Recommended Reads


Advertising Creative: Strategy, Copy, and Design


The Creative Process Illustrated: How Advertising's Big Ideas are Born


Fingerprint: the Art of Using Handmade Elements in Graphic Design


Advertising Design and Typography


100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People


The Little Book of Big Promotions


The Best of Brochure Design (multiple listings)


The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design


Jobsmarts for Twentysomethings - still one of the BEST books out there, even if it's from the 90s


The Designers Desktop Manual


No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism


Meggs' History of Graphic Design 5th Edition


Universal Principles of Design


Design with Type


ReThink ReDesign ReConstruct


Design Basics Index 


Lovemarks


Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works


The Elements of Typographic Style


Left to Right: The Cultural Shift from Words to Pictures


Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop


How to Become a Graphic Designer without Losing your Soul


Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger


LOTS MORE!!!  Just ask me!