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The Elements of Typographic Style
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The Art of Looking Sideways
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A Type Primer
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Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition
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Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type
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Typographic Systems
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Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History
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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
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On Book Design
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Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
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Information Architects
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Twentieth Century Type Designers
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Graphic Design: A Concise History
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Meggs' History of Graphic Design
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The History and Technique of Lettering
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Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius
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ABC of 20th-Century Graphics
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No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism
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Nine Pioneers in American Graphic Design
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Pioneers of Modern Typography
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3.93 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Five Hundred Years of Printing
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Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History
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The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
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Design Writing Research
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
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War and Peace in the Global Village
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3.93 avg rating — 392 ratings
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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4.39 avg rating — 8,608 ratings
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Information Anxiety
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4.26 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Pocket Pal: A Graphic Arts Production Handbook
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The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers
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3.52 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Ways of Seeing
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3.94 avg rating — 424,144 ratings
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By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons
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3.87 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Design of Everyday Things
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4.15 avg rating — 46,800 ratings
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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
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4.16 avg rating — 2,446 ratings
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