Best Graphic Design Textbooks - April 2024

Graphic Design School: The Principles and Practice of Graphic Design

The essential introduction to graphic design for the digital era Graphic Design School provides a comprehensive introduction to visual design for modern media. From the fundamentals of design to advanced techniques and problem solving, this book is packed with practical advice and tutorials for a broad range of applications in any media. This updated sixth edition features a wealth of new guidance that reflects the evolution of the field, including extensive discussion of digital design and resourcing. New discussion tackles User Experience and User Interface Design, plus the latest tools, req... [Read More]

• ASIN: 111934316X
• ASIN: 111934316X
• ISBN: 9781119343165
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Web Design with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery Set

A two-book set for web designers and front-end developers This two-book set combines the titles HTML & CSS: Designing and Building Web Sites and JavaScript & jQuery: Interactive Front-End Development. Together these two books form an ideal platform for anyone who wants to master HTML and CSS before stepping up to JavaScript and jQuery. HTML & CSS covers structure, text, links, images, tables, forms, useful options, adding style with CSS, fonts, colors, thinking in boxes, styling lists and tables, layouts, grids, and even SEO, Google analytics, ftp, and HTML5. JavaScript & jQuery offers an exce... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1118907442
• ASIN: 1118907442
• ISBN: 1118907442
• Brand: Wiley
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon Graphic Library)

A New York Times Notable Book A Time Magazine “Best Comix of the Year” A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-seller Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 037571457X
• ASIN: 037571457X
• ISBN: 037571457X
• Brand: Pantheon
• Manufacturer: Pantheon

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native Amer... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316013692
• ASIN: 0316013692
• ISBN: 9780316013697
• Brand: Little Brown Young Readers
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.In A ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374531269
• ASIN: 0374531269
• ISBN: 9780374531263
• Brand: Sarah Crichton Books
• Manufacturer: Sarah Crichton Books

Graphic Design Solutions

Graphic Design Solutions is the most comprehensive, how-to reference on graphic design and typography. Covering print and interactive media, this book examines conceiving, visualizing and composing solutions to design problems, such as branding, logos, web design, posters, book covers, advertising, and more. Excellent illustrations of historical, modern and contemporary design are integrated throughout. The Fifth Edition includes expanded and updated coverage of screen media, including mobile, tablet, desktop web, and motion as well as new interviews, showcases, and case studies; new diagrams ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 113394552X
• ASIN: 113394552X
• ISBN: 113394552X
• Manufacturer: Cengage Learning

Graphic Design Solutions

This best-selling text remains the most comprehensive how-to reference on graphic design and advertising for print and interactive media, intended to serve as a foundation for a graphic design and advertising design education. Theory and applications are stressed with an instructive approach. Known for its thorough treatment of theory and major graphic design applications, this text concentrates on the integration of design principles and elements, providing hundreds of meaningful examples of their interaction throughout.

• ASIN: 0495572810
• ASIN: 0495572810
• ISBN: 0495572810
• Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing

Tom Ford

Tom Ford has become one of fashion's great icons. He transformed Gucci from a moribund accessories label into one of the sexiest fashion brands in the world. His designs have increased sales at Gucci tenfold and have helped build the Gucci brand into the luxury goods conglomerate that it is today. Ford brought a hard-edged style synonymous with 21st century glamour to his clothes, and Hollywood sat up and took note. This book is a complete catalogue of Ford's design work for both Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent from 1994 to 2004. It chronicles not only Ford's clothing and accessories designs for ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0847826694
• ASIN: 0847826694
• ISBN: 0847826694
• Brand: Rizzoli International Publications
• Manufacturer: Rizzoli

Hogwarts Library (Harry Potter)

Three classic volumes from J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World, now in a beautifully redesigned boxed set!Inside readers will find books treasured by users of the great library at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt Scamander's master work on magical creatures; Quidditch Through the Ages, a comprehensive history of the game and its rules; and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, with an introduction and illustrations by J.K. Rowling and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. This boxed set is an essential addition to the collection of any Harry Pot... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1338132326
• ASIN: 1338132326
• ISBN: 1338132326
• Brand: Arthur A. Levine Books
• Size: Standard
• Manufacturer: Arthur A. Levine Books

Graphic Design: The New Basics

Our bestselling introduction to graphic design is now available in a revised and updated edition In Graphic Design The New Basics bestselling author Ellen Lupton Thinking with Type Type on Screen and design educator Jennifer Cole Phillips explain the key concepts of visual language that inform any work of design from logo or letterhead to a complex website Through visual demonstrations and concise commentary students and professionals explore the formal elements of twodimensional design such as point line plane scale hierarchy layers and transparency This revised edition replaces sixty-four pa... [Read More]

• ASIN: 161689332X
• ASIN: 161689332X
• ISBN: 9781616893323
• Brand: Princeton Architectural Press
• Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press

