I love books that show others how to use specific software to achieve universal goals. This is one of the most useful books of the genre. If you are an InDesign user, this book should be near your computer.

Alex White is Jan White's son. Alex is a high profile New York designer and design educator. In this beautifully executed and argued book, Alex breaks down the walls between design and marketing, and shows how they can work together. Required reading for designers who want to know more about marketing--and vice versa.

I've liked Susan Wheeler's book since its first edition, and it keeps on getting better and better. A great volume whether your a design instructor or a designer. Great organization, great text, and great examples.

Aesthetic sensitivity and software mastery are not enough. To succeed in business today, graphic designers need to develop a marketing sensitivity that will help them make appropriate decisions for their clients. A Designer's Research Manual outlines familiar marketing research strategies numerous examples and comments from marketing-oriented graphic designers around the world.

Robin William's Non-Designer's Design Book not only contains valuable ideas, but it's also a prototype of creating a unique, highly-targeted, brand, or series of books, that extend through several titles.

An excellent value, this profusely-illustrated 4-color book goes behind the scenes and traces the client/designer interactions and the way that decisions were made. The sections on 2-color printing are especially useful.

A great resource for designers seeking to explore the major typefaces in the context of the periods in which they were designed. Concise, well-written narrative and captions, beautifully laid out and presented examples.

Great looking type is in the details, and this is one of the best produced books on the subject. Frank Romano, typographic educator and legend, called this book, "a concise, beautiful book that pulls together everything you need to produce great typography." I agree.