This list includes books, films, and websites. My hope is you find something here that makes you like design a little bit more.

Designing Type – Karen Cheng
How to Be a Design Student (and How to Teach Them) – Mitch Goldstein
Typography: Macro- and Microaesthetics – Willi Kunz
Grid Systems in Graphic Design – Josef Müller-Brockmann
Chasing the Perfect – Natalia Ilyin
The Typographic Grid – Hans Rudolf Bosshard
Basic Principles of Design – Manfred Maier
Design Form and Chaos – Paul Rand
The Elements of Typographic Style – Robert Bringhurst
The Cheese Monkeys – Chip Kidd
Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice – Armin Hofmann
Thinking With Type: A Critical Guide for Designers…  – Ellen Lupton
How To Be a Graphic Designer w/o Losing Your Soul  – Adrian Shaughnessy
Experimental Typography – Rob Carter
Interaction of Color – Josef Albers
The Elements of Color – Johannes Itten
Primer of Visual Literacy  – Donis A. Dondis
washsoakrinsespin – Tolleson Design
Language of Vision – Gyorgy Kepes
Looking Closer 1, 2, 3, 4 ed. – Michael Bierut
Borrowed Design: Use and Abuse of Historical Form – Steven Heller
Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility – Steven Heller
Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design – Steven Heller
Design Writing Research – Ellen Lupton, J. Abbott Miller
Designing Books: Practice and Theory – Jost Hochuli
The Modular I –Le Corbusier
The Medium is the Massage – Marshall McLuhan
Grid Systems in Graphic Design – Josef Müller-Brockmann
Marks of Excellence… – Per Mollerup
Paul Rand: A Designer’s Art – Paul Rand
From Lascaux to Brooklyn – Paul Rand
Thoughts on Design  – Paul Rand
Twentieth-Century Type – Lewis Blackwell
Typographic Specimens – Rob Carter, Philip B. Meggs
Twentieth-Century Type Designers  – Sebastian Carter
Designing with Type: A Basic Course in Typography – James Craig
Typographers on Type – Ruari McLean
Fonts & Logos  – Doyald Young
Einstein’s Dreams – Allan Lightman
Typography Now: The Next Wave –Rick Poynor, E. Booth-Clibborn
The Elements of Typographic Style – Robert Bringhurst
Typographic Design: Form and Communication – Rob Carter
Typography: A Manual of Design – Emil Ruder
Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works – Erik Spiekermann
Asymmetric Typography – Jan Tschichold