Find free design books for inspiration on Google Books
Ivan | Wed, 2011-02-09 21:18
Google has been busy digitizing hundreds of thousands of books and magazines for last few years. Some of them are fully available online, others are only available partially. Although nothing beats the good old book smell, using Google Books you can find a lot of design, advertising, typography and branding related books and magazines with a single search and get inspiration and knowledge without going to a physical library.
To get started go to books.google.com and click Advanced Book Search. Here you have the option to filter your results to Full view only, which means you will get full books. You can also filter to Books only if you're not interested in magazines.
The great thing about the Google Books interface is that you can display the pages of the book as thumbnails or two pages side by side to simulate a real book.
Here are a couple of books I picked that could be interesting to flip through. If you find anything cool please do link it in comments.
Dutch type
Otto Treumann
Inside/out: new Chinese art
Vault career guide to advertising
Droog Design: spirit of the nineties
Advertising design and typography
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