Graphic Design Theory

Helen Armstrong

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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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The Elements of Typographic Style

Robert Bringhurst

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