A List of Books you must read about Graphic and Design

September 26th, 2008 in  Graphics

ThemesLive wants the best for its readers. In this post we have assembled a list of the best and cheapest books purchased by Internet.

A book is very necessary if you want to become a professional designer. Many of these books talks about the story of design, various changes of design over time, and many of these are also illustrated, so you can take some inspiration from it.

The secret of every best designer is the study of many other designer of the past time. Studying their illustrations you can do the best in your works and you can learn how to assemble every kind of graphic illustration.

1,000 Graphic Elements: Details for Distinctive Designs

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Printing Techniques
3. Manipulated Surfaces
4. Formats and Binding
5. Add-ons
6. Unique Materials
7. Graphic Devices

Fingerprint: The Art of Using Hand-Made Elements in Graphic Design

Inside you’ll find examples of work that showcase a variety of design methods including mixed media, illustration, letterpress, screenprinting and collage.

You’ll find inspiration in examples from outstanding designers and see how traditional elements can make a more powerful statement than anesthesized computer-only work.

Fingerprint also includes insightful essays on the power of handmade by Debbie Millman, Jean Orlebeke, Jim Sherraden, Martin Venezky and Ross MacDonald.

Color Design Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design

Color Design Workbook invites readers to explore color through the language of professionals. As part of the Workbook series, this book illustrates fundamentals of graphic design for readers.

It supplies tips on how to talk to clients about color and using color in presentations. Background information on individual colors, such as certain cultural meanings, is also included.

This essential handbook breaks down color theory into straightforward terms, eliminating unintelligible jargon, and showcases the work of top designers from around the globe through in-depht case studies, wich reveal and explore the brilliant and inspiring use of color in their design work.

The Push Pin Graphic: A Quarter Century of Innovative Design and Illustration

Part design and illustration studio, part pop-cultur think tank, Push Pin Studios had phenomenal sway over visual culture from the mid 1950s through the 1980s.

Its legendary founding principals, Seymour Chwast and Milthon Glaser, created a graphic design laboratory that mined the traditions of the past to presage the eclecticism of the future, and took design in a bold, new direction.

Pushing the limits of visual tradition, the studio developed a visual code for its time and altered the course of graphic style and design practice for subsequent generations.

Advertising Annual 2007 (Graphis Advertising Annual)

GraphisAdvertisingAnnual2007 is the global Advertising community’s premiere showcase of print ads, featuring over 300 examples of single ads and campaigns, plus detailed credits and indexes.

This exquisite annual is arranged into trade categories such as Automotive, Beauty & Cosmetics, Food, Corporate and Sports.

This year’s edition offers a global perspective on the Advertising industry with feature profiles of Kevin Amter of New York’s Ogilvy & Mather, Mariusz Jan Demner of Austria’s Demner, Merlicek & Bergmann, Fransesc Petit of DPZ Brazil, and Santaya Lohaphantakit and Pijarinee Kamolyabutr of the Thai firm, Ongoing.

The Story of Graphic Design in France

A great look at French graphic design, with special emphasis on influential movements such as constructivism, dadaism and surrealism.

Russian, Swiss and German design have all played crucial roles in the story of French graphic design and are not neglected in this book.

The survey has fantastic examples from every era since the invention of movable type, right up until today.

Japanese Graphics Now!

Big in Japan Exploding with eye-popping originality and freshness, today’s best Japanese graphics have been gathered together to make this must-have guide to contemporary aesthetics in Japan.

With their unique perspective, the Japanese have a way of looking at the world that has long been a source of great interest for the Western mind.

Here, Japan’s most talented creative professionals strut their stuff in the form of posters, advertisements, print media, visual identity, and print design.

The Anatomy of Design: Uncovering the Influences and Inspirations in Modern Graphic Design

The selections include all kinds of design work including posters, book and record covers, packages, catalog covers, and more.

Each exhibit is selected based on its ubiquity, thematic import, and aesthetic significance, and every page is a means to show how great work is derived from various inspirational and physical sources, some well-known, some unknown.