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