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A (growing) visual catalog of my personal design library.

I Take Full Responsibility

After All, There is No Finish Line

Posters Can Help

The Creative Act: A Way Of Being

The Nest

TDC: Typography 43 Annual

Strikethrough!: Typographic Messages of Protest

Lost Objects: 50 Stories About the Things We Miss and Why They Matter

The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection

Oslofjord

Every Candlepin Bowling Alley in Maine

Memory Ghost

Valence Spectre

Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects cover

Jaroslav Benda: 1882-1970

Camille Walala: Taking Joy Seriously

TDC: Typography 42

Sunday Suns

Tom Eckersley: A Mid-century Modern Master

Type Speaks: A Lexicon of Expressive, Emotional, and Symbolic Typefaces

Paper and Stencil Printing

The IBM Poster Program: Visual Memoranda

Self-Reliance

Studio Culture Now

Offline Matters

Brico.01

That One Time Now

Exploriso: Low-tech Fine Art

Star Child

The Book Block

Unfolding: The Paper Art and Science of Matt Shilan

The Delivery

The Collected Angers

I Witness News

Repurposing Riso

100 Polaroids

How to Quit Your Job

Infernal Monologue

The Look of the Book

House Industries Lettering Manual

Inside Out and Upside Down

Past Lives

The Worm

How to Cry at Work

Riso Book: SC

How to Be an Artist

Weapons of Reason

I Wish to Communicate With You

TDC Typography 41

Savage Impressions: The Book

Vaughan Oliver: Archive

TDC Typography 40

The Process Two

No Magic in Riso: A Bilingual Risograph Tool Book

A New Program for Graphic Design

Manuals 2

Inside Art Direction

Parks

Risography: Loving Imperfections

Show me the Picture

A–Z of The Designers Republic

OOHAAHTDR™

Ruined by Design (Dirty Zine Edition)

Find Your Artistic Voice

Analog Algorithm

Morla: Design

Malika Favre

More Care Less

Cotta & Los Libros del Mirasol

The Art of Noticing

Mid-Century Modern Graphic Design

Now Try Something Weirder

Slanted 33: Praque

One River, a Thousand Voices

This is What is Happening

Orange and Acrid

Keep Going

Ruined by Design

Color Library

Feck Perfuction

Writing for the Design Mind

Same Same

Grow Strong, Grow Big

RVII

TDC Typography 39

VNIITE

Sometimes Magazine Issue 4

Oliver Jeffers: The Thinking Mind and the Drawing Hand

The Fontsmith Library

The Itinerant Printer

Expressive Lettering

Morning Due

Identity: Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv

Run Studio Run

All the Pieces Fit Together

Nobrow 10: Studio Dreams

Sometimes Magazine Issue 3

Great British Rubbish

How Posters Work

Citizen Designer

Risolved: Volume 1

Hazy Gray

Brush Script Basics

The Golden Secrets of Lettering

Designed in the USSR

RV1: Risographics Volume 1

Hope to Nope

Milton Glaser: Posters

Don't Sleep

Triangular Grid

Advanced Screen Printing

Octavo Redux 1.1

Lance Wyman: Process

Letraset

W.A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design

Being Hear: A Book About Being Present and Listening

SPIN/Adventures in Typography 2

Pantagram Papers 48: Long Lens, Wide Angle

Brutally Honest

I Have 99 Problems and the Internet Is All of Them

TDC Typography 38

Design Is Storytelling

National Theatre Posters: A Design History

Now You See It and Other Essays on Design

The 3D Printing Handbook

Make It Now!

