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Jonas Wisser asked on Twitter:

Web designers: what text or texts on design most influenced you? What would you recommend to a noob?

I’ve culled some of my favourites from the replies (including, I must admit, from my own reply to his question):

• Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design by Khoi Vinh
• 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick — I suggested this, noting that it seems perfunctory at first, but the relevance will reveal itself as you look more carefully at anything designed.
• Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
• Design is a Job by Mike Monteiro

These are just a few suggestions; there are plenty more great design books out there (and some not so great ones). These I highly recommend, however.