Below you will find a list of books and online readings for our class.

Required Reading:
Typographic Design: Form and Communication.
Carter/Day/Meggs/Maxa/Sanders

Suggested Reading:
A Designers Art by Paul Rand
American Typography Today by Rob Carter
An Essay on Typography by Eric Gill
Armin Hoffman: His Work Quest and Philosophy by Armin Hoffman
Asymmetric Typography by Jan Tschichold
By Design by Ralph Caplan
Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer’s Perspective by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo
Calligrammes by Guillaume Apollinaire
Conceptual Blockbusting by James Adams
Concrete Poetry: A World View Mary Ellen Solt
Concrete Poetry: A Study in Metaphor Visible Language
Data Flow 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design by Robert Klanten
Design, Form and Chaos by Paul Rand
Design Quarterly 133: Does it Make Sense by April Greiman
Design With Type by Carl Dair
Dorfsman and CBS by Dick Hess & Marion Muller
Emigre (The Book) Graphic Design into the Digital Realm by Rudy Vanderlans and Zuzana Licko
Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte
Experiences in Visual Thinking by Robert H. McKim
Experimenta Typographica by Willem Sandberg
Expressive Typography: The Word as Image by Kimberly Elam
French Currents of The Letter Visible Language
Pioneers of Modern Typography by Herbert Spencer
From Lascaux to Brooklyn by Paul Rand
George Nelson: The Design of Modern Design by Stanley Abercrombie
Graphic Design Manual by Armin Hoffman
Graphic Design Processes by Kenneth J. Hiebert
Graphic Design Solutions by Robin Landa
Graphic Design Theory by Helen Armstrong
Herb Lubalin: Art Director Designer, Typographer by Snyder/Peckolick
Information Graphics by Sandra Rendgen
Jan Tschichold: Typographer by Ruari McLean
Josef Muller-Brockmann by Lars Muller
Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step by Edward deBono
Manual of Typographic Design by Jean Michel Folon
Modern Typography by Robin Kinross
Multiple Signatures by Michael Rock
Nelson on Design by George Nelson
Pentagram: The Compendium by Pentagram Partners
Problems of Design by George Nelson
Radical Modernism by Dan Friedman
Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann and E.M. Ginger
The Art of Graphic Design by Bradbury Thompson
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
The Graphic Edge by Rick Poynor
The Graphic Language of Neville Brody I and II by Jon Wozencroft
The Liberated Page by Herbert Spencer
The Mind Map Book by Tony and Barry Buzan
The New Typography by Jan Tschichold
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
Think by Edward deBono
Thoughts on Design by Paul Rand
Type and Image: The Language of Graphic Design by Phillip Meggs
Typographic Communications Today by Edward Gottschall
Typography by Aaron Burns
Typography: A Manual of Design by Emil Ruder
Typography Now: The Next Wave by Rick Poynor
Visible Signs by David Crow
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward Tufte
Women in Design: A Contemporary View by Liz McQuiston