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Books like The New Typography
The best books like The New Typography are Making and Breaking the Grid, Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques, and A Pattern Language. The New Typography by Jan Tschichold is about typography, modernism, graphic design. 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.
- 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.
Shares typography and graphic design with The New Typography.
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.
A kindred philosophy read.
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.
A kindred philosophy read.
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.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Meggs' History of Graphic Design
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Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Philip B. Meggs · History
Meggs' History of Graphic Design is the standard reference text for the history of visual communication, covering the development of writing and printed images from prehistoric cave markings through the digital revolution.
Shares typography and modernism with The New Typography.
Read the summary → - Thinking with Type
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Ellen Lupton · Self-help
Thinking with Type is Ellen Lupton's critical guide to typography — not as a catalog of fonts, but as a discipline for thinking about how written language takes visual form.
Shares typography and graphic design with The New Typography.
Read the summary → - Grid Systems in Graphic Design
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Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Josef Müller-Brockmann · Philosophy
Josef Müller-Brockmann's Grid Systems in Graphic Design, first published in German and English in 1981 by Niggli Verlag, is the closest thing graphic design has to a foundational technical text.
Shares typography and visual communication with The New Typography.
Read the summary → - The Elements of Typographic Style
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The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst · Science
The Elements of Typographic Style is Robert Bringhurst's comprehensive treatment of typography as both craft and art.
Shares typography and visual communication with The New Typography.
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 modernism.
Read the summary → - On Directing Film
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David Mamet · Philosophy
On Directing Film is David Mamet's account of lectures he gave at Columbia University's film school, transcribed and lightly edited into a short, blunt book about the craft of directing.
Both dig into visual communication.
Read the summary → - The Shape of Content
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Ben Shahn · Philosophy
The Shape of Content collects six lectures Ben Shahn delivered at Harvard in 1956 as part of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures series.
Both dig into visual communication.
Read the summary → - The Vignelli Canon
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Massimo Vignelli · Philosophy
The Vignelli Canon is Massimo Vignelli's summation of a design practice that spanned six decades and produced work ranging from the New York City subway map to the American Airlines identity to corporate identities for Knoll, Bloomingdale's, and dozens of other major institutions.
Both dig into typography.
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Books like The New Typography: quick answers
What are the best books like The New Typography?
The best books like The New Typography by Jan Tschichold are Making and Breaking the Grid by Timothy Samara, Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques by Valérie Filiou, A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett, Meggs' History of Graphic Design by Philip B. Meggs, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The New Typography, such as typography, modernism, graphic design.
What should I read after The New Typography?
A natural next read after The New Typography is Making and Breaking the Grid by Timothy Samara. Shares typography and graphic design with The New Typography. Other strong choices are Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques by Valérie Filiou, A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett.
What books are similar to The New Typography by Jan Tschichold?
The New Typography centers on typography, modernism, graphic design. Books with a similar feel include Making and Breaking the Grid by Timothy Samara, Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques by Valérie Filiou, A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett, Meggs' History of Graphic Design by Philip B. Meggs, Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
