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How Cranbrook’s Design Program Redefined How We Make and Talk About Graphic Design

Eye on Design

Like other architects of the era, he took an expansive view of what the architect could do, not simply interested in buildings but in the design of everything from products to city plans to graphics. . Graphic design’s history in the academy is hard to trace, but it was clearly there at the outset.

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The 50 Best Graphic Design Quotes Ever

Design Wizard

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.” - Pierre Bonnard. The power of color in design cannot be understated, and Pierre Bonnard emphasises that in this quote. Bonnard was an extremely talented painter, illustrator and printmaker who backed up his claims in his work.

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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

Shillington

The second and updated edition of this ambitious book examines the varied and vital relationship between graphic design and health, focusing on work that demonstrates how communication strategies and visual languages are employed to persuade, inform, prevent and ultimately protect. Buy the book. Buy the book. Logotype by Michael Evamy.

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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.