How to be a Boss

The New CSS Layout

This Book is a Planetarium

Accessibility for Everyone

Two-Dimensional Man

The Moderns

The Design of Dissent

Change is Good

Web Typography

Corporeal Knowledge: Graphic Arts Future

Vignelli: From A to Z

California: Designing Freedom

The Polaroid Project

Risomania

Type Hike

House Industries: The Process Is the Inspiration

Paula Scher: Works

Design for the Corporate World

Less is More

Creating the Perfect Design Brief

Creative Pep Talk

Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains

Five Thousand Ideas You Can Have Right Now

Spin 360°

Practical Design Discovery

SPIN/Adventures in Typography

The Field Study Handbook

Impact 2.0

Impact 1.0

Branding: In Five and a Half Steps

British Rail Corporate Identity Manual

Polaroid: The Magic Material

Think Wrong

TDC Typography 37

Riso Color Sciences Multipack

Sunday Sketching

Demystifying Public Speaking

How to See

Javascript for Web Designers

Lance Wyman: The Visual Diaries 1973–1982

Practical SVG

Ghost Pavilion

The ABC of Custom Lettering

Start Somewhere

Reformed, Newly Formed

Rapid Brush Lettering Ideas for the Sign Shop

Imperfection Booklets

Herb Lubalin Typographer

The Pentagram Papers 45: Overlooked

Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything

Qwerty

Design: The Invention of Desire

Blueprint for Counter Education

Graphic Stamps

Official Symbol of the American Revolution Bicentennial Standards Manual

Design for Real Life

Public Notice

Screen Printing Manual

Photoshop for Screen Printing

Eating with the Eyes

Action Time Vision

Andreas Uebele Material

How to Have Great Ideas

Git for Humans

Without Type: The Dynamism of Handmade Letters

Advice From My 80-Year-Old Self

This Book is a Camera

50 Books | 50 Covers

Typo 9010: Czech Digitized Typefaces 1990–2010

How to Write an Email

TDC Typography 36

Going Responsive

How to

Slanted 26: New York

Ladislav Sutnar: Visual Design in Action

A Century of Artiface

The Art of Typewriting

Designing for Touch

Detail in Typography

The LEGO Architect

In Progress

New York City Transit Authority: Graphic Standards Manual

NASA Graphic Standards Manual

Print Matters

Look at Me! New Poster Design

Graphic Design: The New Basics

Parting It Out

Slanted 25: Paris

Contemporary Color

The Art of the Book

Be Good

One Hundred Patterns

The Age of Earthquakes

Super-Modified

Stencil Type

The Adobe Originals Silver Anniversary Story

The Eternal Letter

Statement And Counter-Statement

TDC Typography 35

WOW: Print

The Terminal Design Type Catalog

Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles

Lance Wyman: The Monograph

HTML5 for Web Designers

Close Encounters

Processing

On Web Typography

Custom Lettering of the '60s and '70s

Sign Painters

Print Isn't Dead: Element #002

Douglas Coupland

Gratuitous Type Issue 4

You're My Favorite Client

Bestsellers

Cover

The Reward is in the Process

Lella and Massimo Vignelli: Two Lives One Vision

Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose

8 Faces (Issue 8)

Everyone Else is Younger and More Talented

Drawing Type

Graphic Content: True Stories from Top Creatives

TDC Typography 34

Responsible Responsive Design

20th Century Classic Cars

It's Virtue is Immense: A Tribute to Script Lettering

Show Your Work!

