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Communiqué: Our Quarterly Newsletter Fall 2005 Click here to read back issues of Communiqué. Design Organizations American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Design Management Institute International Council of Graphic Design Associations Design Information What is Graphic Design? A Client's Guide to Design: How to get the Most Out of the Process Business and Ethical Expectations for Professional Designers Reading Recommendations 
From Lascaux to BrooklynPaul Rand Paul Rand had a profound influence on the profession of graphic design his pioneering work helped elevate "commerical art" to one of the fine arts. In this book, Rand awakens readers to the lessons of the cave paintings of Lascaux and shows how the same principles apply in works of art throughout history. 
Paul Randby Steven Heller, Jessica Helfand (Contributor), George Lois (Contributor) Monograph of Rand's work 
Karl Gerstner: Visual LanguageKarl Gerstner, one of Switzerland's preeminent graphic designers, recapitulates his 50 years of active work. The ups and downs of a designer's professional life are vividly illustrated with samples of work that were both realized and rejected by his clients. 
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usabilityby Steve Krug People won't use your web site if they can't find their way around it. Companies are starting to recognize that website usability is a bottom-line issue. In Don't Make Me Think, usability expert Steve Krug distills his years of experience and observation into clear, practical common sense about website design and navigation. 
The Mac is Not a Typewriterby Robin Williams Best-selling author Robin Williams's simple, logical principles for using computer type to produce beautiful, professional documents are as true now as they were when the original edition was published in 1989. Her principles are just as applicable to PCs. 
The Visual Display of Quantitative Informationby Edward R. Tufte A timeless classic in how complex information should be presented graphically. The Strunk & White of visual design. Should be within arm's reach of everyone attempting to understand or depict numerical data graphically. 
Envisioning Informationby Edward R. Tufte 
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrativeby Edward R. Tufte Tufte has described his three books as being about, respectively, "pictures of numbers, pictures of nouns, and pictures of verbs." |