 | Grid Systems in Graphic Design/Raster Systeme Fur Die Visuele Gestaltung (German Edition) by Josef Muller-Brockmann
Buy new: $60.71 / Used from: $59.42 wonderful introduction to using typographic organizational structures. muller-brockmann is a no nonsense writer, and all the better for it. expensive and worth it.
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 | Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop by Timothy Samara
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $15.98 a good follow up book to muller-brockmann's. utilizes contemporary examples by international designers. some perhaps quite grid-less, but the author makes up for this weakness by explaining techniques quite well.
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 | Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type (Design Briefs) by Kimberly Elam
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $11.89 not the greatest book in the world, but worthwhile for the format used. design examples are overlayed with translucent pages that contain grids used. good for people that don't quite 'get' grids, or feel they may be too restrictive.
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 | The Typographic Grid by Hans Rudolf Bosshard
Buy new: $66.89 / Used from: $65.00 the graduate school of grid use. illustrated with samples of the author's own work. will be too puzzling as an introduction, without first digesting the muller-brockmann book,
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 | Typography: Macro and Microaesthetics by Willi Kunz
Buy new: $67.08 / Used from: $59.40 my favorite primer on graphic design. beautifully written incremental step-by-step guides through shape, characters, words, sentences, paragraphs, arrangement, structures. something here for experienced designers as well.
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 | Typographie: A Manual of Design by Emil Ruder
Buy new: $73.08 / Used from: $70.00 surprisingly simple format with a single written principal on each page, which is then illustrated with a visual example.
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 | About Face: Reviving The Rules Of Typography by David Jury
Buy used from: $94.98 well edited book that includes quite a bit of typographic detailing information that is usually very hard to find. good illustrations from varied sources.
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 | The Complete Manual of Typography by Jim Felici
Buy new: $34.65 / Used from: $27.80 excellent book for information on typographic detail. perhaps the best on the subject. good follow-up to stop stealing sheep.
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 | New Hart's Rules: The Handbook of Style for Writers and Editors (Reference)
Buy new: $23.91 / Used from: $9.32 a great reference book. i wanted to know which was correct: USA U.S.A. or USofA. hart's rules sorted me out.
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 | Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (2nd Edition) by Erik Spiekermann
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $10.00 wonderful primer for people with little experience with design or typography. written in laymans terms. funny and helpful.
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 | Wolfgang Weingart: My Way to Typography by Wolfgang Weingart
Buy new: $75.60 / Used from: $58.62 poppa of moderne typography. what you get when you put an iconoclast and swiss typography practitioner into a blender. great for how he aligns his personal approach to life, with his approach to typography. read this one, don't just look at the pictures!
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 | Twentieth-Century Type, New and Revised Edition by Lewis Blackwell
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $22.30 my favorite generic book for visual examples and rough timeline of typographic milestones. a bit warmer than some of the other books in this list. lots to chew on.
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 | Designing Programmes by Karl Gerstner
Buy new: $27.10 / Used from: $21.68 an essay collection by the great swiss designer.long out of print and valuable as hell, now reprinted. good book for insights into how an organized designer approaches his work.
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 | Counterpunch: Making Type in the 16th Century, Designing Typefaces Now by Fred Smeijers
Buy used from: $179.04 best thing i've read on old type. fred explains 16th century techniques in a way that makes you interested. wonderful book on how manufacturing technique shapes letterform design.
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