Graphic Design Books

Selection of publications ranging from sourcebooks to biographies related to graphic design.

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Book cover with poster detail showing arching brown and yellow fields leading to a black and white image of a figure on wheeled contraption partially obscured in the bottom right. Title above in red and light blue bold sans serif letters

E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising

Cream colored book cover with black trim. Center of cover dominated by spiraling infographic with red, yellow, pink and purple lines. Above the spiral, three alternating lines of centered text in black, red, and black contain the title and subtitle ”the color line at the turn of the century,” which is in all caps. Editors names appear in black below the spiral.

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America

Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition

Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition

Red and white color-blocked book cover with large title text and a sketched line drawing of a figure inside a triangle inside a circle inside a square.

Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols

Pink book cover with white borders. "Making Design" in white san serif font on thick spine and "210,000" and "1145" on front cover

Making Design Limited Edition

White book cover with dense grid of colorful graphic design pieces and design objects. Title in upper right in black sans serif letters. Orange field to right with prize information not on actual cover.

Graphic Design: Now in Production

Cover of Herbert Bayer Inspiration and Process in Design featuring a composition book style cover with black bound spine. The upper portion of the cover is bright red with white text at bottom left that reads 'HERBERT BAYER Inspiration and Process in Design'. The lower half of the book is an image of a newspaper. A cone, sphere, and cube shaped objects are placed on top of the paper along with a pencil and square set ruler.

Herbert Bayer: Inspiration and Process in Design

Beige book cover with a red square bisected with a yellow triangle surrounded by a blue circle

The ABC's of Triangle, Square, Circle: The Bauhaus and Design Theory

Book cover featuring solid black background and six rows of seven small button pins (from top to bottom). Each button pin is different, also, they are set up in a rainbow color assortment , with red, yellow, pink, purple, green, blue, grey, and black pins.

Button Power: 125 Years of Saying It with Buttons

Graphic book cover with red, pink, and yellow blocks of color emphasizing the title text..

Extra Bold : A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers

Orange book cover featuring a grid of various black icons. Wide white margin at top features title text in black.

Iconism: Designing Modern Icons and Pictograms

A black book cover featuring a graphic illustration in white of two figures bending toward each other to clasp hands, encircling golden-yellow title text: Art Nouveau

White book cover with gold line and dot pattern denser at the top

Graphic Design The New Basics

Chartreuse book cover featuring large, white, sans-serif title text, with stacked CMYK offset text layers.

How to Be a Design Student (and How to Teach Them)

Orange book cover featuring a black and white image of a raised fist; white text, rotated 90 degrees, overlaid, reads "STRIKETHROUGH"

Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest

Red book cover with title in bold white sans serif letters partially obscured with black tape bands with subtitle information in red and green letters

The Design of Dissent

Black book cover with "ABC" large in orange and "Of Typography" below, and gray letters in various typefaces strewn across the cover.

The ABC of Typography

Designing Motion: Automotive Designers 1890 to 1990

White book cover with tall 'M A G' in red on top and 'M E N' in black on bottom with subtitle and author information between above and below

Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines

Cover is bold red with with a grid of white icons

Book cover features a graphic collage designed from three black and white photography and blue, yellow, white, and red rectangular elements. Images from the top left: glass window; group portrait of three women and men; female figure captured motion. The title featured in Bowfin font in black bold.

Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective

Red book cover with central illustration showing black arrows circling a golden globe

The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design

A cover with a rhythmic pattern of intersecting and overlapping triangles in complementary shades of red, plum and pink. Anni is spelled in white letters in the upper right and Albers in the lower left, sans serif.

Book cover with a black background and thin illusion-like white lines that follow along the perimeter of the title.

25 Years at the Public: A Love Story

Turquoise book cover featuring illustrations of varying emoji and Chinese characters. Title text in yellow above illustrations.

The Hanmoji Handbook: Your Guide to the Chinese Language Through Emoji - Hardcover

Yellow book cover with title in hollow stenciled modern font

Design Rehearsals: Conversations about Bauhaus Lessons

Book cover with black white and red rectangular fields crossed by a white cross and title information in sans serif white and black letters in three of four corners

Piet Mondrian: New Design

Black book cover with white layered burst or hole in the middle with the title in black sans serif font

Book cover features three rectangles in red and black colors over a yellow background. A rounded fold of black mesh material is visible on the top. The title and subtitle in white bold font are placed at the center closer to the left.

Italian Types: Graphic Designers from Italy in America

Plastic sleeve with red field in upper right corner showing title as negative space. Inside are several folded papers and booklets

Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931

Book cover featuring a b&w photo on top of a stack of papers and photos. Photograph depicts a young, afroed man showing off the back of a distressed denim jacket. Red title text in a gothic typeface overlaid.

Heated Words: Searching for a Mysterious Typeface

Book cover featuring images of popular album covers from the past two decades.

Behind the Album: Design for Vinyl and CD

Environmental Protection Agency Graphics Standards System

Official Symbol of the American Revolution Bicentennial: Official Graphics Standards Manual

Book cover featuring fragments of various wood chips scattered with 2 rows of 2 large green letters emerging from the center: C A (first row) M O (second row).

Camo Mania: New Disruptive Patterns in Design

Bright pink book cover with a colorful bird in a collage of textures behind a thinly printed white title

Printing Colors in Graphic Design: CMYK & PMS

Book cover in navy blue with title in various ornamental types in yellow/orange with white outlines.

New Ornamental Type: Decorative Lettering in the Digital Age

Orange book cover with large white title text cropped off at the right edge. Small, black subtitle text below.

A Handbook of California Design, 1930-1965: Craftspeople, Designers, Manufacturers

The Society of Signs: Pictograms, Signs of Life, Emojis

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