Read Me
The following lists provide you with some key publications that are essential reading and looking. It is by no means comprehensive but we would expect you to refer to this list throughout your course of study and purchase certain publications.* Any further suggestions to this list are welcome.
Here is a link to an Amazon wish list of books we recommend should be present on any visual communicator's shelf.
publishers
Laurence King
Phaidon
Taschen
Rotovision
Unit Editions
GRAPHIC DESIGN/GENERAL
A Smile in the Mind*
David Start/Beryle McAlohne
Problem Solved*
Michael Johnson
The Art of Looking Sideways*
Alan Fletcher
Beware Wet Paint
Alan Fletcher
Pioneers of Modern Graphic Design
Jeremy Aynsley
Ways of Seeing*
John Berger
Lateral Thinking
Edward De Bono
Paper Graphics
Catharine Fishel
How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul*
Adrian Shaughnessy
Graphic Agitation
Liz Mcquiston
Open Here
Paul Mijksenaar
Frost
Lakshmi Bhaskaran
Pentagram: Compendium
Pentagram
1000 Graphic Elements
W. Harvey
Paul Rand
Armin Hofmann
Sagmeister: Made You Look
Peter Hall
Basics Design: Print and Finish
Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris
Logo
Michael Evamy
Look At This: Contemporary Brochures, Catalogues and Documents
Adrian Shaughnessy
Fingerprint: The Art of Using Handmade Elements in Graphic Design
Chen Design Associates
Marks of Excellence*
Per Mollerup
Pioneers of Modern Graphic Design
Jeremy Aynsley
All Messed Up – Unpredictable Graphics
Anna Gerber
Paperwork
Nancy Williams -Williams & Phoa
Wally Olins on Brand
Wally Olins
Corporate Identity*
Wally Olins
NO LOGO*
Naomi Klein
It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be*
Paul Arden
Graphic Design – A Concise History*
Richard Hollis
What is Graphic Design*
Quentin Newark
The Production Manual
Ambrose – Harris
The Layout Book
Ambrose – Harris
This Means This, That Means That: A users guide to semiotics
Sean Hall
Graphic Design – A New History
Stephen Eskilson
Editorial Design
Yolanda Zappaterra
Robert Brown John – Sex and Typography
Emily King – H.N. Werkman
Design
Edward Bowden – Eric Ravillious
You Are Here – Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
Katherine Harmon
TYPOGRAPHY/LAYOUT
Type Matters
Jim Williams
Stop Stealing Sheep*
Erik Spiekermann
Type and Typography*
Phil Baines
Hand Job
Michael Perr
Thinking With Type
Ellen Lupton
About Face
David Jury
The New Typography
Jan Tschichold
Letterpress: The Allur of the Handmade
David Jury
Joseph Muller-Brockmann
William Purcell
Rookledge’s Classic International Typefinder*
Christopher Perfect
Letterwork: Creative Letterforms in Graphic Design
Brody Neuenschwander
Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in a Digital Age
Steven Heller
Basics Design: Layout*
Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris
Basics Design: Grids*
Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris
Encyclopaedia of Typefaces
Jaspert, Berry & Johnson
Grid Systems in Graphic Design*
Joseph Muller-Brockmann
ABZ. More Alphabets & Other Signs
Redstone Press
Typography/Layout 1000 Type Treatments
Wilson Harvey
Typo
Friedl / Ott /Stein
Avant – Garde Page Design 1900-1950
Jaroslav Andel
Penguin by Design -The Cover Story*
Phil Bains
Mastering Materials, Bindings & Finishes. The Art of Creative Production
Cathrine Fishel
A Source Book for Classical & Contemporary Letter forms
Thames & Hudson
Type Heresy – Braking the Ten Commandments of Typography
Paul Felton & Jonathan Barnbrook
Jan Tschichold – Posters of the Avant – Garde
Birkhauser
Typographic Systems – Rules for Organising Type*
Kimberly Elam
Type Addicted – The New Trend of A to Z
Typographics
Letterhead & Logo Design
Sussner Design Co
Designing with Type – The essential guide to Typography
James craig – Irene Korol Scala
Getting it Right with Type
Victoria Squire
A Type Primer
John Kane
ILLUSTRATION/IMAGE
Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art
Jennifer New
The Picture Book: Contemporary Illustration
Angus Hyland
Lost Control
Neasdon Control Centre
Wall and Peace
Banksy
Hand to Eye*
Angus Hyland
Jimmy Corrigan – The Smartest Kid on Earth
F.C. Ware
Drawing for Designers
Alan Pipes
MAGAZINES/PERIODICALS
Baseline Magazine – Quarterly*
Computer Arts Magazine – Monthly
*Cheap copies can be acquired via the Amazon website in the ‘Used & New’ section.
