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Books like Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques
The best books like Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques are A Pattern Language, The New Typography, and Making and Breaking the Grid. Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques by Valérie Filiou is about visual art, creative process, technique. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- A Pattern Language
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Christopher Alexander · Science
A Pattern Language is an extraordinary attempt to describe, in systematic form, the conditions that make human habitats feel alive.
A kindred self-help read.
Read the summary → - The New Typography
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Jan Tschichold · Philosophy
The New Typography, published in German in 1928 as Die neue Typographie, is Jan Tschichold's manifesto for a modernist approach to printed communication.
A kindred self-help read.
Read the summary → - Making and Breaking the Grid
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Timothy Samara · Self-help
Making and Breaking the Grid is a textbook for graphic designers that does something most design textbooks avoid: it teaches both halves of its title with equal seriousness.
A kindred self-help read.
Read the summary → - Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers
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Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers
Dennis DeSantis · Self-help
Making Music is Dennis DeSantis's catalog of seventy-four specific problems that electronic music producers encounter, paired with concrete strategies for addressing each one.
Both dig into creative process.
Read the summary → - Save the Cat
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Blake Snyder · Self-help
Save the Cat is Blake Snyder's screenwriting manual — brisk, opinionated, and unembarrassed about being practical.
Both dig into creative process.
Read the summary → - Adventures in the Screen Trade
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Adventures in the Screen Trade
William Goldman · Memoir
William Goldman wrote Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, Marathon Man, and The Princess Bride, among many others.
Both dig into creative process.
Read the summary → - Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Wassily Kandinsky · Philosophy
Wassily Kandinsky's 1911 manifesto is the founding document of abstract art.
Both dig into color theory.
Read the summary → - Hegarty on Advertising: Turning Intelligence into Magic
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Hegarty on Advertising: Turning Intelligence into Magic
John Hegarty · Business
John Hegarty co-founded Bartle Bogle Hegarty in 1982 and spent four decades creating advertising that, at its best, genuinely shifted how people thought about brands.
Both dig into creative process.
Read the summary → - How to
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Michael Bierut · Biography
How to is Michael Bierut's account of thirty-five years of practice as a graphic designer at Pentagram, the world's largest independent design firm.
Both dig into creative process.
Read the summary → - Interaction of Color
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Josef Albers · Philosophy
Josef Albers published Interaction of Color in 1963 as a teaching instrument, not a textbook.
Both dig into visual art.
Read the summary → - Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
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Samin Nosrat · Cooking
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is Samin Nosrat's argument that four basic elements govern whether food tastes good — salt, which amplifies flavor; fat, which carries flavor and creates texture; acid, which balances and brightens; and heat, which determines how food transforms.
Both dig into technique.
Read the summary → - 12 Rules for Life
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Jordan Peterson · Self-help
12 Rules for Life is Jordan Peterson's attempt to distill what clinical psychology, comparative mythology, the Bible, and evolutionary biology say about how to live.
A kindred self-help read.
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Books like Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques: quick answers
What are the best books like Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques?
The best books like Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques by Valérie Filiou are A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, The New Typography by Jan Tschichold, Making and Breaking the Grid by Timothy Samara, Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers by Dennis DeSantis, Save the Cat by Blake Snyder, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques, such as visual art, creative process, technique.
What should I read after Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques?
A natural next read after Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques is A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander. A kindred self-help read. Other strong choices are The New Typography by Jan Tschichold, Making and Breaking the Grid by Timothy Samara, Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers by Dennis DeSantis.
What books are similar to Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques by Valérie Filiou?
Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques centers on visual art, creative process, technique. Books with a similar feel include A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, The New Typography by Jan Tschichold, Making and Breaking the Grid by Timothy Samara, Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers by Dennis DeSantis, Save the Cat by Blake Snyder, Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
