Readings

Required Reading

Drucker, Johanna. Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.

Recommended Reading

Tufte, Edward. Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1990.

Bringhurst, Robert. The Elements of Typographic Style (v4). Hartley & Marks, 2002.

A Layered Grammar of Graphics, Hadley Wickham, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Volume 19, Number 1, Pages 3–28:
http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/layered-grammar.pdf

Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Methods. William S. Cleveland; Robert McGill. Available here:
http://info.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/S637-S11/cleveland84.pdf

Some Graphic and Semigraphic Displays, John Tukey, Statistical Papers in Honor of George W. Snedecor, pp. 293-316 (1972). Available here: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003v7

Lev Manovich: Software Takes Command (excerpt)
https://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/9370312?umlaut.institution=NS

Ben Fry's Media Lab thesis: Computational Information Design:  http://benfry.com/phd/dissertation-110323c.pdf

Reas, C., McWilliams C., LUST. Form and Code: In Design, Art, and Architecture. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.
https://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/9370313?umlaut.institution=NS

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