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Books like Making and Breaking the Grid
Making and Breaking the Grid by Timothy Samara is about grid systems, graphic design, layout. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- 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.
Read the summary → - 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.
Read the summary → - Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques
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Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques
Valérie Filiou · Self-help
Abstract Painting is a practical handbook for painters who want to move beyond representation and learn to work with color, form, and gesture on their own terms.
Read the summary → - The Elements of User Experience
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The Elements of User Experience
Jesse James Garrett · Self-help
The Elements of User Experience is Jesse James Garrett's attempt to give the field of web design a shared vocabulary and a structural framework at a moment — 2002 — when web design was still being understood as a single discipline rather than several interrelated ones.
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.
Read the summary → - A Mind for Numbers
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Barbara Oakley · Self-help
A Mind for Numbers is Barbara Oakley's guide to learning hard subjects effectively, written primarily for students struggling with mathematics and science but drawing on cognitive science principles that apply to any demanding field.
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