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Helpful graphic design books
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items Here I have gathered a collection of books that might help you on your graphic design journey.
This book is based on typography. Inside this book you will find the science and the art behind how fonts make you feel and influence you. It explains why certain fonts or styles evoke particular experiences and associations. Fonts have different per...
Why Fonts Matter: a multisensory analysis of typography and its influence from graphic designer and academic Sarah Hyndman a book by Sarah Hyndman.
This is a fun and interactive book that is beautifully designed to demonstrate how typography, signage, posters and branding work with the use of puzzles and visual challenges.
Graphic Design Play Book: An Exploration of Visual Thinking a book by Sophie Cure and Aurelien Farina.
This book helps you to understand how grid systems work and
Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designer a book by Josef Mulller-Brockmann.
I know the title of the book doesn't sound very advertising. However, this book is like having your own little mentor in graphic design who will help you come up with ideas, develop your concepts, and implement them in a way that is engaging and humo...
Know Your Onions: Graphic Design a book by Drew de Soto.
This book is helpful for designers that have just graduated and are looking at getting a job in the creative industry. With sections covering education, portfolios, jobs/freelancing, working process, and personal development, this straight-talking, f...
Oh Sh*t... What Now?: Honest Advice for New Graphic Designers a book by Craig Oldham.
This book is aimed at logo design. This book is a practical guide on creating effective logos and branding.
Principles of Logo Design: A Practical Guide to Creating Effective Signs, Symbols, and Icons a book by George Bokhua.
This is the book that actually helped me come up with the logo for my business, Seasonal Sapphire. This book is gives you all the different types of logos and even shows you visual examples of logos that you see every day such as: McDonalds, KFC, Dis...
Logo, revised edition a book by Michael Evamy.
The catalog is divided into four design categories: Pictorial, Form, Effect, and Typographic. Each chapter is then systematically subdivided according to basic elements of design such as circle, line, overlap, and outline, thus offering a new perspec...
Logo Beginnings a book by , Müller, Jens.
This book is a celebration of the world of letters, The Typographic Universe features more than 300 examples of unusual letterforms, either created from non-traditional materials or found in unexpected places.
The Typographic Universe: Letterforms Found in Nature, the Built World and Human Imagination a book by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson.
Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world.
Just My Type: The original and best book about fonts a book by Simon Garfield.
This book is an essential source for graphic designers, artists, interior designers, fashion designers, illustrators and creatives of any kind who work with colour.
The Colour Bible: The definitive guide to colour in art and design a book by Laura Perryman.
Through the turbulent passage of time, graphic design—with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea—has distilled the spirit of each age. Surrounding us every minute of every day, from minimalist packaging to colorful adverts, smart environmental ...
The History of Graphic Design. 40th Ed. a book by Jens Muller and Julius Wiedemann.
Students, entrepreneurs, community groups, social media influencers, bloggers or campaigners: this practical guide is for you, and everyone else who wants to learn how to communicate visually, combining the building blocks of type, photography, illus...
Graphic Design For Everyone: Understand the Building Blocks so You can Do It Yourself a book by Cath Caldwell.
This book explores breadth of activity that graphic design encompasses today.
How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry, and (ever a book by Michael Bierut.
This book explores the foundational graphic design book for students, Lupton and Phillips explore the formal elements of design through visual demonstrations and concise commentary. From logos to letterhead to complex website design, this is a graphi...
Graphic Design: The New Basics, revised and expanded a book by Ellen Lupton.
This book explores a variety of different techniques to stimulate fresh thinking to arrive at compelling and viable solutions. Each approach is explained with a brief narrative text followed by a variety of visual demonstrations and case studies.
Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming a book by Ellen Lupton.
Grids are the most basic and essential forms in graphic design—and they can be the most rigid. This book shows you how to understand the rules of the grid to use them effectively, and then how to break them, resulting in phenomenal cohesive layouts.
Making and Breaking the Grid, Second Edition, Updated and Expanded: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop a book by Timothy Samara.
This was one of the books on the reading list when I started university many moons ago. This is one of two books in ‘Design in Context’, a vital new series that focuses on the needs of contemporary students of graphic design.
Graphic Design Theory a book by Meredith Davis.
This book explores 365 daily design mantras from four leading industry experts, providing you with valuable design dos and don'ts for every day of year. Packed with practical advice presented in a fun, lighthearted fashion, this is the perfect book f...
Graphic Design Rules: 365 Essential Design Dos and Don'ts a book by Peter Dawson, John Foster, Tony Seddon, et al.
This is another book on Graphic Design that was on the reading list for university. This book explores a documentary history begins with the poster and goes on to chart the development of word and image in brochures and magazines, advertising, corpor...
Graphic Design: A Concise History a book by Richard Hollis.