This weeks top 10 hi-lights books to inspire and motivate you. At best, these books provide not only great studies in design, they’ll also help you focus and push your abilities– at worst more visual fodder for you to draw from and digest. Either way, you win. (bookshelf graphic provided via Delicious Library)

10. Büro Destruct Die Gestalten Verlag
ISBN 391126242
Art Books International (not pictured)

09. Paperwork, The potential of paper in graphic design
Nancy Williams
ISBN 0714834610
Phaidon Press

08. Pen and Mouse, Commercial Art and Digital Illustration
Angus Hyland
ISBN 1856692310

07. nofrontiere : operating system
Nofrontiere Design
ISBN 3927258415
szadeczky and steinf
Gingko Press

06. Pathfinder, a way through swiss graphics
Happypets
ISBN 1856693678
Gingko Press
IdN

05. S,M,L,XL
Rem Koolhaas/Bruce Mau
ISBN 1885254016
Monachelli Press

04. Spark
Dirk Rudolph
ISBN 3931126331
Gestalten Verlag
Art Books International

03. Dos Logos
Robert Kanten
ISBN 3899550552
Die Gestalten Verlag

02. iconography
IdN
ISBN 962861777X
Systems Design Ltd. (Idn)

01. The latest D&AD annual (not pictured)