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Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism

Geert Lovink

2019

Good: An Introduction to Ethics in Graphic Design

Lucienne Roberts

2007

Critical Graphic Design: Critical of What?

Francisco Laranjo

2014

Design Practices Are Not Neutral

Ramia Mazé

Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Walter Benjamin

1935

Design as Art

Bruno Munari

1966

Shape of Things

Vilém Flusser

1999

What is a designer? Things. Places. Messages

Norman Potter

1980

The medium is the massage: An Inventory of Effects

Marshall McLuhan

1967

Pós—Produção / Postproduction

Nicolas Bourriaud

2000

A Humument

Tom Philips

1970

The Street of Crocodiles

Bruno Schulz

1992

Tree of Codes

Jonathan Foer

2010

Junk Mail Poetry

Teresa Lima

Fiction Practice: Prototyping the otherworldly

Mariana Pestana

2019

A *New* Program for Graphic Design

David Reinfurt

2019

Design by Accident

Alexandra Midal

2019

Sampling Editorial

Joana Mendes

Graphic Design: Now in Production

Jeremy Leslie

2011

Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility

Steven Heller

2003

The Graphic Design Reader

Steven Heller

2002

Steal Like An Artist

Austin Kleon

2012

Designing Brand Identity

Alina Wheeler

2003

Design Anarchy

Kalle Lasn

The Designer as...: Author, Producer, Activist, Entrepeneur, Curator,
and Collaborator: New Models for Communicating

Steven McCarthy

2013

The Education of a Graphic Designer

Steven Heller

1998

Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture Of Critical Graphic Design

Zak Kyes

2007

Techniques of the observer / Técnicas do Observador

Jonathan Crary

1990

Turning Pages Editorial Design For Print Media

Klanten Ehmann

2010

The Book of Books: 500 Years of Graphic Innovation

Mathieu Lommen

2012

O Design Que Não Vê

Mário Moura

2018

The Visual History of Type

Paul McNeil

2017

The Elements of Typographic Style

Robert Bringhurst

1992

Design as an Attitude

Alice Rawsthorn

2018

Detail in Typography

Jost Hochuli

2015

The Language of Things: Understanding the World
of Desirable Objects

Deyan Sudjic

2008

The Future of the Image / O Destino das Imagens

Jacques Rancière

2003

The Empty Space / O Espaço Vazio

Peter Brook

1968

Designing Design

Kenya Hara

2003

Design is Attitude

Helmut Schmid

Junkspace

Rem Koolhaas

2006

What's Love (or Care, Intimacy, Warmth, Affection) Got to Do with It?

Paul Chan

2017

Design for the Real World

Victor Papanek

1971

Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader

Geert Lovink,
Nathaniel Tkacz

2011

Dear Reader

Atelier
Carvalho Bernau

Visual Research — An Introduction To Research
Methodologies In Graphic Design

Ian Noble,
Russell Bestley

2004

Speculative Everything — Design, Fiction and Social Dreaming

Anthony Dunne,
Fiona Raby

2013

Moer

Ana Jotta,
Ricardo Valentim

Can Jokes Bring Down Governments?

Daniël Velden,
Vinca Kruk

2016

The Trade of the Teacher: Visual Thinking

Mieke Bal,
Jeroen Lutters

2018

The Design Activists Handbook

Noah Scalin,
Michelle Taute

2012

The Electric Information Age Book

Jeffrey Schnapp,
Adam Michaels

2012

McLuhan Hot and Cool: A Primer for the Understanding of McLuhan                                  

Gerald Emanuel Stearn (Editor)

1969