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Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,717 ratings — published 2004
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,402 ratings — published 1996
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,025 ratings — published 2005
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,109 ratings — published 2003
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,112 ratings — published 1992
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,307 ratings — published 2008
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,271 ratings — published 2009
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 62,448 ratings — published 2010
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,862 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 114 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,175 ratings — published 2015
Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,744 ratings — published 2003
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 357,358 ratings — published 2012
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,630 ratings — published 1988
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,002 ratings — published 2011
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.91 — 17,750 ratings — published 1963
100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,013 ratings — published 2012
Logo Modernism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.51 — 615 ratings — published 2015
Graphic Design School: The Principles and Practice of Graphic Design (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 391 ratings — published 2006
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 865 ratings — published 2011
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,685 ratings — published 2014
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,130 ratings — published 2007
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,902 ratings — published 2003
Know Your Onions: Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.08 — 801 ratings — published 2011
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,227 ratings — published 1993
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,413 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 — 31,196 ratings — published 2000
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,641 ratings — published 2001
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,335 ratings — published 2011
Draplin Design Co.: Thick catalog of logo work, personal projects, and brash design opinions from a Portland legend. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.54 — 1,168 ratings — published 2016
A Smile in the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 846 ratings — published 1996
Graphic Design: A Concise History (World of Art)
by (shelved 49 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 825 ratings — published 1994
The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.80 — 348 ratings — published 2016
Graphic Design Rules: 365 Essential Design Dos and Don'ts (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 377 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 — 520 ratings — published 2002
Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,973 ratings — published 2013
79 Short Essays on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,923 ratings — published 2007
Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 875 ratings — published 2010
Typography Sketchbooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.28 — 724 ratings — published 2011
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 — 352 ratings — published 2006
Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.87 — 308 ratings — published 1997
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,987 ratings — published 1990
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,136 ratings — published 1947
Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,124 ratings — published 2004
Paul Rand: A Designer's Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.28 — 436 ratings — published 1985
The Brand Gap (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,786 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 38 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,071 ratings — published 2012
Graphic Design: A User's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 167 ratings — published 2009
Design Is Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,872 ratings — published 2017
“Form can be a powerful way to invoke the viewer’s tactile memory and mirror our experience of the physical world despite the limitations of two-dimensional images.”
― An Illustrated Field Guide to the Elements and Principles of Art + Design
― An Illustrated Field Guide to the Elements and Principles of Art + Design
“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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