RESOURCES
PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
BOOKS TO LOOK AT
Book design and Binding
- Designing Books: Practice and Theory, Hochuli, Kinross
- Five Hundred Years of Printing, Steinberg
- The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design, Tschichold
- On Book Design, Hendel
Color
- The Art of Color, Itten
- The Elements of Color, Itten
- Colour: a Workshop for Artists and Designers, Hornung
- Interaction of Color, Albers
Design Thinking, Creative Process, & Work Strategies
- The Art of Looking Sideways, Fletcher
- Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, Kleon
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman
- The Use of Lateral Thinking, De Bono
- Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite, Arden
Form
- Art and Visual Perception, Arnheim
- Design and Form: The Basic Course at the Bauhause and Later, Itten
- Point and Line to Plane, Kandinsky
- Type, Image, Message: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop, Skolos, Wedell
- Visual Grammar, Leborg
Fundamentals
- Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual, Samara
- Design ELements, Form & Space, Puhalla
- The Fundamentals of Graphic Design, Ambros, Harris
- Graphic Design Basics, Arnston
- Graphic Design: The New Basics, Lupton, Philips
- Graphic Design Thinking, Lupton, Philips
- Graphic Design Sources, Hiebert
- Inside/Outside: Form the Basics to the Practice of Design, Grear
- The Language of Graphic Design, Poulin
- A Primer of Visual Language, Dondis
GRIDS + SYSTEMS
- Designing Programmers, Gerstner
- The Designer and the Grid, Roberts, Thrift
- The Geometry of Design, Elam
- Grids, Gavin Ambrose, Harris
- Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type, Elam
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Samara
- Modular i & ii, Le Corbusier
- The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Doczi
- Der Typografische Raster, Bosshard
Writing
- Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, V. Tufte
- The Elements of Style, Strunk, White
- How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One, Fish
- On Writing Well, Zinsser
- Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Calvino
History + Theory
- 79 Short Essays on Design, Bierut
- Aesthetic Theory: Essential Text for Architecture and Design, Gage
- After Theory, Eagleton
- Cranbrook Design: The NEw Discourse, McCoy, McCoy
- Critical Theory & Practice: A Coursebook, Green, LeBihan
- Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design, Macnab
- Design Dialogues, Heller, Pettit
- Design Research: Methods and Perspectives, Laurel
- Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design, Bennett
- Design Writing Research, Lupton, Miller
- Dutch Graphic Design: A Century, Broos, Hefting
- Emigre No. 70: The Look Back Issue, VanderLans
- Graphic Design: A Concise History, Hollis
- Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers, Jury
- Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field, Armstrong
- Graphic Design Theory, Davis
- Graphic Design Time Line: A Century of Design Milestones, Heller
- A History of Graphic Design, Meggs
- Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design [vol. 1–5] Beirut, et al.
- No Logo, Klein
- No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism, Poynor
- On Dialogue, Bohm
- The Sense of Order, Gobrich
- Subculture: The Meaning of Style, Hebdige
- The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko Lissitsky Maholy-Nagy, Margolin
- Unjustified TExts: Perspectives on Typography, Kinross
- Visual Thinking, Arnheim
- Visual Research: An Intro to Research Methodologies in G. D., Noble, Bestly
- Ways of Seeing, Berger
- Women of Design, Vit, Gomez-Palacio
Identity | Logo
- Identify: Basic Principles of Identity Design…,Geismar, Haviv, Chermayeff
- Marks of Excellence, Mollerup
Industrial Design
- Designing for People, Dreyfuss
- The Design of Everyday Things, Norman
- As Little Design As Possible: The Work of Dieter Rams, Lovell, Kemp, Ive
Interactive
- Designing Interactions, Moggridge
Information Design
- Envisioning Information, Tufte
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Tufte
- Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Tufte
- Visual COmplexity: Mapping Patterns of Information. Lima
Magazines
- BaseLine: Int’l TypoGraphics Magazine
- Dot Dot Dot (back issues only)
- Emigre (back issues only)
- Eye: Int’l Review of Graphic Design
Miscellaneous
- Altitude: Contemporary Swiss Graphic Design
- Armin Hofmann: His Works, Quest and Philosophy, Hofmann
- The Art of Looking Sideways, Fletcher
- Contemporary Graphic Design, Tashen
- Design As ARt, Munari
- Designing Universal Knowledge: The World As Fatland, Schuller
- Ed Fella Documents, Tuset-Anres
- Emergence, Johnson
- How to Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing your Soul, Shaughnessy
- Made You Look, Sagmeister
- A Pattern Language, Alexander, et al.
- Printed Matter/Drukwerk, Martens, van Triest, Kinross
- Pretty Ugly: Visual REbellion in Design, Gestalten
- The Laws of Simplicity, Maeda
- The Thames and Hudson Encyclopedia of G.D. and Designers, Livingston
- Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far, Sagmeister
- This Way That Way, Dodard, Muller
- Tell Me Why: The First 24 Months of a New York Design Co., Karisson, Wilker
- You Can Find Inspiration in Everything, Smith, Baxter, Brownfield, Slater, Violette
Semiotics | Symbols
- This Means This, THis Means That: A User’s Guide to Semiotics, Hall
- Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, Eco
- Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to Int’l Graphic Symbols, Dreyfuss
- Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, McCloud
- Visible Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics, Crow
- From Hieroglyphics to Isotype: A Visual Autobiography, O. Neurath
- The Transformer: Principles of Making Isotype Charts. M. Neurath
Typography
- About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography, Jury
- Abz, Rothenstein
- A Compendium for Literates, Gerstner
- Alphabets and Other Signs, Rothenstein
- American Wood Type: 1828-1900, Kelly, Shields
- Asymmetric Typography [Typographische Gestaltung] Tschichold
- Designing With Type, Craig
- Detail in Typography, Hochuli
- The Elements of Typographic Style, Robert Bringhurst, Chappell
- An Essay on Typography, Gill
- Experiments with Letterform and Calligraphy, Gurtler
- Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type, Dowding
- Introduction to Typography, Simon
- Letter Fountain, Joep Pohlen, Setola
- Manuale Typographicum, Zapf
- My Way to Typography, Weingart
- Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design’s Golden Age, Heller, Fili
- Stop Stealing Sheep & Find OUt How Type Works, Spiekermann, Ginger
- A Typographic Workbook, Clair
- Thinking With Type, Lupton
- Twentieth-Century Type, Blackwell
- Type & Typography, Baines, Haslam
- Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vols. 1 & 2, Taschen
- A Type Primer, Kane
- Typographic Design: Form and Communication, Carter, Day, Meggs
- The Typographic Desk Reference, Rosendorf
- Typographie: A Manual of Design, Ruder
- Typology: Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age, Heller, Fili
- A View of Early Typography: Up To About 1600, Carter