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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

Shillington

Designed by an all-women team, and covering a wide range of backgrounds, crafts and skills, the work is reproduced beautifully, often across full double-page spreads. Women in Graphic Design 1890-2012 by Gerda Breuer. Why are there so few women in the history of design? Buy the book. Buy the book. Buy the book.

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59 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2022

Shillington

He picks apart how design can convince us of a certain way of thinking, in both an overt and covert manner. Through examples, not just from graphic design but also product design, industrial design and architecture, Adams illustrates how design can inspire, provoke, amuse, anger or reassure us and the reasons why it does this.