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 Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students (Design Briefs)Best Price: $8.78 A fun book to read to learn about how types we're created (author and history). Really like... |  Meggs' History of Graphic DesignBest Price: $55.44 This is an excellent textbook and well worth the price. It's more like a history of art and... |  Graphic Design: The New BasicsBest Price: $18.96 this is an excellent overview: while I appreciated the new media content, that felt far more... |  Design Elements: A Graphic Style ManualBest Price: $19.79 Amazing book by Timothy. It's perfect for young designers, unlike myself, who need to learn... |  Typographic Design: Form and CommunicationBest Price: $34.65 I had to get this book for school and I have to say it is a great book. It is packed with... |
 The Elements of Typographic StyleBest Price: $16.86 An excellent book; extremely densely written. Everything you wanted to know about typography: ... |  Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography (Designing With Type)Best Price: $13.90 An absolute must have for any beginning typography student or instructor. User friendly, it... |  Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type (Design Briefs)Best Price: $10.01 Grid Systems had excited me to the point that I went to the store and bought it while my Amazon... |  The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and TypeBest Price: $14.06 I picked up this book from my local bookstore. From reading it, my assessment is that it's a... |  Hand Job: A Catalog of TypeBest Price: $18.93 I was really looking forward to receiving this book. It arrived and I opened it on the best... |
 Typography Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Type in Graphic DesignBest Price: $15.68 ... to know about Type in an easy and comprehensive way lies on these pages. I own this book for... |  The Non-Designer's Design BookBest Price: $10.50 I read some of the other reviews in preparing to write this. I am definitely a non-designer but... |  Exploring InDesign CS3 (Design Exploration Series)Best Price: $26.83 Admittedly I'm not a computer geek. However, I am conversant with most Microsoft and some Adobe... |  Mac is not a typewriter, The (2nd Edition)Best Price: $8.66 I have had a copy of this book for about 10 years and it is a great resource for clear and... |  Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (2nd Edition)Best Price: $21.49 The first thing that must be said about "Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type... |
 The Newspaper Designer's HandbookBest Price: $57.26 I have taken this book apart and used it in the classroom. I bought it used and didn't receive a... |  Adobe InDesign CS2 Classroom in a BookBest Price: $30.00 I bought this book and yes, it is a good book but it is not the reference book that I was... |  The Fundamentals of Typography (Fundamentals)Best Price: $19.99 One of the hardest things for a beginning designer to understand is that there are reasons for... |  Exploring Typography (Design Exploration Series)Best Price: $30.99 I teach at a 4 year university and had been unhappy for a while at the textbook we were using;... |  A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques, and ArtistryBest Price: $22.31 I am currently using this book for a college course. This book has so many spelling mistakes and... |
 1,000 Type Treatments: From Script to Serif, Letterforms Used to PerfectionBest Price: $21.50 Good type books are hard to find for some reason, but this book is the best one i've found. My... |  Idea Index: Graphic Effects and Typographic TreatmentsBest Price: $6.21 This book is a great cause it helps to inspire thoughts for designs in a creative way. Ideas... |  The Complete Manual of TypographyBest Price: $28.77 Choose this one!! Yes, this was a textbook for my typography class, but I see it more as a book... |  The LaTeX Companion (Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting)Best Price: $44.67 If your trying to do anything complicated with Latex and need a reference to this is the book... |  Guide to LaTeX (4th Edition) (Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting)Best Price: $41.00 The book does a great job of explaining LaTeX. It is clear and easy to follow. There are some... |
 Grid Systems in Graphic Design/Raster Systeme Fur Die Visuele GestaltungBest Price: $63.90 I had read several places that this was a classic. That doesn't mean anything in my book, but I... |  New Vintage Type: Classic Fonts for the Digital AgeBest Price: $23.96 Great book, very specific collection of examples. One can not only get some information about... |  Design Matters: Brochures 01: An Essential Primer for Today's Competitive Market (Design Matters)Best Price: $15.59 This is a great reference and learning tool. Clearly laid out and concisely written, Brochures... |  Type Idea Index: The Designer's Ultimate Tool for Choosing and Using Fonts CreativelyBest Price: $15.67 As a Desktop Publisher in the making this is a very valuable resource. It was highly recommended... |  The The Non-Designer's Type Book, 2nd EditionBest Price: $14.95 I have to begin by saying that I have absolutely no experience in design or artwork. I have... |
