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Graphic Design Rules by
The perfect book for the ever-growing group of non-designers who want some graphic design guidance.
Publication Date: 2017
Design School: Type by
An in-depth guide to the rules and practices of typography, you'll learn the essential skills of the professional typographer in the detail.
Publication Date: 2017White Space Is Not Your Enemy by White Space Is Not Your Enemy is a practical graphic design and layout guide that introduces concepts and practices necessary for producing effective visual communication across a variety of formats—from web to print. Including; Mobile-first, UI/UX design, and web typography
Publication Date: 2017
Making and Breaking the Grid by
A comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand those rules.
Publication Date: 2017
Design: The Invention of Desire by
As designers collaborate with developing nations on everything from more affordable lawn mowers to cleaner drinking water, they must take into consideration the full range of a given community's complex social needs.
Publication Date: 2016
Design by
The book traces the history of product design and its current developments, and presents the most important principles of design theory and methodology, looking in particular at the communicative function of products and highlighting aspects such as corporate and service design, design management, strategic design, interface/interaction design and human design..
Publication Date: 2015
How to Have Great Ideas by
This book explores creative thinking across all visual arts disciplines; in design, advertising, and communications. It provides 53 practical strategies for unlocking innovative ideas.
Publication Date: 2016
Pantone Color Intelligence
My Fonts
AGDA
Arts Hub – Design
Illustrators Australia
Joe La Pompe
Design is HistoryImages demonstrating where design came from, how it developed, and who shaped its evolution. |
Luna Commons - Public Collections16 digital image collections, including maps, books and even gravestones. |
Old Maps OnlineDiscover the cartography of the past. |
Royal Horticultural SocietyA peek at some of the wonderful items available in the RHS Libraries. |
Information is BeautifulData, information, knowledge: distilled into beautiful, useful graphics & diagrams. |
Flickr CommonsThe world's public photo archives.
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MAAS CollectionThe Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences collection. |
Historical AnatomiesImages from anatomical atlases in the National Library of Medicine's collection. |
New Old StockVintage photos from the public archives. Free of known copyright restrictions. |
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