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!
The Best Graphic Design Books:
- Type Rules: The Designer’s Guide to Professional Typography
- Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
- The Anatomy of Type: A Graphic Guide to 100 Typefaces
- Work for Money, Design for Love: Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Starting and Running a Successful Design Business
- Creative Lettering and Beyond: Inspiring Tips, Techniques, and Ideas for Hand Lettering
- How to be a Graphic Designer, without Losing Your Soul: Straight-talking Advice on How to Establish Your Design Career
- Freelance Design in Practice: Explaining exactly what it takes to create a full-time freelance business
- Creative, Inc.: The Ultimate Guide to Running a Successful Freelance Business
- Little Black Font Book: the go-to resource for designers and typographers looking for the perfect font
- In Progress: See Inside Jessica Hische’s Sketchbook and Process
- Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities
- Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors & Students
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Great collection of grpahic designing to gain. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing the graphic designing books it will be great to learn from the books. Share more books wth different designs.
Thanks for sharing this amazing collection of books with us. #4 is one of my favorite – Extremely Catchy Title.
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 🙂
Thanks for sharing this amazing graphics design tools. This is really help me in my design work
Thanks for such a nice collection… This is really help me in my design work. Thanks Ciera
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!
No problem, so glad you enjoyed the list, let me know which ones you end up getting!
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.
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!
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#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! 🙂
No problem Bridgette, so glad you enjoyed the book round up!