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The reading list sent to me before starting Graphic and Media Design at LCC UAL.
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Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design
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Michael Bierut (Editor)
3.76 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Looking Closer 2: Critical Writings on Graphic Design
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D.K. Holland (Editor)
3.82 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Graphic Design: A Concise History
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Type and Typography
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The ABC of Custom Lettering: A Practical Guide to Drawing Letters
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Signs: Lettering in the Environment: Lettering in the Environment
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Logo-a-gogo: Branding Pop Culture
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Rian Hughes (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Design Thinking (Basic Design #8)
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Art Chantry Speaks: A Heretic's History of 20th Century Graphic Design
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4.32 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Mythologies
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Visual Communication: From Theory to Practice
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3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Ways of Seeing
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Language Culture Type: International Type Design in the Age of Unicode
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John D. Berry (Editor)
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 94,
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Looking Closer 3: Classic Writings on Graphic Design
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Michael Bierut (Editor)
4.09 avg rating — 76 ratings
score: 91,
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Looking Closer 4: Critical Writings on Graphic Design
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3.82 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Essentials of Visual Communication
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3.76 avg rating — 126 ratings
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The Craft of Research
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3.92 avg rating — 4,333 ratings
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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in 10 Mi
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Arts Good Study Guide
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3.65 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Study Skills Handbook
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3.90 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Conscientious Objectives: Designing for an Ethical Message
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Lateral Thinking
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3.76 avg rating — 4,731 ratings
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Exhibition Design
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4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Student Skills Guide
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3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition
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4.06 avg rating — 654 ratings
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Visual Culture: The Reader
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Jessica Evans (Editor)
3.87 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh (Cultural Icons series)
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3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79
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Stuart Hall (Editor)
3.82 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World's Great Graphic Designers
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4.24 avg rating — 158 ratings
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The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader
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Amelia Jones (Editor)
4.33 avg rating — 136 ratings
score: 74,
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A Type Primer
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4.19 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Tactile: High Touch Visuals
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Robert Klanten (editor)
4.31 avg rating — 54 ratings
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History of Visual Culture, A: Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century
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Jane Kromm (Editor)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 71,
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Typography: Macro and Microaesthetics
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4.56 avg rating — 50 ratings
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MAC OS X 10.5 Leopard: Visual Quickstart Guide
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Universal Principles of Design
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Visual Research: An Introduction to Research Methodologies in Graphic Design
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3.44 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Meggs' History of Graphic Design
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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Computer Basics
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3.61 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Visual Culture Reader
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Nicholas Mirzoeff (Editor)
4.06 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Hey You
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No Brief: Graphic Designers' Personal Projects
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The New Handmade Graphics: Beyond Digital Design
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Design Without Boundaries: Visual Communication in Transition
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Typographica
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No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism
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4.15 avg rating — 196 ratings
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The Designer and the Grid
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Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop
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The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader
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Vanessa R. Schwartz (Editor)
4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 55,
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Signage Design Manual
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On Photography
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Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture
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Typographic Experiment /anglais
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Principles of Form and Design
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Complete Digital Illustration: A Master Class in Image-Making
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