My favourite books on design

My favourite books on design

 
 
 
Lots of students, mainly those aspiring to become design students who want to prepare for competitive exams, ask me this question. which are your favourite books on Design?

So here goes the list of my favourite books, it is my personal list.
This list is NOT in my order of fondness or my love for the author. First one in the list need not be my all time favourite! This list is not intended to guide any student to prepare for any entrance exams.

Ruder Typography, Ruder Philosophy
Helmut Schmid (Editor), Nicole Schmid (Contributor)
 
Typography of Devanagari
Bapurao Naik

While you're reading
by Gerard Unger
 
Reading Letters: Designing for Legibility
Sofie Beier

Typographie: A Manual of Design
by Emil Ruder

Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works
by Erik Spiekermann , E.M Ginger

The Elements of Typographic Style
by Robert Bringhurst

Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type
by Kimberly Elam

Universal Principles of Design
by William Lidwell  , Kritina Holden , Jill Butler

The Art of Looking Sideways
by Alan Fletcher

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by Edward R. Tufte

Envisioning Information
by Edward R. Tufte

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
by Edward R. Tufte

An Essay on Typography
Eric Gill

Grid systems in graphic design: A visual communication manual for graphic designers, typographers and three dimensional designers
by Josef Müller-Brockmann

Meggs' History of Graphic Design
by Philip B. Meggs , Alston W. Purvis

Detail In Typography
by Jost Hochuli

Adrian Frutiger – Typefaces: The Complete Works
by Heidrun Osterer


Theory of Type Design
Gerard Unger

Type Tricks: Your Personal Guide to Type Design
Sofie Beier

Type Tricks: Layout Design: Your Personal Guide to Layout Design
Sofie Beier

Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students (Design Briefs)
Ellen Lupton

Graphic Design: The New Basics.
Ellen Lupton

Layout for Graphic Designers: An Introduction (Basics Design)
by Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

Typographic Systems of Design: Frameworks for Type Beyond the Grid (Graphic Design Book on Typography Layouts and Fundamentals)
Kimberly Elam

Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type
Kimberly Elam

Making and Breaking the Grid, Second Edition, Updated and Expanded: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop
Timothy Samara

Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers.
Josef Mülller-Brockmann

Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces
by Bruce Willen,  Nolen Strals
 
 

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