Visual design books

Grid Systems in Graphic Design

Josef Muller-Brockmann.
Magma Books / Niggli / UK booksearch

Primer of Visual Literacy

Donis A. Dondis.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Graphic Design Timeline: A Century of Design Milestones

Steven Heller, Elinor Pettit.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

6 Chapters in Design

Philip Meggs.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Pioneers of Modern Design

Nikolaus Pevsner.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design

Steven Heller.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Design Literacy (Continued): Understanding Graphic Design

Steven Heller.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Paul Rand: A Designer’s Art

Paul Rand.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Design, Form and Chaos

Paul Rand.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Designing Books

Jost Hochuli, Robin Kinross.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

On Book Design

Richard Hendel.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Design and Form

Johannes Itten.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

The Elements of Color

Johannes Itten.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

The Color Star

Johannes Itten.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Interaction of Color

Josef Albers.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Basic Law of Colour Theory

Harald Kueppers / amazon.com

Color for Websites: Digital Media Design

Molly Holzschlag.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

Leonard Koren.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Katachi: Classic Japanese Design

Takeji Iwamiya, Kazuya Takaoka.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Dutch Graphic Design

Kees Broos, Paul Hefting.
amazon.co.uk

Experience

Sean Perkins.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Permanent: Design Is Kinky

Andrew Johnstone, Jade Palmer.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Catching the Moment

Terry Jones.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Reload: Browser 2.0

Patrick Burgoyne, Liz Faber.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Narita Inspected

Lopetz Klanten.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Mobile Minded

Miekke Gerritzen. An introduction to Mattmo’s work in motion graphics design, interaction design and print.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Design For Interaction

Lisa Baggerman. This is a very visual book – somewhat disappointing in it’s coverage of interaction, but offers many visual examples of rich web designs for inspiration.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

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