Grid systems in graphic design by Josef Müller-Brockmann

The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst

How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Design As Art by Bruno Munari

Forget All the Rules You Ever Learned About Graphic Design: Including the Ones in This Book by Bob Gill

What Is a Designer: Things, Places, Messages by Norman Potter

**The brand handboo**k by Wally Olins

Steal like an artist by Austin Kleon

Graphic Design, A Concise History by Richard Hollis

A Smile in the Mind by Beryl McAlhone and David Stuart

Paul Rand by Steven Heller

The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams

Interaction of Color by Josef Albers

Typography: Macro and Microaesthetics by Willi Kunz

Typography: Formation and TransFormation by Willi Kunz

Typographie: A Manual of Design by Emil Ruder

Timeless Way Of Building by Christopher Alexander

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman