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Visual Communication

General Visual Communication

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  • A designer's research manual Jenn Visocky O'Grady & Ken Visocky O'Grady - NC 1001.6 .V57 2017
  • About graphic design / Richard Hollis - NC998.4.H65 2012
  • AIGA professional practices in graphic design / editor, Tad Crawford  - NC1001.6.A44 2008
  • Billboard : art on the road : a retrospective exhibition of artists' billboards of the last 30 years organized by Laura Steward Heon et al  - N8217.A35H46 1999
  • Convivial toolbox: generative research for the front end of design / Liz Sanders & Pieter Jan Stappers - N 85 .S26 2012
  • Design for the real world: human ecology and social change Victor J Papanek - TS 171.4 .P37 1985
  • Design literacy : understanding graphic design / Steven Heller - NC998.4.H45 2014
  • Designing the invisible: an introduction to service design / Lara Penin - HF 5415.5 .P454 2018
  • D.I.Y : design it yourself / Ellen Lupton, editor - NC997.D59 2006
  • Graphic design solutions / Robin Landa  - NC997.L32 2014
  • Graphic design: the new basics / Ellen Lupton - NC997.L87 2008
  • Green graphic design / Brian Dougherty - NC997.D64 2008
  • Hybrid imagery : the fusion of technology and graphic design / April Greiman  - NC998.5.A1G75 1990
  • Popular lies about graphic design / Craig Ward - NC997.W37 2012
  • The designer's lexicon : the illustrated dictionary of design, printing, and computer terms / Alastair Campbell  - Z246.C2 2000
  • The Elements of Graphic Design : Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type / Alex W. White - Z246.W56 2011
  • This is service design doing Marc Stickdorn et al - HD 9980.5 .S7542 2018
  • Universal methods of design / Bella Martin & Bruce Haningon - Q 180.55 .M4 M35 2012
  • Visual communication design: an introduction to design concepts in everyday experience / Meredith Davis & Jamer Hunt - NK 1510 .D29 2017
  • What is graphic design for? / Alice Twemlow - NC997.T84 2006
  • Writing on the wall : word and image in modern art / T Simon Morley - N8265.M67 2003

Design History

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  • 100 ideas that changed graphic design / Steven Heller & Veronique Vienne - NK1530.H4456 2012
  • Graphic design: a concise history / Richard Hollis - BF 637 .B4 P69 1999
  • Graphic design: a new historyStephen J. Eskilson - O/S NC 998 .E85 2007
  • Graphic design history: a critical guideJohanna Drucker & Emily McVarish - NC998.D78 2013
  • Hatch show print: the history of a great Amerian poster shop / Paul Kingsbury, Jim Sherraden - Z232.H38S48 2001
  • Meggs' history of graphic design / Philip B. Meggs & Alston W. Purvis - O/S Z 246 .M43 2006
  • Nine pioneers in American graphic design R.. Roger Remington - O/S NC 998.4 .R4 1989
  • No more rules: graphic design and postmodernism / Rick Poynor - Z246P69 2013
  • Protest!: a history of social and political protest graphics Liz McQuiston - O/S D 443 .M37 2019
  • Suffragettes to she-devils: women's liberation and beyond / Liz McQuiston - O/S HQ 1154 .M398 1997
  • The book of books:  500 years of graphic innovation / Mathieu Lommen - O/S Z4 .B6474 2012
  • The decorative art of today / Le Corbusier & James Dunnett - NK 1390 .L413 1987
  • Women designLibby Sellers - NK 1174 .545 2018
  • Writing on the wall: word and image in modern art / Simon Morley - O/S N8265 .M67 2003

Publication Design

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  • Exploring publication design / Evans Poppy - Z 246 .E933 2006
  • Grid systems in graphic design: a visual communication manual for graphic designers, typographers and three dimensional designers / Josef Müller-Brockmann - Z 246.M95 2008
  • How to make books / Esther K. Smith - Z 271.S63 2007
  • Indie publishing : how to design and produce your own book / Ellen Lupton -  Z 285.5.I53 2008
  • Layout  / Gavin Ambrose - Z 246.A438 2005
  • The best of newspaper design / Society for News Design – O/S  Z 246 .B470 2005
  • The layout book / Gavin Ambrose - Z 246.A55 2007
  • Zines / Liza Farrelly - NC 997.Z46 2001

