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The Best Graphic Design Books

November 30, 2015 by Ciera Holzenthal

There are so many great blogs out there full of amazing design resources, tutorials for hand-lettering and freelance business advice, but sometimes don’t you just want an old-fashioned book? I still love flipping through and bookmarking pages for inspiration. I’ve included some of my favorite graphic design related books here, all of these graphic design books would also make amazing gifts for the creative types in your life!

A selection of the best graphic design books including hand-lettering, fonts and inspiration. These make great gifts for your creative friends this holiday season - click through to read more about them!

The Best Graphic Design Books:

  1. Type Rules: The Designer’s Guide to Professional Typography
  2. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
  3. The Anatomy of Type: A Graphic Guide to 100 Typefaces
  4. Work for Money, Design for Love: Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Starting and Running a Successful Design Business
  5. Creative Lettering and Beyond: Inspiring Tips, Techniques, and Ideas for Hand Lettering
  6. How to be a Graphic Designer, without Losing Your Soul: Straight-talking Advice on How to Establish Your Design Career
  7. Freelance Design in Practice: Explaining exactly what it takes to create a full-time freelance business
  8. Creative, Inc.: The Ultimate Guide to Running a Successful Freelance Business
  9. Little Black Font Book: the go-to resource for designers and typographers looking for the perfect font
  10. In Progress: See Inside Jessica Hische’s Sketchbook and Process
  11. Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities
  12. Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors & Students

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About Ciera Holzenthal

Hi, I'm Ciera! I specializing in visual brand development and adore working with passionate entrepreneurs to design captivating and cohesive brand identities allowing them to fulfill their greatest potential and skyrocket their businesses to new heights. I’m passionate about using my skills in branding, marketing, design & social media to help your business succeed.

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Comments

  1. Ghanshyam Harsh says

    March 11, 2020 at 8:29 am

    Great collection of grpahic designing to gain. Thanks for sharing

  2. ZICA Borivali says

    January 9, 2020 at 1:54 am

    Thanks for sharing the graphic designing books it will be great to learn from the books. Share more books wth different designs.

  3. Zica Malad says

    July 31, 2019 at 2:18 am

    Thanks for sharing this amazing collection of books with us. #4 is one of my favorite – Extremely Catchy Title.

  4. Trang Dinh says

    June 11, 2018 at 9:03 pm

    Hi Ciera,
    You said it. Sometimes reading the old-fashioned way, i.e.book-form, and flipping through its pages, brings a sense of happiness. Not biased at all, coming from a booklover like myself 🙂

  5. Animation Institute in Mumbai says

    December 13, 2017 at 12:51 pm

    Thanks for sharing this amazing graphics design tools. This is really help me in my design work

  6. Abhi says

    August 1, 2016 at 1:34 am

    Thanks for such a nice collection… This is really help me in my design work. Thanks Ciera

  7. Blue Dozen Design - Asheville says

    December 6, 2015 at 9:37 pm

    Oh, man. I’m really going to have to show this list to my wife. Been looking for some new reading material – and some of these look pretty terrific. “Steal Like an Artist” is excellent.

    I’m typically a Mad Magazine kinda guy – but I’m also a bit of a geek for design business books. Thanks for the list! Gonna be a great Christmas!

    • Ciera Holzenthal says

      December 10, 2015 at 11:25 pm

      No problem, so glad you enjoyed the list, let me know which ones you end up getting!

  8. Lexi smIth says

    November 30, 2015 at 7:48 pm

    Ah! I love real books as resources too. There’s just something about having a tangible thing that makes it so much better. That thinking with type book, steal like an artist and the losing your soul one are all on my bookshelf, they are so great. Have you read Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert yet? If not it is a must read for creatives! Thanks for sharing, I am going to check out a few of those I haven’t read yet.

    • Ciera Holzenthal says

      December 10, 2015 at 2:41 pm

      I have not read Big Magic but keep hearing about it so I guess I should add it to my list! Thanks for the recommendation Lexi!

      • adnan says

        January 22, 2018 at 2:48 am

        nice

  9. Brigette from brigette i design blog says

    November 30, 2015 at 9:34 am

    #6 is one of my all-time favorites – extremely practical and energizing advice. I’ll have to check out some of these other ones I haven’t seen, thank you for the round up! 🙂

    • Ciera Holzenthal says

      December 10, 2015 at 2:33 pm

      No problem Bridgette, so glad you enjoyed the book round up!

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