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Graphic Design Library

Graphic Design and Typography

Aldersey-Williams, Hugh
Cranbrook Design: The New Discourse

Apeloig, Philippe
Inside the Word

Bierut, Michael
Looking Closer (volumes 1 through 5)

Bringhurt, Robert
The Elements of Typographic Style

Bringhurt, 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
 
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
 
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