The Guardian asked graphic design history author Patrick Cramsie for his top 10 books on graphic design. The resulting list bears printing out and taking to the local library.

1. Notes on Book Design by Derek Birdsall
2. The Printed Picture by Richard Benson
3. The Encyclopaedia of Type Faces by Jaspert, Berry and Johnson
4. Active Literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography by Christopher Burke
5. Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago by Hans Wingler
6. Design without Boundaries: Visual Communication in Transition by Rick Poynor
7. Paul Rand: A Designer’s Art by Paul Rand
8. The Sense of Order: a Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art by Ernst Gombrich
9. The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher
10. The Passport by Saul Steinberg

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