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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 — 12,618 ratings — published 2004
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,351 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 — 5,017 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 — 4,103 ratings — published 2003
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,073 ratings — published 1992
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,278 ratings — published 2008
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,251 ratings — published 2009
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,986 ratings — published 2010
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 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 — 1,154 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 — 2,718 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 — 343,467 ratings — published 2012
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,240 ratings — published 1988
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,961 ratings — published 2011
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,976 ratings — published 1963
100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,005 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 — 604 ratings — published 2015
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 4.07 — 62,686 ratings — published 2014
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 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 — 5,885 ratings — published 2003
Know Your Onions: Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.08 — 789 ratings — published 2011
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,223 ratings — published 1993
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,125 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 — 30,895 ratings — published 2000
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,630 ratings — published 2001
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,291 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 3.96 — 825 ratings — published 1994
The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.80 — 340 ratings — published 2016
Graphic Design Rules: 365 Essential Design Dos and Don'ts (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 370 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 45 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,153 ratings — published 2016
79 Short Essays on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,923 ratings — published 2007
Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,967 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 3.93 — 348 ratings — published 2006
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,956 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 — 1,116 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 — 1,126 ratings — published 1947
The Brand Gap (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,678 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 — 5,070 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
“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
“Through my design career, I realised part of my job was not only to present my ideas — but to SELL them to clients — good, thoughtful design.”
― The Green Velvet Chair: Heartfelt stories of art and design in everyday life
― The Green Velvet Chair: Heartfelt stories of art and design in everyday life
