Designers’ hidden secret

Remember that small Chinatown store in Gremlins, where the dad finds Mogwai? That’s exactly what buying a book from YouWorkForThem feels like. Every title is hand picked by some of my favorite designers, Mike Cina, Michael Young and co.

Here are the essentials from their Book Advice section:

101
Interaction of Color: Josef Albers
Graphic Design: A Concise History
Typographie
Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice
How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul
100 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers
Its Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want To Be
Meggs History of Graphic Design

202
Graphic Design and Designers
Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Typography: Macro and Microaesthetics
The Graphic Artist and His Design Problems
A Life in Typography
Marks of Excellence

303
A History of Visual Communication
Max Bill’s Typography, Advertising, Book Design
Typography
Universal Principles of Design

404
Understanding Design
What is a Designer
The Typographic Grid
Typography: Formation and Transformation

Visual Aids:
Bruno Monguzzi: A Designers Perspective
The Russian Avant-Garde Book: 1910-1934
Jost Hochuli
Richard Paul Lohse
AGI: Graphic Design Since 1950
Wim Crouwel Alphabets
tDR vs IDEA: Special Projects 01
Pino Tovaglia: The Rule That Corrects Emotion
Le Corbusier: Architect of Books
Hidden Graphics
Jochen Stankowski: Signs