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• nsfmc · Aug 15, 2010 · Recommends

  …work in a bubble (this is true in programming as well, c.f. the myth of the genius programmer [motgp]) 5. There are some books you can look at, i would probably recommend the following: Armin Hofmann's Graphic Design Manual, Emil Ruder's Typographie: a manual of design, Josef Mueller-Brockman's Grid Systems in Graphic Design, Robert Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style. Ellen Lupton's Thinking with Type and John Kane's…

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• RDDavies · Oct 22, 2010 · Recommends

  …graphic / web design are left out a bit. Here are the resources I drilled out of the threads I came across: Type: http://www.amazon.com/Logo-Lettering-Bible-Leslie-Cabarga/dp... http://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Design-Manual-Principles-Pract... http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Brin... http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Typographic-... Usability: http://www.amazon.com/Think-Common-Sense-Approach-Usability/...…

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• nsfmc · Feb 11, 2013 · Recommends

  …is Nancy Skolos & Tom Wedell's Graphic Design Process. No design book suggestion will be complete without mentioning Emil Ruder's Typographie, Josef Muller-Brockman's Grid Systems and Armin Hofmann's Graphic Design Manual. That said, a good starter is layout/formmaking Christian Leborg's "Visual Grammar," part of Princeton Architectural Press' Design Briefs series[2] (all of which are good for skimming the next time you…

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• xyheme · Sep 7, 2023 · Mentions

  …am not sure about how to design some graphic, I just put a square button at some corner to bear the functionality :p I think I am just start learning about graphic design, I am reading a book called "Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice" by Armin Hofmann (a book first published at 1965!)

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