Building a Graphic Design Library |
| There are more books on design being published than ever before, but quantity does not always equal quality. We encourage students to build their own reference library; these books, some old, some new, are ones we can recommend as worthy of shelf space and further study. |
| Graphic Design and Typography | |
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| Aldersey-Williams, Hugh | Cranbrook Design: The New Discourse |
| Apeloig, Philippe | Inside the Word |
| Bierut, Michael et.al | Looking Closer (volumes 1 through 5) |
| Bringhurst, Robert | The Elements of Typographic Style |
| Bringhurst, Robert | The Solid Form of Language |
| Burns, Aaron | Typography |
| Carter, Rob, et. al | Typographic Design: Form and Communication |
| Cato, Ken | Design by Thinking and Ken Cato: Cato Design |
| Chronicle Books | Everything Reverberates: Thoughts on Design |
| Crow, David | Visible Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics |
| Elam, Kimberly | Expressive Typography |
| Emery Vincent Design | Emery Vincent Design |
| Fletcher, Alan | The Art of Looking Sideways |
| Gibbs David, editor | Pentagram: The Compendium |
| Glaser, Milton | Art is Work |
| Grear, Malcolm | Inside/Outside: From the Basics to the Practice of Design |
| Hall, Peter | Sagmeister: Made You Look |
| Heller, Steven, editor | The Education of a Graphic Designer |
| Hiebert, Kenneth | Graphic Design Processes: Universal to Unique |
| Hinrichs, Kit | Typewise |
| Hofmann, Armin | Armin Hofmann: His Work, Quest, and Philosophy |
| Holmes, Nigel | Designing Pictorial Symbols |
| Kane, John | A Type Primer |
| Jury, David | About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography |
| Kunz, Willi | Typography: Macro + Micro-Aesthetics |
| Kunz, Willi | Typography: Formation and Transformation |
| Landa, Robin | Thinking Creatively: New Ways to Unlock Visual Imagination |
| Lupton, Ellen | Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture |
| Oldach, Mark | Creativity for Graphic Designers |
| Poynor, Rick, et. al | Typography Now: The Next Wave |
| Poyner, Rick | Design Without Boundaries: Visual Communication in Transition |
| Rand, Paul | Thoughts on Design and A Designer's Art |
| Rand, Paul | Design Form and Chaos and From Lascaux to Brooklyn |
| Resnick, Elizabeth | Design for Communication |
| Ruder, Emil | Typography |
| Samara, Timothy | Typography Workbook and Making and Breaking the Grid |
| Scher, Paula | Make It Bigger |
| Spiekermann, Erik | Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works |
| Strizver, Ilene | Type Rules: The Designer's Guide to Professional Typography |
| Thomas, Gregory | How to Design Logos, Symbols and Icons |
| Tufte, Edward | Envisioning Information |
| Tufte, Edward | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information |
| Weingart, Wolfgang | Typography: My Way to Typography |
| Design History | |
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Ades, Dawn |
The Twentieth-Century Poster: Art of the Avant Garde |
Andel, Jaroslav |
Avant-Garde Page Design 1900 - 1950 |
Berry, John |
U and lc Influencing Design and Typography |
Blackwell, Lewis, et. al |
The End of Print: The Graphic Design of David Carson |
Chermayeff, Ivan, et. al |
Designing |
Chronicle Books |
Six Chapters in Design: Bass, Chermayeff, Glaser, Rand, Tanaka, Tomaszewski |
Friedl, Friedrich, et al |
Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey |
Friedman, Dan |
Dan Friedman: Radical Modernism |
Friedman, Mildred, editor |
Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History |
Greiman, April |
Hybrid Imagery: The Fusion of Technology and Graphic Design |
Heller, Steven |
Paul Rand |
Heller, Steven; Chwast, S |
Graphic Style: From Victorian to Post-Modern |
Heller, Steven; Fili, Louise |
Typology: Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age |
Hollis, Richard |
Graphic Design: A Concise History |
Lavin, Maud |
Clean New World: Culture, Politics, and Graphic Design |
LeCoultre, M.; Purvis, Alston |
A Century of Posters |
Odermatt, Siegfried |
Odermatt + Tissi Graphic Design |
Pentagram Design |
Pentagram Book Five |
Purcell, Kerry |
Alexey Brodovitch |
McLean, Ruari |
Jan Tschichold |
McQuiston, Liz |
Graphic Agitation: Social and Political Graphics Since the Sixties |
Meggs, Philip |
A History of Graphic Design |
Mollerup, Per |
Marks of Excellence: The History and Taxonomy of Trademarks |
MŸller, Lars, editor |
Josef Muller-Brockmann |
Re, Margaret |
Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter |
Scotford, Martha |
Cipe Pineles: A Life of Design |
Thompson, Bradbury |
The Art of Graphic Design |
Tschichold, Jan |
The New Typography |
VanderLans, R.; Licko, Zuzana |
Emigre: Graphic Design into the Digital Realm |
Vignelli, Massimo |
Massimo and Lella Vignelli: Design Is One |
| Wozencroft, Jon | The Graphic Language of Neville Brody |
| Basic Design and Color | |
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| Albers, Josef | Interaction of Color |
| Carter, Rob | Digital Color and Type |
| Elam, Kimberly | Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition |
| Hofmann, Armin | Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice |
| Itten, Johannes | The Art of Color and Design and Form |
| Kepes, Gyorgy | Language of Vision |
| Lupton, Ellen; Miller, J.A. | The ABC's of the Bauhaus: The Bauhaus and Design Theory |
| Maier, Manfred | Basic Principles of Design |
| McCreight, Tim | Design Language |
| Stewart, Mary | Launching the Imagination: A Comprehensive Guide to Basic Design |
| Wong, Wucius | Principles of Form and Design and Principles of 2D Design |
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