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Started by: Terri_Stone on November 13, 2007
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If you were a graphic designer exiled to a desert island and needed to whittle down your work-related reference books to only five, what would you take? ( Edited by Terri_Stone )  

Desert Island Reading for Graphic Designers
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MegaGrafx's picks

1. How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy
2. The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
3. Fingerprint
4. Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
5. Meggs' History of Graphic Design
6. Masters of Poster Design
why I chose these

pixelpunk's picks

1. Graphic Design: A New History
2. Meggs' History of Graphic Design
why I chose these

saltiest's picks

1. How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy
2. The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
why I chose these

ryankoziel's picks

1. Graphic Design: A New History
2. Grid Systems by Josef Müller-Brockman
3. The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
4. Meggs' History of Graphic Design
why I chose these

rayuela's picks

1. Envisioning Information - Edward Tufte
2. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte
3. Notes on the Synthesis of Form - Christopher Alexander
why I chose these

chrynkow's picks

1. Grid Systems by Josef Müller-Brockman
2. Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
3. Evocative Objects, edited by Sherry Turkle
4. Subject to Change, David Verba and Todd Wilkens
why I chose these

Terri_Stone's picks

1. Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
2. Grid Systems by Josef Müller-Brockman
3. The Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler
4. How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy
5. The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
why I chose these

Nelson's picks

1. Fingerprint
2. Masters of Poster Design
3. A Smile in the Mind
4. The Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler
5. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte
why I chose these

mdudlik's picks

1. How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy
2. Grid Systems by Josef Müller-Brockman
why I chose these

violetsprite's picks

1. Design Basics Index
2. Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type
3. Typographic Design: Form and Communication
why I chose these
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