Books like Swiss graphic design by Richard Hollis

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

A comprehensive, illustrated history of graphic design from early printing to digital media, covering posters, advertising, corporate identity, and the influence of photography, computers, and television.

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.

This wide-ranging compilation of interviews offers a colorful and candid introduction to the personalities, passions, and work of thirty-four respected designers, artists, authors, and media producers. With design as the common thread, each exchange opens an individual perspective on the visual culture at large, ranging in focus from the manipulative power of images to the place of theory in design practice to the myriad interactions between design and life. The stories are woven from experiences in media, theory, history, politics, and the blurry realm of interactivity. Both an oral history of graphic design and a living record of where we are today, these engaging and evocative dialogues provide anyone interested in design or popular culture with a means of understanding, as well as ideas for working in, the visual world around them.

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.

Jan Tschichold’s _Neue Typographie_ is the definitive 1928 treatise on book and graphic design, blending Central European modernist theory with practical guidance for typography, layout, and business forms.