What are your 10 favourite design books? If you were stuck on a deserted island and you only had 10 design-related books, what would you choose?
Mine are, in no particular order...
Pattern Design: A Period Design Sourcebook, Sian Evans
Typomofo: Type Morphing Into Forms, Page One
Seven Hundred Penguins
Elements of Typographic Style, Robert Bringhurst
The Art of Looking Sideways, Alan Fletcher
It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be, Paul Arden
How to be a Graphic Designer Without Loosing Your Soul, Adrian Shaughnessy
Letraset Catalogues
Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade, David Jury
... hmmm, that's only nine.
The books don't need to be exclusively about graphic design – perhaps they books that inspire your creative output or help define your direction. Record your favourites in the comment section below.
The following list is courtesy of Studio Bomba:
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'Graphic Simplicity' by Pie Books
'Print and Production Finishes' by Roger Fawcett-Tang
'Naive' by Gestalten
'House Industries' by House Industries
'Fingerprint' by Chen Design Ass.
'Elements of Typographic Style' by Robert Bringhurst
'Illustration a'la Mode' by Junko Wong & Koko Nakano
'Romantik' by Robert Klanten, et al
'How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing your Soul' by Adrian Shaughnessy
'Two Colour Graphics' Templin Brink Design