Editorial art direction
Theodore E. Conover, revised by William W. Ryan, Graphic Communications Today, fourth edition, Clifton Park, New York: Thomson Delmar Learning, 2004
Stephane Duperray and Raphaele Vidaling, Front Page: Covers of the Twentieth Century, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003
Roger Fawcett-Tang (ed.), Experimental Formats: Books, Brochures, Catalogues Crans-Près-Céligny, Switzerland and Hove, Sussex: RotoVision, 2001
Peter Feierabend and Hans Heiermann, Best of Graphis: Editorial, Zurich: Graphis Press, 1993; Corte Madera, California: Gingko Press, 1995
Chris Foges (ed.), Magazine Design, Crans-Près-Céligny, Switzerland and Hove, Sussex: RotoVision, 1999
Sammye Johnson and Patricia Prijatel, The Magazine from Cover to Cover: Inside a Dynamic Industry, Lincolnwood, Illinois: NTC, 1999
Stacey King, Magazine Design That Works: Secrets for Successful Magazine Design, Gloucester, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers, 2001
Jeremy Leslie, foreword by Lewis Blackwell, Issues: New Magazine Design, London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, and Corte Madera, California: Gingko Press, 2000
Jeremy Leslie (ed.), MagCulture: New Magazine Design, London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, and New York: HarperCollins, 2003
Jeremy Leslie (ed.), The Modern Magazine: Visual Journalism in the Digital Era, London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2013
Horst Moser, Surprise Me: Editorial Design, translated from the German by David H. Wilson, West New York, New Jersey: Mark Batty Publisher, 2003
William Owen, Magazine Design, London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 1991
B. Martin Pedersen (ed.), Graphis Magazine Design, volume 1, New York: Graphis Press, 1997
Jan V. White, Designing for Magazines: Common Problems, Realistic Solutions, revised edition, New York: Bowker, 1982
Jan V. White, Editing by Design: For Designers, Art Directors and Editors – The Classic Guide to Winning Readers, New York: Allworth Press, 2003
Kaoru Yamashita and Maya Kishida (eds.), Magazine Editorial Graphics, Tokyo: PIE Books, 1997
Typography
Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam, Type and Typography, London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd and New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002; revised edition, 2005
Andreu Balius, Type at Work: The Use of Type in Editorial Design, Corte Madera, California: Gingko Press, 2003
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, Vancouver: Hartley and Marks, 1997
Carl Dair, Design with Type, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000
Steven Heller and Mirko Ilic, Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the Digital Age, London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2004
David Jury, About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography, Hove, Sussex: RotoVision, and Gloucester, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers, 2002
Ellen Lupton, Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004
Ruari McLean, The Thames & Hudson Manual of Typography, London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 1980; reprinted 1997
Rick Poynor (ed.), Typography Now: The Next Wave, London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1991
Andrew Robinson, The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms, London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995
Erik Spiekermann and E. M. Ginger, Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works, Berkeley, California: Adobe Press, 1993; second edition, 2002
There are many great sources for typographic inspiration on the web. The photo-sharing website Flickr (www.flickr.com) has numerous groups devoted to type, such as the excellent Typography and Lettering group to be found at: www.flickr.com/groups/type.