Letters Become Patterns

Glitch

How to Make Signs and Influence People: Roman Lettering

A Love Letter to the City

The Manual: Issue 4

Manuals 1

Supernew Supergraphics

Palette No 4: Neon

SaSS for Web Designers

Creative Confidence

Art as Therapy

Shadow Type

8 Faces (Issue 7)

How to Make Signs and Influence People: Icy Caps

The Art of Corita Kent

The Design Method

Conditional Design Workbook

Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition

You are the Friction

The Book of Love

Just Enough Research

How to Make Signs and Influence People: Script Lettering

TDC Typography 33

Conversations on Graphic Design and Creative Writing

The Elements of Typographic Style

Impossible

Frank Henrion: The Complete Designer

GeoGraphics

Eames: Beautiful Details

The Little Book of Lettering

Palette No. 1: Black and White

The Anatomy of Type

Content Strategy for Mobile

Elegantissima

How to Make Signs and Influence People: Casual Lettering

Neither Here Nor There

Behind Illustrations

8 Faces (Issue 5)

How to Make Signs and Influence People: Egyptian Lettering

Facebook was not originally created to be a company

Stop Think Go, Do

Abstract City

Damn Good Advice

The Manual: Issue 3

Steal Like an Artist

Herb Lubalin

Typography, Referenced

The Electric Information Age Book

Design is a Job

The Prints of Ellsworth Kelly

Ken Garland

Inside Paragraphs

TDC Annual 32

The Book of Probes

Alexander Girard

8 Faces (Issue 4)

Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life

California Design, 1930-1965

Typography Sketchbooks

Just My Type

More is More

8 Faces (Issue 3)

The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Centennial Edition)

Graphic Design Thinking

Letter Fountain

What is Reading For?

The Manual: Issue 2

Pulled

Logology 2

Never Use White Type on a Black Background

Responsive Web Design

Designing for Emotion

TD 63–73

The Shape of Design

Helvetica and the New York City Subway System

Susan Kare: Icons

Vector Basic Training

The Manual: Issue 1

Mobile First

Creative Workshop

8 Faces (Issue 2)

I Wonder

Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie

Thinking with Type

8 Faces (Issue 1)

The Elements of Content Strategy

The Small Stakes: Music Posters

Designing Obama

CSS3 for Web Designers

Abbott Miller: Design and Content

Ordering Disorder

Look Both Ways

More Things Like This

Art Direction Explained, At Last!

Typeface: Classic Typography for Contemporary Design

Lettering and Type

Born Modern

Bibliographic: 100 Classic Graphic Design Books

Content Strategy for the Web

Filmotype: By the Letter

Graphic Design, Referenced

The Designful Company

Design as Art

Do You Matter?

Print Work

Print Liberation: The Screen Printing Primer

Web Form Design

Paul Rand: Conversations with Students

Things I Have Learned in my Life So Far

Mental Models

Dangerous Curves

Polaroid: The Missing Manual

If You Can Cut, You Can Collage

Tactile: High Touch Visuals

How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer

The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora

Logology

New Typographic Design

Pearl Jam vs Ames Bros.

The Pentagram Papers: 36

Stylepedia

The Typographic Mind

Visual Grammar

Swiss Graphic Design

Designing Type

Talent is Not Enough: Business Secrets for Designers

Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite

The Creative Habit

Meggs' History of Graphic Design

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Chasing the Perfect

Chip Kidd: Book One

How to be a Graphic Designer

Grid Systems

Device Fonts: Ten Year Itch

Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface

Massive Change

Trek

Universal Principles of Design

Graphic Designer's Guide to Clients

Stop Stealing Sheep

The Art of Looking Sideways

The Wayfinding Handbook

Paul Rand: Design

The Speedball Textbook, 23rd Edition

How to Paint Signs and Sho' Cards

A Smile in the Mind

The Window Lettering Handbook

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

The Essential Principles of Graphic Design

The Design Entrepreneur

Emigre: Graphic Design into the Digital Realm

The New Typography

Laws of Media: The New Science

Truck Lettering

Wood Crafted Signs

Gilding on Glass, Wood, or Metal

Speed Lettering: The Money Maker

Mastering Layout: On The Art of Eye Appeal

Show Card Techniques

Lettering with the Felt Tip Marker

Atkinson Sign Painting

Screen Printing the Easy Way for the Small Shop

The Art of Hand Lettering

CBC Graphic Standards Manual

A Primer of Visual Literacy

Take Today: The Executive as Dropout

I Seem to be a Verb

The Push Pin Style

From Cliché to Archetype

Paul Klee: Pedagogical Sketchbook

The Medium is the Massage

ABC of Lettering

Understanding Media

The Gutenberg Galaxy

Sign Painting Course

Layout

Thoughts on Design

The Speedball Text Book: 12th Edition

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