in Architecture and Urbanism
    Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson
    2014
  44. Rhetoric and the Arts of Design
    David S. Kaufer, Brian S. Butler
    2013
  45. How to Be a Design Student
    Mitch Goldstein
    2023
  46. Towards Good Lighting for the Stage
    Marcus Doshi
    2022
  47. Dressing the Resistance
    Camille Benda
    2021
  48. The 99% Invisible City
    Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt
    2020
  49. Reading Graphic Design in Cultural Context
    Grace Lees-Maffei, Nicolas P. Maffei
    2019
  50. Accessible America
    Bess Williamson
    2019
  51. Fashion History
    Linda Welters, Abby Lillethun
    2018
  52. Fashion History
    Linda Welters, Abby Lillethun
    2018
  53. Fashion Curating
    Annamari Vänskä, Hazel Clark
    2017
  54. Graphic Design as Communication
    Malcolm Barnard
    2013
  55. Fashion in American Life
    Hazel Clark, Lauren Downing Peters
    2024
  56. What Is Lighting Design?
    Michael Chybowski
    2024
  57. Introduction to Design Theory
    Michalle Gal, Jonathan Ventura
    2023
  58. The Rise of Metacreativity
    Eduardo Navas
    2022
  59. Innovating the Design Process: A Theatre Design Journey
    David E. Smith
    2022
  60. How Design Makes Us Think
    Sean Adams
    2021
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  1. Performance Costume in 18th-Century France
    Performance Costume in 18th-Century France
    Petra Zeller Dotlacilová
    2026
  2. Fashioning London
    Fashioning London
    Christopher Breward
    2026
  3. Slow
    Slow
    Hazel Clark
    2026
  4. Queering Masculinities in Antwerp Fashion
    Nicola Brajato
    2026
  5. Marginal Fashion Publishing
    Laura Gardner
    2026
  6. The New Latin American Fashion Reader
    2025
  7. The Design of Care
    2025
  8. Empathic Service Design
    2025
  9. The New Dress Detective
    Ingrid E. Mida
    2026
  10. A Trade in Dreams
    Bahia Shehab
    2026
  11. Dress and Morality
    Aileen Ribeiro
    2026
  12. Adorned in Dreams
    Elizabeth Wilson
    2026
  13. Design and Archaeology
    Christina Unwin
    2025
  14. Luxury and the Senses
    2025
  15. Aesthetic Femininity and Domestic Modernity in Late Victorian Advice Literature
    Shu-chuan Yan
    2025
  16. Fashion Communications between Italy and China
    Gaoheng Zhang
    2025
  17. Turning revolt into style
    Russ Bestley
    2025
  18. Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico
    José Blanco F., Raúl J. Vázquez-López
    2025
  19. A History of Brands
    Richard Shear
    2025
  20. (Designing) Beyond the Modern
    2026
  21. Polisonics
    2026
  22. Celebrating the city
    Elaine Tierney
    2026
  23. Perform Design Act
    Dorita Hannah, Olav Harsløf, Jon McKenzie
    2026
  24. Craft and War
    2026
  25. Power, Grit and Glamour
    Tamara Sturtz-Filby
    2026
  26. Dressays
    2026
  27. Appropriation
    Benjamin Linley Wild
    2026
  28. Visual Ecologies of Placemaking
    2026
  29. The Fabric of Performance
    Toni Bate
    2026
  30. The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine
    2026
  31. Critical Design in Context
    Matt Malpass
    2026
  32. Digital Culture & Society
    2025
  33. Indigo and Resist Dyeing
    Linda Brassington
    2025
  34. Surface, Textile, and German Material Culture
    Didem Ekici
    2025
  35. Alternative Narratives in Ceramic History
    Neil Ewins
    2025
  36. Design Beyond the Human
    Gordon Hush, Elio Caccavale
    2025
  37. Hardware and Eco-Feminist Art
    Patrícia Reis, Stefanie Wuschitz, Patrícia J. Reis
    2025
  38. Digital Culture & Society
    2025
  39. The Dynamics of Modern Asian Design
    2025
  40. Design Against Racism
    Omari Souza
    2025
  41. Irish Lacemaking
    Molly-Claire Gillett
    2025
  42. Harley Parker
