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Logotype
Author: Michael Evamy
This book by Michael Evamy is a huge collection of contemporary logotypes, monograms, and other text-based international corporate marks.
The book is available on Amazon.com
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Design Book Recommendation: Stop, Think, Go, Do: How Typography and Graphic Design Influence Behavior.
Author: Steven Heller / Mirko Ilic
Stop, Think, Go, Do demonstrates how typography and graphic design influences our human behavior. The book is full of examples and imagery from around the world that show creative ideas and innovative messages which lead us, move us to act, inform or simply entertain us.
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Naive - Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic Design
Author: R. Klanten, H. Hellige
A documentation of the return of classical graphic design from the 40s to the 60s in today’s graphic design. This book is a nice reference and a great source of inspiration for every designer who loves old styles and technics such as silkscreen printing, classical typography, hand lettering, woodcutting and folk art.
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Designing with the Mind in Mind - Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules
Author: Jeff Johnson
Designing with the Mind in Mind is a book by Jeff Johnson, best selling author of author of GUI Bloopers. This book is not just a list of rules what you have to do in user interface (ui) design. With background information in perceptual and cognitive psychology, it helps to understand why and how to design intuitive design.
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Redesign The Web - The Smashing Book #3 - Kindle Edition.
Author: Smashing Magazine
The new Smashing Book number 3 is out with the main theme: ‘Redesign The Web’. This book is your professional guide and reference on how to redesign websites to make them more user friendly and give them a modern look. With useful advices on innovative UX techniques and an extensive overview of advanced HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript techniques - it’s your perfect web design guide.
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The Third Teacher: 79 Ways You Can Use Design to Transform Teaching & Learning (Architecture)
Author: Inc. OWP/P Cannon Design, VS Furniture, Bruce Mau Design
Book Description: Created by an international team of architects and designers concerned about our failing education system, The Third Teacher explores the critical link between the school environment and how children learn, and offers 79 practical design ideas, both great and small, to guide reader’s efforts to improve our schools. Written for anyone who has school-age children in their life, from educators and education decision-makers to parents and community activists, this book is intended to ignite a blaze of discussion and initiative about environment as an essential element of learning. Including a wealth of interviews, facts, statistics, and stories from experts in a wide range of fields, this book is a how-to guide to be used to connect with the many organizations, individuals, and ideas dedicated to innovating and improving teaching and learning. Contributors include children’s singer and advocate Raffi, author and creativity consultant Sir Ken Robinson, scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki, inventor James Dyson, and other experts who are working to create fresh solutions to problems and create a new blueprint for the future of education.
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The Graphic Design Exercise Book
Author: Jessica Glaser, Carolyn Knight
Great design exercises for packaging, visual identity and branding, page layout, music graphics and screen-based design.
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Typography Sketchbooks
by Steven Heller and Talarico Lita
“Typography is an obsession for most designers. It’s at the heart of all visual communication and is one of the purest forms of design, one that can always be improved and refined. Typography Sketchbooks gets into the minds of designers who create typefaces, word images and logos through their private sketchbooks. The result of these wide-ranging typographic musings provide fascinating insights into the expressive quality of letters and words. Aimed at all those who use type, whether by hand or on-screen, this pleasing compendium stresses the importance of good typography at a time when reading habits are changing and celebrates a craft that has endured for centuries.”
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Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon
Author: Martin Kemp
“How does an image become iconic? In Christ to Coke, eminent art historian Martin Kemp offers a highly original look at the main types of visual icons. Lavishly illustrated with 165 color images, this marvelous work illuminates eleven universally recognized images, both historical and contemporary, to see how they arose and how they continue to function in our culture.”
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Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
Author: Ellen Lupton
The revised and expanded second edition. this book is the perfect guide how to use typography in visual communication. In the revised edition you can find fortyeight pages of new content. “Latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering.”
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Saul Bass
Author: Jennifer Bass, Pat Kirkham
“This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th Century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work. With more than 1,400 illustrations, many of them never published before and written by the leading design historian Pat Kirkham, this is the definitive study that design and film enthusiasts have been eagerly anticipating.”
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The Modernist
Author, Editor: R. Klanten, Editor: H. Hellige
“The Modernist is a collection of work in graphic design and illustration that is created with minimal intrusions. The deliberately limited palette of colors, tools, and geometric forms that it uses makes the work seem both contemporary and timeless. The book makes clear that today s work does not simply copy the classic design of the 1960s and 1970s.”
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The Graphic Design Exercise Book
Author: Jessica Glaser, Carolyn Knight
Great design exercises for packaging, visual identity and branding, page layout, music graphics and screen-based design.
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Meggs’ History of Graphic Design
Author: Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis
“Meggs’ History of Graphic Design is the unrivaled, comprehensive reference tool for graphic designers and students that was heralded as a publishing landmark by the Association of American Publishers, who awarded it a coveted award for publishing excellence. Due to the constantly changing world of design and computer-generated graphics, a revised edition of this landmark text is essential for students and designers alike. The Fifth Edition includes updated images, as well as new information on current graphic design trends and technologies, such as web, multi-media, interactive design, and private presses.”
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Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities
Author: David Airey
This book is the perfect guide and showcase for professional designers and clients who are interested in stunning logo design. The Author David Airey is an Irish graphic designer and owner of the same named blog (www.logodesignlove.com). In the book he explains best practices for designing brand identities by use of real-life examples.
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