Books like Diseño gráfico by Dimitris Kottas

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.

Massimo Vignelli’s The Vignelli Canon distills his principles of good design through clear rules, criteria, and practical examples spanning product, signaletics, graphic, and corporate design.

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.

An up‑to‑date, practical guide to typography covering fundamentals, type selection, setting, and typeface design, with hands‑on exercises for modern design tools.

Este manual se enmarca dentro de la colección de ensayos sobre diseño gráfico publicados por la UOC, y forma parte de una serie de asignaturas que se ocuparan del diseño visual de los productos multimedia. El lector trabajará a nivel avanzado la capacidad para crear y diseñar los elementos gráficos y visuales de un producto o aplicación multimedia, usando procedimientos creativos, fundamentos básicos del diseño y un lenguaje formal. Lo hará planteando problemas de diseño, aumentando su capacidad para pensar visualmente y comunicar ideas de modo visual. Para ello se trataran las teorías de la comunicación visual, color y cultura, tipografía, identidad visual y se hará una introducción al diseño de la información.

Graphic Design School offers a comprehensive, practice‑oriented overview of design fundamentals—from composition and typography to colour and layout—paired with studio techniques and career guidance for aspiring graphic designers.

"A revised new edition of the bestselling toolkit for creating, building, and maintaining a strong brand. From research and analysis through brand strategy, design development through application design, and identity standards through launch and governance, Designing Brand Identity, Fourth Edition offers brand managers, marketers, and designers a proven, universal five-phase process for creating and implementing effective brand identity. Enriched by new case studies showcasing successful world-class brands, this Fourth Edition brings readers up to date with a detailed look at the latest trends in branding, including social networks, mobile devices, global markets, apps, video, and virtual brands. Features more than 30 all-new case studies showing best practices. Updated to include more than 35 percent new material. Offers a proven, universal five-phase process and methodology for creating and implementing effective brand identity"--

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.