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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Book cover featuring a detail of a blue and gold artwork made up of calligraphy and florals. Title in thin blue letters above

How to Read Islamic Calligraphy

Black book cover with blue spine and title field. Colorful company logos dot the cover with the title printed in white with each letter in a different playful font

Logo Design: Global Brands

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

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

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

Yellow book cover with title in hollow stenciled modern font

Design Rehearsals: Conversations about Bauhaus Lessons

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

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

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

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

A hardcover book in beige with large black text. Four square panels in CMYK format wrap around the top left border of the book.

O.OO: No Magic In Riso

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

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

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

Black book cover with the words "New York City Transit Authority" printed in two lines at the top in white sans serif letters and the word "Objects" printed in the same font near the center

New York City Transit Authority: Objects

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

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

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

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

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

Palette Mini Series 01: Black & White

Graphic: 500 Designs that Matter

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

The Designer's Dictionary of Color

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

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

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 an art piece of a figure holding a print of a face all printed on collaged newspaper print. Title overlaid in red letters at top and subtitle in black along a red spine

Covert to Overt: The Under/Overground Art of Shepard Fairey

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

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