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Another authoritative book about design's past by Jens Muller, The History of Graphic Design delivers exactly what the title promises. Featuring hundreds of landmark projects, industry leaders profiles, and illustrated timelines, this book traces the evolution of the profession from the end of the 19th century to the remains of World War II. 24. Baseline Shift by Briar Levit Our Gold Foil is the most premium available using a special Easy-Off layering technology, so interacting with it feels smooth as a hot knife through butter. You will know that the instant you scratch off the first time.
Creative work is hard, and it never really gets easier. So to make it as a graphic designer, you need some stamina, and this book can help. It's full of illustrated advice and encouragement on how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself in the face of burnout or distractions. 43. Layout Essentials by Beth Tondreau
Are you looking for an authoritative guide to branding, taking in all the different aspects from start to finish? You'll find it here. From research and analysis through launch and governance, this book provides expert insight on all aspects of the process and describes the best practices that build better brands. 3. Know Your Onions by Drew De Soto What does it mean to be a designer in today's corporate-driven, overbranded global consumer culture? This book attempts to answer this question with more than 70 essays and interviews covering controversial topics such as topics as the advertising of harmful products, branding to minors, and violence in game design. It doesn't provide any definitive answers, but through asking the right questions, acts as a spur for further debate and discussion. 39. Don't Get a Job... Make a Job: How to make it as a creative graduate by Gem Barton Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman. Image courtesy of Sara 37. Start Me Up!: New Branding for Businesses by Robert Klanten Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. Good by Design by Viction:workshop ltd. Image courtesy of Counterprint 21. Designing Type by Karen Cheng
Citizen First Designer Second by Rejane Dal Bello 13. Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking by Annie Atkins Each year, Australians have their say about which books and authors they love to read in the Better Reading Top 100. It has become a well-loved annual event that readers vote for, celebrate and discuss. It is a true reflection of what Australians read, featuring a mix of crime, women’s general fiction, literary fiction and classics. We’re thrilled with this year’s list and look forward to sharing it with our readers.Traditionally, design books have tended to minimise the contribution of women to the profession, so here's one that starts to right the balance. Women Design profiles a selection of the most dynamic female designers, from architects and product designers to textile artists and digital innovators. These range from pioneers such as Eileen Gray, Lora Lamm and Lella Vignelli to more recent trailblazers including Kazuyo Sejima, Hella Jongerius and Neri Oxman. 26. Can Graphic Design Save Your Life? by Lucienne Roberts
Debbie Millman is best known as the host of the design podcast Design Matters. This book is inspired by the monologues she prepares for each episode and features illustrated essays on life and design. Covering topics ranging from brands and behaviour to rituals, love and music, this book will make you think and occasionally laugh out loud. 30. Branding: In Five and a Half Steps by Michael Johnson With a pride in fine printing and an innate predisposition toward the grand and passionate, Italy has produced some of the finest film posters in the world. These colorful images, startling in their freshness and boldness, arouse expectations of romance, mystery, action, or escape. Italian Film Posters is the first collection of these highly evocative images to be published in English. While Italian film posters are well known to European collectors and cinema lovers – and the work of artists such as Anselmo Ballester, Alfredo Capitani, and Luigi Martinati is displayed in museums and commands high prices at auction – they remain largely unknown to the American public. This overview of the Italian tradition begins with the Art Nouveau-influenced designs of the silent-film era, moves into the stunning stone lithographs of the 1930s and 1940s and concludes with the idiosyncratic creations made possible by offset printing in the 1950s and 1960s. We’re thrilled to announce a first. For the second year in a row, the top spot in our annual Top 100 goes to a previous winner. Readers have once again voted for Honeybee by Craig Silvey as the #1 book, for the second year running. Australian readers have embraced this tender and profoundly moving novel, brimming with vivid characters and luminous words. It’s about two lives forever changed by a chance encounter – one offering hope, the other redemption.
Design is everywhere, and graphic design enters into everything. That's the organising principle for this collection of essays, which brings together 40 essays on such subjects as brand design utilised by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, The Charlie Hebdo massacre and the principles of free expression, and revisiting design icons like Paul Rand and Frank Zachary. 50. Geometry of Design by Kimberly Elam Also noteworthy is how readers embrace female authors now more than ever. This year, with 10,000 votes, an outstanding 70 books by female authors made the list. Women buy books, women read and it’s now clear that women write most books we read.
Honeybee is a heart-breaking, life-affirming novel that throws us headlong into a world of petty thefts, extortion plots, botched bank robberies, daring dog rescues and one spectacular drag show. Congratulations to all the authors who made the list this year, especially Craig Silvey. Honeybee has won the hearts of Australian readers, two years in row. It’s a personal favourite of mine, so I’m thrilled.” User experience design is, at root, about understanding your users. And so this book gives a useful and comprehensive introduction to foundational psychology, in a way that directly relates to UX design. Written by David Evans, an experimental psychology PhD and senior manager of consumer research at Microsoft, this will help UX designers gain an edge in a super-competitive field. 15. Graphic Design: The New Basics by Ellen Lupton & Jennifer Cole Phillips A true classic, originally published in 1992, and thoroughly revised for the modern era. Renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst explains the art of typography in a clear and concise style, from practical, theoretical, and historical perspectives. Quite simply a must-read for any graphic designer entering the profession. 8. Book of Branding by Radim MalinicBorn 1938 in Havana, Cuba, Félix Beltrán, is one of Latin America's most important graphic designers. His works are situated in the tension between abstract geometry and concrete art, and this monograph showcases hundreds of his logos, posters, and book covers. A fascinating and inspiring insight into a great creative mind. 28. Logotype by Michael Evamy
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