 Before & After Page DesignBest Price: $19.44 This is a great and helpful book for graphic designers, beginning and advanced. It is a thin... |  Typographic Design: Form and CommunicationBest Price: $23.90 I had the privilege to have Phil Meggs for Type I in which we used this book. This book in... |  Type and Image: The Language of Graphic DesignBest Price: $49.93 I got this for school, I thought it would be a good read. I was wrong. I could have passed the... |  Designing TypeBest Price: $19.93 Este livro é muito importante para aqueles que estão se aventurando pelo universo da... |  From Gutenberg to OpenType: An Illustrated History of Type from the Earliest Letterforms to the Latest Digital FontsBest Price: $18.04 What every person needs to know anout the major fonts: their inventors, unique qualities their... |
 Typographic Systems of DesignBest Price: $7.95 There are many typography and design books out there - but this book is rare in that it actually... |  Exploring Publication Design (Design Exploration Series)Best Price: $35.00 a really good, general design book that's easy to understand and makes perfect sense. gives... |  Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators (Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication) (Technical Communication)Best Price: $67.98 This book serves as a very general introduction to visual design, but it doesn't have much... |  Design Evolution: A Handbook of Basic Design Principles Applied in Contemporary DesignBest Price: $19.79 Presents diverse, international, in-depth case studies. While there are many books showcasing... |  Basics of Design: Layout and Typography for BeginnersBest Price: $27.05 There are just enough illustrations. The chapters are setup in a way to support teaching a... |
 Editing by Design: For Designers, Art Directors, and Editors--the Classic Guide to Winning ReadersBest Price: $20.01 I like the book, but the hand drawn illustrations get a bit old about half way into the book.... |  Typography 28 (Typography)Best Price: $31.95 This book has already saved my life, very inspirational, it's shown me what fonts not to use do... |  LaTeX: A Document Preparation System (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Series on Tools and Techniques for Computer T)Best Price: $27.10 Though less complete, this book is a gentler introduction to latex than the companion book. It... |  A Type PrimerI found this book to be an excellent, well organized, and easy to use tool in learning the... |  Exploring InDesign CS2 (Design Exploration)Best Price: $14.00 I am currently using this book for an online InDesign class I am taking, and I have to say I... |
 Type and TypographyBest Price: $18.04 Type is the way we convey written information. Down through the centuries type faces have been... |  Printmaking for Beginners: 2nd Edition (Printmaking Handbooks)Best Price: $11.00 Was looking for updated info re collagraphy techniques for newbies and water-based and acrylic... |  Pocket Guide to Digital Prepress (Pocket Guide)Best Price: $19.00 Right on in 1996; eight years ago. But with technologies changing so rapidly, that's a long time... |  SustainAble: A Handbook of Materials and Applications for Graphic Designers and Their Clients (Design Field Guide)Best Price: $25.06 This book is a masterpiece in both design and content. It is timely and applicable to all... |  Type Rules!: The Designer's Guide to Professional TypographyBest Price: $38.50 The author teaches at SVA, where I'm a student. I had hoped the exercises in this book would... |
 Graphic Design Cookbook: Mix & Match Recipes for Faster, Better LayoutsBest Price: $5.48 I'm a soon-to-be designer who has no academic training whatsoever and one day I had to to a... |  Helvetica: Homage to a TypefaceBest Price: $12.34 This makes for a good coffee table book, or perhaps bathroom reading, but as a graphic design... |  Getting it Right in Print: Digital Prepress for Graphic DesignersBest Price: $6.30 This book doesn't have very good information for a new designer. The author's explanations of... |  Looking Good in PrintBest Price: $133.25 Once you've covered first base with the "Non-Designers Design Book" you are well... |  Complete Typographer (2nd Edition)Best Price: $73.64 A bit expensive but worth every penny. This book shows you typography inside and out. Shows many... |
 A Short History of the Printed WordBest Price: $14.88 Chappell and Bringhurst have put together an informative, enjoyable book on printed text. It... |  Advertising Design and TypographyBest Price: $25.00 I have seen many books explaining graphic design principles, but this one is the first to show... |  U&lc : Influencing Design & TypographyBest Price: $34.65 This book is amazing.It shows the exploration of design and typography when questioning... |  Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the Digital AgeBest Price: $12.20 Nice range of examples categorized by how they look. An example is "ornate, curlique,... |  Design Writing ResearchBest Price: $15.65 This is a great find for anyone interested in the more theoretical underpinnings of graphic... |
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