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Books like Designing Design

Designing Design by Kenya Hara is about design philosophy, emptiness, japanese aesthetics. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Design of Everyday Things
    The Design of Everyday Things

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    The Design of Everyday Things

    Donald Norman · Psychology

    The Design of Everyday Things began as The Psychology of Everyday Things when first published in 1988, and Donald Norman revised it substantially for a 2013 edition that updated the examples for a digital age.

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  2. Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
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    Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

    Lawrence Weschler · Biography

    Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees is Lawrence Weschler's extended portrait of Robert Irwin, the California artist who began his career as an abstract expressionist painter and progressively dismantled every element of conventional art-making — frame, canvas, pigment, discrete object — until he was working with pure perception itself.

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  3. Concerning the Spiritual in Art
    Concerning the Spiritual in Art

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    Concerning the Spiritual in Art

    Wassily Kandinsky · Philosophy

    Wassily Kandinsky's 1911 manifesto is the founding document of abstract art.

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  4. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    Robert Pirsig · Philosophy

    Robert Pirsig's 1974 book is structured as a cross-country motorcycle journey from Minnesota to California, narrated by a father traveling with his young son Chris.

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  5. 1984
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    1984

    George Orwell · Philosophy

    Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.

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  6. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
    21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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    21 Lessons for the 21st Century

    Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy

    Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.

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