9 Books to Help You Become a Better Graphic Designer
Whether you're an already an established graphic designer or you are just starting, these 9 specifically selected books will bring you back to basics and teach you all you need to know to become a better graphic designer.
@ £17.99 Amazon
As you can not be a lawyer without having studied the Roman laws, or be a politician without having studied the story of the parties, you can not be a graphic designer without having studied the story of the design.This book represents a need for this matter. In its fourth edition it continues the tradition of providing balanced insight and thorough historical background. This authoritative book offers expansive coverage of such topics such as Italian, Russian and Dutch design. It reveals a saga of creative innovators, breakthrough technologies and important design innovation.
@ £14.88 Amazon
This book presents groundbreaking, primary texts from the most important historical and contemporary design thinkers. It is organized in three sections: “Creating the Field” traces the evolution of graphic design over the course of the early 1900s, including influential avant-garde ideas of futurism, constructivism, and the Bauhaus; “Building on Success” covers the mid- to late twentieth century and considers the International Style, modernism, and postmodernism; and “Mapping the Future” opens at the end of the last century and includes current discussions on legibility, social responsibility, and new media.
@ £10.37 Amazon
Based on John Dewey’s lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature.
@ £15.59 Amazon
This book offers guidance on employment options straight out of college; setting up as a freelancer, establishing a firm, finding and keeping clients, pitching and generally doing good works.
@ £15.99 Amazon
This book explains how to: see what is really there rather than what you “know” in your mind about colored objects, perceive how light affects color, and how colors affect one another, manipulate hue, value, and intensity of color and transform colors into their opposites, balance color in still-life, landscape, figure, and portrait painting, understand the psychology of color, harmonize color in your surroundings.
@ £19.93 Amazon
A useful simplification and condensation of Johannes ltten’s major work. The Art of Color, this book covers subjective feeling and objective color principles in detail. It presents the key to understanding color in ltten’s color circle and color contrasts.
@ £13.59 Amazon
Young designer often make a confusion thinking that typography and font are the same. In reality typography is totally another field such important that Ellen Lupton consider it like a science, and conduct a deep study of the most basic designers’ challenge: “The organization of letters on a blank page”.
@ £26.93 Amazon
This is a comprehensive compendium of modern, up-to-date information illuminating the design, construction and usage of alphabets and symbols for graphic designers and other practitioners of the typographic arts.
@ £27.46 Amazon
What makes a logo good? What makes it bad? What makes it great? In this comprehensive guide, learn what it takes to create an enduring symbol. The entire process of logo design is examined, from the initial client interview to brainstorming, from first presentation to delivery of the final standards manual.
