Recommended Reading
We have collected an extensive list of reading recommendations from our friends and collogues in the industry. Many of them are successful designers and businessowners as well and design professors and prestigious design schools. Check back often as we continue to compile the list with new recommendations and new topics.
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by Blair Enns
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Thinking With Type
by Ellen Lupton
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Don’t Make Me Think
by Steve Krug
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Steal Like an Artist
by Austin Kleon
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A Type Primer
by John Kane
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Redesigning Leadership
by John Maeda
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Inventing the Medium
by Janet H. Murray
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Visual Research
by Ian Noble and Russell Bestley
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Primal Branding
by Patrick Hanlon
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The Hero and the Outlaw
by Margaret Mark and Carol Pearson
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The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
by Al and Laura Reis
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Methods of Persuasion
by Nick Kolenda