Phaidon

This book is both big and a big deal. It turns out Dieter Rams probably had an impact on your life, your habits, and your memories. A comprehensive, chronology of ever single Dieter Rams design.

Two brothers in Brooklyn have done the unthinkable. They essentially found and photographed an entire PANTONE book of colors, with flowers. It's a gargantuan effort and the resulting book is fun to flip through and also really easy to use. The science and art of using color as applied to natural wonders like flowers is creative stimulation of the highest order.