    Gary Genosko
    2025
  43. Clever Design in Critical Times
    2025
  44. Mapping Knowledge Across Time
    Paul Kahn
    2026
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  1. Polisonics
    Polisonics
    2026
  2. Celebrating the city
    Celebrating the city
    Elaine Tierney
    2026
  3. A Trade in Dreams
    A Trade in Dreams
    Bahia Shehab
    2026
  4. (Designing) Beyond the Modern
    2026
  5. Designing the French Interior
    2015
  6. Dress and Morality
    Aileen Ribeiro
    2026
  7. Fashioning London
    Christopher Breward
    2026
  8. The New Dress Detective
    Ingrid E. Mida
    2026
  9. Adorned in Dreams
    Elizabeth Wilson
    2026
  10. Power, Grit and Glamour
    Tamara Sturtz-Filby
    2026
  11. Craft and War
    2026
  12. Dressays
    2026
  13. Visual Ecologies of Placemaking
    2026
  14. Slow
    Hazel Clark
    2026
  15. Appropriation
    Benjamin Linley Wild
    2026
  16. Perform Design Act
    Dorita Hannah, Olav Harsløf, Jon McKenzie
    2026
  17. The Routledge Companion to Practicing Anthropology and Design
    2024
  18. The Fabric of Performance
    Toni Bate
    2026
  19. The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine
    2026
  20. Hardware and Eco-Feminist Art
    Patrícia Reis, Stefanie Wuschitz, Patrícia J. Reis
    2025
  21. Critical Design in Context
    Matt Malpass
    2026
  22. Performance Costume in 18th-Century France
    Petra Zeller Dotlacilová
    2026
  23. Queering Masculinities in Antwerp Fashion
    Nicola Brajato
    2026
  24. Marginal Fashion Publishing
    Laura Gardner
    2026
  25. Happiness by Design
    Justus Nieland
    2020
  26. Architecture since 1400
    Kathleen James-Chakraborty
    2014
  27. Bauhaus Weaving Theory
    T’ai Smith
    2014
  28. Digital Culture & Society
    2025
  29. Indigo and Resist Dyeing
    Linda Brassington
    2025
  30. The New Latin American Fashion Reader
    2025
  31. Design and Archaeology
    Christina Unwin
    2025
  32. Surface, Textile, and German Material Culture
    Didem Ekici
    2025
  33. Alternative Narratives in Ceramic History
    Neil Ewins
    2025
  34. Design Beyond the Human
    Gordon Hush, Elio Caccavale
    2025
  35. The Design of Care
    2025
  36. Shipping Container
    Craig Martin
    2016
  37. Luxury and the Senses
    2025
  38. Digital Culture & Society
    2025
  39. The Dynamics of Modern Asian Design
    2025
  40. Aesthetic Femininity and Domestic Modernity in Late Victorian Advice Literature
    Shu-chuan Yan
    2025
  41. Fashion Communications between Italy and China
    Gaoheng Zhang
    2025
  42. Turning revolt into style
    Russ Bestley
    2025
  43. The Education of a Design Writer
    Steven Heller, Molly Heintz
    2025
  44. A History of Brands
    Richard Shear
    2025
  45. The Culture Box
    Harley Parker
    2025
  46. Decolonising and Indigenising Design
    Desiree Hernandez Ibinarriaga
    2025
  47. Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico
    José Blanco F., Raúl J. Vázquez-López
    2025
  48. Empathic Service Design
    2025
  49. The Beauty of Games
    Frank Lantz
    2023
  50. Design for Resilience
    Stuart Walker
    2023
  51. Feminist Designer
    2023
  52. Design Strategy
    Nancy C. Roberts
    2023
  53. Racism Untaught
    Lisa E. Mercer, Terresa Moses
    2023
  54. Design, Empathy, Interpretation
    Ilpo Koskinen
    2023
  55. Decolonizing Design
    Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall, Ene Agi
    2023
  56. Meaningful Stuff
    Jonathan Chapman
    2021
  57. Design for a Better World
    Don Norman
    2023
  58. Making Design Theory
    Johan Redström
    2017
  59. The Design Way
    Harold G. Nelson, Erik Stolterman
    2012
  60. Living with Complexity
    Don Norman
    2010
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