 | Design Without Boundaries: Visual Communication in Transition by Rick Poynor
Buy new: £9.45 / Used from: £4.53 Great collection of wrting about graphic design, modernism V grunge...
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 | Visual Research: An Introduction to Research Methodologies in Graphic Design (Advanced Level) by Ian Noble
Buy used from: £58.34 Very good primer for good research methodologies and further reading.
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 | Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design
Buy new: £18.04 / Used from: £11.66 Critical writings on graphic design, with essays by, amongst others, Nicholas Backlund, Dan Friedman, Karrie Jacobs, Ellen Lupton, Rick Poynor, Gordon Salchow and Martha Witte.
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 | The Fundamentals of Creative Design by Gavin D.T. Ambrose
Buy used from: £19.99 Good start for understanding and getting things to print.
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 | Visible Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics (Advanced Level) by David Crow
Buy used from: £12.97 Excellent introduction to the media philosophy of semiotics.
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 | The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £5.55 Don Norman has written extensively on user friendly design in all sorts of spheres, this has become a classic design text.
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 | The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of 20th-century Design and Designers (World of Art) by Guy Julier
Buy used from: £0.57 An A to Z of design, full of information a great primer or look up guide to design history
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 | From Lascaux to Brooklyn by Paul Rand
Buy used from: £17.95 Paul Rand was a heavy wieght of the design world . The simplicity of is approach belies the complete understanding and consideration of every aspect of the design process that he had.
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 | Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World by Rick Poynor
Buy used from: £9.99 Rick Poynor examines the visual saturation that the modern world subject us to.Essays challenge received wisdom on design, advertising, photography, publishing and art.
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