Visual Compostion
Contemporary Graphic Design (forward), by Charlotte & Peter Fiell
(a note on the developments in graphic design over the past 5 years)
Design Basics, by David A. Lauer
(design process, content and form, thinking looking doing)
Principles of Two-Dimensional Design, by Wucius Wong
(What is Design, interpreting visual language, elements of design)
Architecture: Form, Space & Order, by Francis D.K. Ching
(point, line, plane, volume, shape, size, light, texture, properties of form, golden section, modularity, hierarchy, repetition, rhythm, transformation)
Reflections on the Classroom Critique, by Wendy Richmond
(criticism vs. positive encouragement, participation, methodology)
Typography
Helvetica, a documentary film by Gary Hustwit
(typography, graphic design and global visual culture, how type affects our lives)
Type & Image, by Phillip Meggs
(information, communication, audience, union of word and image, graphic space, grid systems)
The Importance of Tradition in Typography (from The Form of the Book), by Jan Tschichold
(need to get more updated photocopy)
The Principles of the New Typography, by Jan Tschichold
(clarity, color, expressiveness, mistakes)
Visual Prose, by Peter Mayer
(books that play games with meaning through space, structure and sequence of typography)
Fluid Mechanics: Typographic Design Now, essay by Ellen Lupton, 2000
Thinking With Type, Ellen Lupton
www.thinkingwithtype.com
Writing with Scala, by Ellen Lupton
http://ilovetypography.com/
(contributed pieces, type history, inspirational lettering, interviews, type tips, book reviews, types in use, etc.)
Color
Color Theory Made Easy: Traditional Color Theory, by Jim Ames
(additive vs. subtractive, hue, value, saturation, color perception, harmonies)
Interaction of Color, by Joseph Albers
(after-image, simultaneous contrast, middle mixtures)
Color Vision & Art, by Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA)
http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/index.html
After Image Tests, by Carol Shadford
http://www.shadford.net/parsons/links/-color/after_images/after_images_1.html
Image
Sensation and Perception, by E. Bruce Goldstein
(gestalt psychology, laws of organization, figure/ground relationships)
Photomontage, by Dawn Ades
(history of Photomontage, Dada, Constructivism, propoganda, meaning through juxtaposition)
Cut & Paste, www.cutandpaste.com
(A comprehensive history of Photomontage)
Ways of Seeing, by John Berger
Surrealist Manifesto, by Andre Breton (1924)
http://www.seaboarcreations.com/sindex/manifestbreton.htm
Final
The Craft of Research, by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G Colomb, Joseph M. Willimas
The Grid, by Allen Hurlburt
First Things First 2000: A Design Manifesto
http://www.xs4all.nl/~maxb/ftf2000.htm
(design ethics, a 1964 manifesto signed by 22 visual communicators updated in 2000)
Graphic Design and the Next Big Thing (from Looking Closer 4), by Rudy VanderLans
(future of design, rising above trends, effects of technology)