Layouts
Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris, Layout, Lausanne: AVA Publishing, 2005
David E. Carter, The Little Book of Layouts: Good Designs and Why They Work, New York: Harper Design, 2003
David Dabner, Graphic Design School: The Principles and Practices of Graphic Design, London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2004
Kimberly Elam, Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004
Gail Deibler Finke, White Graphics: The Power of White in Graphic Design, Gloucester, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers, 2003
Allen Hurlburt, The Grid: A Modular System for the Design and Production of Newspapers, Magazines and Books, New York: John Wiley, 1982
Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser, Layout: Making It Fit – Finding the Right Balance Between Content and Space, Gloucester, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers, 2003
Lucienne Roberts, The Designer and the Grid, Hove, Sussex: RotoVision, 2002
Timothy Samara, Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop, Gloucester, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers, 2003
Imagery
Gavin Ambrose, Image, Lausanne: AVA Publishing, 2005
Charlotte Cotton, The Photograph as Contemporary Art, London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2004
Geoff Dyer, The Ongoing Moment, London: Little Brown, and New York: Pantheon Books, 2005
Angus Hyland and Roanne Bell, Hand to Eye: Contemporary Illustration, London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2003
John Ingledew, Photography, London: Laurence King Publishing, 2013
Scott Kelby, The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers, Indianapolis, Indiana: New Riders, 2003
Robert Klanten and Hendrik Hellige (eds.), Illusive: Contemporary Illustration and its Context, Berlin: Die Gestalten, 2005
Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen, Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design, London and New York: Routledge, 1996
Susan Sontag, On Photography, New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1977; London: Allen Lane, 1978 Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, and London: Hamish Hamilton, 2003
Julius Wiedemann, Illustration Now!, Cologne: Taschen, 2005
Lawrence Zeegen, The Fundamentals of Illustration, Lausanne: AVA Publishing, 2005
Inspiration
Lewis Blackwell and Lorraine Wild, Edward Fella: Letters on America, London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, and New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000
Lewis Blackwell and David Carson, The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson, revised edition, London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2012
David Carson, Trek: David Carson – Recent Werk, Corte Madera, California: Gingko Press, 2003
David Crowley, Magazine Covers, London: Mitchell Beazley (Octopus Publishing Group Ltd), 2006
Alan Fletcher, The Art of Looking Sideways, London: Phaidon Press, 2001
Richard Hollis, Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920–1965, London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, and New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2006
Cees W. de Jong and Alston W. Purvis, Dutch Graphic Design: A Century of Innovation, London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2006
Tibor Kalman and Maira Kalman, Colors: Issues 1–13, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002
Barbara Kruger, Barbara Kruger, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1999
Beryl McAlhone and David Stuart, A Smile in the Mind, revised edition, London: Phaidon Press, 1998
The Society for News Design, The Best of Newspaper Design 27, Gloucester, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers Inc., 2006
Martin Venezky, It Is Beautiful … Then Gone, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005
Printing and colour use
Josef Albers, Interaction of Color, revised and expanded edition, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2006
Leatrice Eiseman, Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color, Cincinnati, Ohio: Grafix Press, 2000
Mark Gatter, Production for Print, London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2010
Johannes Itten, The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color, revised edition, New York and Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1997
Naomi Kuno and FORMS Inc./Color Intelligence Institute, Colors in Context, Tokyo: Graphic-sha Publishing, 1999
Alan Pipes, Production for Graphic Designers, fifth edition, London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2009
Michael Rogondino and Pat Rogondino, Process Colour Manual: 24,000 CMYK Combinations for Design, Prepress and Printing, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000
Lesa Sawahata, Color Harmony Workbook: A Workbook and Guide to Creative Color Combinations, Gloucester, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers Inc., 2001
Journalism and communication
Harold Evans, Editing and Design, five volumes, London: William Heinneman (Random House Group Ltd), 1972–1978
Harold Evans, Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers, London: Pimlico (Random House Group Ltd), 2000
Stephen Quinn, Digital Sub-Editing and Design, Oxford: Focal Press (Elsevier Ltd), 2001
Mike Sharples, How We Write: Writing as Creative Design, Oxford: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Books Ltd), 1998
General design books
Joshua Berger and Sarah Dougher, 100 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers: Insider Secrets on Working Smart and Staying Creative, Gloucester, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers Inc., 2003
Charlotte Fiell and Peter Fiell, Graphic Design Now, Cologne: Taschen, 2005
Lisa Graham, Basics of Design: Layout and Typography for Beginners, Clifton Park, New York: Thomson Delmar Learning, 2001
Richard Hollis, A Concise History of Graphic Design, revised edition, London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002
Johannes Itten, Design and Form: The Basic Course at the Bauhaus, revised edition, London: Thames & Hudson, 1975
Michael Johnson, Problem Solved: A Primer in Design and Communication, London: Phaidon Press, 2002
Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller, Design Writing Research. Writing on Graphic Design, New York: Kiosk Press, 1996
Quentin Newark, What Is Graphic Design?, Gloucester, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers Inc., and Hove, Sussex: RotoVision, 2002
Rick Poynor, Design Without Boundaries. Visual Communication in the Nineties, London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2000
Adrian Shaughnessy, How to Be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul, second edition, London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2010
Edward R. Tufte, Visual Explanations. Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press, 1997