Typography/Design Books | DVDs

[AlexGFX88]

Hello,

Next year, I will -- hopefully -- be double majoring in Graphic Design and Mass Communication. I want to get a head start on some design principles and theories. I was wondering if any experienced Graphic Designers or Artist could recommend a few books and/or DVDs regarding the following:

1) Typography
2) Color Theory
3) Layout and Design
4) Anything else that anyone thinks is crucial to the learning process.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Alex

 

[barrysfarm]

This is the #1 typography book on many peoples list:
The Elements of Typographic Style
by Robert Bringhurst
http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typo...5489722?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174788891&sr=8-1

This is a great information design (maps, charts, graphs) book:
Envisioning Information
by Edward R. Tufte
http://www.amazon.com/Envisioning-I...5489722?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174788988&sr=1-3

Actually, anything by either author is a good read.

 

[shecky]

a few off the top of my head:

1)
A Type Primer - John Kane
Thinking With Type - Ellen Lupton
Typographie - Emil Ruder

2)
The Elements of Color - Johannes Itten

3)
Type, Image, Message - Skolos + Wedell
Grid Systems - Joesf Mueller Brockman
A Designer's Art - Paul Rand
A Designer's Perspective - Bruno Monguzzi

4)
The Five Obstructions (DVD)
The Conformist (DVD)
Man with the Movie Camera (DVD)
Berlin: Symphony of a City (DVD)

 

[AlexGFX88]

Awesome guys! Thanks a lot

Cheers,
Alex

 

[G.Kirby]

Every graphic designer should have a copy of this book.

The Art of Looking Sideways (Hardcover)
by Alan Fletcher (Author)

enjoy

 

[iGav]

• The New Typography: A Handbook for Modern Designers - by Jan Tschichold
• All That Is Solid Melts into Air: Experience of Modernity - Marshall Berman
• Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity - Edward de Bono
• Syntactic Structures - Noam Chomsky
• The End of Art Theory (Communications & Culture) - Victor Burgin
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Heraclitus: Translation and Analysis - Dennis Sweet
• The Design of Everyday Things - Donald A. Norman
• Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things - Donald A. Norman
• Universal Principles of Design: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach Through Design - Jill Butler, Kritina Holden, Will Lidwell
• S, M, L, XL - Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau
• Ambition/Fear - Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans (Emigre 11)
• That was then, and this is now: but what is next? - Lorraine Wild (Emigre 39)
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less - Barry Schwartz
• Sagmeister: Made You Look - Peter Hall
• Make It Bigger - Paula Scher
• Tibor Kalman, Perverse Optimist - Peter Hall

You can also seldom go wrong with anything with Swiss and Design in the title.

 

[eevor]

That is one hell of a list of good books.

But you are missing one thing for the budding graphic designer/creative:

Nathan Barley (DVD)

This is what to avoid when embarking on a design education - the scathing critique of London trendy idiots.

It's well Mexico.