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

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

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

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

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

Graphic Design The New Basics

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 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

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

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

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

Palette Mini Series 01: Black & White

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

A vertically lined two-tone illustration of a woman in a dress reading in a chair. The left half of the cover is black ink on paper and includes a portion of the reading woman. She sits in front of a lush forest. The right half of the book shows the other half of the cover, full of color, with an addition of a lamp placed to the right of the woman.

Sketch and Finish: The Journey from Here to There

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 black and gray book cover with pill shaped dots beaded on vertical black lines some overlapping. Horizontal black band near top with title

Thoughts on Design

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

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

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

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

The Designer's Dictionary of Color

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

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 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.

Yellow book cover with title in hollow stenciled modern font

Design Rehearsals: Conversations about Bauhaus Lessons

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

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

Designing Motion: Automotive Designers 1890 to 1990

Purple book cover with title in pink and white letters near top with ornamental flourish below

Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens 1986-2016

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

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

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

White book cover filled with colorful dots and geometric black and red letters some spelling out title near bottom right

Type Tells Tales

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 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

A pink cover with a pattern of eight horizontal rows of intersecting circles and oblong shapes in three overlapping colors. Title and publisher information printed vertically to the left.

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

The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design

Environmental Protection Agency Graphics Standards System

Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals

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