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GRA4005

Design Vocabulary

All the reading and resources from your modules, all in one place

Reading List Category
Resource Type
Lesson

Lesson 1

Key Text eBook

Meggs’ History of Graphic Design

by Meggs, P. B. and Purvis, A. W.
Key Text eBook

Graphic Design: The New Basics

by Lupton, E. and Phillips, J. C.
Essential Resource Website

Teaching at the Bauhaus

by Bauhaus-archiv
Essential Resource Website

Graphic Designer Paul Scher: “I Figured Out Every…

by Dunne, C.
Essential Resource Website

Graphic Design Sketchbook Ideas – 20…

by Gale, A.
Essential Resource Video

Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World…

by Parka Blogs
Essential Resource Website

Paula Scher

by Pentagram
Essential Resource Website

Bauhaus

by The Art Story
Essential Resource Website

Modernist architecture: the Bauhaus and beyond

by V&A
Essential Resource Article

Recollections of Josef Albers

by Kelly, R.R.
Essential Resource Video

EVERY Designer Should Know these Graphic Design…

by Nguyen, D.
Essential Resource Article

Biased cognition in East Asian and Western…

by Yiend, J. et al.

Lesson 2

Key Text eBook

Graphic Design: The New Basics

by Lupton, E. and Phillips, J. C.
Key Text eBook

The Elements of Graphic Design

by White, A.
Essential Resource Website

Points, Dots, And Lines: The Elements Of Design…

by Bradley, S.
Essential Resource Website

Structures As Patterns and Textures: The Elements…

by Bradley, S.
Essential Resource Video

A line is a dot that went for a walk | Animated…

by Fässler, S.
Essential Resource Website

The Meaning of Shapes: Developing Visual Grammar

by Bradley, S.
Essential Resource Website

Plane Shapes: Types & Properties

by Study.com
Essential Resource Website

Islamic Solidarity

by Fletcher, A.
Essential Resource Website

How to Use Leading Lines to Create More…

by Scott, D

Lesson 3

Key Text eBook

The Elements of Graphic Design

by White, A.
Key Text eBook

Graphic Design: The New Basics

by Lupton, E. and Phillips, J. C.
Essential Resource Website

The effective utilization of white space in UI…

by Pineapple
Essential Resource Website

51 Creative Logos That Use Negative Space…

by Digital Synopsis
Essential Resource Website

Gestalt and Design: The Underlying Concepts

by O'Donnell, K.
Essential Resource Website

What are the Gestalt Principles?

by Interaction Design Foundation
Essential Resource Website

Gestalt principles of form perception

by Soegaard, M
Essential Resource Website

Armin Hoffman

by Design Is History
Essential Resource Website

Visual Language

by Pritchard, T.