Grid systems in graphic design: A visual communication manual for graphic designers, typographers and three dimensional designers (German and English Edition)

A grid system is a rigid framework that is supposed to help graphic designers in the meaningful, logical and consistent organization of information on a page. It is an established tool that is used by print and web designers to create well-structured, balanced designs. Rudimentary versions of grid systems existed since the medieval times, but a group of Swiss graphic designers, mostly inspired in ideas from typographical literature started building a more rigid and coherent system for page layout. The core of these ideas were first presented by Müller-Brockmann who helped to spread the knowle... [Read More]

• ASIN: 3721201450
• UPC: 783324881059
• ASIN: 3721201450
• ISBN: 9783721201451
• Brand: Brand: Ram Publications
• Manufacturer: Niggli Verlag

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on usability guru Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it’s one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject. Now Steve returns with fresh perspective to reexamine the principles that made Don’t Make Me Think a classic–with updated examples and a new chapter on mobile usability. And it’s still short, profusely illustrated…and best ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0321965515
• ASIN: 0321965515
• ISBN: 9780321965516
• Brand: New Riders Publishing
• Manufacturer: New Riders

HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites

• ASIN: 1118008189
• UPC: 884956617044
• ASIN: 1118008189
• ISBN: 1118008189
• Brand: Wiley
• Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons

Planning and Urban Design Standards

The new student edition of the definitive reference on urban planning and design Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition is the authoritative and reliable volume designed to teach students best practices and guidelines for urban planning and design. Edited from the main volume to meet the serious student's needs, this Student Edition is packed with more than 1,400 informative illustrations and includes the latest rules of thumb for designing and evaluating any land-use scheme--from street plantings to new subdivisions. Students find real help understanding all the practical inf... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0471760900
• ASIN: 0471760900
• ISBN: 9780471760900
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Interior Design (4th Edition)

  For one/two-semester introductory courses in Interior Design. A comprehensive, applications-oriented introduction to the evolving field of interior design, with a focus on the challenges facing designers in the 21st century. Emphasizing good solutions to real problems by examining best practices from the past and present, the author details case studies using a broad range of projects from modest home and work-place designs, to public areas, to full professional involvement in large commercial spaces.

• ASIN: 0132408902
• ASIN: 0132408902
• ISBN: 0132408902
• Manufacturer: Pearson

Articulating Design Decisions : Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience

"Talking to people about your designs might seem like a basic skill, but it can be difficult to do efficiently and well. And, in many cases, how you communicate about your work with stakeholders, clients,

• UPC: 45141011

Queer X Design : 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ

9780762467853

• UPC: 260127912

Learn Adobe Illustrator CC for Graphic Design and Illustration : Adobe Certified Associate Exam Preparation

This study guide uses text integrated with video to help you gain real-world skills that will get you started in your career in graphics, design, or illustration, and lays the foundation for taking the Illustrator

• UPC: 47049226

Learn Adobe Illustrator CC for Graphic Design and Illustration (2018 Release) : Adobe Certified Associate Exam Preparation

Adobe Illustrator CC is the most popular vector illustration application available. Print and screen designers use it to create powerful artwork composed of shapes, color, and highly styled text. Illustrator is a necessary tool for

• UPC: 347222052

Design: Portfolio : Self Promotion at Its Best

"Featuring a curated collection of approximately 300 exquisite designs, along with essays from designers in the field about the essence and importance of a good portfolio design, Design: Portfolio contains mini-workshops that dissect several featured

• UPC: 21680880

The Business Side of Creativity : The Comprehensive Guide to Starting and Running a Small Graphic Design or Communications Business

An update of the invaluable business companion for freelance graphic designers, art directors, illustrators, copywriters, and agency or design-shop

• UPC: 28909822
• Rating: 3.0

Grid Systems in Graphic Design : A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers

From a professional for professionals, here is the definitive word on using grid systems in graphic design. Though Muller-Brockman first presented hi interpretation of grid in 1961, this text is still useful today for anyone

• UPC: 43293636
• Rating: 5.0

Graphic Bookbinding - A Complete Text Designed for Self-Instruction and Presented Through Numbered Drawings Showing in Detail How to Bind a Book Entirely by Hand - eBook

Graphic Bookbinding by Louis J. Haas is a book designed for the self-instruction of how to bind a book entirely by hand, presented through numbered drawings showing in detail every process along the

• UPC: 223741460

Managing Corporate Design : Best Practices for In-House Graphic Design Departments

9781621534594

• UPC: 42079296

2018 Best Resources for Mockup Designs - eBook

This reference is loaded with necessary resources useful to website developers or those with interest thereof. Get expert advice on designs and development of branding mockups useful within your web development. Inside you will find

• UPC: 762178918

Graphically Speaking A Visual Lexicon for Achieving Better Design Client Communi

• UPC: 133039893812
• Category: Adult Learning & University
• Price: 17 USD