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03.21.07
Top 10 Books For Designers
 By
Dustin Brewer
There are a lot of books out their to get inspiration from or to learn how to design better.
There are a lot. So, picking the right books instead of just a ton of useless books that aren't worth your time or just regurgitating the same thing developed by someone else. I have compiled a list of the top 10 books I have found that give me inspiration or are truly worth reading for web designers, graphic designers, writers or just hobbyists. All of them will be helpful for graphic designers and web designers but a few are great for writers or anyone in the creative industry.
Now, without further babbling here is the list...
(Images of the books here.)
#1 Caffiene for the Creative Mind
By: Stefan Mumaw
Description: This is a great book with a ton of exercises to help spark the creativity you need for your project or just for fun. Always inspirational. This book has 250 exercises that help to inspire creativity easily everytime.
#2 Art of Color
By: Johannes Itten
Description: This book goes deep into the art of color and the psychological aspects of color and color theory. If you have any questions about color this book has the answer. It is almost religious how deep he goes into color.
#3 Layout Workbook
By: Kristen Cullen
Description: This is an awesome book that not only goes over layouts but the entire design process. It is a great book not just for graphic designers but for web designers also. It goes over extensive coverage of white space, one of the most important design aspects and an easy way to add visual interest in a piece.
#4 Ideaspotting
By: Sam Harrison
Description: This is an awesome book to help you look at the world in a different way to develop ideas for advertising and just about anything creative you can imagine. A great book to grab and find some inspiration from.
#5 Beautiful web design
By: Jason Beaird
Description: This is a great book about overall design but focuses a lot on web design. The depth and overall context of this book is amazing and helpful to any web or graphic designer. Probably one of the best books to come out of SitePoint.
#6 Thinking with type
By: Ellen Lupton
Description: This is a great book that goes in detail about the design process of typography and how to use certain font styles and the difference between various fonts.
#7 Zing!
By: Sam Harrison
Description: This books has 101 exercises through 5 easy steps to make you more creative long term and of course through the exercises creative in the short term as well. An awesome book and I recommend everyone read it at least twice.
Continue reading this article.
About
the Author:
Dustin Brewer is a web and graphic designer with a passionate interest
in everything that is technology. He currently is the webmaster and
editor for tech filter, a technology news web site, as well as a writer
for Gadgetell-- a similar web site about technology news with a strong
focus on new gadgets.
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