COLOR THEORY:
Josef Albers. Interaction of Color. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1963.
Josef Albers: a retrospective. NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1988.
Johannes Itten. The Art of Color. NY: Reinhold Publishing, 1961.
A.H. Munsell. A Color Notation. Newburgh, NY : Munsell Color, 1992.
Richard Norman. Electronic Color. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990.
Clark V. Poling. Bauhaus Color: Catalog of Exhibition at High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1975.
Lois Swirnoff. Dimensional Color. Boston: Birkhauser, 1988.
DESIGN: THEORY AND EXAMPLES:
The ABCs of (triangle, square, circle): The Bauhaus and Design Theory From Preschool to Post-Modernism Exhibition – The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and typography NY: The Cooper Union, 1991. (note: you must have the font “Zapf Dingbats” installed for this title to display correctly)Aldersay-Williams, Hugh et al. Cranbrook Design: the new discourse: essays. NY: Rizzoli, 1990.
The Basel School of Design and Its Philosophy: The Armin Hofmann Years, 1946-1986 An Exhibition of Posters. 1986
Donis A. Dondis. A Primer of Visual Literacy. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1973.
M.C. Escher. Escher on Escher: Exploring the Infinite. NY: Harry M. Abrams, 1989.
Eye (Quarterly). London, England: 1990-present.
Gropius/Schlemmer/Moholy-Nagy/Molnar. The Theater of the Bauhaus. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1961.
Takenobu Igarashi. Igarashi Space Graphics: design for communications, design for environment, design for design. Tokyo, Japan: Shoten Kenchiku-sha, 1983.
Takenobu Igarashi. Seven Graphic Designers (Michael Manwaring, Woody Pirtle, Takenobu Igarashi, April Greiman, Gerald Reis, Koichi Sato, and Michael Vanderbyl). Tokyo, Japan: Graphic-sha Pub. Co., 1985.
Johannes Itten. Design and Form. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1963.
Paul Rand. A Designer’s Art. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985.
Paul Rand. Design Form and Chaos. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993.
Norman Sanders. Graphic Designer’s Production Handbook. NY: Hastings House Publishers, 1982.
Paula Scher. The Graphic Design Portfolio: How to Make a Good One. NY: Watson-Guptill, 1992.
Alan Swann. Graphic Design School. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.
Alan Swann. How to Understand and Use Design and Layout. Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books, 1987.
Alan Swann. How to Understand and Use Grids. Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books, 1989.
Edward Tufte. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1983.
Jon Wozencroft. Graphic Language of Neville Brody. NY: Rizzoli, 1988.
TYPOGRAPHY:
James Craig. Designing with Type. NY: Watson-Guptill, 1992.
Carl Dair. Design With Type. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1967.
Kimberly Elam. Expressive Typography. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990.
Emigre – various issues.
Richard Firmage. The Alphabet Abecedarium. Boston: David Godine Publisher, 1993.
Eric Gill. An Essay on Typography. Boston: David Godine Publisher, 1936/1988.
Allan Haley. Typographic Milestones. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992.
Edward Johnston. Writing and Illuminating and Lettering. NY: Pitman Publishing Co., 1906/1965.
Robin Kinross. Modern Typography: An Essay In Critical History. London: Hyphen Press, 1992.
Ruari McLean. Jan Tschichold, Typographer. Boston: D.R. Godine, 1975.
New typographics: the new faces of contemporary typography. Tokyo: P.I.E. Books, 1993
Ian Pape. Designer’s Mix & Match Type. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 1992.
Christopher Perfect. The Complete Typographer. Rockport MA: Rockport Publishers, 1992.
Emil Ruder. Typography: A Manual of Design. Switzerland: Verlag Arthur Niggli Ltd., Teufen AR, 1967.
Oliver Simon. Introduction to Typography. London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1945.
Martin Solomon. The Art of Typography. NY: Art Direction Book Company, 1994.
Jan Tschichold. Asymmetric Typography. NY: Reinhold Publishing, NY 1935/1967.
Jan Tschichold. The New Typography. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.
Typographische Monatsblätter = Revue suisse de l’impimerie Befrufsbildung. Switzerland: 1979-Present.
typography now: the next wave. cincinnati, OH: north light books, 1992.
Alex White. How to Spec Type. NY: Watson-Guptill, 1987.
Hermann Zapf. About alphabets; some marginal notes on type design. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970.
PRODUCTION:
David Bann. The Print Production Handbook. Cinncinnatti, OH: North Light, 1985.
Tom Cardamone. Mechanical Color Separation Skills for the Commercial Artist. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1980.
DRAWING TECHNIQUES:
Francis Ching. Drawing: A Creative Process. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990.
Betty Edwards. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. NY: Putnam Publishing, 1989.
Miguel Ferrón. Airbrush Painting. NY: Watson-Guptill, 1988.
Jack Hamm. How to Draw Animals. NY: Perigree/Putnam Publishing, 1969.
Ken Hultgren. The Art of Animal Drawing. NY: Dover Publications, 1993.
Charles Hayden. Markers Wet & Wild. NY: Watson-Guptill, 1993.
Richard McGarry & Greg Madsen. Marker Magic: The Rendering Problem Solver for Designers. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993.
COMPUTER ART TECHNIQUES:
Adobe Illustrator: Classroom in a Book. Indianapolis, IN: Adobe Press/Hayden Books/Prentic Hall, 1994.
Adobe Photoshop v.3: Classroom in a Book. Indianapolis, IN: Adobe Press/Hayden Books/Prentic Hall, 1994.
Adobe Premiere: Classroom in a Book. Indianapolis, IN: Adobe Press/Hayden Books/Prentic Hall, 1994.
Ted Alspach. Macworld Illustrator 5.0/5.5 Bible. Foster City, CA: IDG Books, 1994.
Diane Burns and Sharyn Venit. The Official QuarkXpress Handbook Macintosh 3.3 Edition. NY: Random House Electronic Publishing, 1994.
Luanne Cohen & Tanya Wendling. Design Essentials. Mountain View, CA: Adobe Press, 1993.
Luanne Cohen, Russell Brown, & Tanya Wendling. Imaging Essentials. Mountain View, CA: Adobe Press, 1993.
Michael Feerer. Premiere with a Passion. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 1994.
Erik Holsinger. Macweek Guide to Desktop Video. Emeryville, CA: Ziff Davis Press, 1993.
MULTIMEDIA THEORY:
Ambron/Hooper/Apple Computer. Learning with Interactive Multimedia. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1990.
Bob Cotton & Richard Oliver. Understanding Hypermedia: from multimedia to virtual reality. London: Phaidon, 1993.
Jessica Keyes. The McGraw-Hill Multimedia Handbook. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1994.
Brenda Laurel, ed.. The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1990.
McCullough/Mitchell/Purcell. The Electronic Design Studio. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990.
Nicholas Negroponte. The Architecture Machine. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1980.
Donald Norman. The Design of Everyday Things. NY: Doubleday, 1988.
INTERNET, ONLINE SERVICES, CONFERENCING SYSTEMS:
Dougherty & Koman. The Mosaic Handbook. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates, 1994.
Adam Engst. Internet Starter Kit. NY: Hayden Books, 1994.
Ed Krol. The Whole Internet. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates, 1992.
Mary Morris. HTML for Fun and Profit. Mountain View, CA: SunSoft Press/Prentice Hall, 1995.
John Quarterman. The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide. Bedford, MA: Digital Press, 1990.