Design Reading

Typography

  • The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
  • Theory of Type Design by Gerard Unger
  • My Way to Typography by Wolfgang Weingart
  • The New Typography by Jan Tschichold
  • Grid systems in graphic design by Josef Müller-Brockmann
  • Designing with Type by James Craig
  • Designing Type by Karen Cheng
  • Graphic Design: The New Basics by Ellen Lupton
  • Detail In Typography by Jost Hochuli
  • Designing Programmes, Karl Gerstner
  • The Stroke, Gerrit Noordzij
  • Type on Screen by Ellen Lupton
Typography books

Information Graphics

  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
  • Beautiful Evidence by Edward Tufte
  • Visual Explanations by Edward Tufte
  • Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte
  • Guide to Information Graphics by Dona Wong
  • Information Graphics by Sandra Rendgen and Julius Wiedemann
  • History of Information Graphics by Sandra Rendgen and Julius Wiedemann
Information Graphics books

Product Design

  • The User Experience Team of One by Leah Buley
  • Articulating Design Decisions by Tom Greever
  • Designing Interfaces by Jenifer Tidwell, Charles Brewer, Aynne Valencia
Product Design booksProduct Design books

Accessibility

Content Design

  • Writing is Designing by Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle
  • Content Design by Sarah Richards
  • The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
  • Information Architecture, Peter Morville Jorge Arango

Animation