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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

Shillington

So whether you’ve just started studying graphic design or are a seasoned professional, here are 50 essential reads, expertly curated by our Shillington teaching team and updated for 2020. There are illustrations throughout, as well as case studies, designer biographies and student assignments for testing skills and concepts.

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Barnett Freedman “saw no difference between commercial work and fine art”

Design Week

This sparked a trend; he went onto design jackets for Oliver Twist, Wuthering Heights, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Those final two are recognised as some of the finest examples of 20th century book design. But he also studied portraiture and painting at the Royal College of Arts, lending his design work a fine art quality.

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25 Exciting Female Creatives to Follow This International Women’s Day

Shillington

A graduate of Shillington’s Manchester campus, Louise Brady is a designer now based in Dublin, working at Zero-G, a brand and strategy studio whose clients include Vodafone, Trinity College Dublin and Amnesty International. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Vanessa Alvarez is a graphic artist, muralist and art teacher. Faride Mereb.

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59 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2022

Shillington

Author Brandon Stosuy, co-founder of The Creative Independent, wants to help you find time to express yourself and develop your talents—and this book is how he does it. Taking a breadth of experience from a diverse network of working artists, the author shows how creativity can and should be prioritised in life and work. Buy the book.