Books like Illustration by Bob Gill

A comprehensive guide to graphic design and typography, offering practical advice and design techniques for students and designers alike.

David Airey showcases elegant logos and practical advice on creating lasting brand identity systems in a clean, modern guide.

Bruno Munari, celebrated Italian designer, shares his vision that design should be beautiful, functional and accessible, exploring its impact on everyday objects from lamps to road signs and typography.

Andrew Loomis’s definitive guide to professional illustration, combining technical instruction with inspiring examples across line, tone, color, storytelling, idea creation, and experimental studies.

The Elements of Graphic Design, Second Edition, presents a refreshed, color‑rich exploration of typography, layout and visual hierarchy, featuring over 750 images and new content on web design, modularity and motion.

For designers working in every medium, layout is arguably the most basic, and most important, element. Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily. Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand those rules and see them applied to real-world projects. Basics include composing typographic space, format determination, and sequencing and systemization. Various types of grids a manuscript, column, modular, hierarchical a are also covered. Text reveals top designers' work in process and rationale. Projects with similar characteristics are linked through a simple notational system that encourages exploration and comparison of structure ideas. Each project is shown comprehensively so readers can see its structure revealed over several pages, at a size that allows for inspection of detail. Also included are historical overviews that summarize the development of layout concepts, both grid-based and non-grid based, in modern design practice.

Marketing Illustration is the first book to offer a comprehensive look at the realities of illustration today. Illustration students, educators, and working artists will find illuminating commentary from illustrators working in a variety of media, including editorial, graphic novels, comics, animations, Web, games, toys, fashion, and textiles, including:Paul Budnitz - Gary Baseman - Todd Radom - J.J. Sedelmaier - Peter Thaler - Alex Murawski - Anita Kunz - Brett Ryder - Craig Frazier - Yuko Shimizu - Wes BedrosianInterviews with these and many others explore how old techniques have changed, how new ones have emerged, and how they adapted to the change, printed alongside their attractive work samples. Marketing Illustration, published in association with the School of Visual Arts, explores the impact of technology on the future of the illustration market.