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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 288 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,517 ratings — published 2004
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,276 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 — 5,010 ratings — published 2005
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,081 ratings — published 2003
The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,041 ratings — published 1992
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,253 ratings — published 2008
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,224 ratings — published 2009
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,254 ratings — published 2010
Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,839 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 111 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,130 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 — 2,703 ratings — published 2003
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 331,305 ratings — published 2012
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,054 ratings — published 1988
The Non-Designer's Design Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,887 ratings — published 2011
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,640 ratings — published 1971
100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,000 ratings — published 2012
Graphic Design School: The Principles and Practice of Graphic Design (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 378 ratings — published 2006
Logo Modernism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.51 — 591 ratings — published 2015
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 846 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 4.09 — 60,044 ratings — published 2014
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,119 ratings — published 2007
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,868 ratings — published 2003
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,205 ratings — published 1993
Know Your Onions: Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.08 — 781 ratings — published 2011
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,878 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 — 30,528 ratings — published 2000
The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,625 ratings — published 2001
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,221 ratings — published 2011
A Smile in the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 846 ratings — published 1996
The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.80 — 337 ratings — published 2016
Design Basics Index (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,212 ratings — published 2004
Graphic Design: A Concise History (World of Art)
by (shelved 47 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.96 — 823 ratings — published 1994
The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.89 — 513 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 — 350 ratings — published 2012
Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,136 ratings — published 2016
Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,954 ratings — published 2013
Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,912 ratings — published 2007
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,928 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
Color Design Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.93 — 344 ratings — published 2006
Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,110 ratings — published 2004
Thoughts on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,114 ratings — published 1947
Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.86 — 303 ratings — published 1997
The Graphic Design Exercise Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.77 — 149 ratings — published 2010
Paul Rand: A Designer's Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.28 — 426 ratings — published 1985
Design Is a Job (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,055 ratings — published 2012
Typographic Design: Form and Communication (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 398 ratings — published 1993
Graphic Design: A User's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 166 ratings — published 2009
The Brand Gap (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as graphic-design)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,524 ratings — published 2003
“Repeated elements encourage comparison of like objects and force our eye to follow from one element to the next, even when those elements only share slight similarities.”
― An Illustrated Field Guide to the Elements and Principles of Art + Design
― An Illustrated Field Guide to the Elements and Principles of Art + Design
“Dissimilarity is central to creating variety.”
― An Illustrated Field Guide to the Elements and Principles of Art + Design
― An Illustrated Field Guide to the Elements and Principles of Art + Design
