Akshay loves design, products, business and philosophy books
Below are some of my favourite art and design books. I have read most of them cover to cover.
Business books for product designers
Growth Hacker Marketing
By Ryan Holiday
Intercom on Startups
By Intercom
Leaders Eat Last
By Simon Sinek
4 Hour Workweek
By Tim Ferris
Business Model Generations
By Alex Osterwalder
Presentation Zen
By Garr Reynolds
TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking
By Chris Anderson
AskGaryVee
By Gary Vaynerchuk
Must have design books for people who want to become designers
Basics Design 01: Format
By Gavin Ambrose
1,000 Icons, Symbols, and Pictograms: Visual Communications for Every Language
The Vignelli Canon
By Massimo Vignelli
Basics Design 02: Layout
By Gavin Ambrose
The Fundamentals of Typography
By Gavin Ambrose , Paul Harris
Logo Design Logo
The Icon Handbook
Pretty Much Everything (Haven’t started reading this yet, srry folks)
By Aaron Draplin
Frontend development related books for designers
Smashing Magazine Book 5 – Responsive Web Design
By Vitaly Freidman
Javascript and JQuery
By Jon Ducket
Book of CSS3
By Peter Gasston
Autographed copy of Learning Responsive Web Design
By Clarissa Peterson
Product design books for designers
Lean UX
By Eric Reis
Hooked
By Nir Eyal
Get your Priorities Straight
By Uservoice
UX design books
Content Strategy for the Web
100 things every designer needs to know about people
By Susan Weinschek
Design for Emotions
By Aaron Walters
Content Strategy for UX Designers
By GatherContent
Don’t make me think
By Steve Krug
Philosophy books for designers
Become what you are
By Alan Watts
How to think like Da Vinci
By Michael Gelb
Tao Te Ching
By Lao Tzu
Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism
By Lama Anagarika Govinda
Art books for designers
Steal like an Artist
by Austin Kleon
How to draw comics the Marvel way
by Stan Lee
Drawing from life
by George Bridgman
War of Art
by Steven Pressfield
Show your Work
by Austin Kleon
Design as Art
by Bruno Munari
Photography books for designers
How to see and take better pictures
by John Hedgcoe
Basic Photography 01 Composition
by David Prakel
The Visual Dictionary of Photography
by David Prakel
Vancouverites love judging a book by its cover, hence a page with my favourite book covers hahaha. Photographs on this page (except for the header), belong to the authors of these amazing books or the publishers.