Typography

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  • Designing with type: a basic course in typography / James Craig - O/S Z250 .C88 1992
  • Handbook of type faces and lettering for artists, typographers, letterers, teachers & students / Jacob I. Biegeleisen - O/S .B56 1982
  • Just my type: a book about fonts / Simon Garfield - Z 250.G228 2012
  • Thinking with type: a critical guide for designers, writers, editors & students / Ellen Lupton - Z 246 .L87 2004
  • Handwritten: expressive lettering in the digital age / Steven Heller - NK 3600.H35 2004
  • The elements of typographic style / Robert Bringhurst - Z 246.B74 1996
  • Typographics 1: the arts of typography from digital to dyeline / Roger Walton - NC 998.4.T9 1995
  • Typography sketchbooks / Steven Heller - Z 246.H445 2011
  • Watching words move / Ivan Chermayeff - Z 250 .C49 2006

Advertising

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  • Advertising by design: generating and designing creative ideas across media / Robin Landa - HF5823.L23 2010
  • Advertising today / Warren Berger - O/S HF 5823 .B439 2001
  • Build your own brand : strategies, prompts and exercises for marketing yourself / Robin Landa - HF5415.125.L36 2013
  • Branded: the buying and selling of teenagers / Alissa Quart - HD 69 .B7 Q37 2003
  • Designing brand identity: an essential guide for the whole branding team / Alina Wheeler - O/S HD69.B7W44 2013
  • Karlssonwilker Inc's tellmewhy: the first 24 months of a New York design company / Clare Jacobson - NC999.4.K37J33 2003
  • The total package: the secret history and hidden meanings of boxes, bottles, cans and other personal containers / Thomas Hine  - HF 5570 .H56 1997

Illustration

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  • ACME : our annual report to shareholders and rainy day Saturday afternoon fun book, a library of novelty compiled, collected and compacted from the archival files of the ACME Novelty Company, Chicago, Illinois, ... / [F.C. Ware - O/S PN 6727 .W285 A6 2005
  • America's great illustrators / by Susan E. Meyer - O/S NC 975 .M49 1978
  • Animal anatomy for artists : the elements of form / Eliot Goldfinger - O/S NC 780 .G65 2004
  • Art of the digital age / Bruce Wands - N 7433.8 .W365 2006
  • Artist to artist : 23 major illustrators talk to children about their art / Eric Carle et al - IR JUV NC 965 .A775 2007
  • Drawing lessons from the great masters / Robert Beverly Hale - O/S NC 765 .H15 1989
  • Foundation: transforming found objects into digital assemblage / Spencer Drate - N 6494 .F6 D73 2003
  • Graphic witness : four wordless graphic novels / by Frans Masereel et al - NE1096.G73 2007
  • Illustrating architecture / Albert Lorenz - O/S NA2700.L56 1985
  • Posters of the Cold War / by David Crowley - NC1806.8 .C76 2008
  • Technical illustration / T.A. Thomas - O/S T 357 .T5
  • The graphic canon / edited by Russ Kick - PN6714.G735 2012
  • The great bird illustrators and their art, 1730-1930 / Peyton Skipwith - O/S QL 26 .S57 1978
  • The Guild handbook of scientific illustration / edited by Elaine R.S. Hodges - O/S Q 222 .G85 2003

Visual Studies

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  • Between the eyes: essays on photography and politics / David Levi Strauss - TR 187 .S77 2003
  • Clean new world: culture, politics, and graphic design / Maud Lavin - NC 997 .L345 2001
  • Design, form and chaos /  Paul Rand - NC 997 .R27 1993
  • Design issues:  how graphic design informs society / DK Holland - NC 997 .D448 2001
  • Handbook of visual analysis / Theo Van Leeuwen - P 93.5 .H36 2001
  • Hyper/Text/Theory / George P. Landow - M 81 .H96 1994
  • In the bubble: designing in a complex world / John Thackara - TA 174 .T52 2005
  • Into the image: culture and politics in the field of vision / Kevin Robins - HM 73 .R54 1996
  • Languages: an exhibition of artists using word and image / Rudolf H. Fuchs -  N 6768.5 .C63 L3 197
  • Literacy in the new media age / Gunther R. Kress - LC 149.5  .K74 2003
  • Reading images: the grammar of visual design Gunther R. Kress - NK 1510 .K64 2006
  • Something to be desired: essays on design / Véronique Vienne - NK 1390 .V54 2001 /
  • Speculative everything / Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby - NK 1505 .D865 2013
  • The Rise of the Image, the fall of the word  / Stephen MItchells - PN1992.6.S73 1998