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The Typographic Desk Reference

Theodore Rosendorf

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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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Fonts & Logos

Doyald Young

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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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Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works

Erik Spiekermann

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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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Thinking with Type

Ellen Lupton

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The ABC’s of Bauhaus

Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Lynne Truss

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Understanding Comics

Scott McCloud

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Making and Breaking the Grid

Timothy Samara

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The Brand Gap

Marty Neumeier

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Marks of Excellence

Per Mollerup

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How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul

Adrian Shaughnessy

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Comics and Sequential Art

Will Eisner

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Letter By Letter

Laurent Pflughaupt

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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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Designing for People

Henry Dreyfuss

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Unjustified Texts: Perspectives on Typography

Robin Kinross

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What is a Designer: Things, Places, Messages

Norman Potter

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Type & Typography

Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam

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Designing Interactions

Bill Moggridge

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From Lascaux to Brooklyn

Paul Rand

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Envisioning Information

Edward R. Tufte

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Detail in Typography

Jost Hochuli

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The Design of Everyday Things

Donald A. Norman

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Spunk & Bite

Arthur Plotnik

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A History of Graphic Design

Philip Meggs

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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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About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography

David Jury

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The Elements of Typographic Style

Robert Bringhurst

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Type: The Secret History of Letters

Simon Loxley

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Logo & Font Lettering Bible

Leslie Cabarga

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Graphics Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines

Graphics Artists Guild

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On the Subject of Me

Jason Santa Maria is a graphic designer living and working in sunny Brooklyn, NY. Furthermore

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