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Graphic Design Books
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Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,594 ratings — published 2004
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,337 ratings — published 1996
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,012 ratings — published 2005
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,098 ratings — published 2003
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,065 ratings — published 1992
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,271 ratings — published 2008
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,245 ratings — published 2009
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,817 ratings — published 2010
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,849 ratings — published 1983
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
by (shelved 113 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,144 ratings — published 2015
Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,715 ratings — published 2003
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 340,622 ratings — published 2012
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,979 ratings — published 1988
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,938 ratings — published 2011
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,626 ratings — published 1963
100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,002 ratings — published 2012
Logo Modernism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.50 — 602 ratings — published 2015
Graphic Design School: The Principles and Practice of Graphic Design (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 385 ratings — published 2006
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 859 ratings — published 2011
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.08 — 61,997 ratings — published 2014
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,123 ratings — published 2007
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,881 ratings — published 2003
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,221 ratings — published 1993
Know Your Onions: Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.08 — 789 ratings — published 2011
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,078 ratings — published 1966
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 53 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,820 ratings — published 2000
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,626 ratings — published 2001
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,276 ratings — published 2011
Graphic Design: A Concise History (World of Art)
by (shelved 48 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 825 ratings — published 1994
The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.81 — 339 ratings — published 2016
A Smile in the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 846 ratings — published 1996
Design Basics Index (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,210 ratings — published 2004
The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.90 — 518 ratings — published 2002
Graphic Design Rules: 365 Essential Design Dos and Don'ts (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 367 ratings — published 2012
Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,148 ratings — published 2016
79 Short Essays on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,921 ratings — published 2007
Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,965 ratings — published 2013
Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 873 ratings — published 2010
Color Design Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.93 — 347 ratings — published 2006
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,955 ratings — published 1990
Typography Sketchbooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.28 — 724 ratings — published 2011
Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,114 ratings — published 2004
Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.86 — 306 ratings — published 1997
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,121 ratings — published 1947
The Brand Gap (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,643 ratings — published 2003
The Graphic Design Exercise Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.77 — 150 ratings — published 2010
Paul Rand: A Designer's Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.28 — 429 ratings — published 1985
Design Is a Job (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,067 ratings — published 2012
Graphic Design: A User's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 165 ratings — published 2009
Work for Money, Design for Love: Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Starting and Running a Successful Design Business (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 36 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.22 — 503 ratings — published 2012
“A picture is worth a thousand words, but a comic is worth a million.”
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“We are the Western World. We read, see, think. Left. To. Right. We can't help it.
..The problem with Top to Bottom is that it's unAmerican. We want to begin in the depths and climb our way upward. But our typographic system argues against this and wins, and images follow suit.
..What you have to be careful to remember about Big and Small, is that they can extend to infinity in either direction. Consider: Big can always be bigger and Small smaller. The atom is the Universe and vice versa. And they're both identical.
..Left to Right, Top to Bottom, Big and Small; on a two-dimensional plane, all of these tools rely on a relative truth. Now we come to In Front Of and In Back of, which for us are big, fat lies. Very useful though, and the first of many at your disposal.”
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..The problem with Top to Bottom is that it's unAmerican. We want to begin in the depths and climb our way upward. But our typographic system argues against this and wins, and images follow suit.
..What you have to be careful to remember about Big and Small, is that they can extend to infinity in either direction. Consider: Big can always be bigger and Small smaller. The atom is the Universe and vice versa. And they're both identical.
..Left to Right, Top to Bottom, Big and Small; on a two-dimensional plane, all of these tools rely on a relative truth. Now we come to In Front Of and In Back of, which for us are big, fat lies. Very useful though, and the first of many at your disposal.”
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