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- imakedesign
what are you top three design books which you have found the most useful.
- jdcomba0
los logos
dos logos
die neue typography
josef muller brockman book
graphic havoc
jpg (japan graphics)
lodown books/magazines
- imakedesign0
thanks jdcomba!
- lind0
Books with the word Elements seem to be good:
The Elements of Graphic Design - Alex W. White
The Elements of Typography Style - Robert Bringhurst
The Elements of User Interface Design - Theo Mandel
- ame3yst0
At First Id say The Bible Books.
2nd Classroom in a Book
3rd with the work Creating! :)
- jdcomba0
The Elements of Typography Style - Robert Bringhurst
yeah, this is a really good one also.
- briggen0
1. photoshop, secrets of the pros
2. Freewave
3. design movements
- Crouwel0
i cannot say some are more useful then the others..if they were not as useful i would never buy those! sorry.
- jdcomba0
i cannot say some are more useful then the others..if they were not as useful i would never buy those! sorry.
Crouwel
(Aug 7 05, 10:40)WHAYT?
- bitnik0
problem solved
understanding design (kees dorst)
My life a book of dreams (william burroughs)
- nburlington0
1. Designing Books - Jost Hochuli and Robin Kinross
2. Visual Thinking - Rudolf Arnheim
3. The Education of a Graphic Designer - edited by Stephen Heller
- nick0
some great suggestions already, i'll add these 3:
- Paul Rand: Modernist Design
- Sagmeister: Made You Look
- Tibor: Perverse Optimist
- nick0
3 more for good measure:
- Wim Crouwel: Alphabets
- Armin Hofmann: Graphic Design Manual
- Josef Muller-Brockmann: A Graphic Artist & His Design Problems
- MLP0
los logos
dos logos
idea back issues
JMB grid systems
Armin Hofmann - Graphic Design Manual
Blue Note Covers book
- Crouwel0
i cannot say some are more useful then the others..if they were not as useful i would never buy those! sorry.
Crouwel
(Aug 7 05, 10:40)WHAYT?
jdcomba
(Aug 7 05, 11:09)is there something you don't understand?
i got so many books, but they are all useful in their own right.
there's hardly a top whatever..
- nick0
lol @ janne acting like a book snob
- _salisae_0
i wonder what happened to frank fido
- Crouwel0
i am nt's no.1 snob.
- nick0
qbn put poor frankie on global ignore
- jdcomba0
"i would never buy those! sorry."
i don't understand what you mean? why are you sorry?