Read-alikes and related books

Books like Great Designs

Across Industrial Design, Commercial & Corporate, Graphic Arts, and Design — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Great Designs by Philip Wilkinson.

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Top related books to Great Designs

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Great Designs.

The Psychology of Design Creating Consumer Appeal

Rajeev Batra

Themes: Industrial Design • Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts

The Complete Guide to Perspective Drawing From One-point to Six-point

Craig Attebery

Themes: Industrial Design • Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts

Bauhaus. Updated Edition

Magdalena Droste

Themes: Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts • Design

How Design Makes the World

Scott Berkun

Themes: Industrial Design • Graphic Arts • Design

Design A–Z

Stephen Bayley

Themes: Industrial Design • Graphic Arts • Design

Walt Disney’s Disneyland

Chris Nichols

Themes: Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts • Design

Fahrgastinformationssystem Gestaltungshandbuch für die Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen : design manual for the Swiss Federal Railways Passenger Information System

Josef Müller-Brockmann

Themes: Industrial Design • Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts

Jony Ive The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products

Leander Kahney

Themes: Industrial Design • Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts

Streamliner Raymond Loewy and Image-making in the Age of American Industrial Design

John Wall

Themes: Industrial Design • Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts

#10

AQA GCSE Design and Technology: Product Design

Jeff Draisey

Themes: Industrial Design • Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts

#11

Product Concept Design A Review of the Conceptual Design of Products in Industry

Turkka Kalervo Keinonen

Themes: Industrial Design • Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts

#12

Product Design and Sustainability Strategies, Tools and Practice

Jane Penty

Themes: Industrial Design • Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts

#13

Design Futures

Bradley Quinn

Themes: Industrial Design • Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts

#14

Wabi-sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

Leonard Koren

Themes: Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts • Design

#15

21st Century Design New Design Icons from Mass Market to Avant-garde

Marcus Fairs

Themes: Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts • Design

#16

An Introduction to Design and Culture 1900 to the Present

Penny Sparke

Themes: Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts • Design

#17

A John Heskett Reader Design, History, Economics

John Heskett

Themes: Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts • Design

#18

The Design Philosophy Reader

Anne-Marie Willis

Themes: Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts • Design

#19

Designing Designing

John Chris Jones

Themes: Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts • Design

#20

The Black Experience in Design Identity, Expression & Reflection

Anne H. Berry

Themes: Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts • Design

#21

The Elements of Graphic Design Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type

Alex W. White

Themes: Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts • Design

#22

Editing by Design The Classic Guide to Word-and-Picture Communication for Art Directors, Editors, Designers, and Students

Jan V. White

Themes: Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts • Design

#23

All-American Ads of The 80s

Jim Heimann

Themes: Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts • Design

#24

Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse. the Ultimate History. 40th Ed

Bob Iger

Themes: Commercial & Corporate • Graphic Arts • Design

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Industrial Design, Commercial & Corporate, Graphic Arts — the same threads that run through Great Designs by Philip Wilkinson. Among the authors featured: Rajeev Batra, Craig Attebery, Magdalena Droste, Scott Berkun, and others.