Desde PingMag les traigo este interesante artículo de Ian Lynam que presenta una selección de títulos que no deberían faltar en la biblioteca de un Diseñador.

The education of graphic designers is often a haphazard process. A number of designers working today came to their positions without formal design education. Undergraduate design education often leaves much to be desired: no formal typography classes, some half-assed software instruction, no reality-based lessons in how to deal with clients or contracts, and beyond urging students to join JAGDA, AIGA, or ICOGRADA, no insistence upon interacting with your design community.

(…) What follows is a ramshackle list of design texts that I consider utterly invaluable to the education of a graphic designer.

• A History of Graphic Design by Philip Meggs
• The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
• Allworth Press’ Looking Closer I-III, Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography, Graphic Design History, Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design, The Education of a Typographer
• Design Writing Research by Ellen Lupton & J. Abbott Miller
• Stop Stealing Sheep by Erik Spiekermann and E.M. Ginger
• Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
• Josef Müller-Brockmann: A Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design by Lars Müller
• Jan Tschichold: A Life in Typography by Ruari McLean
• Unjustified Texts: Perspectives on Typography by Robin Kinross
• Type and Typography by Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam
• Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
• Oubunshotai by Akira Kobayashi

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