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

The organization of letters on a blank sheet—or screen—is the most basic challenge facing anyone who practices design. What type of font to use? How big? How should those letters, words, and paragraph…

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Building a StoryBrand 2.0: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

Since the original publication of Building A Storybrand, over one million business leaders have discovered Donald Miller’s powerful Storybrand Framework and they are making millions. Now, the classic…

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Type Matters!

Once upon a time, only typesetters needed to know about kerning, leading, ligatures, and hanging punctuation. Today, however, most of us work on computers, with access to hundreds of fonts, and we’d a…

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Graphic Design: The New Basics

How do designers get ideas? Many spend their time searching for clever combinations of forms, fonts, and colors inside thedesign annuals and monographs of other designers' work. For those looking to c…

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Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

The secret to productivity isn’t discipline. It’s joy.

We think that productivity is all about hard work. That the road to success is lined with endless frustration and toil. But what if there’s anothe…

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The Design of Everyday Things

The ultimate guide to human-centered design Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. …

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How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul

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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)

Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers have relied on Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and in…

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Graphic Design Rules: 365 Essential Design Dos and Don'ts

Ask any graphic designer the world over about their preferred approach to setting type, choosing a colour, or beginning a new layout, and you will rarely get exactly the same answer twice. Every creat…

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User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

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In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines …

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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

What’s your type? Suddenly everyone’s obsessed with fonts. Whether you’re enraged by Ikea’s Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach Boys have in common with easy Jet or why it’s okay to like Comic Sa…

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