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| Scandinavian Graphic Design | | Scandinavian Graphic Design is a fresh collection that draws from the highly respected history of Scandinavian design to present contemporary graphic design from five Northern countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Characterized by simple elegance, careful use of vibrant colors and space, minimalism, and functionality, Nordic design is also recognized by its heavy application of typography and illustration. The designers featured are at the vanguard of Nordic design, bucking trends and demonstrating that design can be simple but sophisticated, lovely but not naive, and cool yet engaging. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1584234636
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| Graphic Design: A History | | Organized chronologically, the book makes an important critical contribution to the subject by presenting graphic design and typography as deeply embedded in the fabric of society in every era. This distinctive approach enables Stephen Eskilson to discuss the evolution of graphic design in light of prevailing political, social, military and economic conditions, as well as nationalism and gender. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1856698246
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| Know Your Onions | | Know Your Onions gives away the secrets of graphic design. Read this book and gain twenty years experience in how to think like a creative, act like a businessman, and design like a god. This book is practical and immediate, without being condescending or overly technical. | astore.amazon.com/detail/9063692587
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| Iron Curtain Graphics | | Iron Curtain Graphics presents a selection of graphic design, illustration, and typography from the former Eastern Bloc. There, designers were bound by strict rules established by the state regarding the overall visual language they could use. Despite (or exactly because of) this fact, the work collected in this book is a testament to the creative and experimental nature of the applied art they created under these circumstances. | astore.amazon.com/detail/3899553942
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| Retro Graphic Design Pocket Essentials | | Retro Graphic Design Pocket Essentials is a visual sourcebook for contemporary designers looking to simulate the timeless styles of the past. Chapters broken down into key trends of the decades offer 'design modules' that put each style into context, explaining how it originated and was used at the time, but also deconstructing the defining characteristics to make it easy to recreate today. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1907579877
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| Graphic Designer's Essential Reference | | This book is broken into easy-to-follow sections, including basic design techniques, graphic ingredients, and projects recipes. The Graphic Ingredients section is categorized into four groups: Pictorial Staples, Chromatic Flavors, Typographic Confections, and Spatial Presentations. Once the basic design techniques and ingredients are established, the author demonstrates how to concoct delectable design recipes. | astore.amazon.com/detail/159253743X
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| Thonik: I Am Your Type | | Founded by Thomas Widdershoven and Nikki Gonnissen, Thonik is an award-winning Dutch design studio specializing in visual communication through graphic design. Thonik: I Am Your Type focuses on the studio's innovative and provocative approach, highlighting and analyzing signature projects and presenting design stances that are sure to inspire design professionals and aficionados alike. | astore.amazon.com/detail/9056627449
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| Design Elements, Color Fundamentals | | Color is an integral part of any design solution. Design Elements, Color Fundamentals is an essential resource for designers who want to create memorable design and successfully communicate with their audience. It is the second book in Rockport's Design Elements series, which focuses on the core elements of design. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1592537197
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| 365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers | | 365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers reveals solutions from a wide range of freelance designers whose years of experience have helped them find not only the most creative solutions for their clients' design needs, but also the most successful solutions. With a rich compilation of material from previous publications by the authors, this book also focuses on the daily habits that inspire these designers to stay creative and business strategies to be successful when working on your own. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1592537375
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| The Graphic Communication Handbook | | The Graphic Communication Handbook is a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the theories and practices of the graphics industry. It traces the history and development of graphic design, explores issues that affect the industry, examines its analysis through communications theory, explains how to do each section of the job, and advises on entry into the profession. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0415557380
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| The Electric Information Age Book | | The Electric Information Age Book explores the nine-year window of mass-market publishing in the sixties and seventies when formerly backstage players designers, graphic artists, editors stepped into the spotlight to produce a series of exceptional books. Aimed squarely at the young media-savvy consumers of the "Electronic Information Age," these small, inexpensive paperbacks aimed to bring the ideas of contemporary thinkers like Marshall McLuhan, R. Buckminster Fuller, Herman Kahn, and Carl Sagan to the masses. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1616890347
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| Visual Research | | Visual Research: An Introduction to Research Methodologies is a guide to the practice of researching for graphic design projects. The book explains the key terms and theories that underlie design research; examining the importance of audience, communication theory, semiotics and semantics. Inspirational case studies demonstrate how the use of rigorous research methods can form the basis of effective visual communication and design problem solving. | astore.amazon.com/detail/2940411603
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| The Graphic Design Exercise Book | | The design briefs in The Graphic Design Exercise Book act as sparks to fire your creativity and exercises to broaden your skill set. Each brief is illustrated with inspiring reference material providing a visual resource that can be utilized well beyond this book. Sample roughs and visuals show work in progress to give you an insight into the thought processes and creative bent of other designers. Industry insiders share their specialist knowledge, offering professional advice on a selection of fully realized projects. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1600614639
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| A History of Graphic Design | | A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days takes its readers on a charmingly illustrated and cleverly revealing whirlwind tour through this creative discipline's milestone developments, personalities, and technologies. | astore.amazon.com/detail/3899553896
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| More Graphic Simplicity | | As the second volume of Graphic Simplicity, this collection presents brand-new works which succeed in demonstrating design simplicity. | astore.amazon.com/detail/4756240763
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