this is a list of notable books (mostly type/design related) that are available for all northwestern students through the school library system. you can find or check these books out by going to the northwestern library website and searching for the title or call number. please feel free to contribute if you've found other notable books (not just necessarily type/design/art books).
| Title | Author/Editor | Call Number |
|---|---|---|
| The new typography: a handbook for modern designers | Jan Tschichold | Main Library Special Collections (Graphic Arts Tschichold T879nX) |
| Modern typography: an essay in critical history | Robin Kinross | Main Library Stacks (686.22 K55m) |
| A view of early typography up to about 1600 | Harry Carter | Main Library Lower Level Room B249 (655.2 C323v) |
| Typefoundries in the Netherlands, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century | Charles Enschedé | Main Library Special Collections (F Graphic Arts En) |
| Fournier on typefounding; the text of the Manuel typographique (1764-1766) | Harry Carter | Main Library Special Collections (Graphic Arts Fo) |
| Observations on the history of typefounding & punchcutting | Harry Carter | Main Library Special Collections (Private Presses Duensing C323o) |
| Printing explained; an elementary practical handbook for schools and amateurs | Harry Carter | Main Library Special Collections (Graphic Arts Si) |
| Civilité types | Harry Carter | Oak Grove Library Center Oak Grove Library Center--Request Online (Large 010.6 O98 n.s.v.14) |
| The Fell types; what has been done in and about them | Harry Carter | Main Library Special Collections (Private Presses Typophiles Serial T9912 no.89) |
| Unjustified texts: perspectives on typography | Robin Kinross | Main Library Stacks (686.22 K55u) |
| Fellow readers: notes on multiplied language | Robin Kinross | Main Library Special Collections (Graphic Arts K555f) |
| Robert Granjon, sixteenth century type founder and printer | Mergenthaler Linotype Company | Main Library Special Collections (L Graphic Arts Granjon Me) |
| Counterpunch | Fred Smeijers | Main Library Special Collections (Graphic Arts S637c) |
| Texts on type: critical writings on typography | Steven Heller and Philip Megs | Main Library Stacks (686.224 T355) |
| The elements of typographic style | Robert Bringhurst | Main Library Stacks (686.224 B858e) |
| Essential Type | Tony Seddon | Main Library Stacks (Z250 .S43 2016 ) |
| Helvetica forever: story of a typeface | Lars Muller, Vitor Malsy | Oak Grove Library Center Oak Grove Library Center--Request Online (non-circulating item for in-library use only) (Z250.5.S24 H45 2009) |
| Title | Author/Editor | Call Number |
|---|---|---|
| Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the field | Helen Armstrong | Main Library Art Library (741.6 G7663 ) |
| The Graphic Artist and his Design Problems | Josef Muller-Brockmann | Main Library Special Collections (Graphic Arts M947g) |
| The Eternal Letter: two millennia of the clasical Roman capital | Paul Shaw | Main Library Art Library Large Section (NK3625.R66 E84 2015 ) |
| Title | Author/Editor | Call Number |
|---|---|---|
| White | Kenya Hara | Main Library Art Library (BH221.J3 H37 2010) |
| Ways of Seeing | John Berger | Main Library Core - 2 North (759.94 W359 1972) |
| Designing Design | Kenya Hara | Main Library Art Library (NK1170 .H37x 2015) |
| 79 Short Essays on Design | Michael Bierut, others | Online access |
| Ex-formation | Kenya Hara | Main Library Art Library (BH221.J3 H37 2010) |
| 6 chapters in design: Saul Bass, Ivan Chermayeff, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Ikko Tanaka, Henryk Tomaszewski | Philip Meggs | Main Library Art Library (741.60904 S625) |
| Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network | Caroline Levine | Main Library Stacks (PN45.5 .L48 2015) |
| Thing theory | Bill Brown | Online access |
| What is a designer: things, places, messages | Norman Potter | Main Library Special Collections (Graphic Arts P866w ) |
| Design as Art | Bruno Munari | Main Library Art Library (745.4 M963de ) |
| Super normal: sensations of the ordinary | Naoto Fukasawa | Main Library Art Library (745.2074 F961Z ) |
| Design: The Invention of Desire | Jessica Helfand | Main Library Art Library (NK1520 .H45 2016 ) |
| Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming | Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby | Main Library Art Library (NK1505 .D865 2013 ) |
| Multiple Signatures: On Designers, Authors, Readers, and Users | Michael Rock | Main Library Art Library (741.6 R682m) |
| Title | Author/Editor | Call Number |
|---|---|---|
| The art of the publisher | Roberto Calasso | Main Library Stacks (Z278 .C2813 2015) |
| The form of the book | Jan Tschichold | Main Library Special Collections (Graphic Arts Tschichold T879aX) |
| An illustrated history of writing and lettering | Jan Tschichold | Main Library Special Collections (Graphic Arts Tschichold T879gX) |
| Designing books: practice and theory | Jost Hochuli | Main Library Special Collections (Graphic Arts H685d) |
| Title | Author/Editor | Call Number |
|---|---|---|
| The 26 letters | Oscar Ogg | Main Library Special Collections (Graphic Arts O345t) |
| Title | Author/Editor | Call Number |
|---|---|---|
| The Stack: on software and sovereignty | Benjamin Bratton | Main Library Lending Resource Sharing Requests (QA76.5915 .B73 2015) |
| A Prehistory of the Cloud | Tung-Hui Hu | Online Access |
| On the Existence of Digital Objects (Electronic Mediations) | Yuk Hui | Main Library Stacks (TK7868.D5 H835 2016 ) |
| The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media | John Durham Peters | Main Library Stacks (P91 .P48 2015 ) |
| Title | Author | Call Number |
|---|---|---|
| The attraction of things : fragments of an oblique life | Roger Lewinter (translated by Rachel Careau) | Main Library Stacks (PQ2672.E963 A8813 2016 ) |
| Suicide | Edouard Leve | Main Library Stacks (843.92 L657sX ) |
| Universal Harvester | John Darnielle | Main Library Stacks (PS3604.A748 U55 2017 ) |
| The Last Wolf and Herman | Laszlo Krasznahorkai | Main Library Stacks (PH3281.K8866 A2 2016 ) |
| Title | Author/Editor | Call Number |
|---|---|---|
| Critical terms for media studies | W. J. T. Mitchell, Mark Victor Hansen | Main Library Stacks (PN56.T37 C75 2010) |
| Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art | Scott McCloud | Main Library Art Library (741.5 M127u ) |
| The Parasite | Michel Serres | Main Library Stacks (848.914 S488pX ) |
| Jazz | Scott DeVeaux, Gary Giddins | Main Library MUSIC Library (Stacks) (ML3508.G54 J3 ) |
| Words on the move : why English won't- and cant- sit still (like, literally) | John McWhorter | Main Library Stacks P40.5.L54 M39 2016 |
| The sexuality of Christ in Renaissance art and in modern oblivion | Leo Steinberg | Main Library Art Library N8050 .S74 1996 |