Books on Design

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Graphic Design: The New Basics
Ellen Lupton & Phillips Jennifer Cole

What is Graphic Design For?
Alice Twemlow

Influences: A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design Practice
Anna Gerber, Anja Lutz & H. Hellige Lanten

Envisioning Information
Edward R. Tufte

Else/where: Mapping
Janet Abrams & Peter Hall, ed.

Inside Design Now
Ellen Lupton

Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture
Ellen Lupton

Sagmeister: Made You Look
Stefan Sagmeister & Peter Hall

Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World
Rick Poynor

Looking Closer 5
Michael Beirut, William Drennttel & Steven Heller, ed.

TYPOGRAPHY

A Type Primer
John Kane

Thinking with Type
Ellen Lupton

The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst

About Face
David Jury

Type &
Phil Baines & Andrew Haslam

Typographie
Emil Ruder

Designing Books: Practice and Theory
Jost Hochuli & Robin Kinross

Grid Systems
Joseph Müller-Brockman

TYPE DESIGN

Counterpunch
Fred Smeijers

Anatomy of a Typeface
Alexander S. Lawson

Printing Types: Their History, Forms and Use
Daniel Updike

PUBLISHERS
Phaidon
Princeton Architectural Press
MIT Press
Allworth
Rockport

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