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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 — 12,570 ratings — published 2004
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,322 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 — 5,013 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 — 4,095 ratings — published 2003
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,054 ratings — published 1992
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,264 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 — 4,235 ratings — published 2009
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,640 ratings — published 2010
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,847 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 111 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,709 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 — 338,310 ratings — published 2012
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,723 ratings — published 1988
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,923 ratings — published 2011
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,478 ratings — published 1971
100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,000 ratings — published 2012
Logo Modernism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.50 — 600 ratings — published 2015
Graphic Design School: The Principles and Practice of Graphic Design (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 381 ratings — published 2006
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 857 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 — 61,596 ratings — published 2014
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 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 — 5,884 ratings — published 2003
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,217 ratings — published 1993
Know Your Onions: Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.08 — 785 ratings — published 2011
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,014 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 — 30,751 ratings — published 2000
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,264 ratings — published 2011
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,628 ratings — published 2001
Graphic Design: A Concise History (World of Art)
by (shelved 48 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 824 ratings — published 1994
The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.81 — 337 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 3.91 — 360 ratings — published 2012
Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.54 — 1,144 ratings — published 2016
Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,959 ratings — published 2013
Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,917 ratings — published 2007
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 — 346 ratings — published 2006
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,952 ratings — published 1990
Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 871 ratings — published 2010
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 — 1,112 ratings — published 2004
Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.87 — 305 ratings — published 1997
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,118 ratings — published 1947
The Brand Gap (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,615 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 — 427 ratings — published 1985
Design Is a Job (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,061 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 — 501 ratings — published 2012
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