Graphic Design Books

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

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Book cover with white black and gray computer icon-like illustrations of the books design themes inside a cross hatched black and white border all surrounding the title in cross hatched comic-like speech bubble

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

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

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

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

Now Try Something Weirder

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

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

Book cover with colorful design showing several layers of seemingly ripped prints in red, blue strips, and purple polka dots. Title in white field near top right in san serif black font

How Posters Work Book

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

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

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

Red square book cover with the words "New York City Transit Authority" printed in white sans serif font at top and the words "Graphics Standards Manual" printed in the same font near the middle

New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual

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

Black book cover dominated by title in white san serif font with a faint color diagram at the bottom

A New Program for Graphic Design

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

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

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

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

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

Yellow book cover with title in hollow stenciled modern font

Design Rehearsals: Conversations about Bauhaus Lessons

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

Palette Mini Series 03: Gold & Silver

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

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

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

Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter

Guide book with a title thats in different fonts, background light brown, with yellow binding, and two pencils point to the word ''by."

Sketching Type: A Guided Sketchbook for Creative Hand Lettering

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

Graphic Design The New Basics

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

Black book cover features a white energetic pattern of the letters "O" in 9 vertical lines, the title and subtitle are interwoven in the pattern, reads in caps "Typography For Screen", "Type In Motion".

Typography for Screen: Type in Motion

Cover of The Complete Pattern Directory featuring a floral print illustration that includes various fruits and birds throughout. The illustration is set against a navy backdrop.

The Complete Pattern Directory: 1500 Designs from All Ages and Cultures

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

Palette Mini Series 01: Black & White

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

The Designer's Dictionary of Color

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

Book cover featuring a flat coral colored background layered with a "Regular Republican Ticket", centered, and the title to the left, rotated vertically at 90 degrees in a navy colored font.

This Is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot

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

Designing Motion: Automotive Designers 1890 to 1990

Horizontal black book cover with very small orange and yellow title partially repeated in overblown orange and yellow letters across the face of the cover

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

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