Lesson 4

Key Text eBook

The Elements of Graphic Design

by White, A.
Key Text eBook

Graphic Design: The New Basics

by Lupton, E. and Phillips, J. C.
Essential Resource Website

Colour wheel

by Adobe Color
Essential Resource Website

Workshops

by Josef & Anni Albers Foundation
Essential Resource Website

Color Theory, The Color Wheel And Color Schemes

by Bradley, S.
Essential Resource Website

How to Use Color to Enhance Your Designs

by Bradley, S.
Essential Resource Website

Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1929 by…

by Piet-Mondrian.org
Essential Resource Website

The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1600 by Caravaggio

by Caravaggio.org
Essential Resource Website

Ad Parnassum, 1932, by Paul Klee

by PaulKlee.net
Essential Resource Website

Le café de nuit (The Night Café) by Vincent van…

by Yale University Art Gallery
Essential Resource Website

Henry Matisse. The Red Studio. Issy-les-…

by MoMA
Essential Resource Website

The Luncheon (1899) by Pierre Bonnard

by Artchive
Essential Resource Website

Vincent van Gogh: Starry Night

by The Van Gogh Gallery

Lesson 5

Key Text eBook

The Elements of Graphic Design

by White, A.
Key Text eBook

Graphic Design: The New Basics

by Lupton, E. and Phillips, J. C.
Essential Resource Website

The Vitruvian Man - by Leonardo da Vinci

by LeonardoDaVinci.net
Essential Resource Website

Da Vinci and the Divine Proportion in Art…

by Meisner, G.
Essential Resource Website

Biography: Aldus Manutius

by Salzberg, R. M.
Essential Resource eBook

The Fundamentals of Typography

by Ambrose, G., Harris, P. and Theodosiou, S.
Essential Resource Website

International standard paper sizes

by Kuhn, M.
Essential Resource eBook

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for…

by Lupton, E.
Essential Resource Website

The rule of thirds in photography: Your complete…

by Adobe
Essential Resource Website

Visual Artistic Composition Part 1- Plato's…

by Fussell, M.
Essential Resource Website

The Secret Law of Page Harmony

by Retinart
Essential Resource Website

Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ and the…

by Phimatrix1618
Essential Resource Website

Phi and the Golden Section in Architecture

by Meisner, G.
Essential Resource Website

The UN Secretariat Building, Le Corbusier and the…

by Meisner, G.
Essential Resource Website

Logo Design using the Golden Ratio

by Meisner, G.
Essential Resource Video

The Golden Ratio vs. The Rule of Thirds

by Seeker

Lesson 6

Key Text eBook

The Elements of Graphic Design

by White, A.
Key Text eBook

Graphic Design: The New Basics

by Lupton, E. and Phillips, J. C.
Essential Resource eBook

Making and Breaking the Grid

by Samara, T.
Essential Resource Website

War, lust, type! How Paula Scher's…

by Typeroom
Essential Resource Website

Book: The Histories

by Sigurdson, L.
Essential Resource Website

Bauhaus Verlag Bauhaus Bücher - Moholy-Nagy,…

by V&A
Essential Resource eBook

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for…

by Lupton, E.
Essential Resource Website

Biography: Aldus Manutius

by Salzberg, R. M.
Essential Resource Website

Tschichold, Jan: ASYMMETRIC TYPOGRAPHY, 1967.…

by McCombs, M. and Ross, R
Essential Resource Website

Anatomy of a Modular Typographic Grid

by Bradley, S.

Lesson 7

Key Text eBook

The Elements of Graphic Design

by White, A.
Key Text eBook

Graphic Design: The New Basics

by Lupton, E. and Phillips, J. C.
Essential Resource eBook

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for…

by Lupton, E.
Essential Resource Website

P22 Underground Book

by Identifont
Essential Resource Website

Type Classification

by Design is History
Essential Resource Website

P22 Bayer Universal

by Identifont
Essential Resource eBook

Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field

by Armstrong, H.
Essential Resource Website

Best Practices Of Combining Typefaces

by Bonneville, D.
Essential Resource Website

When Typography Speaks Louder Than Words

by Knight, C. and Glaser, J.
Essential Resource Website

The Mouse’s Tale

by University of Maryland Libraries
Essential Resource Website

A Brief Guide to Concrete Poetry

by Academy of American Poets
Essential Resource Website

Visual Poetry

by Ubuweb
Essential Resource Website

Carl Andre

by Andrea Rosen Gallery
Essential Resource Website

Sackner Archive

by The Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry

Lesson 8

Key Text eBook

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for…

by Lupton, E.
Key Text eBook

Graphic Design: The New Basics

by Lupton, E. and Phillips, J. C.
Key Text eBook

The Elements of Graphic Design

by White, A.
Essential Resource Website

Altermodern Manifesto

by Bourriaud, N.
Essential Resource Website

10 game-changing art manifestos

by Baker, H.
Essential Resource Website

Anatomy of a Character

by Strizver, I.
Essential Resource Website

Art Manifestos and Their Applications in…

by Redding, D.
Essential Resource eBook

Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field

by Armstrong, H.
Essential Resource Website

Typographic Terms

by Adobe
Essential Resource Website

Level 2: Line Length & Column Width

by Strizver, I.
Essential Resource Website

Home page

by My Fonts
Essential Resource Website

Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the…

by Guggenheim
Essential Resource Website

Understanding Typography

by Material Design
Essential Resource Website

Josef Albers. Bauhaus Stencil Lettering System (…

by MoMA
Essential Resource Website

First Things First

by Design Is History
Essential Resource Website

Manifesto I - Fluxus: Magazines, Manifestos,…

by Phillpot, C.

Lesson 9

Key Text eBook

Graphic Design: The New Basics

by Lupton, E. and Phillips, J. C.
Key Text eBook

The Elements of Graphic Design

by White, A.
Essential Resource Website

Damien Roach

by Gronlund, M.
Essential Resource Website

Craig Ward

by Creative Bloq Staff
Essential Resource Website

How LOVE Nearly Ruined Robert Indiana's…

by Wilde, M.
Essential Resource Website

Words Are Pictures

by Ward, C.
Essential Resource Website

Turner Prize 2002 artists: Fiona Banner

by Tate
Essential Resource Website

Things I’ve learned in my life so far: Stefan…

by TED

Lesson 10

Key Text eBook

Graphic Design: The New Basics

by Lupton, E.
Key Text eBook

The Elements of Graphic Design

by White, A.
Essential Resource Website

Compress PDF

by Small PDF

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