Well, there are two answers.
One, you need to fully specify your system: frequency, bandwidth, tunable range, gain, receiver impedance, maybe efficiency as well, or other circumstantial parameters like maximum size, or material cost. Then, those who understand the below, can do the design for you. You get one (1) design for little effort, but you have to specify the system fully.
Two, you learn AC steady-state circuit analysis and network theory. This is a deep subject, working in the mathematical domains of complex numbers and rational polynomials. It takes years of concerted study to become fluent at it; but despite the multiple levels of abstraction, it's perhaps surprisingly easy to work in the outer levels, for example plotting the frequency response of a network, and simulating in SPICE or whatever. It's a lot of playing around to begin to recognize and grasp the symmetries of this topic, but it is possible to see it just by tweaking component values a few at a time. Some simple equations also run deep: Fo = 1 / (2 pi sqrt(LC)) and Zo = sqrt(L/C) will never not be useful in this study. After all this effort, you will be able to design pretty much any network for any purpose you could want -- whether coupling an antenna, filtering an amplifier's passband, or more. Even more, you can specialize into RF engineering, and perhaps start a lucrative career around it -- skills that go this deep are hard to come by. Rather than getting one design, you get access to... all of them, essentially; your imagination's the limit. But it takes a lot of work to get there.
And it's not an all-or-nothing thing. You can poke around blindly in SPICE and on the breadboard, and find something "good enough", or that takes a few more components than is optimal, or has crappy (but again, still good enough) pass/stopband ripple or skirts or whatever -- but you won't really know why it works, or how to "do it right", until you've spent a long time with problems like these.
Tim
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