A Short Guide to Research (for Designers)

This short guide developed from a series of lectures presented at Portland State University on how to conduct research as a creative. The guide explains concepts of information literacy and how to conduct quality research online, while also serving as an introduction to key primary techniques like ethnography. Finally, unlike existing research books, this pocket guide also includes research tactics specific to design.

• Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas
• Information Graphics
• The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0: 20th Anniversary Edition
• Visual Research: An Introduction to Research Methods in Graphic Design (Required Reading Range)
• Meggs' History of Graphic Design
• Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
• Things Are What You Make of Them: Life Advice for Creatives
• Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography
• Don't Get a Job… Make a Job: How to make it as a creative graduate
• How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul (New Expanded Edition)