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Free ebooks for designers about design

If you do a simple web search about ebooks covering vector graphics you will find thousands of books, but for most of them you have to pay. The selection below contains ebooks about designing and vector graphics and the good thing is that they are freely available.

A Manifesto for Meaningful Design

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Are you a professional designer? Would you like a process to create more consistently creative work which distinguishes itself from the work of your peers? Would you like a process which would help translate the often vague, unclear wishes of your clients (and yourself, for that matter) into a clear and solid basis for your design? This manifesto will show you how.

27 Page Type Classification

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This book has been made to help you learn the 10 broad classifications of type. These are the basic foundations of what you need to learn to learn typography and it is essential for any designer to know how to classify type.

100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design

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The book demonstrates how ideas influenced and defined graphic design, and also how those ideas manifest in objects of design. The 100 entries, arranged broadly in chronological order, range from technical (overprinting, rub-on designs, split fountain); to stylistic (swashes on caps, loud typography and white space); to objects (dust jackets, design handbooks); and methods (paper cut-outs, pixellation).

How To Be Creative

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MacLeod highlights the value of authenticity and hard work, and reveals the challenges and rewards of being creative.