General design
On this page you will find a lot of links with general/graphic design inspiration, tools, books, inspirational graphic designers and everything else that relates to graphic design.
Makers and sources of the graphic designs to the right are:
- Pentagram - pentagram.com
- Jessica Hische - jessicahische.is
- Marta Cerdà - martacerda.com
- Violaine et Jeremy -violaineetjeremy.fr
Graphic Design tools
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe InDesign
- Affinity Designer
- Affinity Photo
- Affinity Publisher
- GIMP (free)
- Inkscape (free)
- QuarkXPress
- Scribus (free)
- Pencil and paper
- Procreate
Books to borrow or buy
- Thinking with Type
- Graphic Design Thinking
- Graphic Design: The New Basics
- How Posters Work
- Design Is Storytelling
- The Universal Principles of Design
- How to Use Graphic Design to Sell Things, Explain Things, Make Things Look Better, Make People Laugh, Make People Cry, and (Every Once in a While) Change the World
- Logo Modernism
- History of Graphic Design Vol 1
- 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design
- Drawing Type: An Introduction to Illustrating Letterforms
- What Images Really Tell Us: Visual Rhetoric in Art, Graphic Design, and Advertising
- Grid Systems in Graphic Design
- How to Have Great Ideas: A Guide to Creative Thinking
- Gamestorming
- The Visual History of Type
- The Anatomy of Colour
- Basic Designs 02: Layout