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• Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Sasha Costanza-Chock (illustrated HTML with commentary at pubpub.org)
• Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), by Robert Rosenberger (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Elizabeth Affuso and Suzanne Scott (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Fashion Meets Socialism: Fashion Industry in the Soviet Union After the Second World War (Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society, c2016), by Jukka Gronow and S. V. Zhuravlev (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Shape of Design (c2012), by Frank Chimero (multiple formats with commentary at shapeofdesignbook.com)
• Creative Chaos (second edition; Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2021), ed. by Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving (free online edition, ca. 2012), by Jon Kolko (illustrated HTML with commentary at wickedproblems.com)
• Dynamarhythmic Design: A Book of Structural Pattern (New York: The Century Co., 1932), by Edward B. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bases of Design (second edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1902), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Theory of Pure Design: Harmony, Balance, Rhythm (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1907), by Denman Waldo Ross
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Manual of Design, Compiled from the Writings and Addresses of Richard Redgrave (New York: Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, ca. 1876), by Richard Redgrave, ed. by G. R. Redgrave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of Design, Complied from the Writings and Addresses of Richard Redgrave (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1876), by Richard Redgrave, ed. by G. R. Redgrave (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Digital Foundations (electronic "flossified" edition, 2009), by Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg (multiple formats at flossmanuals.net)
• Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite (working version, 2009), by Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg (illustrated HTML at digital-foundations.net)

• De L'Enseignement du Dessin, Sous le Point de Vue Industriel (in French; Paris: Giroux, et al., 1836), by Alexandre Dupuis (multiple formats at Google)

• Design Quarterly (partial serial archives)
• Design (British industrial design magazine, online issues 1965-1974) (partial serial archives)

• Toward a Ludic Architecture: The Space of Play and Games (text-only version; c2010), by Steffen P. Walz (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Why Architects Draw (with new preface; originally c1994), by Edward Robbins (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• In What Style Should We Build? The German Debate on Architectural Style (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), ed. by Wolfgang Herrmann, contrib. by Heinrich Hübsch, Rudolf Wiegmann, Carl Albert Rosenthal, Karl Bötticher, and Johann Heinrich Wolff (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The Study of Architectural Design, With Special Reference to the Program of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (New York: Pencil Points Press, 1926), by John F. Harbeson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ready to Share: Fashion and the Ownership of Creativity (conference transcript, ca. 2005) (PDF at learcenter.org)
• Art in Dress (New York: P. C. Brown, c1922), by P. Clement Brown (page images at Wisconsin)

• Color and Design in Apparel (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945), by Bernice Gertrude Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Anarchist's Design Book (expanded edition; Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2019), by Christopher Schwarz, illust. by Briony Morrow-Cribbs (PDF at lostartpress.com)
• The Anarchist's Workbench (Covington, KY: Lost Art Press, c2020), by Christopher Schwarz (PDF with commentary at lostartpress.com)

• The Vignelli Canon (ca. 2008), by Massimo Vignelli (PDF at vignelli.com)
• The Art of Spacing: A Treatise on the Proper Distribution of White Space in Typography (Chicago: Inland Printer, 1926), by Samuel A. Bartels (multiple formats at Google)

• Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society (c2011), by Karl T. Ulrich (multiple formats here at Penn)
• Introduction to Design (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962), by Morris Asimow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shaping America's Products (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp., c1956), by Don Wallance (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Vignelli Canon (ca. 2008), by Massimo Vignelli (PDF at vignelli.com)

• Grammar of Textile Design (third edition), by Harry Nisbet
  • part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • part 3: PDF at Arizona
• An Introduction to the Study of Textile Design (London: Methuen and Co., 1903), by A. F. Barker
  • part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • part 3 (catalog of Methuen books): PDF at Arizona
• Large Book of Textile Designs (in German, French, and English; color scan), by Franz Donat
  • part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • part 3: PDF at Arizona
  • part 4: PDF at Arizona
• Technology of Textile Design (fourth edition, 1892), by E. A. Posselt
  • part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • part 3: PDF at Arizona
• Dictionary of Weaves (part 1 was the only part ever published), by E. A. Posselt (PDF at Arizona)
• The Shuttle-Craft Course in Hand Weaving (1923), by Mary Meigs Atwater (PDF at Arizona)

• A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2016), ed. by Scott A. Lukas (PDF at CMU)

• Design and Validation of Computer Protocols, by Gerard J. Holzmann (gzipped PDF and Postscript files at Bell Labs)

• "Good" Flag, "Bad" Flag: How to Design a Great Flag (multiple editions in different languages; Boston: North American Vexillogical Association, c2020), by Ted Kaye (PDF files with commentary at nava.org)

• Tabletop: Analog Game Design (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), ed. by Greg Costikyan and Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• The Well-Considered Garden (new and revised edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1923), by Mrs. Francis King, contrib. by Gertrude Jekyll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Album für Teppichgärtnerei und Gruppenbepflanzung (second edition, in German; Erfurt: L. Möller, ca. 1897), by Karl Götze (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Villa Gardener: Comprising the Choice of a Suburban Villa Residence; the Laying Out, Planting, and Culture of the Garden and Grounds; and the Management of the Villa Farm, Including the Dairy and Poultry-Yard (London: W. S. Orr and co., 1850), by J. C. Loudon, ed. by Mrs. Loudon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design (c2015), ed. by Samuel Sennott and Sheldon Lawrence Loman (at pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu)
• The Instructional Use of Learning Objects, ed. by David A. Wiley (MS Word files at reusability.org)

• Responsive Web Design for Libraries: A LITA Guide (Chicago: ALA TechSource, 2014), by Matthew Reidsma (PDF at gvsu.edu)

• A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2016), ed. by Scott A. Lukas (PDF at CMU)

• Mathematics Underlying the Design of Pneumatic Tires (Ann Arbor: Lithographed by Edwards Brothers, c1963), by John F. Purdy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Customizing Vendor Systems for Better User Experiences: The Innovative Librarian's Guide (Santa Barbara and Denver: Libraries Unlimited, c2016), by Matthew Reidsma (PDF at gvsu.edu)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.