Graphic Design Reading List

These are all books that I have read and can personally recommend.

Intro

• The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams

Learn

• Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
  
• Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type by Kimberly Elam
  
• Typographic Systems of Design: Frameworks for Type Beyond the Grid by Kimberly Elam
  
• Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual by Timothy Samara
  
• Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann
  
• Editing By Design by Jan V. White

General

• How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy
  
• Design Is a Job by Mike Monteiro
  
• AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design by Tad Crawford

Inspiration

• Making and Breaking the Grid by Timothy Samara
  
• Why Not by Why Not Associates
  
• The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson by Lewis Blackwell
  
• Soak Wash Rinse Spin by Tolleson Design
  
• Pretty Much Everything by Aaron Draplin
  
• Ray Gun: The Bible of Music and Style by Marvin Scott Jarrett

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Links

• http://stylemanual.org - because writing is design
  
• https://www.aiga.org/standards-professional-practice
  
• http://thinkingwithtype.com