Desert Island Reading for Graphic Designers

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Started by: Terri_Stone on November 13, 2007

Description: 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 )  

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webdesign's picks

1. The Art of Looking Sideways, Alan Fletcher
2. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte
3. Typography: Micro + Macroaesthetics
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pouprep's picks

1. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte
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acs84's picks

1. Hand Jobs
2. Typography: Micro + Macroaesthetics
3. Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
4. The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
5. The Complete Manual of Typography
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gregone's picks

1. How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy
2. Grid Systems by Josef Müller-Brockman
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mmullins's picks

1. Masters of Poster Design
2. Education of a Graphic Designer
3. Fingerprint
4. All Access
5. How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy
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joyce615's picks

1. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte
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jimmyball's picks

1. The Art of Looking Sideways, Alan Fletcher
2. A Smile in the Mind
3. Notes on Book Design, Derek Birdsall
4. Living by Design, Pentagram
5. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte
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jpdesign's picks

1. Kontiki, Thor Heyerdahl
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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
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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
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