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Mandatory Reads

 

 

  • The Elements of Typographic Style

    by Robert Bringhurst
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  • The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

    by John Maeda
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  • Radical Careering: 100 Truths to Jumpstart Your Job, Your Career, and Your Life

    by Sally Hogshead
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  • Thinking with Type: A Primer for Designers: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

    by Ellen Lupton
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  • The Ten Commandments of Typography/Type Heresy: Breaking the Ten Commandments of Typography

    by Paul Felton
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  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition

    by Edward R. Tufte
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  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

    by Malcolm Gladwell
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  • The Shape of Content (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

    by Ben Shahn
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  • Wordless Diagrams

    by Nigel Holmes
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  • Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop

    by Timothy Samara
    Click to View on Amazon
     

  • Designing Type

    by Karen Cheng
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  • Beautiful Evidence

    by Edward R. Tufte
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  • Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design

    by Michael Bierut
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  • Grid Systems in Graphic Design/Raster Systeme Fur Die Visuele Gestaltung

    by Josef Muller-Brockmann
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  • Designing Interactions

    by Bill Moggridge
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  • Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (2nd Edition)

    by Erik Spiekermann, E.M Ginger
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  • The Design Entrepreneur: Turning Graphic Design Into Goods That Sell (Design Field Guide)

    by Steven Heller, Lita Talarico
    Click to View on Amazon