Graphic Design Books

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

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Graphic Design Play Book

Graphic Design Play Book

Do Design: Why Beauty Is Key to Everything

Do Design: Why Beauty Is Key to Everything

Logo Design: Global Brands

The Design of Dissent

The Design of Dissent

The Art of Graphic Design: 30th Anniversary Edition

The Art of Graphic Design: 30th Anniversary Edition

Now Try Something Weirder

Now Try Something Weirder

Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color

Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color

E. McKnight Kauffer: A Designer and His Public

E. McKnight Kauffer: A Designer and His Public

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

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

An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour

An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour

Chromaphilia: The Story of Color in Art

Chromaphilia: The Story of Color in Art

Asian Typography

Asian Typography

Design Is Storytelling

Design Is Storytelling

Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter

Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter

The Designer's Dictionary of Color

The Designer's Dictionary of Color

Book with a tan cover, and five untensils, the text and objects are all dark brown.

The Hard Life: Jasper Morrison

A book about visionary designs by future systems and archigram with pink blocky text on a blue and pink image of a ship

Yesterday's Future: Visionary Designs by Future Systems and Archigram

Printing Colors in Graphic Design: CMYK & PMS

Printing Colors in Graphic Design: CMYK & PMS

The Book of Symbols

The Book of Symbols

The Haas Brothers

The Haas Brothers

New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual

New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual

How Posters Work Book

How Posters Work Book

Graphic Design The New Basics

Graphic Design The New Basics

Thoughts on Design

Thoughts on Design

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (2nd Edition)

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (2nd Edition)

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

The Essential Type Directory: A Sourcebook of Over 1800 Typefaces and Their Histories

The Essential Type Directory: A Sourcebook of Over 1800 Typefaces and Their Histories

Werner's Nomenclature of Colours

Werner's Nomenclature of Colours

Shepard Fairey Inc. book cover featuring three layers of black and red graffiti. The title text in a gothic font at the center of the page.

Shepard Fairey Inc.: Artist/Professional/Vandal