Graphic Design


Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop
The Elements of Typographic Style
Graphic Design: The New Basics
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Meggs' History of Graphic Design
How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry, and (every once in a while) change the world
Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
The Design of Everyday Things
The Non-Designer's Design Book
Interaction of Color
Show Your Work! by Austin KleonSteal Like an Artist by Austin KleonThe Language of Graphic Design by Richard   PoulinThe Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. NormanCreative Culture by Justin Dauer
Most Inspiring Design Books
24 books — 20 voters

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
Designed.co Book List
1 book — 1 voter
Art Chantry Speaks by Art ChantryGraphic Design Visionaries by Caroline  RobertsGraphic Design by Jennifer InstonGraphic Design by Jennifer InstonLogo Decode by Various
Graphic Design New Books
12 books — 2 voters

Back Office 2 Graphic Design And Digital Practices by Editions B42Design et humanités numériques by Anthony MasureLe Vertige du funambule  by Annick LantenoisA Book From Devalence by Victor GuéganAscendant beauf by Rose Lamy
B42 test
8 books — 1 voter

“ The ability to explain graphic design is fundamentally different from the ability to create graphic design, and it relies on different faculties. In the explanation process, the designer must deconstruct his or her work and place it in a logical sequence so one can understand its components and see how they collectively create an entity that has a specific idea, spirit, and look. The act of designing is more ephemeral; it is an intuitive process informed by external forces that direct the intuit ...more ”
― Paula Scher, Make It Bigger

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Graphic designers judge a cover by its book. ”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

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