Designer friends – any suggestions for a great intro to graphic design book? What about typography?
Jeff T. replied:
Here's my working list: http://amzn.com/w/3C6FCI9PRQSP9
Owen M. replied:
http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/
Steve M. replied:
Paul Rand's "A Designers Art" and John Kane's "A Type Primer" are two good foundational ones.
Alex M. replied:
I've had Megg's History of Graphic Design recommended to me by numerous people. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470168730.html
Daniel R. replied:
Totally! Meggs' book is still the de facto 101 (via the 1990 s where he and Steven Heller established the field of graphic design history). The typography book Meggs co-authored is a good primer as well ("Typographic Design: Form and Communication"). "A Designer's Art" is phenomenal–gospel as far as I'm concerned. Mueller-Brockman's "Grid Systems" is more dry, but similarly holy. I'd also suggest Alan Fletcher's "The Art of Looking Sideways." It's his (as a professional designer) collection of everything he saved in his lifetime, and I like to think of it as design from the inside-out. "Graphic Design Manual" by Armin Hoffman and "20 th Century Type" by Lewis Blackwell would also be worth looking at. — http://www.amazon.com/The-Looking-Sideways-Alan-Fletcher/dp/0714834491http://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Design-Manual-Bildgestaltung-Multilingual/dp/3721200063http://www.amazon.com/Twentieth-century-Type-Remix-Lewis-Blackwell/dp/1856691160/ http://www.amazon.com/Typographic-Design-Communication-Rob-Carter/dp/1118715764/
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