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Top 10 Design Books to Kickstart Your Career
Design Books?
Don’t you master design through practice?
Who has time for reading?
Apparently, reading the top design books can kick start your career in design.
No, we are not talking about mainstream literature, although that could spark your creativity and lead you to great creations.
We are talking about books specifically meant for you as part of their target audience.
Corinne Rogers, part of the BestEssays team, explains that reading graphic designbooks is not that scary:
I know, we are all focused on the visual, so literature does not attract us too much. The good news is: these books are visual. Some of them show you the history of design, others teach you new skills, and some motivate you to aim for career progress. They can all change your approach to design… For the better.
So yeah, it is time to start building that library.
In collaboration with Corinne, we completed a list the top 10 design books to kick start your career in graphic or web design.
Check them out:
1 — Interactions of Color by Josef Albers
You can get it as a book, but Interactions of Color is also available as a free app in the App Store.
The app gives you 125+ colour studies and 60+ interactive places for reproducing the experience of designing on paper.
That is one of the author’s recommended methodologies for mastering the art of design.
The app is provided by Yale University, so that should speak enough for its educational value.
Let’s focus on the book, shall we?
Josef Albers was a German artist, whose work set the foundations of art education programs of the 20th century.
He was head of the department of design at Yale University.
Every designer should know about his work.
