AIGA
Eye on Design publishes stories that cover the issues important to the global design world through untold histories, reported features, and more.
Blog
Branding
Career
Diversity & Inclusion
Social Good
Typography


Briar Levit
Baseline Shift centers diverse women across backgrounds whose work has shaped, shifted, and formed graphic design as we know it today.

Women in Design

Kelly Walters
Kelly Walters collects twelve deeply personal interviews with graphic design educators of color who teach at colleges and universities across the United States and Canada.

Career
Education
Diversity & Inclusion

Douglas Davis
Remaining relevant as a creative professional takes more than creativity—you need to understand the language of business. Creative Strategy and the Business of Design fills that void and teaches left-brain business skills to right-brain creative thinkers.

Branding Business
Career

Deem
Deem is a biannual print journal and online platform focused on design as social practice.
Education
Diversity & Inclusion
Social Good
Magazine


design boom
designboom aims to bring together professional and young creatives from a diverse range of backgrounds.

Blog
Career
Magazine

Alina Wheeler
An essential guide for all things branding.

Branding


Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Tobias, et all
Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative (design) career guide for everyone!
Career
Diversity & Inclusion
Feminism
LGBTQIA+
Social Good


Josef Müller-Brockmann
A visual communication manual for graphic designers, typographers and three dimensional designers.

Typography


Scott Berkun
Designer Scott Berkun reveals how designers have succeeded and failed us. Berkun shows how design helps or hinders everyone, and offers a new way to think about the world around you.

Social Good


Adrian Shaughn-essy
This book addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful work, and who want to avoid becoming hired drones working on soul-less projects.
Career



Identity Designed is a website and book devoted to the design of visual identities.
Branding
Design


It’s Nice That is a platform that champions creative work.
Design


Simon Garfield
Simon Garfield explores the rich history and subtle powers of type.

Typography


Kate Moross
Designer and Illustrator Kate Moross offers insider’s tips on how to make it in a highly competitive field, DIY style.

Career
Design
Illustration

Timothy Samara
This book shows you how to understand the rules of the grid to use them effectively, and then how to break them, resulting in phenomenal cohesive layouts.

Typography


Aaron James Draplin
Draplin is one of the new school of influential graphic designers who combine the power of design, social media, entrepreneurship, and DIY aesthetic to create a successful business and way of life.

Branding
Logo Design
Illustration
Workflow
Inspiration
Design
Career
Typography

Jarrett Fuller
A collection of recommended texts, both historical and contemporary, about and around graphic design.

Database


Anne H. Berry, Kareem Collie, Penina Acayo Laker, Lesley-Ann Noel, Jennifer Rittner, Kelly Walters

An anthology centering a range of perspectives, spotlights teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens.
Career
Diversity & Inclusion


Marty Neumeier
The Brand Gap presents a unified theory of brand-building. Whereas most books on branding are weighted toward either a strategic or creative approach, this book shows how both ways of thinking can unite to produce a brand that customers feel is essential to their lives.

Branding


RGD
The RGD Handbook is the first and only comprehensive Canadian guide to maintaining a graphic design business.

Business
Career
Design Ethics


Kelly Small
An actionable guide to mindfulness and practical ethics for any creative professional who wants to make a living without selling their soul.

Design Ethics
Diversity & Inclusion
Social Good


Ellen Lupton
The definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen.

Typography


Type 01
Type 01 Magazine covers a wide variety of topics, using type as a gateway to open up important conversations and consistently spotlight the current and future generations of talented creative humans from all parts of the world.

Typography
Diversity & Inclusion
Social Good
Blog
Magazine


Zag ︎
Marty Neumeier
"When everybody zigs, zag," says Marty Neumeier in this fresh view of brand strategy.

Branding



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