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Graphic Design Subject Guide
Graphic Design
- 100 ideas that changed graphic design (2012)
- Graphic design: now in production (2011)
- Graphic designer's essential reference: visual elements, techniques, and layout strategies for graphic designers (2011)
- The language of graphic design: an illustrated handbook for understanding fundamental design principles (2011)
- Graphic design referenced : a visual guide to the language, applications, and history of graphic design (2009)
Professional & Business
- The a-z of visual ideas: how to solve any creative brief (2011)
- Becoming a graphic designer : a guide to careers in design (2010)
- Designing a digital portfolio (2010)
- How to create a portfolio & get hired : a guide for graphic designers and illustrators (2010)
- Artist's & graphic designer's market (2006-2012)
Software
Package Design
Logo Design
Typography
- The visual dictionary of typography (2010)
- Thinking with type : a critical guide for designers, writers, editors, & students (2010)
- Virtual typography (2009)
- The elements of typographic style (2008)
- New vintage type: classic fonts for the digital age (2007)
- Typographic design : form and communication (2007)
Calligraphy
- The art & craft of hand lettering : techniques, projects, inspiration (2006)
- Writing : urban calligraphy and beyond (2004)
- Artist & alphabet : twentieth century calligraphy and letter art in America (2000)
- The calligraphy sourcebook : the essential reference for all calligraphers, with 100 complete alphabets (1986)
Miscellaneous
eBooks
Current Subscriptions
- A Journal (Available online)
- Applied Arts (Available online)
- Baseline (Available online)
- Bound & Lettered
- Cap & Design
- CMYK
- Communication Arts
- Computer Arts
- Design Issues (Available online)
- Eye (Available online)
- Graphic Design USA
- HOW: Design Ideas at Work
- Inspiration
- Letter Arts Review (Available online)
- Novum
- Print (Available online)
- Printing History
Back Issues Only
- AIGA Journal of Graphic Design
- Critique
- Design Quarterly
- Emigre
- Gebrauchsgraphik: International Advertising Art
- Grafik
- Graphic Design
- Graphis (Available online)
- I.D.: the International Design Magazine
- Idea
- Identity: the International Magazine of Signs & Corporate Graphics
- Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts
- Step Inside Design (Available online)
- Trace: AIGA Journal of Design
- U & lc
- Visible Language (Available online)
- X Height
- Zed
- The visual language of Herbert Matter (2011)
- Milton Glaser : to inform and delight (2010)
- Rex Ray : how to make a Rex Ray (2010)
- Typeface (2010)
- Bomb it (2008)
- Helvetica a documentary film (2007)
- Historic printing press & linotype films (2007)
- Graphic design typography (2005)
- British design and art direction (1999)
Articles and Reference Resources
- Digital Tutors
- You must sign up with your Academy of Art University email address (@art.edu or @academyart.edu). For more information see the Digital Tutors FAQ page.
- Full Text Online Journal and Magazine Articles
- ebrary – Full Text Online Books
Image Websites
- Academy of Art University Digital Image Resources
- 3D Plants
- AIGA Design Archives
- Art of the Poster 1880-1918
- Farber Gravestone Collection
- Rare Book Room
- Reed College Artists' Books Collection
- SFMOMA ArtScope
- Wikimedia Commons
Blogs
Job Websites
Professional Organizations
Grant Information
Other Websites
- Mac fonts
- Safari Technical Books are available with a San Francisco Public Library Card.
- Includes books on Graphics, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and more.
- San Jose Public Library and Berkeley Public Library users (with a library card) may also access Safari Books Online through those library websites.
- For Non Bay Area Students, check out your local public library for online access to technical manuals or for technical manuals in their physical collection.
- Image Resources in the Library
- Picture Files
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