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DESIGN BASICS
The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type
by Alex W. White
Allworth Press (2002)
ISBN: 1581152507
The Non-Designer's Design Book, 2nd Edition
by Robin Williams
Peachpit Press (2003)
ISBN: 0321193857
Design for Communication : Conceptual Graphic Design Basics
by Elizabeth Resnick
Wiley (2003)
ISBN: 0471418293
Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type
by Kimberly Elam
Princeton Architectural Press (2004)
ISBN: 1568984650
TYPOGRAPHY
Thinking With Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
by Ellen Lupton
Princeton Architectural Press (2004)
ISBN: 1568984480
The Complete Manual of Typography
by James Felici
Adobe Press (2002)
ISBN: 0321127307
Typographic Design: Form and Communication, 3rd edition
by Rob Carter, Ben Day and Philip Meggs
John Wiley & Sons (2002)
ISBN: 0471383414
The Elements of Typographic Style, 2nd edition
by Robert Bringhurst
Hartley & Marks (1997)
ISBN: 0881791326
The Non-Designer's Type Book
by Robin Williams
Peachpit Press (1998)
ISBN: 0201353679
Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography
by Steven Heller (Editor), Philip B. Meggs (Editor)
Allworth Press (2001)
ISBN: 1581150822
Type Rules!
by Ilene Strizver
North Light Books (2001)
ISBN: 1581800479
Typology: Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age
by Steven Heller, Louise Fili
Chronicle Books (1999)
ISBN: 0811823083
Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces
by Philip Meggs and Rob Carter
John Wiley & Sons (1993)
ISBN: 0471284297
Revival of the Fittest: Digital Versions of Classic Typefaces
by Philip B. Meggs (Editor), Roy McKelvey (Editor)
North Light Books (2000)
ISBN: 1883915082
Type & Typography
by Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam
Watson-Guptill (2002)
ISBN: 0823055248
DESIGN THEORY
Design Writing Research: Writing on Graphic Design
by Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller
Phaidon Press (1999)
ISBN: 0714838519
Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design
by Michael Bierut (Editor), et. al.
Allworth Press (1994)
ISBN: 1880559153
Looking Closer 2: Critical Writings on Graphic Design
by Michael Bierut (Editor), et. al.
Allworth Press (1997)
ISBN: 1880559560
WEB DESIGN
The Non-Designer's Web Book, 2nd edition
by Robin Williams and John Tollett
Peachpit Press (2000)
ISBN: 0201710382
HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS:
Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition
by Elizabeth Castro
Peachpit Press (2002)
ISBN: 0321130073
Web Style Guide, 2nd edition
by Patrick J. Lynch, Sarah Horton
Yale University Press (2002)
ISBN: 0300088981
MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer
by Hillman Curtis
New Riders Press (2002)
ISBN: 0735711658
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INFORMATION DESIGN
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition
by Edward R. Tufte
Graphics Press (2001)
ISBN: 0961392142
Designing Infographics
by Eric K. Meyer
Hayden Books (1997)
ISBN: 1568303394
DESIGN HISTORY
A History of Graphic Design, 3rd edition
by Philip Meggs
John Wiley & Sons (1998)
ISBN: 0471291986
Graphic Design: A Concise History (World of Art)
by Richard Hollis
Thames & Hudson (1994)
ISBN: 0500202702
Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design
by Steven Heller, Karen Pomeroy
Watson-Guptill (1997)
ISBN: 1880559765
Graphic Design History
by Steven Heller (Editor) and Georgette Ballance (Editor)
Allworth Press (2001)
ISBN: 1581150946
Graphic Design in America
by Mildred Friedman (Editor)
Walker Art Center, Abrams (1989)
ISBN: 0935640312
VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS THEORY
Visual Communications: Images with Messages, 3rd edition
by Paul Martin Lester
Wadsworth Publishing (2002)
ISBN: 0534562469
Handbook of Visual Communications: Theory, Methods, and Media
by Ken Smith, et. al (eds.)
Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. (2004)
ISBN: 0805841792
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
Penguin Books (1977)
ISBN: 0140135154
Visual Thinking
by Rudolf Arnheim
Univ. of California Press (1989)
ISBN: 0520018710
Art and Visual Perception
by Rudolf Arnheim
Univ. of California Press (1983)
ISBN: 0520026136
The Reconfigured Eye
by William J. Mitchell
MIT Press (1992)
ISBN: 0262631601
Practices of Looking
by Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright
Univ. of Oxford Press (2001)
ISBN: 0198742711
A Primer of Visual Literacy
by Donis A. Dondis
MIT Press (1973)
ISBN: 0262540290
Techniques of the Observer
by Jonathan Crary
MIT Press, (1992)
ISBN: 0262531070
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PUBLICATION DESIGN
Newspaper Designer's Handbook with CD-ROM, 5th edition
by Tim Harrower
McGraw-Hill (2001)
ISBN: 0072492910
The Form of News
by Kevin Barnhurst and John Nerone
Guilford Press (2001)
ISBN: 1572306378
Issues: New Magazine Design
by Jeremy Leslie, Lewis Blackwell
Gingko Press (2001)
ISBN: 1584230258
Magazine Design
by Chris Foges (Editor)
Rotovision (1999)
ISBN: 2880464501
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Becoming a Graphic Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design, 2nd Edition
by Steven D. Heller and Teresa Fernandes
Wiley (2002)
ISBN: 047117677X
Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines, 11th Edition
Graphic Artists Guild (2003)
ISBN: 0932102123
Designing a Digital Portfolio
by Cynthia L. Baron
New Riders Press (2003)
ISBN: 0735713944
OF RELATED INTEREST
The Substance of Style
by Virginia Postrel
Harper Perennial (2004)
ISBN: 0-060-93385-2
Shaping Things
by Bruce Sterling
Princeton Architectural Press (2005)
ISBN: 0-262-69326-7
Understanding Comics
by Scott McCloud
Harper Collins (1994)
ISBN: 006097625X
On Photography
by Susan Sontag
Picador Press (2001)
ISBN: 0312420099
Mythologies
by Roland Barthes (Annette Lavers, translator)
Noonday Press (1973)
ISBN: 0374521506
City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn
by William J. Mitchell
MIT Press (1996)
ISBN: 0262631768
The Medium is the Massage
by Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel
Gingko Press (2001)
ISBN: 1584230703
Technopoly
by Neil Postman
Vintage Books (1993)
ISBN: 0679745408
Literary Theory: An Introduction
by Terry Eagleton
Univ. of Minnesota Press (1983)
ISBN: 0816612412
Art & Fear
by David Bayles, Ted Orland
Capra Press (1993)
ISBN: 0884963799
Emergence
by Steven Johnson
Touchstone Books (2002)
ISBN: 0684868768
On Beauty and Being Just
by Elaine Scarry
Princeton Univ Press (2001)
ISBN: 0691089590
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