The DesignMunk Library
Design books worth keeping
From UX fundamentals to design systems — a hand-picked shelf for working designers.
Graphic Design
Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything
A mid-career survey and pep talk from one of America’s most recognizable designers.
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Know Your Onions: Graphic Design
A fast, practical, no-fluff crash course in thinking and working like a graphic designer.
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Universal Principles of Design
A cross-disciplinary reference of 125 concepts every designer should know.
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Meggs’ History of Graphic Design
The definitive, richly illustrated history of the graphic design discipline.
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Graphic Design: The New Basics
A modern, principle-driven foundation course in visual form and composition.
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How to Use Graphic Design to Sell Things, Explain Things…
Pentagram’s Michael Bierut on the craft and thinking behind a legendary design career.
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The Non-Designer’s Design Book
The beginner-friendly classic teaching the four core principles of good visual design.
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Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything
A mid-career survey and pep talk from one of America’s most recognizable designers.
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Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type
A clear introduction to using typographic grids, part of Kimberly Elam’s design briefs series.
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Know Your Onions: Graphic Design
A fast, practical, no-fluff crash course in thinking and working like a graphic designer.
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Universal Principles of Design
A cross-disciplinary reference of 125 concepts every designer should know.
Get the book
Meggs’ History of Graphic Design
The definitive, richly illustrated history of the graphic design discipline.
Get the book
Graphic Design: The New Basics
A modern, principle-driven foundation course in visual form and composition.
Get the book
How to Use Graphic Design to Sell Things, Explain Things…
Pentagram’s Michael Bierut on the craft and thinking behind a legendary design career.
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Making and Breaking the Grid
A hands-on guide to grid-based (and grid-breaking) graphic design layout.
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The Non-Designer’s Design Book
The beginner-friendly classic teaching the four core principles of good visual design.
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Grid Systems in Graphic Design
The foundational manual on using grids to bring order and clarity to visual design.
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Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type
A clear introduction to using typographic grids, part of Kimberly Elam’s design briefs series.
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