Wassily Kandinsky wasn’t just an abstract painter — he was a philosopher of visual form. “Point and Line to Plane” is his attempt to decode the emotional and structural power of the most basic design elements. If you want to understand how Bauhaus artists approached visual communication, this book is a treasure.

Kandinsky breaks down the symbolic, emotional, and spatial meaning of points, lines, angles, and the surfaces they create. He shows how simple shapes influence rhythm, tension, balance, and expressive intent. While philosophical, it’s surprisingly practical for designers working in branding, layout, and UI today.

It’s one of those rare texts that changes how you “feel” design, not just how you understand it.

The book 100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design is one of the most comprehensive works ever produced on the subject—almost like a museum condensed into a single, beautifully ordered volume. When I first read it, I felt as if I were walking through a century of visual evolution, guided by Christian Brändle’s precise and academic yet accessible voice. The structure of this Swiss design anthology mirrors the clarity and restraint that made Swiss Style so influential, presenting posters, type specimens, corporate identities, and teaching methods in a chronological flow that feels almost musical in its pacing.

This century-long overview does more than celebrate iconic works; it reveals how Swiss visual culture shaped—and was shaped by—social, commercial, and artistic forces. From early modernist experiments in the 1920s to corporate identity manuals of the 1960s and contemporary minimalism, Brändle demonstrates how designers consistently returned to clarity, typography, and grid-based logic as anchors of expression. For graphic designers today, the book offers not just inspiration but a structural understanding of why Swiss aesthetics remain timeless.

If you are a graphic design student looking for a guide about branding, Creating a Brand Identity by Catharine Slade-Brooking is the best book to get introduced to branding giving you everything you need to know to create a brand identity project making this book perfect for students.

This book is perfect to learn about branding as it has useful exercises to help graphic design students to understand branding principles and theory as consumer psychology, execution of a brand identity, or how to deliver branding campaigns with visual references and great examples.