Theory
The Form of the Book
Jan Tschichold
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Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
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How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer
Debbie Millman
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The Art of Looking Sideways
Alan Fletcher
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How Designers Think
Bryan Lawson
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Visual Grammar
Christian Leborg
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Art Direction Explained, At Last!
Steven Heller and Veronique Vienne
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Art As Experience
John Dewey
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How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand
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The ABC’s of Bauhaus
Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller
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Understanding Comics
Scott McCloud
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The Brand Gap
Marty Neumeier
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Marks of Excellence
Per Mollerup
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Comics and Sequential Art
Will Eisner
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While You’re Reading
Gerard Unger
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Design Writing Research
Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller
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Unjustified Texts: Perspectives on Typography
Robin Kinross
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Designing Interactions
Bill Moggridge
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Envisioning Information
Edward R. Tufte
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The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
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Visual Literacy: A Conceptual Approach to Graphic Problem Solving
Judith Wilde and Richard Wilde
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Design and Form: The Basic Course at the Bauhaus
Johannes Itten
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Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Josef Müller-Brockmann
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The Elements of Color
Johannes Itten
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A Whack on the Side of the Head
Roger von Oech
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What is a Designer: Things, Places, Messages