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Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,638 ratings — published 2004
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,368 ratings — published 1996
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,020 ratings — published 2005
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,104 ratings — published 2003
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,088 ratings — published 1992
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,290 ratings — published 2008
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,257 ratings — published 2009
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 62,167 ratings — published 2010
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,851 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 — 1,158 ratings — published 2015
Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,726 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 3.97 — 346,349 ratings — published 2012
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,492 ratings — published 1988
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,971 ratings — published 2011
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.89 — 16,231 ratings — published 1963
100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,010 ratings — published 2012
Graphic Design School: The Principles and Practice of Graphic Design (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 388 ratings — published 2006
Logo Modernism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.51 — 605 ratings — published 2015
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.02 — 861 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 4.07 — 63,212 ratings — published 2014
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,122 ratings — published 2007
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,888 ratings — published 2003
Know Your Onions: Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.08 — 792 ratings — published 2011
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,224 ratings — published 1993
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,187 ratings — published 1966
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 54 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,985 ratings — published 2000
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,632 ratings — published 2001
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,304 ratings — published 2011
A Smile in the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 847 ratings — published 1996
Graphic Design: A Concise History (World of Art)
by (shelved 48 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 825 ratings — published 1994
The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.80 — 341 ratings — published 2016
Graphic Design Rules: 365 Essential Design Dos and Don'ts (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.93 — 372 ratings — published 2012
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 — 519 ratings — published 2002
Draplin Design Co.: Thick catalog of logo work, personal projects, and brash design opinions from a Portland legend. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.54 — 1,159 ratings — published 2016
79 Short Essays on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,922 ratings — published 2007
Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,968 ratings — published 2013
Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 874 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 3.92 — 349 ratings — published 2006
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,967 ratings — published 1990
Typography Sketchbooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.28 — 725 ratings — published 2011
Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,115 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 3.98 — 1,127 ratings — published 1947
Paul Rand: A Designer's Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.28 — 431 ratings — published 1985
The Brand Gap (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,704 ratings — published 2003
The Graphic Design Exercise Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.77 — 150 ratings — published 2010
Design Is a Job (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,066 ratings — published 2012
Graphic Design: A User's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 166 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 4.23 — 505 ratings — published 2012
“We navigate the world largely by recognizing the edges or boundaries between objects which brings shape into the realm of the tangible, connecting it strongly to our sense of physicality and touch.”
― An Illustrated Field Guide to the Elements and Principles of Art + Design
― An Illustrated Field Guide to the Elements and Principles of Art + Design
“As visual observers, we are drawn to points in our environment, whether a pinpoint of light in the dark or the point where the hand of a clock intersects the circle of numbers on its face. Points serve to lead the viewer’s eye around the composition as they involuntarily focus on beginnings and endings, and moments of convergence or intersection.”
― An Illustrated Field Guide to the Elements and Principles of Art + Design
― An Illustrated Field Guide to the Elements and Principles of Art + Design
