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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

Shillington

Modernist aesthetics in architecture, art and product design are familiar to many. Packed with great examples of innovative thinking in graphic design, advertising, photography, illustration, architecture, product design, furniture design, industrial design, animation, digital design, car design, engineering, art and fashion.

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59 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2022

Shillington

Modernist aesthetics in architecture, art and product design are familiar to many. 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. Buy the book. Buy the book.