Design Books

[inlinesix]

I bought Grid Systems in Graphic Design a year ago and have been planning to buy The Visual History of Type next. but, thought I'd ask here, anyone have any good recommendations for design/typography books? super obsessed with typography so more on that side I guess lol.

 

[Mukky]

I'm always facinated by the NASA Graphics Standards Manual. It's got a good story behind it before you reach the actual manual, and the manual itself is an interesting inisght on how logos and type should or should not be used in a context that is far larger than most everyday designs manuals. It helped give me a different perspective on how to gives rules and guidelines (what I find most insightful were the examples of what not to do) whenever I'm creating multiple designs for a specific group of people, such as my work for Uni clubs or repeat clients.

 

[inlinesix]

I'm always facinated by the NASA Graphics Standards Manual. It's got a good story behind it before you reach the actual manual, and the manual itself is an interesting inisght on how logos and type should or should not be used in a context that is far larger than most everyday designs manuals. It helped give me a different perspective on how to gives rules and guidelines (what I find most insightful were the examples of what not to do) whenever I'm creating multiple designs for a specific group of people, such as my work for Uni clubs or repeat clients.

ooh this sounds interesting yeah, completely forgot those standards manuals existed.

 

[lem]

Still going through it but practicing with this textbook by my side has helped me get a good foundation on typography stuff, I think you may like it. Its written in a bit of a fun way at times too

Thinking with Type, Second Edition by Ellen Lupton

I made a thread about it but Design as Art by Bruno Munari also is pretty grounding and changed the way I saw things around me a little.