The best graphic design books can take you on an exciting journey of the imagination, transport you to new creative worlds or teach you something you never knew.
1. The Package Design Book
This is any packaging designer’s bible: over 650 pages of the finest packaging that the world has to offer across food and beverages, luxury and everywhere else.
2. Graphic Design School: The Principles and Practice of Graphic Design
Graphic Design School introduces visual design for modern media and breaks it down in a way that’s easy to follow for students. It explains the fundamentals of design in theory and then offers practical, modern examples.
3. Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
Mismatch investigates how inclusive methods can build elegant solutions that work for everyone. Kat Holmes demonstrates how certain design practices can create exclusion, whilst advocating how design can foster inclusion.
4. Logo Modernism (Design)
Jens Müller brings together approximately 6,000 modernist trademarks, from 1940–1980, to examine how modernist attitudes and imperatives gave birth to corporate identity.
