Credit: Jonatan Pie

The term designer can mean many different things today.

Regardless of your interests or job title, hopefully something in this varied list captures your interest. Follow your curiosity and learn something new:

1. Lingua Universalis: Global Wordless Understanding(Johannes Plass)
   The process of logo creation through the latest logos and icons done by the Mutabor design studio.
2. Semiology of Graphics (Jacques Bertin)Extensive volume with rich diagrams, networks, maps by a French cartographer, perfect as a visualization reference.
3. Everybody Writes(Ann Handley)Handy guide to writing good content through online communication, whether you’re a big business or a team of one.

Start with empathy. Continue with utility. Improve with analysis. Optimize with love.
— Ann Handley

4. Wired to Care(Dev Patnaik) Patnaik advocates for how companies can intentionally build empathy among employees, for companies that last.

5. Design Roadmapping: Guidebook for Future Foresight Techniques(Lianne Simonse)
Concrete techniques on how to uncover new trends — combining strategy, value-finding, research and project pacing, while bringing stakeholders along the way.

6. The Five C’s of Cinematography (Joseph Mascelli)
A beginner-friendly, helpful reference on film-making fundamentals, breaking down each aspect of the visual medium.

7. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: The Complete Official Guide Collector’s Edition(Piggyback Interactive)Expanded, extensive guidebook to everything Zelda, from concept art and maps to Easter eggs and more!

Bonus

Photoviz: Visualizing Information through Photography (Nicholas Feltron)
Intersection between photography and data viz by the notable creator of the quantified self Feltron reports.