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Graphic Design Studio Library Guide: Graphic Design Books & Journals

Graphic Design in the Stacks

NC45-1940 Drawing,

Design,

Illustration

NC730 Graphic

communication

NC845-997 Graphic

art materials

NC997-1003 Commercial art.

Advertising art.

NC1300-1766 Pictorial humor,

caricature, etc.

NC1800-1850 Posters

NC1860-1896 Greeting cards,

postcards,

album covers, etc.

Z243 Typography

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Journals

Enjoy looking at some of our titles in print here in the library. In addition to all of the articles that you can find in the databases, here is a list of some of the Graphic Design magazines that you'll find on display on the first floor of Jannes.

Books Recommended by KCAI Graphic Design Faculty

Thinking with Type: : A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students

Recommended by KCAI faculty.

Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design

Recommended by KCAI faculty.

Elements of Typographic Style

Recommended by KCAI faculty.

A type primer

Recommended by KCAI faculty.

Nail It : Stories for Designers on Negotiating With Confidence

In Rare Books:

Louis Moulthrop Packaging Collection : Dobeckmun Bags of DuPont Cellophane. by Dobeckmun
Call Number: RB TS195.4 D633
The collection relates to the history of graphic design and packaging in the United States. Mr. Moulthrop was not affiliated with the Art Institute. This collection of cellophane packaging and artwork spans Mr. Moulthrop's career in graphic design from 1937 through the 1970s.

Books on Graphic Design in Jannes Library

Code As Creative Medium: a handbook for computational art and design by Golan Levin; Tega Brain
Call Number: N7433.83 L665 2021
ISBN: 9780262542043
The Typographic Medium by Kate Brideau
Call Number: Z246 B851 2021
ISBN: 9780262045858
Publication Date: 2021-10-12
Making the Movement : how activists fought for civil rights with buttons, flyers, pins, and posters by David L. Crane; Silas Munro (Contribution by)
Call Number: E185.61 C891 2022
ISBN: 9781648961083
Animation and Advertising by Kirsten Moana Thompson (Editor); Malcolm Cook (Editor)
Call Number: REF HF5823 A598 2019
ISBN: 9783030279387
Ed Fella : a life in images
Call Number: N6537 F317 2021
ISBN: 1916457371
Game anim : video game animation explained
Call Number: TR897.7 C777 2021
ISBN: 9780367707651
Publication Date: Jonathan Cooper
Experimental and Expanded Animation : new perspectives and practices by Vicky Smith (Editor); Nicky Hamlyn (Editor)
Call Number: REF TR897.5 E966s 2018
ISBN: 9783319738727
Articulations by Allison Parrish ((various roles))
Call Number: PS3616 A7683 P261 2018
ISBN: 9781933996653
Flexible visual systems : the design manual for contemporary visual identities
Call Number: NC998.4 L869 2023
ISBN: 9783948440305
Design As Democratic Inquiry by Carl Disalvo
Call Number: NK1520 D611 2022
ISBN: 9780262543460
Cyberfeminism Index by Mindy Seu (Editor); Julianne Pierce (Foreword by); Legacy Russell (Afterword by)
Call Number: HQ1397 C994 2022
ISBN: 9781941753514
The Social Design Reader by Elizabeth Resnick
Call Number: TS171 S678 2019
ISBN: 9781350026056
Dynamic Identities : how to create a living brand by Irene van Nes
Call Number: NC1002 .L63 N457 2013
ISBN: 9789063693398
Two-Dimensional Man : a graphic memoir by Paul Sahre
Call Number: NC999.4 S131 2017
ISBN: 9781419724152
Designing Disability: symbols, space and society by Elizabeth Guffey
Call Number: NA2545 .P5 G941 2018
ISBN: 9781350148833
Publishing As Practice by Kayla Romberger (Editor, Text by); Clara Balaguer (Text by); Gee Wesley (Editor, Text by); Nerissa Cooney (Editor); Lauren Downing (Editor, Text by); Ricky Yanas (Editor); David Senior (Preface by); Ulises Carrión (Text by); Hardworking Goodlooking (Text by); Martine Syms/Dominica (Text by)
Call Number: Z286 .A77 P976 2021
ISBN: 9781941753408
Thought pieces : 1970s photographs by Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, and Hal Fischer
Call Number: TR645 T524 2020
ISBN: 9781912339631
Jazz Covers by Joaquim Paulo; Julius Wiedemann (Editor)
Call Number: NC1882 P331 2021
ISBN: 9783836585255
Black Futures by Kimberly Drew; Jenna Wortham
Call Number: CB235 B628 2020
ISBN: 9780399181153
Can You Feel It? : effectuating tactility and print in the contemporary by Freek Lomme
Call Number: N6497 C584 2016
ISBN: 9789491677809
Baseline Shift : untold stories of women in graphic design history by Martha Scotford (Foreword by); Briar Levit (Editor)
Call Number: NC998 B299 2021
ISBN: 9781648960062
Guerrilla Girls: the Art of Behaving Badly by Guerrilla Girls
Call Number: N8354 G935b 2020
ISBN: 9781452175812
The Detroit Printing Co-Op by Danielle Aubert (Editor)
Call Number: Z232 .D48 A889 2019
ISBN: 9781941753255
Letraset : the DIY typography revolution by Adrian Shaughnessy
Call Number: q Z232 .L65 S533 2017
ISBN: 9780995666443
Building for Everyone : expand your market with design practices from Google's product inclusion team by Annie Jean-Baptiste
Call Number: TS171 J431 2020
ISBN: 9781119646228
Queer X Design : 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ by Andy Campbell
Call Number: N8217 .E6 C187 2019
ISBN: 9780762467853

Books on Designers in Jannes Library

Weingart: Typography - Wege zur Typografie by Wolfgang Weingart
Call Number: REF Z246 W423t 2000
ISBN: 390704486X
Publication Date: 2000-02-14
Hello I Am Erik : Erik Spiekermann-Typographer, Designer, Entrepreneur by J. Erler (Editor); Johannes Erler
Call Number: NC999.6 S755 2014
ISBN: 9783899555196
Publication Date: 2014
Lester Beall by R. Roger Remington: Trailblazer of American Graphic Design
Call Number: NC999.4 B366r 1996
ISBN: 9780393730029
Publication Date: 1996
Barnbrook Bible by Jonathan Barnbrook: the Graphic Design of Jonathan Barnbrook
Call Number: NC999.6 .G7 B259b 2007
ISBN: 9780847829989
Publication Date: 2007
Josef Muller-Brockmann by Kerry William Purcell
Call Number: NC999.6 .S9 M958p 2006
ISBN: 9780714843490
Publication Date: 2006

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Graphic Design Subjects

These LC subjects are helpful when browsing for Graphic Design resources in the library catalog:

Advertising
Advertising layout and typography
Book design
Color in design
Commercial art
Communication
Communication in design
Computer animation
Computer graphics
Creative thinking
Design
Graphic arts
Graphic methods
Grids (Typographic design)
Information display systems
Information visualization
Interactive multimedia
Layout (Printing)
Magazine design
Printing
Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts)
Television graphics
Type and type-founding
Visual communication
Web sites--Design

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