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Identity Designed: The Definitive Guide to Visual Branding
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Since the original publication of Building A Storybrand, over one million business leaders have discovered Donald Miller’s powerful Storybrand Framework and they are making millions.  Now, the classic…
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Das Werk eignet sich für das Arbeiten in der automatischen Text-/Bildgestaltung. Es zeigt Beispiele für konzeptionell richtiges Vorgehen. Dem Benützer werden genaue Anleitungen für die Anwendung aller…
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Creating a Brand Identity: A Guide for Designers: (Graphic Design Books, Logo Design, Marketing)
Creating a Brand Identity goes behind the scenes to explore the creative processes involved in designing a successful brand identity, one of the most fascinating and complex challenges in graphic desi…
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How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul
Published to instant acclaim in 2005, our best selling How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul has become a trusted resource for graphic designers around the world, combining practical a…
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Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
The organization of letters on a blank sheet—or screen—is the most basic challenge facing anyone who practices design. What type of font to use? How big? How should those letters, words, and paragraph…
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Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team
Praise for previous editions of Designing Brand An inspiring and powerful toolkit. The Marketer Alina Wheeler provides a practical structure for the brand building process. Al Ries, coauthor, Position…
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Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything
Draplin Design Pretty Much Everything is a mid-career survey of work, case studies, inspiration, road stories, lists, maps, how-tos, and advice from Aaron James Draplin, “the Bernie Sanders of Graphic…
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Palette Perfect for Graphic Designers and Illustrators: Colour Combinations, Meanings and Cultural References
Both a practical and inspirational book filled with color combinations for any design and illustration project. The use of color and its combinations creatively in illustration, graphic and product de…
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Designing Brand Identity: A Comprehensive Guide to the World of Brands and Branding
Revised and updated sixth edition of the best-selling guide to branding fundamentals, strategy, and process. It’s harder than ever to be the brand of choice―in many markets, technology has lowered bar…
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Principles of Logo Design: A Practical Guide to Creating Effective Signs, Symbols, and Icons
Learn to design simple, powerful, and timeless logos.

*Winner of the 2022 American Graphic Design Award for Book Design from Graphic Design USA*

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Branding: In Five and a Half Steps
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Michael Johnson is one of the world’s leading graphic designers and brand consultants. His studio, johnson banks, is responsible for the rebranding of many notable clients, including Virgin Atlantic, …
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Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more for…

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Logo Modernism (Multilingual Edition)
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Brand new: An unprecedented catalog of modern trademarks Modernist aesthetics in architecture, art, and product design are familiar to many. In soaring glass structures or minimalist canvases, we reco…
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to improve your idea's chances--essential reading in the "fake news" era.

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Interaction of Color
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Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Alb…
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A mani…
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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
The first monograph, design manual, and manifesto by Michael Bierut, one of the world’s most renowned graphic designers—a career retrospective that showcases more than thirty-five of his most notewort…
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The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
What if charisma could be taught? For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, rese…
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So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice.

Not only is the cliché flawed—preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with …
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The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters
This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good design.

Broken into sections covering the fundamental elements of design, key works by acclaimed designers serve to illustrate technical …
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The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
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A manifesto of business practices for those who sell ideas and advice, The Win Without Pitching Manifesto lays out twelve steps--in the form of proclamations--that owners of creative businesses can ta…
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Learn how to keep your cool and get the results you want when emotions flare.

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Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
The secret to productivity isn’t discipline. It’s joy.

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The War of Art
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Internationally bestselling author of Last of the Amazons, Gates of Fire, and Tides of War, Steven Pressfield delivers a guide to inspire and support those who struggle to express their creativity. Pr…
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The Brand Gap
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THE BRAND GAP is the first book to present a unified theory of brand-building.  Whereas most books on branding are weighted toward either a strategic or creative approach, this book shows how both way…
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Logos that Last: How to Create Iconic Visual Branding
Learn how to create iconic visual branding that stands the test of time with the innovative tools and inspiration in Logos That Last .

Award-winning graphic designer Allan Peters has distilled the know…
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Graphic Design: The New Basics
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How do designers get ideas? Many spend their time searching for clever combinations of forms, fonts, and colors inside thedesign annuals and monographs of other designers' work. For those looking to c…
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The One Minute Manager
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For more than twenty years, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nationwide have followed The One Minute Manager's techniques, thus increasing their productivity, job sat…
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Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating.

In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work! , both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativit…
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Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers
Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative (design) career guide for everyone!

Part textbook and part comic book, zine, manifesto, survival guide, and self-help manual, Extra Bold is fille…
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