Bibliography

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Recommended Texts for Communication Design I

Stop Stealing Sheep and See how type works by Erik Spiekerman & E.M. Ginger
Type & Typography by Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam
The Mac is not a Typewriter by Robin Williams
Typographic Design: Form and Communication by Rob Carter, Ben Day and Phillip Meggs
The Complete Manual of Typography by James Felici
The History of Graphic Design by Phillip Meggs

Recommended Texts for Communication Design II

Logo Font & Lettering Bible
A Comprehensive Guide to the Design, Construction and Usage of Alphabets and Symbols
by Leslie Cabarga
a typographic workbook by Kate Clair
Photoshop CS Studio Techniques by Ben Wilmore
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design by Michael Beirut, et al.

The History of Graphic Design by Phillip Meggs

Selected Texts for additional research in Communication Design and Digital Media

HISTORY
The History of Graphic Design by Phillip Meggs
Pioneers of Modern Typography, Herbert Spencer
Nine Pioneers in Graphic Design, R. Roger Remington and Barbara Hodik
Graphic Design in a Mechanical Age, Deborah Rothschild, Ellen Lupton, and Dana Goldstein
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, Marshall McLuhan
The abc's of ?n?:The Bauhaus and Design Theory, Ellen Lupton, J. Abbott Miller

THEORY
Language, Culture, Type, John Berry
Design Literacy-Understanding Graphic Design, Steven Heller and Karen Pomeroy
Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design,
Edited by Michael Beirut, William Drenttel, Steven Heller & DK Holland.
Looking Closer 2: Critical Writings on Graphic Design,
Edited by Steven Heller & Marie Finamore.
Design Culture: An Anthology of Writing from the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design,
Edited by Michael Beirut, William Drenttel, Steven Heller & DK Holland.
Design, Form and Chaos, Paul Rand
Design, Writing, Research: Writing on Graphic Design, Ellen Lupton, J. Abbott Miller
Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture, Lynn Leeson
six essays on design and new media, Jessica Helfand
Lift and Separate: Graphic Design and the Vernacular, Barbara Glauber
Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation, Timothy Druckery
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Neil Postman
Road Warriors: Dreams and Nightmares along the Information Superhighway,
Daniel Burstein & David Kline

PRACTICE
Clients & Designers, Ellen Shapiro
In Print, Text & Type, Alex Brown
Graphic Design Manual, Armin Hoffman
Corporate Identity Design, Veronica Naples
The Grid, Layout: The Design of the Printed Page and Publication Design, Allen Hurlburt
Grid Systems in Graphic Design, Josef Mueller-Brockman
Envisioning Information, Edward Tufte
Type & Image, Philip B. Meggs
Typographic Design, Rob Carter

DESIGNERS (selected)
The End of Print, David Carson
Carson: 2nd Sight by Lewis Blackwell
Brodovitch, Andy Grundberg
Bradbury Thompson, The Art of Graphic Design, Bradbury Thompson
Armin Hoffman: His Work, Quest & Philosophy, Armin Hoffman
The Graphic Language of Neville Brody (2 books), Jon Wozencroft
Emigre: Graphic Design in the Digital Realm, Rudy Vanderlans & Zuzana Licko
Pentagram;The Compendium by David Gibbs
Why Not Associates
Genius Moves, 100 Icons of Graphic Design by Steven Heller and Mirko Ilic

LEGAL ISSUES
Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2, Negativland
Law in a Digital World, M. Ethan Katsh
Copyright’s Highway, From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, Paul Goldstein

TYPE
20th Century Type: remix, by Lewis Blackwell
Cool Type by Drate Spencer
Extreme Fonts, Digital Faces of the Future by Drate Spencer
Typography, An Encyclopedic Survey of Type, Design and Techniques throughout History,
by Freidl, Friedrich, Nicolaus Ott and Bernard Stein
Typology, Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Era by Steven Heller and Louise Fili
Typewise by Kit Hinrichs
Dimensional Typography by Abbott J. Miller
Typography Now by Rick Poyner
Creative Edge Type by Lynn Haller
The Best in Cutting Edge Typography by Cliff Stafford

TECHNICAL (selected)
Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques by Ben Wilmore
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