Books like The layout book by Gavin Ambrose

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

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.

A practical guide for students and designers that breaks down the fundamentals of layout design, covering function, structure, typography, and the creative process.

A practical guide to graphic design layout, covering how to position content for magazines, websites, television graphics and other media.

A practical guide to user interface design, offering pattern-based solutions for web, CD, and mobile platforms.

Data Flow 2 extends contemporary information graphics, exploring new diagram, map, and chart techniques while examining how simplification, abstraction, metaphor, and dramatization shape visual and intuitive data presentation.

Showcasing the finest typography and layout achieved worldwide over the last year, this book celebrates the Type Directors Club’s 48‑year legacy of excellence in graphic design.

An updated, visually rich guide that examines type anatomy, families, legibility, and contemporary design trends, offering clear illustration and practical advice for designers using type in visual communication.

A concise guide to visual communication in digital design, illustrating how balanced use of line, shape, color, and typography engages viewers and delivers clear messages.

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.