Learning to Learn Design: A small guide for design students and aspiring design students

Lots of students, mainly those aspiring to become design students who want to prepare for competitive exams, ask me this question. which are your favourite books on Design? So here goes the list of my favourite books, it is my personal list. This list is NOT in my order of fondness or my love for the author. First one in the list need not be my all time favourite! This list is not intended to guide any student to prepare for any entrance exams. Ruder Typography, Ruder Philosophy Helmut Schmid (Editor), Nicole Schmid (Contributor) While you're reading by Gerard Unger Typography of Devanagari Bapurao Naik Typographie: A Manual of Design by Emil Ruder Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann , E.M Ginger The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst  Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type by Kimberly Elam  Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell  , Kritina Holden , Jill Butler  The Art o...

Design Project presentations: This is a note to design students on project presentations: This is a PERSONAL blog, written in my personal capacity as a design educator, based on attending numerous juries in IDC as well as other educational institutes across the globe and after seeing students making the same mistakes again and again without anyone telling them what not to do. Standard Disclaimer: Any resemblance to events or persons, living or dead are purely coincidental. The Institution for which I work for: IDC and IIT Bombay, has no relation with the views expressed in this blog and may not subscribe to the views expressed in it. There are generally two types of students who attempt project presentations at design schools. 1. The sincere, ethical student. Puts in hard work. Believes that more than half of the time spent in a design school can be given for learning design, apart from social media, entertainment and time pass. Approaches a design project seriously...