Whoa. There must be something in the water.

Major “whoa” on this one. It oozes quality & love for the subject. Broken into two parts, The Intangibles (semantics, syntactics, pragmatics—philosophical design nerdy) and The Tangibles (paper sizes, grids, type sizes, texture, etc.), it totals a whopping 96 pages.

It’s one to savor.

Word to the wise: the (one-man?) firm that produced this beautiful book is not the firm you want to go to for web advice. Their work is great, except for the web. Here’s the Vignelli site and you can see for yourself (I skipped the intro for you—yes, there’s an intro.)

How do you design? Beta book

Design approaches and models from Dubberly Design Office. Won’t leave you drooling on your keyboard like the Vignelli book, but will definitely make you think.