Graphic Design Books

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

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Design Is Storytelling

Design Is Storytelling

Black book cover with a warm-hued gradient on the right side. Gray text reads on the top left: No bullshit business strategies to evolve your creative business. Title text on the bottom reads: Brutally Honest

Brutally Honest

Original Bauhaus Workbook

Original Bauhaus Workbook

Lime green book cover with white band black title in sans sarif font

Now Try Something Weirder

Making Design Limited Edition

Making Design Limited Edition

Light gray book cover with embossed grid with playfully arranged letters at the bottom, sans serif title at the top, and densely listed featured designers in the middle

The Logo Design Idea Book

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

Yellow book cover with embossed pictographs at bottom and title information at top with dense listing of featured designers in the center

The Graphic Design Idea Book

Cream colored cover with title in bold black print.

Original Bauhaus Catalogue

Logo Design: Global Brands

Flora and Fauna: Design with a Tribute to Nature

Flora and Fauna: Design with a Tribute to Nature

Design Rehearsals: Conversations about Bauhaus Lessons

Design Rehearsals: Conversations about Bauhaus Lessons

Pinkish orange book cover with large spread out title. Title font is in white orange and blue overlapping lines some straight some zig zag some squiggles

Graphic Design Play Book

Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931

Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931

Bright red book cover with gray keywords in a stencil-like font surrounding the white title in the center

100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design

How Posters Work Book

How Posters Work Book

Vibrant orange book cover with boarder of grayscale newspaper print. Title information is bisected with schematic information about type features

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students

Yellow book cover with large, black text rotated vertically that reads "Parks".

Parks: United States National Park Service Maps from the Collection of Brian Kelley

Book cover featuring a detail of a blue and gold artwork made up of calligraphy and florals. Text above reads: How to Read Islamic Calligraphy.

How to Read Islamic Calligraphy

Small, deep, book with a rainbow gradient covering all edges, with lighter cover text "Palette Mini Series No. 2 Multicolour"

Palette Mini Series 02: Multicolor

Black book cover with bright red spine showcasing colorful plant drawings and cross sections

The Art of Instruction: Vintage Educational Charts from the 19th and 20th Centuries

White book cover with giant san serif A surrounded by smaller title and author information. Alphabet lines right side of cover

Moholy-Nagy and the New Typography

Small, deep, gold book with outlined cover text "Palette Mini Series No. 3 Gold & Silver"

Palette Mini Series 03: Gold & Silver

Red book cover with black sans serif title at top, dense text of featured designers in the middle and embossed typographic symbols at the bottom

The Typography Idea Book

Three books stacked to show green, blue, and red colorblock trim. Book cover is black with black and white title information and book spine shows a multicolor pattern

Milton Glaser Posters

Light blue book cover with embossed images of pencils and an eye at the bottom, sans serif title at top and dense listing of featured illustrators in the middle

The Illustration Idea Book

A New Program for Graphic Design

A New Program for Graphic Design

Small, deep, white book with black cover text "Palette Mini Series No. 1 Black & White"

Palette Mini Series 01: Black & White

The Art of Graphic Design: 30th Anniversary Edition

The Art of Graphic Design: 30th Anniversary Edition

Asian Typography

Asian Typography

White book cover with striking sans serif title information over a gridded color gradient

The Designer's Dictionary of Color

New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual

New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual

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

Graphic Design The New Basics

Book cover with a close up portrait of a man with die cut shapes cut out of the face

Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far

Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau: The Collections

Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau: The Collections

White book cover with various sized circle pies in yellow and turquoise and title in black text.

Painted Diagrams: Bauhaus, Art, and Infographics

Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines

Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines

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

Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter

Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter

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