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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

Shillington

Part inspiration and part workbook, the images of hand-drawn type will inspire and excite any designer to draw and explore type. Drawing Type features real-world projects and sketchbooks of well-known type designers, including interviews about their processes. Buy the book. Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman. Buy the book.

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Soirée Fantastique

Fonts in Use

Conceived and designed by Pierre Pané-Farré , the book won the Gold Medal in the competition Best Book Design from all over the World and also was awarded at the Walter Tiemann Prize 2018. 1838–41), made by the book designer himself. Stacks of posters from Oskar Leiner’s print shop.

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59 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2022

Shillington

Buy the book. Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman. Fonts have different personalities that can create trust, mistrust, give you confidence, make things seem easier to do or make a product taste better. Buy the book. Buy the book. And here’s the book to explain it. Analog Algorithm.